Email Author Michael Musto

Awards

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published August 18, 2010

  "Where's My Book?"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published December 29, 2010

  "Year in Review"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published June 22, 2010

  "Kicked in the Groin at Every Glittery Turn"

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1998 Stories by Michael Musto

• NY Mirror

  published December 29, 1998

  Sumptuous free press junkets aren't always as great as they sound— I've dodged empty beer bottles in Iceland, vaginal Ping-Pong balls in... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published December 22, 1998

  The audio commercial for the new Psycho on 777-FILM featured a scene with little girls chanting, "Norman is a psycho! Norman is a psycho!"... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published December 15, 1998

  I was so terribly amused by the sight of Cher on various talk shows bizarrely trying to lip-synch the electronic... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published December 8, 1998

  Please don't poke my eyes out as I try to say some nice things about Jerry Springer. His hostility-filled show... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published November 24, 1998

  The night I saw it, Little Me wasn't so little; it was longer than Angels in America. As the intermission seemed to be winding down,... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published November 17, 1998

  I wasn't really wanted at the Donovan Leitch/Kirsty Hume Halloween party at... More >>

• Let Nothing You Dismay

  published November 17, 1998

  Mark O'Donnell's acid-tinged Christmas novel Let Nothing You Dismay becomes rather dense in its pileups of literary allusion and wordplay,... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published November 10, 1998

  If a bomb had gone off at the VH1 Fashion Awards, there wouldn't be any stylists left! The event was the usual bizarrely compelling hybrid of... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published November 3, 1998

  The imminent Gods and Monsters is a bizarre little talky tango between faded Frankenstein director James Whale and a lawn worker who... More >>

• Hate of the Union

  published October 27, 1998

  Practically overnight, two weeks ago, America went from being perceived as an international oral-sex joke to one of the planet's biggest... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published October 27, 1998

  If you somehow haven't been privy to Happiness yet, put down this column right now and race your ass out to see it. No, actually, finish... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published October 20, 1998

  The old Limelight had sex, drugs, and rock and roll. The soon-to-be-reopened one has Windex, hugs, and a coffee bar with rolls. The joint's owner,... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published October 13, 1998

  Creep of the Week goes to gonzo bozo Matt Drudge, who owed me one after his cable TV show dicked me around with endlessly postponed and/or... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published October 6, 1998

  I groveled my way back to La Nouvelle Justine, the Chelsea s/m theme eatery where the menu aptly says, "Give us your orders." But interestingly... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published September 29, 1998

  Permanent Midnight—the second Ben Stiller movie this year about a guy who never got to the prom—could use a little more fear and... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published September 22, 1998

  A return visit to the East Village drag boîte Lucky Cheng's unearthed an alterna-theme restaurant for those vividly functional families who... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published September 15, 1998

  These new TV channels are scaring me back to radio. The Fox Family Channel might be mesmerizing, for all I know, but that woman on their... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published September 8, 1998

  The only touch of Doris Duke left in that late rich lady's apartment is a big old crack in the marble floor--and her fans will be thrilled to... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published September 1, 1998

  I paid to see The Avengers—funny, I still haven't received a screening notice—and found that, despite some classy touches (like the... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published August 25, 1998

  My fun, relaxing Hamptons weekend began on the jitney, a $22-a-pop busapalooza jam-packed with uppity white people on cell phones (though there... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published August 18, 1998

  I generally loathe lounges, but Beige--the gayish carnival of souls approaching its third year of Tuesdays at B Bar--is a stand-up more than a... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published August 11, 1998

  Get out the Black Flag, kids. In one of those ungodly cinema coincidences as perturbing as that '80s slew of body-switching flicks, there are two... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published August 4, 1998

  The Boston Nightlife Awards may sound as oxymoronic a concept as L.A. style or army intelligence, but there are actual clubs there, and some of... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published July 28, 1998

  Check out the guy with the accessorized hair in the Beaded Barbie commercial. Just take my word—check him out. Also, while the TV's on,... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published July 21, 1998

  To learn all there is to know about Fire Island without having to actually go there, just check out some shorts. One short,... More >>