Who really shot the Fort Hood killer?
Oh, it does confuse us when we don't know who to put on a pedestal.
As much as we all really liked the idea of a slightly-built mother taking down the Fort Hood shooter, despite having been shot three times...
Bowery Hotel is Events’ Ground Zero This Week.
When you think of the Bowery Hotel, you think of a cool, sophisticated, English decorated style venue with a huge summertime deck on the 2nd floor, perfect for any type of function. Perhaps that’s the reason it was scouted...
Joan Rivers stars at Lighthouse International’s annual gala ‘LightYears.’
I bet you thought that even slightly high-profile marriages never last, that modern-day Hollywood composers are tech-savvy and that Joan Rivers is always snarky. I certainly did. And at Lighthouse International’s annual gala LightYears, I was proved wrong. Lighthouse,...
Fox regular announces that Katie Couric looks too Chinese.
When you don't look American enough life can be miserable...
Looks like Katie Couric is back on the receiving end and we only hope you're lapping it all up, because from where we stand the spilled porridge looks awfully delicious...
Lou Dobbs feared Xenophobe leaves CNN.
Being hated in return.
Last night's departure of Lou Dobbs from CNN marks the end of a 30 year career as well as a media station giving weight to a madman with ulterior motives. It's one thing to report news...
Russell Simmons, Batman, and the Life Project for Africa.
The taxi inched towards fifth avenue as the streets became suddenly illuminated by the camera flashes of passersby. As I stepped out onto the sidewalk, I craned my head over the massive horde of people and saw the Batmobile...
Hide Who You Really Are: The Schools That are Stamping out Self-expression
Is there any phase of life more uncomfortable, self-conscious and altogether confusing than the teenage years? It's all hormones, unrequited love, body-image, self-discovery, and it's embarrassing sometimes to the point of being painful.
Conformity is one of the strongholds...
Shag Bands: “New” Craze Taking Over the Playground.
Outrage in the school yard.
Kids these days are quite clearly depraved. The "newest" fad for UK schoolchildren is to sport 'shag bands', a bunch of brightly colored plastic bracelets that, if snapped, represent varying sexual acts (pink = flash...
Are you Jewish enough?
A judge in the UK has just ruled in what, on the surface, appears to be an open and shut case on a school's admissions policy, but which seems to be dealing with a much more complicated question. Is...
Models vs Dot com Divas.
The modeling industry today has blurred the line between what’s socially acceptable as a working model and what it actually takes to be working as a model in L.A or New York. Imagine this: you're signed to one of...
‘Up in the Air,’- with Director Jason Reitman.
A late soundbite from Up in the Air tidily summarizes what George Clooney's character is all about. Mid-air, the pilot on Clooney's flight asks him where he's from and Clooney replies, melancholy, "Right here." Clooney's transitory character, Ryan...
Britney can do whatever, forever.
(a second point of view on a previous Predator story)
Britney Spears' fans seem to be a tad bit upset by the fact that she is lip-syncing her way through her Circus tour down under in Australia. Reportedly,...
Williamsburg mourns the loss of another hipster.
When falling into elevator shafts is never a good career move.
According to pain-in-the-ass Gawker, Gerhardt Fuchs, a 34 year-old drummer that played in bands including !!! and Maserati, fell to a gruesome death over the weekend when he apparently...
Debbi Schussel the newest leader of Islamophobia?
Hate and Panic in America.
Pursuant to last week's bloodbath at Fort Hood, Texas bloggers have been barraging each other with name calling, insinuations and other clever one liners that will get the most viable attention and press. That...
Thomas Barbey: In the Grip of Illusions.
Thomas Barbey is a master at mixing pictures. His art known as photo montage is the process of artfully combining two or more photographs to come up with a convincingly real art piece. For all of those who just...
