Jimmy Fallon, ever the cut-up, pranked unsuspecting tourists with Cameron Diaz at the Top of the Rock. It’s pretty funny (and an easy thing to do if you’re goofy and famous.) See some of their best ones from Wednesday night’s show.
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… And she’s bringing Amanda Lepore and Joey Arias with her for an incredible POP UP CONCERT! Tonight, May 2nd, at the Standard on Sunset (in the Giorgio’s space – very chic, don’t you know). DJ sets by W Jeremy and the darling Josh Peace, and hosted by ME! And World of Wonder and Phyllis Navidad and Bishi. It’s going to be loads of fun, all the nuttiest queens will be there. Call for table reservations 323-822-3141 ior just RSVP at hollywoodrsvp@standardhotel.com. More on this in the week to come!
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So, Allison Leona Flood Lesh and Kristi Lyn Lesh were legally married in DC in 2010. Then they moved to a state that refuses to recognize their marriage because they are both women; Texas. (I’m from Texas, so if it seems like I’m bashing the state, I’m allowed, OK?) They decided to have a child, and Kristi was artificially inseminated. Then, Allison and Kristi’s marriage went south. Allison filed for a divorce last year, seeking joint custody of their child. Kristi argued that, because Texas’ constitution bans recognition of same-sex marriages, the court could not even CONSIDER Allison’s divorce petition — or her request for joint custody of the child. Nice use of a F’d up law for your own advantage (I blame her lawyer) So, Judge Barbara Hanson Nellermoe declared Texas’ ban on marriage equality unconstitutional. Among other things, the judge said that marriage discrimination imposes unconstitutional burdens on the children of same-sex couples
“[i]mmutable protections for the children born of same-sex marriages require the same protections as those born from other marital and intimate relationships, e.g., education, child support, hereditary rights, tax benefits.”
An appeals court stayed Nellermore’s ruling just two days after she handed it down, at the request of Attorney General Greg Abbott. The Leshes’ case also demonstrates why the right to divorce is one of the most important rights afforded to married couples. A legal divorce allows their disputes to be resolved by a neutral judge — rather by fights or money maneuvering. It also ensures that custody disputes will be resolved with the child’s best interests in mind — not on the basis of the fact that some states do not believe their all married couples are deserve the equal protection of the law. Stay tuned, if I know Texas, this ain’t over. (via Think Progress)
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OMG @RuPaul ‘s #DragRace 6 Reunited is almost SOLD OUT completely! Only balcony SOME balcony seating that might have obstructed views available. @worlofdondwonder http://bit.ly/1ffuIzK
RuPaul’s Drag Race Reunited is filming it’s season 6 reunion and coronation! Want to see the entire season 6 cast and RuPaul crown America’s next Drag Superstar?! YOU CAN….Click over to find out how to get tickets!
The live taping of RuPaul’s Drag Race Reunited season six reunion and coronation is taking place May 6th at the Ace Hotel in downtown Los Angeles! Want to go? Then head over to TicketMaster and get your tickets TODAY!
Check out behind-the-scenes footage from RuPaul’s Drag Race season five Reunited!
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I do love a flowerbeard. It’s fragrant, it’s colorful, it’s a bit of whimsy on hot guy. Flowers are Mother Nature’s clubkids, and they make every face a fabulous party. Check out some of my favorite #flowerbeards on Instagram.
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Guys, everything you know about undressing IS WRONG. CrazyRussianHacker has the fastest, most efficient way to remove a shirt. It’s elegant simplicity and economy of motion will awe you. Whether you are a “bottom-up” shirt remover or a “collar first” kind of guy, you are in for a surprise.
And BOOM. Drop the shirt. So hot.
CrazyRussianHacker, of course, is the guy who taught us all how to open a can using only some cement and your bare hands, greatly improving your hances of surviving the coming nuclear warfare/ global pandemic/ extraterrestrial attack/ cybernetic revolt/ technological singularity/ supernatural phenomena/ divine judgement/ climate change/ resource depletion/ and/or any other general disasters.
