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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2006 Stories by Michael Musto

• NY Mirror

  published June 20, 2006

  Almost as gay as the Tonys, the HX Awards—hosted by the long-running bar mag—brought some of the most exuberant lowbrow cavorting... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published June 13, 2006

  After a special Tribeca Cinemas screening of The Devil Wears Prada (which I'll dissect with pinking shears next week), there was a panel... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published June 6, 2006

  At the Garden of Ono party for the compact fashion mag The Daily Mini, I kept wittily screaming, "Show me the Mini!" Sure enough, I... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published May 30, 2006

  The first big fright at the premiere of The Omen came when I noticed that the seat behind me had a sign saying "LIZA MINNELLI... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published May 23, 2006

  In lieu of a Gatorade Conservancy for the Performing Arts, I went to the opening of the Snapple Theater Center, a Times Square culture palace born... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published May 16, 2006

  Last season's Broadway plays covered incest (Festen), teacher-student diddling (The History Boys), child death (Rabbit Hole),... More >>

• The 51st Annual Obie Awards: Screwball Moments at the Skirball Center

  published May 9, 2006

  Downtown performance artists, theater lab directors, and other artsy types in slightly rumpled clothes filled the cocktail reception for the Obies... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published May 9, 2006

  The best line heard at Duvet recently: "What did I promise you again—a blowjob or a palm reading?" The most memorable utterance heard at... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published May 2, 2006

  Last week, I emceed the party for the 3,000th episode of The Jerry Springer Show—disclosure: I was remunerated in ego... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published April 25, 2006

  A Chorus Line—the classic Broadway show about the casting of a classic Broadway show—is about to return, and we'll see if it... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published April 18, 2006

  Linda Simpson's My Comrade magazine benefit at the Ukrainian National Home was a rivetingly kitschy nutfest, especially if you... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published April 11, 2006

  The kooks are cocky and cooing at the Cuckoo Club, Sundays at the Maritime's Hiro Ballroom. The other night there, a lovely young man with no... More >>

• Late Breaking Paris Hilton Setback!

  published April 11, 2006

  Exclusive Gossip: Is it hard out here for an heiress? PARIS HILTON had a long-anticipated CD scheduled to come out in June.... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published April 4, 2006

  Downtown clothing entrepreneur PATRICIA FIELD opened a new boutique, then feted it at Capitale, where the HOUSE OF NINJA vogued on... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published March 28, 2006

  In hotsy-totsy Hollywood on a quickie business trip, I was privy to all the oppressive yet invaluable gossip, name-dropping, and hype that waft at... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published March 21, 2006

  I recently wrote about the sharp rise in my sexploits in the wake of an emotional crisis and described how my newfound accessibility and craving... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published March 14, 2006

  MURRAY HILL's Saturday-night shows at Mo Pitkin's have reached a fever pitch of all-encompassing hilarity. Mur—a drag king, I mean... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published March 7, 2006

  Step right up and get some short, digestible bites for the A.D.D. gener . . . gener . . . ah, never mind. First of all, inquiring minds are still... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published February 28, 2006

  I was cocksure the Academy Awards were going to be even more of a gay Olympics than the actual gay Olympics—you know, the male figure... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published February 21, 2006

  Wherever LARRY TEE DJs, my bony legs follow. At Distortion Disko Thursdays at Duvet, I regularly submit to his assortment of hypnotic... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published February 14, 2006

  I've been telling you for three months about Tuesday nights at Happy Valley, the medium-sized dance club located, conveniently enough, just a... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published February 7, 2006

  The inevitable first question for BUCK ANGEL, the female-to-male transsexual porn star who's billed as "a real man with a real... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published January 31, 2006

  How gloomy is the post–9-11 pop cultural palette? Extremely so. In fact, the five Oscar nominees for the best picture of '05 are so... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published January 24, 2006

  Once again exploring the subtle whoring that costs too much to be free, I agreed to be a keynote speaker at Spin, a student journalism conference... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published January 17, 2006

  And the Emmy for the gayest upcoming awards show goes to . . . not the Tonys this time, but the Oscars, which will finally have the theater queens... More >>