Here at Transracial, we make an effort not to be too self-congratulatory — but sometimes you just can’t help it! Case in point — the recent tsunami of coverage about the new move toward individualized Top Level Domains (TLDs), such as .gay, .eco and .nyc. As many of you know, starting next year ICANN (the [...]
Posts from ‘October, 2009’
MENSCH OF THE MONTH: New Calendar Celebrates "Nice Jewish Guys"
Here at Transracial we’ve always had a thing for the under-dog. Folks who struggle just a little bit harder, longer or smarter win big in our book. Which is why we’re sending a shout-out to the Adam Cohen, the nice Jewish Guy behind the new Nice Jewish Guys calendar. Considering his rather ubiquitous “nice Jewish [...]
HARLEM SHUFFLE: New Plan to Keep Uptown Eateries Hopping
Over the past few years, Uptown Manhattan’s far West Side has quietly become a must-visit destination for folks looking for more than an afternoon simply shopping at Fairway. New lounges, restaurants and other social spots have created a critical mass of leisure options so compelling — even The New York Times trekked up for a [...]
BAR GETS BANNED: Topless Refaeli Ads Replaced By Peek-A-Boo Posters
A couple of days back we reported on efforts by ultra-Orthodox Jewish groups in Israel to have risque jeans ads featuring model Bar Refaeli banned due to immodesty issues. Although pretty tame by even prissy American standards, the ads — featuring Refaeli and her hunky hirsute male counterpart shilling for Fox Jeans — caused an [...]
CASTRATI CROONER: Opera Diva Cecilia Bartoli's Songs for the Snipped
Here at Transracial we’re not really the types to sit back, pour a glass of finely-aged Bordeaux and pop some Verdi or Handel into our Ipod. It’s not that we’re against opera or classical music — au contraire! — but rather we’re just not that musical overall. Which is why we were oh-so keen to [...]
PRICELESS PRECIOUS: Los Angeles' AFI Festival Screens Oscar Contenders for Free!
As yesterday’s New York Times Magazine cover story confirms — it’s all-Precious/all-the-time for Fall 2009. And considering we’ve been psyched about the film for months, we are happy to watch all the Precious action unfold. Although the film is finally released nationwide on Nov. 6th, thanks to our small contribution to the Precious-media canon, we’ve [...]
BATTLE OF THE BEANS: Lebanon Reclaims Hummus Record from Israel
Remember back in the movie Bruno — when the Austrian fashionizer was trying to broker Middle Eastern peace via Hummus. Call it naive, but Bruno reckoned that two nations who share a common affection for the chick-pea spread must be able to somehow share land, natural resources, secure borders and a desire to live in [...]
DAILY TRANSRACIAL: Salman Rushdie's New Squeeze Min Liesovsky
You’ve gotta hand it to author and former Fatwa-victim Salman Rushdie — he certainly has a away with the ladies. And he likes ‘em young! Having barely recovered from the middle-aged debacle known as the suddenly-pregnant TV hostess Padma Lakshmi, Rushdie is now squiring a new PYT all over town — the multi-culti Harvard alum [...]
AT RISK: Transgender Folks Victims of Global Counter-Terror Campaigns
An interesting new United Nations report on the role of women and gender in the global counter-terror war has come to some interesting — and concerning — conclusions about the plight of the global transgendered. Indeed, the report — Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms While Countering Terrorism — specifically notes that transgendered and [...]
WE'RE CONCERNED ABOUT: Jerusalem's "Chastity Squad"
An increasingly large, vocal and violent group of religious dudes are menacing men and women throughout Jerusalem who they say do not meet appropriate standards of modesty according to Jewish law. Cases range from divorced women being beaten up for associating with single men, to groups of American Yeshiva students assaulted with tear gas for [...]