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Have you done your RuPaul’s Drag Race episode 11 homework? Do you think you know everything about the episode? Prove it, take the RuPaul’s Drag Race Episode 11 quiz!
Take the RuPaul’s Drag Race Episode 11 RuPOP Quiz!
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Tatianna is your host on this week’s WOW Shopping Network! Click over to hear about her single “Touch”!
Season two RuPaul’s Drag Race queen Tatianna is your host on this week’s episode of WOW Shopping Network. She’s selling her hot single “Touch” which she explains is kind of an homage to her Snatch Game character and the queen of pop, Britney Spears! Tune in every Friday for a new episode of WOW Shopping Network!
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Hey, Racers! Want tickets for RuPaul’s Drag Race Reunited season six? Well now is your chance! Click over and find out how you can enter for a chance to win VIP tickets to the reunion and coronation!
The time has come…for you to defend your superfandom! RuPaul is looking for the most die-hard RuPaul’s Drag Race fanatics to be in the audience for the RuPaul’s Drag Race Reunited Season 6, happening Tuesday May 6th at the Theater at Ace Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles! Write to contest@worldofwonder.net to prove to us why YOU are the biggest superfan! Include photos, videos, or anything that will strengthen your case! IMPORTANT NOTE: You must be 18+ to attend. Travel and accommodations are not provided. You will be REQUIRED to sign a confidentiality agreement prior to admission to the taping, so remember your ID! All cases must be stated by no later than Monday, May 5th at noon! Good luck, and DON’T F*CK it up!
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On this episode Adam and Blake talk about Alaska Thunderfuck and her brother Cory on Bro$ For Ca$h, Trey Speegle’s gorgeous upstate New York home featured in Scene Magazine, Life with La Toya and Million Dollar Listing Miami release date, Serena ChaCha and Jiggly Caliente on Ring My Bell, AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST, a tiny hamster eating a tiny burrito!
New episodes of WOWPresents The Weekly WOW Report every Friday on WOWPresents!
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On this episode Me and Blake talk about RuPaul’s Drag Race Reunited Season 6 tickets, Big Freedia’s new album Just Be Free, Iggy Azalea on RuPaul Drives, and a 3D printed statue by Stuart Sandford! We also give a special shout out to our friend Danny Franzese! Watch now!
On this episode, Me and Blake talk about the GLAAD Media Awards, RuPaul’s Drag Race Paris street art, and Coachella’s trend alert!
This week Blake and I discuss new World of Wonder shows Friends to Lovers and Million Dollar Listing Miami coming to Bravo, RuPaul and Michelle Visage’s new Podcast What’s the Tee?, and new videos featuring Joslyn Fox, Phi Phi O’hara, Bianca Del Rio and Sherry Vine!
If that isn’t enough, we even have a surprise visit from our besties Hunter & Jessica to teach us their word of the week!
This week Blake and I talk RuPaul‘s candy bar, #CandidlyNicole, and much more on the all-new WOWPresents The Weekly WOW Report! And Michelle Visage guest stars! WATCH!
Helloooo! Check out this week’s WOWPresents The Weekly WOW Report! Blake and I tell you the top posts on the WOW Report that you can’t miss! Posts about RuPaul’s candy bar, RAWk Your Body, #CandidlyNicole coming to VH1 , and more! Also Michelle Visage pops in to say a little something!
PS. Tweet us @adamasea, @BlakeJacobs, & @WorldOfWonder a picture of you chowing down on a RuPaul candy bar and we’ll post it on the WOW Report! YAY!
This week on WOWPresents The Weekly WOW Report Blake and I discuss Michelle Visage’s book deal, Naomi Campbell’s reaction to Kim and Kanye on the cover of Vogue, WOW’s partnership with Base79, Alaska’s rules of etiquette when watching RuPaul’s Drag Race, and #cockinasock! We even had special guest kitty, Santa, to help out! Check Santa out on Pimp My Ride!
Me (Adam Asea) and Blake Jacobs present to you WOWPresents The Weekly WOW Report! A brand-new web series on WOWPresents! Find out what it’s about!
