There's a film coming in March about Bill Cunningham, unsung hero of curbside couture, peerless photographer, a fashion eye with endless taste and enthusiasm. He's the editor of On The Street, the page in the New York Times Styles section that cobbles together Cunningham's favorite looks that he found while turning his lens on New York City.... MORE >
The Golden Globes are perhaps the most superficial of high-profile award shows. They are almost transparently so -- the winners are honored, yes, but everyone's in on the charade. The awards go to some people but not others and everyone smiles and claps. The Golden Globes, then, are really just an excuse to play dress up. And the actual ceremony is only part of the fun, what with the preparties, afterparties and after-after parties.... MORE >
Paramount Pictures announced today that Sacha Baron Cohen has chosen a role that will complete the triad that he started with Borat and Bruno. What persona has he chosen to embody following a challenged Kazahkstani and a flamboyantly gay Austrian? You may be aware of a certain Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein. Among his less memorable accomplishments was the penning of a novel, entitled Zabibah and The King, in which the protagonist was an oppressive Iraqi... MORE >
There was flannel everywhere. It was the premiere of "Portlandia," the sure-fire TV hit from Fred Armisen (of Saturday Night Live fame) and Carrie Brownstein (of now-defunct rock heroes Sleater-Kinney), and everywhere we looked we were greeted with a wash of that plaid-heavy cozy super-nineties fabric, flannel. The bartenders serving up Portland's own Rogue Ale? Wearing flannel. The caterers swooping around with balls of organic goat cheese and grass-fed beef sliders? Wearing flannel. Many of the... MORE >
Aziz Ansari, the reigning funniest man on the planet, is not one to be trusted on Twitter. For instance, last week he spent the day fake-retweeting Whole Foods and L.L. Bean (the clothier never said "your comedy sucks dick... MORE >
The R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company had a problem. How, they asked themselves, can we get these misanthropic twenty-somethings to smoke our cigarettes instead of the ones they already smoke? Then, a light bulb: Brooklyn. We'll sell our cigarettes on the cred accrued by Williamsburg.... MORE >
Lady Bunny, the disco-happy drag queen who's graced New York nightlife with wig-wearing performances for decades, has fired shots against a certain former Alaskan governor. Sarah Palin's taken a good amount of heat since her response to the Giffords tragedy, but to our knowledge Lady Bunny is the first member of the drag queen contingent to throw her hat into the ring. She made a sure-to-be-viral video, it's called "The Ballad of Sarah Palin,"... MORE >
It's hard to face the fact, but Glenn Beck is a role model to a good number of people in this country. That's why it was especially disturbing when he told America to give up one of their kidneys in order to see Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark. Please, America, do not take this man seriously. But who knew he met Bono after the show? We did, of course! And how did we know? Twitter... MORE >
When Prince William finally popped the question to his longtime squeeze Kate Middleton, there was one thing the world was looking at: the ring that once belonged to Diana. It was a big, sparkly, gold-wrapped sapphire studded unsubtly with diamonds, a blinding blue ocean surrounded by sunshine and placed on the soft terrain of Waity Katie's dainty... MORE >
The murderer was very good-looking. As he walked into the lobby of the InterContinental Hotel around 6 p.m. that Friday night, he was freshly showered and wore a dark suit and a purple tie. Though by no means the only young European man to stride through the lobby that night, he must have turned a few heads. A woman waiting there recognized Renato Seabra. Wanda Pires, a friend of Mr. Seabra's travel companion, Carlos Castro... MORE >
Chloë Sevigny was standing a few feet from the DJ booth, swaying in a polka-dot dress and a black beret. Sometime around midnight she had started drinking Patrón against her will. “It’s not my favorite,” she told The Observer Saturday night, talking not two centimeters from our nose. The Human League was wailing on the sound system, and the leather-and-denim-clad crowd was singing... MORE >
Yesterday came word that Charlie Sheen would finally curb his wild ways. What digressions is Mr. Sheen guilty of? Well, there was the meltdown at The Plaza.... MORE >
Earlier this month, The Atlantic shocked many by announcing that, for the first time in decades, they had made some money on an actual smart-person magazine. To what strategy did it owe this windfall of profit, which totaled a respectable $1.8 million? Why, the Internet, apparently! In 2010 digital advertising for The Atlantic jumped mountains, pulling off a 70 percent... MORE >
Anderson Cooper is more than just a newsman. He takes on the morning show crowd, hangs out with SJP at Fashion Week's biggest runway shows, and generally extends himself well beyond the anchor's... MORE >
The Internet was awash with reactions to the looks that graced the red carpet at last night's Golden Globes, and it's become increasingly difficult to siphon out the quality round-ups from the misguided and the knee-jerk ones. But André Leon Talley is a man we can trust.... MORE >
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