Email Author Sam Eifling

2010 Stories by Sam Eifling

• A True Cutup

  published December 30, 2010

  French artist Orlan worried about just this situation — you reading about her — last year in an interview with the Guardian.... More >>

• Jumbotron

  published December 16, 2010

  When your parents warned you about running away to join the circus, it wasn’t because they were afraid you’d never call home again (that... More >>

• Nice, Not So Much

  published December 2, 2010

  Why don’t Jewish girls have the reputation as everyone’s favorite bad girls? Not enough plaid skirts? There’s no other justifiable... More >>

• Sagan, Again

  published November 4, 2010

  There was a time when Carl Sagan was the James Bond of public science intellectuals: Women wanted him, and men wanted to be him. How cool is a job... More >>

• Moore to Love

  published October 21, 2010

  Michael Moore is polarizing enough that as soon as his name is mentioned in the same sentence with “An Evening With” and “at... More >>

• Ye Cats!

  published October 14, 2010

  Show of hands here: Do you think the World Wide Web is more smitten with boobs or with cats? Surely, at least, those twin titans of online traffic... More >>

• Jon Lovitz: Making Fun of Himself or Us?

  published October 7, 2010

  Was there anyone on TV in the ’90s who felt more comfortable as himself than Jon Lovitz? From Friends to Seinfeld, he... More >>

• Standing Pats

  published September 30, 2010

  The NFL’s famous tendency toward parity hinges on several factors — the salary cap, a scheduling office that forces the best teams to... More >>

• Ain’t Nothing but Mammals

  published September 23, 2010

  Where would we be, exactly, without the most disgusting among our animal friends? Vultures and maggots get a bad rap, true, but those rotting... More >>

• Dark Anniversary

  published September 9, 2010

  The beauty of this one is, you have all day to remember. CNN will be a maudlin Ferris wheel all day, while Fox News stokes the shards of hurt and... More >>

• Heels on Wheels

  published July 29, 2010

  Until now, there was never a need for roller-derby girls to justify their existence. They apparently got off on giving themselves bad-bitch names,... More >>

• White and Blue

  published July 15, 2010

  It’s odd that Ron White was one of the original members of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, considering the persona he projects on stage:... More >>

• The Price of Love

  published June 3, 2010

  Now, it may be true that marriage is being assailed these days. The cantankerous Right would have you think that two dudes smooching is going to... More >>

• Block Heads

  published June 3, 2010

  We know what you’re thinking: Legos as art. Yeah, right. If by art you mean sweet-ass minihelicopters or little Death Stars or any of the... More >>

• Meet and Tweet

  published June 3, 2010

  The whole notion of a Tweetup is going to sound unbearably nerdy to anyone who hasn’t yet gotten sucked into Twitter (which, far from a... More >>

• The Best of the Most

  published May 13, 2010

  Not content simply to send ersatz Santas to bell you out of quarters at Christmastime, the Salvation Army Broward invites the fit and enthusiastic... More >>

• Fin Fan Frenzy

  published April 22, 2010

  The Jets fans will forever have the lock on Radio City Music Hall — and witness to some of the great draft miscues in modern history. You owe... More >>

• Aargh, Single Mates!

  published April 15, 2010

  Rum, buggery, and the lash: The real traditions of the British navy, according to Winston Churchill, all must also be considered perks of... More >>

• Punching, for Haiti

  published April 8, 2010

  One of the amazing byproducts of Haiti’s devastating earthquake was to remind most of us just how impotent we are when it comes to helping... More >>

• The Pitchman Cometh

  published April 1, 2010

  When we look back on ’60s comedy, we think foremost of Lenny Bruce and George Carlin, stand-ups who did yeoman’s work railing against... More >>

• From Verona With Love

  published March 18, 2010

  Why is it we keep settling on Romeo and Juliet as Shakespeare’s signature work? Its first critic saw it and sniffed, “It... More >>

• Dr. Feelweird

  published March 11, 2010

  The medical fetish — now there’s one that’ll creep your ass out. Where’s the sex in medicine? Get undressed. Sit on a cold... More >>

• Cirque Us

  published March 4, 2010

  Perhaps comedian Patton Oswalt’s says it best when he describes Cirque du Soleil as being “wet and French and gay and on fire.”... More >>

• Hello, Dalai

  published February 18, 2010

  What you’ll notice first about listening to a chat with Tenzin Gyatso, known in the hood as the 14th Dalai Lama, is his aura of humble,... More >>

• Oliver Fist

  published February 11, 2010

  Oliver McCall’s greatest moment as a fighter may have come 16 years ago, but anyone who can beat Lennox Lewis in his prime — send... More >>