Each week Blake and I will be tell you the top 5 posts on the WOW Report that we think are MUST-READS! This week, we suggests posts about RuPaul, Big Freedia & Miley Cyrus, Jinkx Monsoon & Peaches Christ, Courtney Love, and more! James St. James even stops by for a quick cameo!
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This week’s RuPaul’s Drag Race guest judge, Khloe Kardashian is back and reads The World According to Wonder...AGAIN!
You can get your copy of The World According to Wonder on Amazon or on the iBook store and be just like these RuPaul’s Drag Race guest judges!
(photo by Thairin Smothers)
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My old pal, Mary Kaye Schilling, wrote last month about Kitty Carlisle Hart in Town & Country. The singer, actress, and arts advocate, who was married to playwright Moss Hart, died in 2007 at the age of 96. That gal NEVER left the house without looking like a million bucks. From 1956 to 1978, Bud Collyer, host of the TV game show To Tell the Truth introduced Kitty like this. This cavalcade of clothes is like a mini history of fashion, throughout those decades, but as Mary Kaye points out, unlike modern day red carpet hounds, she NEVER used a stylist – these were her OWN clothes. Just watch. BTW, RuPaul, there are few looks here you might want to get some screen grabs of… (Thanks, Vicki; via Town & Country)
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Cecil Beaton for Vogue, 1948
The latest exhibit, Charles James: Beyond Fashion, which opens next week, will explore the couturier’s sculptural, scientific, and mathematical approaches to construct revolutionary ball gowns and innovative tailoring that continues to influence designers today. After designing in his native London, and then Paris, James arrived in New York City in 1940. Though he had no formal training, he is now regarded as one of the greatest designers in America to have worked in the tradition of the Haute Couture. His fascination with complex cut and seaming led to the creation of key design elements that he updated throughout his career: wrap-over trousers, figure-eight skirts, body-hugging sheaths, ribbon capes and dresses, spiral-cut garments, and poufs. All this finery will be on display. Take a look at some it here. Today, this is still really the red carpet standard that everyone craves. It’s sometimes called Hollywood Glamour but it is just pure GLAMOUR. The men attending The Met Ball on Monday night will be a bit challenged to keep up as they are required to wear white tie and tails. Look for pictures on social media #CharlesJames.
Mrs. Charles James in a Swan Gown
Butterfly Gown, photo by Cecil Beaton
Babe Paley, 1950, photo by John Rawlings
1946
Clover Leaf Ball Gown, 1946
Butterfly Ball Gown ,1955
Hipster Gown, 1946
1948
The man himself at work
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Here’s what you missed this week on WOWPresents! Get all caught up before this week’s new episodes!
Guuuuuuurl, you’ve got some marathon watching to do. Happy Saturday!
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Joel McHale hosted and POTUS got in some good zingers; poking fun at the GOP, news outlets, himself and own administration at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Saturday night. Here’s his top 5:
5. “MSNBC’s here, they’re a little overwhelmed. They’ve never seen an audience this BIG before.”
4. “If you want to get paid while not working, you should have to run for Congress just like everyone else.”
3. “Gridlock [in D.C.] has gotten so bad, you’ve got to wonder, what did we do to piss off Chris Christie so bad?”
2. “I haven’t seen somebody pull a 180 that fast [as an Olympic snowboarder] since Rand Paul dis-invited that Nevada rancher [Cliven Bundy] from this dinner.”
1. “These days, House Republicans are actually giving John Boehner a harder time than they’re giving me, which means orange really is the new black.”
Zing! Watch the whole thing.
(via Politico)
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“The creator of the Cronut has introduced a new dessert called the Waffogato, which is vanilla gelato in the shape of a waffle and covered with maple syrup espresso – perfect for staying alert while the nurse explains how your insulin pump works.” -SNL, Weekend Update
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Most recording artists, musicians – whatever you want to call them, have a “VIP Meet and Greet”, that gives fans a few minutes, prior to the concert with said artist. For $400, you want a record of the encounter, right? Well, with Avril Lavigne you get one – an awkward one, as these photos attest. Security, apparently told these folks, there was no touching the star and the weirdness is palpable. Really? You don’t get a hug or even an arm around the shoulder?
