Passover is four weeks away, so tonight my mother and I started putting together our menu. I'll be making gefilte fish, as I always do, plus my vegetarian matzoh balls and a Middle Eastern-inflected salad of butter lettuce with grapefruit and avocado. We'll have classic Ashkenazi charoset, of course...

The new iPod Shuffle's capacity has been doubled to 4GB, and now the minuscule music player doesn't have a control wheel. But how will you ever reign over your music? Simple -- with controls on the earbud cord. WHEE! The new design keeps the clip and adds VoiceOver -- a new feature that gets around ...

When thinking of a premium bean my mind usually goes to coffee or chocolate or perhaps if I’m particularly hungry, heirloom beans like Anasazi. Very low on that list are Pectin Jelly Beans. Jelly Beans are a rather simple sounding candy but are rather complex to make. They start with a boiled ...

That's right, thanks to Kazuhiro Taniguchi of Osaka University, soon stopping the music on your iPod will be as simple as sticking out your ass-shaped tongue. The Ear Switch looks like a normal set of headphones, according to an Agence France Press report, but includes a set of sensors that allows i...

Here are a few product reviews posted this week from other blogs wrapped in an HTML shell and served with immature writing. I don’t care what other people might say. Watching a grown man attempt to consume frozen doggie woggy and kitty cat treats and gag repeatedly on a video is entertainment ...

It’s hard to imagine the models on “Candy Girls,� a reality series arriving on Sunday on E!, winning a sustained war for viewers’ attention....

There so many awesome shows going down this weekend, I thought I woud give you my recommendations: FRIDAY: Tindersticks at Brooklyn Masonic Temple Gil Mantera’s Party Dream at Europa Handsome Furs, Iran, Hundred In The Hands at Mercury Lounge Pete and J, The XYZ Affair, Young Galaxy at Music H...

Believe it or not, this is the only live footage of the Minneapolis legends on YouTube. (So far.)...

If you’re reading the Jew And The Carrot, it’s highly likely that you’re interested in food and sustainability. So, when you’re making your mishloach manot you’re probably thinking about the health and quality of the food you’re giving your friends and making efforts to minimize waste as...

One tiny town in America is trying to break a big – and yummy – world record....