Email Author Michael Musto

Awards

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards

  "Why I Hate Being Gay! 62 Reasons!"

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards

  "Help! Blandness Has Taken Over Our Culture!"

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published August 31, 2011

  "Fame Is Better Than Drugs And I Want To Mainline That Shit"

• 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 July 12, 2005

  Beware of islands! Two weeks ago, the film press corps was terrorized by both Roosevelt Island (the dank, depressing setting of Dark Water)... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published July 5, 2005

  My copy of Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance must have gotten lost in the mail, but I did receive Spunk'd: The Complete First... More >>

• D-list Star Says Britney's Trash!

  published June 28, 2005

  KATHY GRIFFIN is B-list, according to her mom, but the comic—who swears Mama's drunk—feels she's actually a rock-bottom D. In... More >>

• Tough Advice for Ellen, Angelina, and the Olsens

  published June 21, 2005

  As an insecure C-word, I have two favorite pastimes—viciously lashing out at others and vehemently defending myself—so this particular... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published June 14, 2005

  The stick-up-their-butts rich folks might be off to the Hamptons, but way down on Rectum—I mean Rector—Street, the trannies, fatties,... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published June 7, 2005

  FRANÇOIS OZON is the movie-star-handsome art house director who pops a different French twist out of his fascinating noggin every... More >>

• Why Jacko Beat It, Beat It, Beat It

  published June 7, 2005

  The Michael Jackson case brought out the (noted psychic confidante) Uri Geller in me. You'll remember that back in February, I wrote that Jackson... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published May 31, 2005

  HBO's Entourage takes the Sex and the City formula—throwing together four people of the same gender, each with one major... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published May 24, 2005

  Vocal-impressionist extraordinaire JIMMY JAMES—the SUSAN LUCCI of the Glammy awards for drag—just got back from a dizzying... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published May 17, 2005

  As the strictures on nightlife get tighter than a tit clamp, the gay-bar scene goes further out on a ledge of tawdry yet exciting indiscretion.... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published May 10, 2005

  I am so attuned to all things Broadway that the annual Tony nominees reception at the Marriott Marquis—where the chosen come to alternately... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published May 3, 2005

  The first former People's Liberation Army member with a nude pictorial in Playboy, BAI LING has dropped her great wall and flashed... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published April 26, 2005

  The Tribeca Film Festival enveloped my life so completely for two action-packed weeks that when it ended I felt like I'd been dumped by a... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published April 19, 2005

  All hail nebbishy genius DUSTIN HOFFMAN. With methody élan, he's long shown his skill at playing graduates, 121-year-old men, drag... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published April 12, 2005

  One of TV's Desperate Housewives is moonlighting as a desperate father turned desperate mother. Explain please, Michael. OK, well,... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published April 5, 2005

  In a particularly frantic mode, Broadway has been coughing up even more revivals than usual, mainly because they seem financially safe, and... More >>

• Pope Springs Eternal—But Why?

  published April 5, 2005

  I'm surely going straight to hell if I say anything critical of the late pope John Paul II, but according to him, I was heading there in a... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published March 29, 2005

  South Beach just played host to Fashion Week, the Winter Music Conference, and spring break all at once, and if you weren't there, you were either... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published March 22, 2005

  At the party for Paper magazine's "Beautiful People" issue at Temple, I was finally surrounded by some hot flesh commensurate with my own... More >>

• Burning Off Your Facial Moles is Fun!

  published March 22, 2005

  I've avoided anything resembling plastic surgery for ages, mainly because I'm cheap, I hate pain, journalism isn't a beauty contest, and I feel... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published March 15, 2005

  Like an old man with a new jockstrap, Atlantic City is totally on the rise again. À la Las Vegas, the Jersey resort's jazzed up casinos are... More >>

• Did I Ruin My Chances With Anderson Cooper?

  published March 15, 2005

  In addition to some touching support, I've gotten a steaming heap of flack for my current Out magazine article in which I examine why CNN's... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published March 8, 2005

  Fez, the kooky cabaret under Time Café, has been packing in so much frenzied fun before it closes that I've been waking up with confetti... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published March 8, 2005

  I'm on Broadway! Well, OFF Broadway. But at least it's at the legendary Studio 54. Well, UPSTAIRS at the legendary Studio 54. And it's not really... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published March 1, 2005

  The A.D.D. generation will simply adore this week's, whatchamacallit, column. It consists of short, wispy observations for the easily distracted... More >>