Speaking from personal experience, I’m here to tell you that if/ when you meet Michelle Obama, you are VERY likely to get a hug. In February, I was lucky enough to be at the New Museum for an event with the First Lady and twenty eighth graders. After speaking a boy the benefits of drinking water, etc, every one of those kids, and their teachers, got a hug from her. When meeting her for the first time, myself, I leaned in to shake her hand and, as you can see at the end of this video clip, I got pulled in for a nice hug. Maybe she was just in a huggy mood that day, with all those kids, but she does project the feeling that she’d hug you, right? Maybe Avril’s shy, but she’s not an awkward teen anymore. So “man-up” and take note, hon. It’s a cliché but hugs ARE free, so if your fans are paying that kind of dough, I think you should kiss them on the mouth. But no tongue, please.
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We know you don’t have time to read every article, every think piece, and every blog post people send your way. That’s why we’re offering up the Sunday morning Longer Reads section. Here’s your chance to catch up on some of more interesting news items you might have missed.
Death & Taxes has the story (and pictures) of the dead New Orleans socialite dressed in a pink feather boa, with a cigarette and champagne flute, propped up on a bench during her wake, overlooking the festivities. So punk rock.
Speaking of punk rock: Dangerous Minds has a report on why transgender punk pioneer Jayne County was banned from Facebook.
VICE has an A-Z Guide to Pizza that’s worth your time.
Salon, God bless ‘em, goes undercover to discover why having sex in a reststop men’s room is so much fun.
And for the ladies: My Boobs, My Burden.
Vulture has eight up-and-comers to watch this summer movie season. All you need to know is two words: BRENTON THWAITS! BRENTON THWAITS! BRENTON THWAITS! OMGOMGOMG.
From New York magazine: Why you need to deep-clean your Facebook account NOW.
Be Aware: Brunei has begun phasing in antigay law and will soon allow Death by Stoning. Read more in The Advocate.
The New York Times has advice on how to calculate the division of rent among roommates when rooms are of different sizes, have different amounts of closet space, or get varying degrees of light. It’s called Sperner’s lemma, and you’ll never, ever, ever understand it. Just split three ways and agree to pay the light bill for the one in the little room.
What does Joyce Carol Oates think of Twitter’s “lynch mob mentality”? Find out here!
In Slate: Linguistics professors look into the science of beatboxing.
After last week’s skin-crawling lethal injection disaster, The Daily Beast has an article about botched executions. Just ugh.
And finally, did you know that Will & Grace‘s first audience didn’t realize it was about a gay man? Queerty has a great quote from Debra Messing about that.
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Vulture argues: At this point George W Bush is actually a better artist than James Franco.
Vulture also has a fun interview with Neil Patrick Harris about Hedwig, dressing rooms, and how he gets all that glitter off every night.
BuzzFeed goes deep inside Bryan Singer’s wild Hollywood world of upwardly mobile twinks and the men who prey on them, oh my!
Vaguely related: Meet the Hollywood screenwriter by day, go-go dancer by night, Jeff Tetreault, who tells New York magazine he’s having “an awesome dick day.”
The Daily Mail uncovers why the British are such fashion victims. HA! Also how trends are interpreted by the various classes, which is something the British have always obsessed about.
30 internet famous people YOU NEED TO KNOW.
And a poignant interview with a formerly famous internet star.
Simon Doonan just wants everybody on TV to PUT THEIR DAMN CLOTHES ON.
To celebrate Shakespeare’s 450th birthday this week, Harper’s Bazaar has listed the best fashions from our favorite Shakespeare films.
Frazier Glenn Miller, the former KKK leader and anti-Semitic murderer, was once arrested with a black, cross-dressing hooker. The Daily Beast says that according to psychology and history, it’s not that surprising.
Slate has the poignant story of a daughter and the gay father she never knew.
Why Joan Rivers, Madonna, and, um, “OTHER CELEBRITIES” don’t owe you an apology, in Salon.
and The New York Times listens in as Liz Smith and Jess Cagel (of People and Entertainment Weekly) dish on just about everyone from Jackie O to Kim K.
