May 2008
Well, everything except the chapter on tofu
Reading our new how to cook everything vegetarian by mark bittman and wanting to eat everything in it
Awesomeness @ Out.com + Parker Posey extras →
Photo: Getty Images Awesome things over at Out.com I have been remiss in not pointing you towards: > An excerpt from Torchwood star and Out cover boy John Barrowman’s…
April 2008
The mid-interview pick-up strategy →
My favorite so-guilty-I-should-be-convicted-already band Cobra Starship landed the cover of this month’s Alternative Press, the onetime punk zine gone glossy. (Track it down at a…
filed! now back to prepping all the work so i can be out of office for 6 days.
oh-so-painfully triple checking quotes.
A Feist-y evening in New York City →
Photo: Getty Images Imagine your overzealous high school English teacher fiddling with the overhead projector, except this time she’s not diagramming sentences (shit, what’s an…
Quickies: Getting into character, cocktail party... →
Photo: Getty Images > Jim Carey was recently spotted sauntering down a Miami boulevard with his hunky new Brazilian co-star, Rodrigo Santoro, on his arm. The two were shooting a…
whoa thai takeout unexpectedly very spicy, even according to J. whooo mouth afire.
this article is no longer, but i think it’s better. off to walk silverlake and then, you know. back to work.
Growing old gracefully -- or not →
Photo: Getty Images A recent MSNBC.com expose confirms that the plastic surgery craze is only getting crazier. The article reveals what we pretty much already knew: there is no…
Gossip Girl is coming out (again?) and Arrested... →
Oh it is so good to have Gossip Girl back. Blair is still doing her evil best to ruin little Jenny (though the fact that she has to engage at all is a dire tactical situation…
And the aspiring disco-punks go wild! →
Photo: Getty Images In outward appearance, Hot Chip is a fairly unremarkable indie band. None of the band’s five musicians bring much in the way of charisma or showmanship or…
whatever the quiet standoff entailed, it’s over now, cops are gone.
there are four LAPD officers standing on the sidewalk across our street. talking? what? i can almost hear what they’re saying.
Quickies: 3 divas a day keeps the boredom away →
Photo: Getty Images > More details are emerging about the work Rufus Wainwright is composing for the Metropolitan Opera. Though there we don’t yet know where or when the work will…
rockin it old-school style: one hour on the alarm clock, 300-500 words of this sidebar. GO.
realizing i already transcribed this interview. like, a month ago. glad i realized before i got too far into it, at least?
it’s 94 degrees. I have decamped next door to use @madartista’s AC and allow the dog to enjoy the same.
Reporting almost-live from "the fag awards" →
Photo: Getty Images [Ed. note: You know how much I love these man-behind-the-curtain stories — where you get to see things that supposedly only the sad bastards lucky (?) enough to…
finally sucked it up and went with unlimited txting. am curious now to see what i average a month (it was in the 2500ish range before)
The marrying kind →
In other, less trivial teen idol news, my old friend Benoit Denizet-Lewis turned in a super-smart cover story for the New York Times magazine this Sunday about young gay men who get…
Miley leaves Annie Leibovitz hanging →
Photo: Getty Images So Miley Cyrus posed topless (backless?) for Vanity Fair, apparently neglected to inform her employers at Disney of the sure-to-be-shocking set-up and then…
Rocking the White House Correspondents Dinner →
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In other teen idols gone wild news, Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz attended the White House Correspondents Dinner [see Craig Ferguson’s speech here], DJ’d the…
Everybody must get stoned →
Photo: Getty Images This could potentially be The Year of the Best Summer Movies….Ever! The Dark Knight, Iron Man, Sex and the City, X-Files, Mamma Mia, Indiana Jones. Even in the…
Quickies: A bomb scare, sexy snow-mobiling, & the... →
Photo: Getty Images > A bomb scare delayed a Bon Jovi concert in Sunrise, Florida, on Saturday. Fans were kept waiting outside of the BankAtlantic Center while police used bomb…
I replaced the toilet seat (ooh so butch in my sundress) but got the visiting landlord to do the real plumbing.
