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Arch-Rivals Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood To Stay In Separate Grammy Corners
Celebrity execs and personal handlers at this year's Grammys have been ordered to keep Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood far away from each other during Sunday's awards ceremony so they don't scratch...
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Don't Fuck With The Front Row
Anna Wintour, Virginia Smith, Sally Singer and Grace Coddington attend the Rag & Bone Women's fall 2013 fashion show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at Skylight Studios at Moynihan Station on...
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Parsing Future Pulitzer Prize Winner Not Your Mother's Rules
Some people get really eye-vessel-poppingly mad at The Rules (and its latest incarnation Not Your Mother's Rules) but that always seemed like a massive waste of energy to me. It's so dumb, how can you...
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LOL: Fox News Accidentally Uses Photo of Gay Couple To Illustrate Traditional...
Another day, another heteronormative "family values"-promoting Susanne Venker piece on Fox News about these crazy Modern Independent Women with their shoulder pads and their college degrees who let...
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Carmen Marc Valvo, For The Academy Award Winner (Or At Least Nominee) In You
All of Valvo's looks from this year seem like something Angelia Jolie might slink around in at the Oscars: deep shades of merlot, burgundy and (of course) black, a collection described as "classic,...
View ArticleSprinkle-Smeared Kid Begins Perfecting The Art of Lying To Mom
Oh, little one. It's no big deal yet, but a decade from now, when you're riding shotty in your mom's SUV back from your buddy Kyle's party and she smells Bacardi Grapefruit on your breath, you better...
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Valentine's Day Provisions For The Deeply Ambivalent
As we're all aware by now, the modern incarnation of Valentine's Day is nothing more than a consumer fabrication to get us to splash out on Godiva chocolate and a bouquet of Birds of Paradise for the...
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Diablo Cody Points Out the Ol' Channing Tatum Stripping Double Standard
Regardless of how you feel about the polarizing writer/director Diablo Cody (Young Adult won me over, I gotta say), , it's nifty that she co-chaired the third year of the Athena Film Festival, an...
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Brutal Western Cape Gang Rape Forces South Africa To Examine Gender Violence...
It's clearly time to consider gang rape a world epidemic, but one might wish it didn't have to come at such a high cost: In a tragic echo of the deceased 23-year-old New Delhi public bus gang rape...
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The Thigh Dive
Tom Daley dives during practice on day 1 of the British Gas Diving Championships on February 8, 2013 in Plymouth, England. (Photo by Harry Engels/Getty Images)
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Prolific Romance Novelist Jessica Blair Actually 89-Year-Old Grandpa
Everyone knows that only women are qualified to write romance novels, right? Men are supposed to be writing books about sharks or beer, DOY. Sadly, we're not so far from the days when Mary Anne Evans...
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Katie Roiphe: Internet Infidelity is Lame Compared To Straight-Up...
Our very own wealthy, psuedo-intellectual Brooklyn-brownstone-dwelling polemic feminist (although, who knows, she might rankle at the label of "feminist") Katie Roiphe's latest piece on Slate,...
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Nicole Miller, For The Black-On-Black Former Goth In You
Nicole Miller's fall 2013 runway presentation at this year's Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York answered the time-honored question: What's a one-time Hot Topic-clad 15-year-old to wear now that...
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Don't Pierce The Shitbag: Adventures in Taxidermy
I was psyched when Brooklyn Tattoo artist and taxidermy artist Sue Jeiven invited me to her Greenpoint apartment for a private class in anthropomorphic taxidermy—the preparation and display of dead...
View ArticleSaturday Night Social: The Justin Bieber Takeover
Yes, ringtone-voiced heartthrob El Beebo will play both musical guest and host of Saturday Night Live tonight. Throughout Storm Nemo last night, loyal Beliebers were huddled outside Rockefeller Center...
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Chris Brown Totaled His Car En Route to Charity Appearance With Little Kids
Yesterday afternoon Chris Brown wrecked his Porsche after being chased down by the rabid paparazzi on the way to a charity event, according to the Beverly Hills Police Department. Brown's PR rep (#2...
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Your Morning Cry: Daughter Interviews Her Mentally Disabled Mom on NPR
Oh my God, this is just—gahhhh. I just have something in my eye. Like a speck of soot, or a ficus, or Cleveland or something. On NPR's Morning Edition, Bonnie Brown, an intellectually disabled woman...
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Jill Stuart, For The Haute Couture Jessica Rabbit In You
Stuart told the press that this season's collection at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week was modeled after the British model Stella Tennant and her friends ("I was thinking about the beautiful dinners and...
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I Give Thee Bill Murray, Hollywood's Honey Badger
Actor Bill Murray passes caps to fans on the 17th hole during the third round of the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am at Pebble Beach Golf Links on February 9, 2013 in Pebble Beach, California....
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The Piss and Grit of Mary Edwards Walker, First Female Surgeon in the Civil War
Most of us remember Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to receive a medical degree in the U.S. I named my first fish after her when I was in the fifth grade! No joke. Blackwell had to put aside her...
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