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David Foster Wallace long ago warned that irony is ruining our culture. Salon thinks we ought to have listened.
Dame magazine reports that trans semantics is causing an uproar within the community, but is language REALLY the issue here?
Slate explores the science behind Transcendence. So… when will be able to upload Johnny Depp’s brain? And, more importantly, why would we want to?
After James Franco called the New York Times theater critic “a little bitch” on Instagram for giving his performance in Of Mice & Men a bad review, The Guardian says we have now entered into a new age of counter-criticism.
The Daily Beast tallies up every woman Don Draper has ever slept with.
And Vulture asks a serial killer expert to analyze every episode of Mad Men for links to the Manson Family murders (because OBVIOUSLY Megan is about to be killed by them).
Alice Hoffman has some… um… out-of-the-box suggestions for getting you started on that novel you’ve been meaning to write.
Newsweek reports on how Laverne Cox transformed the audience at the GLAAD Awards.
New York magazine announces that we have reached “Peak Beard Saturation” and has the scientific proof the trend is is OVER.
A lengthy piece on Cartoon Network’s iconic Adventure Time declares it is a “deeply serious work of moral philosophy, a rip-roaring comic masterpiece, and a meditation on gender politics and love in the modern world. It is rich with moments of tenderness and confusion, and real terror and grief even; moments sometimes more resonant and elementally powerful than you experience in a good novel.” And I thought it was just fun to watch in a k-hole.
The New York Times obituary for Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and over at Slate: What he meant to the people of Colombia (and why we can never TRULY get his novels).
Also in the Times: The complicated life of one of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s heroin connections.
Salon exposes Leonardo DiCaprio’s DARKEST SECRET: He’s actually deeply uncool.
Newsweek has earthshattering nerd news: Dick Grayson ISN’T DEAD after all! The former Robin-turned-Nightwing-turned-Batman (for a period) has gone deeeeep undercover and become… a secret agent? Yep, he’s basically Archer now. Greeeeeat move, DC.
Oh My Gah. Going braless is SO NORMCORE.
And finally, a rather salacious article in The Daily Beast goes inside Bryan Singer’s infamous twink pool parties. I saved it for last because you’re going to need a Silkwood shower after reading it.
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OMGOMGOMG! An interview with Brienne of Tarth! An interview with Brienne of Tarth! Game of Thrones star Gwendolyn Christie talks to IGN on the new challenges her character faces now that her quest with Janie Lannister has ended.
Have you heard about the cherry tree that was raised on the space station and stunned scientists by blooming six years earlier than it would on earth? Read about the far-reaching implications of that in the Daily Mail.
From Dior’s New Look to Bianca Jagger’s birthday party at Studio 54, Harper’s Bazaar has the most iconic moments in fashion history.
The Geldofs were Britain’s first celebrity family, long before the Osbournes and the Beckhams. The death of Peaches is the latest cruel twist in a tragedy the nation has watched unfold for decades. The Guardian tells the tale of one family’s epic suffering for Americans who don’t understand the fuss.
Mickey Rooney gave his life to show biz, the least you can do is read his obit in the Florida Sun Sentinal.
The Daily Beast implores you: For God’s sakes, don’t remember Barbara Walters for The View.
OMGOMGOMG! You MUST READ this investigative report about why people loathe “upworthy” headlines. IT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE!
From Brandon Teena in Boys Don’t Cry to Swan in The Warriors – Dazed Digital ranks the most rebellious screen icons of all time
Salon debunks the myths of Alcoholics Anonymous.
Slate has some data on how Hilary could make a difference.
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In boingboing: Filmmaker, writer, and trans activist Andrea James writes about LGBT reactionaries throwing drag queens under the bus for “transphobic language” and the growing rift between the drag, gay, and trans communities.
Trans icon Calpernia Addams passionately sounds off on the same subject in the Huffington Post.
In The Atlantic: Scientists create Mars-like community in Hawaii to see if astronauts will get SPACE MADNESS when we begin colonizing it in the ’30s.
