Email Author Michael Musto

Awards

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

  "Kicked in the Groin at Every Glittery Turn"

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

  "Where's My Book?"

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

  "Year in Review"

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2005 Stories by Michael Musto

• NY Mirror

  published December 27, 2005

  As a result of having just gone through something of an emotional crisis, I've been exuding a raw openness and desperation lately, and guys have... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published December 13, 2005

  It's time for the eagerly unawaited year-end awards column, which, like everything from Million Dollar Baby to War of the Worlds... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published December 6, 2005

  DAME JUDI DENCH and her timeless bone structure star in Mrs. Henderson Presents, about the socialite who founded the Windmill... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published November 29, 2005

  I finally cranked up the cojones to go to El Mirage, the gay sex club on East Houston Street, where love is just 43 bucks and a leather harness... More >>

• La Dolce Musto

  published November 15, 2005

  The Woman in White proves you should never wear that color after Labor Day. The sleekly designed show gains power as it goes along, but... More >>

• La Dolce Musto

  published November 8, 2005

  If memory serves, I spent most of the '90s in camouflage jumpsuits and a babushka, running around screaming, "Die, politically incorrect stink... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published November 1, 2005

  The breathless call came in: Would you like to participate in a staged reading of Showgirls, the fabulous camp crap piece of backstage... More >>

• The Death of the Dumb Blond

  published November 1, 2005

  The biggest pop-cultural message of the aughties so far is that smart people bizarrely worship dumb blonds. With the communications explosion... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published October 25, 2005

  BENNETT MILLER rang—you know, the talent from Mamaroneck who directed Capote, about the mixture of compassion and manipulation... More >>

• Night and the City

  published October 18, 2005

  By the mid '80s, the Big Apple had lost most of its shine, but I was still living large and loving it as a free-drink-ticket-holding,... More >>

• La Dolce Musto

  published October 18, 2005

  May 11, 1999 The upcoming Belgian movie The Red Dwarf—in which a height-challenged divorce-law worker (Jean-Yves... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published October 11, 2005

  Transsexual superstar AMANDA LEPORE just shot a segment for TYRA BANKS's daytime talk show, divulging her secrets about nightlife,... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published October 4, 2005

  Purge all thoughts of any other best-of-New York lists. This one is the sexiest, most alluring, most concise yet informative, most delightfully... More >>

• La Dolce Musto

  published September 27, 2005

  Last week's artistic journey took us from witch hunts to rabbit hutches, as I kept pace, applauding while subtly rolling my eyes. There were at... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published September 20, 2005

  The latest high-octane, gold-standard drag queen to sauce up the scene is DINA MARTINA, a malapropic, off-the-charts mess with a saucy... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published September 13, 2005

  A heady mix of goths, cineastes, and suburbanites filed into the Walter Reade Theater for a special screening of Tim Burton's Corpse... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published September 6, 2005

  In my quest for Fire Island fulfillment, I've stopped favoring the honky-tonky Cherry Grove over the more nose-job-upturned Pines. It turns out... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published August 30, 2005

  The Hamptons are where you go to get away from the same old 100 people in crowded rooms, only to find the same old 100 people in crowded rooms.... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published August 23, 2005

  At the Gen Art party at Home for his romantic comedy The Baxter, MICHAEL SHOWALTER looked so vulnerable and almost pained that I... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published August 16, 2005

  TV appearances are my crack cocaine—point a camera and I'll sparkle—but I've been craving a return to more reliable television gigs,... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published August 9, 2005

  Avenue Q, that Broadway smash salad of flesh and cloth creatures, has birthed a whole other production in Las Vegas, and co-star JOHN... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published August 2, 2005

  Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo star ROB SCHNEIDER appeared at Planet Hollywood last week to lick a prosthetic leg (long story),... More >>

• Fringe Benefits

  published August 2, 2005

  Far less avant-garde than winkily pop culture obsessed, the New York International Fringe Festival milks its creative juices from tabloid... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published July 26, 2005

  There's been some lingering ickiness hovering over the culture, and I—slow on the uptake—have just caught ill wind of it. For one thing,... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published July 19, 2005

  Not long ago, I scored a gigantic hit with a column telling a myriad of celebrities what they needed to do to get back on track and not be so... More >>