‘Community’ Tackles Suicidal Thoughts For Their Best Episode Yet

    This a tricky one.  I’ve loved the show Community since I first caught the pilot, and I think it’s a brilliant comedy. Their latest episode, however, deals with a serious issue in their trademark silly way and (accidentally?) created a *damn*...

Police charge parents over death of OCD woman whose phobia of germs was so severe she showered for 20...

  Welcome to the diabolical existence of the Hancox household. Sounding eerily more like Tennessee William's 'Glass Menagerie' a woman who lived a sequestrated and neurotic life has been found dead this weekend in the house of her parents Ken...

The love affair between Anderson Cooper and Egypt is officially over.

This past Saturday, Anderson Cooper, the contentious news reporter for CNN and one cold argue more persona and vitriol than journalist publicly announced via twitter that after a week in Egypt in which he was physically attacked and harassed...

Is Lindsay Lohan getting ready to return to jail?

Just another day in paradise. In the ongoing trauma saga that is Lindsay Lohan, reports emanating out of the LA DA office is that the office doesn't buy our hero's fib story that the actress who it seems has been...

The rise of the ‘older’ model? The cunning tricks of the fashion world explained.

    According to an intriguing article out of this weekend's UK Telegraph, fashion designers are turning to name brand models of yesteryear in their campaigns, thus creating a situation whereby older models are suddenly being (re)celebrated. What ought to also be...

“Logging In” is all about “Checking Out”

Social Media has always been and will always be a device to promote the insecurities of a negative body image. From the occasional “pro-ana” and “pro-mia” website featuring ways to amplify malnutrition in a “model’s diet” to the prospect of...

Reflections On An Affair To Forget.

Our comrades in gossip over at Jezebel have posited some thoughts on the nature of the Mistress, and its ongoing allure in the zeitgeist. Movies are made about it. It’s a recurring plot device in TV melodramas. Odds are you know somebody...

Endangered Tree Octopus shows that anything can be true once it’s posted on the internet

"If I say something is true enough times, can I eventually get you to believe it's true?" University of Connecticut Professor Donald Leu recently set about testing the critical abilities of his young students by inviting them to research the ‘elusive’ Tree...

The Paparazzi Photo that Set Police on LiLo

It seems the paparazzi finally have their favorite target by the throat: here's the photo of LiLo that allegedly led police to investigate her for felony grand theft of a 'one-of-a-kind' $2,500 gold necklace. Now police say surveillance footage from the store, Kamofie &...

The Ember Room Impresses…Hell’s Kitchen does not.

    I rarely drink alcohol and eat meat... last night I left full of pork belly and Bombay. What was last night? It was the Grand Opening of Hell’s Kitchen’s Ember Room. A Korean barbecue with inspired design, the place was...

In search of a revolution. The shifting tides of democracy.

    Well it was bound to happen. You draft an article on a swiftly moving uprising in another land and circumstances make it obsolete before you can even get it written. You cancel flights 48 hours in advance of an...

The joie de vivre of Lou Doillon.

In today's 'models' section of the Huffington Post, the journal decided to pay a photo retrospective of Lou Doilon who it calls the French model-slash-actress. In its evocation of the young starlet's ascent to the gravy streets of uber cool, laconic sexuality and joie de...

Love is a Battleground…

Jezebel’s tag line used to be “Celebrity, Sex, Fashion. Without Airbrushing.” Now, it’s “Celebrity Sex, Fashion for Women.” After their latest relationship post, “Twelve Anti-Rule for Love,” I can see why. Love just got airbrushed.  Jezebel is normally one of the smartest sites around - for men...

The top 10 most likely suspects you can expect to see sitting front row at NY Fashion Week.

As we approach the upcoming 2011 IMG Mercedes Benz fall fashion shows speculation is rife as whom will get to sit the coveted front row fashion seats. After all, it is often understood that distinction (so I have been...

Lindsay Lohan accused of stealing a $5000 necklace.

What can I get away with now? Good morning America. Just when you thought the travesty known as America's favorite bowl of oatmeal was beginning to disintegrate into the background comes the sensational assertion that our national treasure has made...