A fascinating tribute to the lasting legacy of DJ Frankie Knuckles, the Godfather of House music in The LA Times.
Moby reminisces about Klaus Nomi, the ’80s club scene, and the ’90s rave drugs in Vulture.
Just how risky is oral sex? Find out here. (The answer might surprise you)
The Daily Star says the comedian Jonathan Ross is starting his hunt for Britain’s Next Drag Superstar…
Noah is just the latest film to earn the wrath of the Christian right. Read about five other blasphemous movies in Salon.
Then read: The 10 Weirdest Things the Christian Right Thinks Will Turn Your Kids Gay.
From Slate‘s advice column: “Dear Prudence: My twin brother had a one-night stand with a girl, gave her my name and number as joke, then she and I started dating. We’re engaged now, should I tell her the truth?”
Gen X catastrophe in the making: How the coming inheritance boom is going to DESTROY THE NATION.
Slate asks: How do we instill journalistic ethics into our robot reporters?
The New York Times decrees that mankind is inherently spiteful, but you know what? That’s a GOOD thing!
A fun Q & A with Cyndi Lauper in The Guardian.
BBC News: A French couple has gathered a thousand on-line fan tributes to Pharrell’s “Happy”
So the Black Death wasn’t really the Bubonic plague after all? Read the new theories in Slate.
Swoonworthy rates the top ten hunks of Game of Thrones. (Grey Worm should have scored higher, just sayin’)
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Always tackling the most important stories of the day, HuffPo has 19 Very Real Struggles of Women with Big Butts.
The much buzzed-about New York Post article: “L’Wren Scott’s Suicide Reveals Tragic Side of City’s Glitzy Scene.”
Slate uses music theory to explain the genius of Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky” (Maybe next year they’ll tackle why “Happy” is so goddamn annoying).
Nile Rogers writes about Studio 54, Grace Jones, and the Disco backlash in New York magazine.
From Salon: Why Entertainment Weekly‘s decision to start paying writers with “prestige” rather than, you know, actual money is terrible for both writers and readers (and does not bode well for the future of pop culture).
Also in Salon: Why Gwyneth Paltrow’s utterly obnoxious “conscious uncoupling” letter proves she’s the last, great star, “worthy of the legacy of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford.”
Mental Floss investigates: Is the Five-Second Rule real?
The New York Times says millennials in the work place are shallow, callow, unmotivated, and undependable… just like every generation since the middle ages.
Also in the Times: Exploring the Salton Sea, the Sunken City and other modern ruins of Southern California.
Lead singer of cult metal band GWAR David Brockie aka Oderus Urungus found dead at 50. Read about it in Rolling Stone and Daily Mail.
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Nickelback, Smash Mouth, Goo Goo Dolls: Salon has the 15 most hated bands of the last 30 years. (But no fun.? No Mumford & Sons? I demand a recount!)
The must-have coffee table book of 2014 about the mob hit men of Murder Inc. will cost you exactly $4,200. But YOWZA, what a book! Read about it in the New York Times.
Washington Post has a fascinating obituary of the villanous Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps.
And HuffPo has the LGBT reaction to his death.
Arkansas school doubles down on decision to ban gay student’s coming out story in yearbook.
For all you hardcore Benson fans out there (you know who you are), Salon has the answer to how the series was supposed to end.
For when you absolutely need purple pleather harem pants on the run: Fashion trucks are about to become ALL THE RAGE.
Coming soon to the Great White Way: James Franco and Chris O’Dowdare reimagine Of Mice & Men as a bromantic comedy
Absolutely riveting video (if you’re into this sort of thing): Alexander Wang, Prabal Garung and Eddie Borgo analyze the concept of style at the SCADstyle 2014 conference. At Style.com
Liza Minnelli talks to the LA Times about Ellen, that blue streak, and her new show.
Why Ruth Bader Ginsburg must NEVER EVER retire from the Supreme Court in Slate.
Of Hippos and Kings: Archeologist and anthropologist Eric H Cline has a new book called 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed, and it sounds remarkably like today.. Read the review in the New Yorker.