Holy frak! Finally watching the season opener for Battlestar Galactica.
Note to world: I do not handle heat gracefully.
Was really proud of myself for feeling like I slept in…until I looked at the clock and realized it’s only 7.
In the same old tall grass, weeds as usual: Over-reporting always seems like a good idea at the time.
At Coffee Table. Writing, but for work. But okay about it.
Semi swank bar in culver city
Kate Nash invades NYC! Madonna invades MySpace! →
Photo: Getty Images > Out staffer Brent Coover reports from last night’s Kate Nash concert: If Kate Nash has anything to say, girls everywhere will be wearing little plaid,…
there is a safety pin holding my silver sandals together. luckily there WAS a safety pin in the tote bag i grabbed at the last second.
also, witnessed some kind of bisexual love-hate triangle drug deal at the am/pm. butch girl w/ black eye, hoochie mama w/ pills, dude w tude
Follow-ups: Mad Men, John King, Ryan & Simon →
Photo: Courtesy AMC TV > Mad Men’s Bryan Batt was happy to further tease me about what we’ll see on the show. Here’s his note to Out.com about their second season:
I had my…
The Best Album Cover of 2008? →
Photo: Isabelle Lumpkin As Out’s dauntless music editor, I manage to survive a number of brutal aural assaults every month (as well as a deluge of follow-up e-mails, where publicists…
every time i see a headline for “bell shooting” i think it’s about an episode of the Wire.
It's no accident "Courvoisier" rhymes with "gay" →
Photo: Getty Images > There is nothing that makes our pink little Popnography hearts
pitter patter more wildly than when we learn a new celebrity has joined
the still grossly…
Quickies: Sex scene shy, the smell of success,... →
Photo: Getty Images > While many of us eagerly await the first on-screen sex scene to star James Marsden, the actor himself is dreading it. The X-men hunk tells British Magazine…
Have now ridden public transit in 5 different major cities in the last month.
Quickies: Revenge a la dangly bits, the life of... →
Photo: Getty Images > According to HolyMoly.co.uk, singer Pete Burns recently leaked his own sex tape to porn site Xtube after learning his husband had been hiring scores of…
Breaking: Some gay families happier than others →
Photo: Getty Images > Um, stop the presses? Star Jones is ditching hubby Al Reynolds after three years of wedded apparently-not-bliss. “Several years ago I
made an error in judgment by inviting the…
Ryan Seacrest only interested in meaningless... →
Photo: Getty ImagesI woke up to a handful of IMs and e-mails making sure I had heard about last night’s American Idol results show man-on-man action. Luckily Out in Hollywood’s Greg Hernandez was…
Going Nuke-lear →
Though the first big Luke & Noah kiss on CBS soap As the World Turns warranted its own full-court publicity push, when the boys finally, finally locked lips again today, it was with no fanfare…
Quickies: Turning two is expensive, elderly at 23,... →
Photo: Getty Images > Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes spent $100,000 on a birthday party for their 2-year-old daughter, Suri. The butterfly-themed celebration featured 1,000 real…
Miley begins revising history at an early age →
Photo: Getty Images Miley Cyrus is writing her memoirs.
She’s 15. (Yes, still.) Unless she has a secret double life as Drew
Barrymore’s jailbait prot??g??, there is not going to be…
Mixed media: New productions from Mad Men, Ang Lee... →
Photo: Getty Images > Mad Men began production on its second season this week! Finally! More chainsmoking, slick-haired sexy men in suits! (See Jon Hamm, above!) More sexpot secretaries in sweater…
Ryan Seacrest only interested in meaningless... →
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I woke up to a handful of IMs and e-mails making sure I had heard about last night’s American Idol results show man-on-man action. Luckily Out in Hollywood’s Greg…