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Air & Space magazine magazine has a fascinating article about a 727 airline that vanished from Angola in 2003.
Daily Mail claims that the pilot of missing Flight MH370 was a political fanatic. This comes as police are investigating the possibility that he hijacked his own aircraft in a bizarre political protest.
OK, so we all think Flight 727 was hijacked, but just in case that gets disproven, New York magazine has other theories ranging from mechanical failure to alien abduction.
Kitty Genovese, whose 1964 rape and murder was witnessed by 37 bystanders who DID NOTHING, became a symbol about the unravelling of society, racial fears, and the lack of care exhibited by city dwellers for their neighbors. Now Off the Grid reports that Kitty was a lesbian. Did that have something to do with her neighbors’ responses (or lack thereof)?
The New York Times writes about the growing transgender presence in pop culture, talking to icons-in-the-making Laverne Cox, Janet Mock and wowlebrity Zachary Drucker.
Has the tv-star-to-movie-star career trajectory become outmoded? Vulture thinks so.
Why Mel Gibson deserves a second chance: Deadline pleads his case.
Salon has an expose on how to behave at an orgy.
10 famous geniuses and their drugs of choice, also at Salon.
One man’s mission to name an island after Busta Rhymes in Slate.
LAST WEEK’S LONGER READS:
What the hell happend to Jay McInerney? Slate examines the ’80s literary superstar’s unrealized potential.
Finally, someone details the difference between Death Metal and Black Metal.
The Independent examines the culture of rape in men’s prisons.
Semen allergies, broken penises, and spontaneous orgasms: Salon has six weird consequences of sex they don’t teach you in sex ed.
The New York Times Style section has a breathless investigation into the return of the monocle as the fashion accessory du jour for hipsters.
Slate has a bit of fun with Beyond the Monocle: Five Ideas for Future New York Times Hipster Trend Pieces including ruffs, powdered wigs, and plague doctor masks. Which, of course, I was wearing before they were cool.
Nightclubbing 101: An oral history of New York’s Pyramid Club as told by the trailblazing drag queens and performance artists who performed there.
Is belly dancing racist? Salon decrees it so.
The New Yorker has a humorous piece about 59-year-olds who look down their noses on 56-year-olds. Insolent pups!
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Sunday, March 2, 2014:
The inimitable Cindy Adams predicts tonight’s Oscars, as only Cindy can.
Who thanks who at the Oscars (No surprise: Meryl gets thanked more than God)
The Guardian has a piece imploring Academy voters not to give the Oscar to the documentary The Act of Killing (in which Indonesia’s political mass-murderers restage their slaughters).
The brilliant Douglas Rushkoff writes in Politico: “How Technology Killed the Future”
Slate has the 19 most common questions a trans person is asked.
The Atlantic has a fascinating interview with trans activist and memoirist Janet Mock.
New York magazine asserts the latest sartorial rage among hipsters is Normcore: the dad-brand non-style you might have once associated with Jerry Seinfeld.
Riveting stuff: Furniture shopping habits of the rich and famous at Salon.
Gawker profiles the adorable 101-year-old man who’s running for Congress, and really ought to win.
Fascinating article in The Economist about the controversial heroin treatment used in Switzerland and the Netherlands which sets up safe sites where users can inject while monitored by health-care staff and – in some cases – provides heroin itself free.
An investigation at Slate into the impenetrable time signature of The Terminator‘s musical score. Honestly, I wouldn’t mention it if I didn’t think it was REALLY INTERESTING.
W has a piece on venerable downtown fashion designer Andre Walker’s comeback. I still kick myself EVERY DAY for not buying some of those cookie-cutter outfits back in 1985 when I had the chance. STUPID JAMES!
The New Yorker translates what Ted Nugent was really trying to say when he called President Obama a “subhuman mongrel.”
Slate covers an exhibit at the National Museum of Australia showcasing convict love tokens – coins that had been smoothed over and then engraved with messages that prisoners gave to their sweethearts before leaving for penal colonies in Australia in the 18th and 19th century.
And finally, the Daily Beast has an update on Michael Alig and his post-prison plans.
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