America's Next Top Model

Lesbians Are Taking Over Soho!

And they're using names from Virginia Woolf characters! Let me explain: The Dalloway (525 Broome Street) is a new hotspot co-owned by Kim Stolz, remembered as a lesbian contestant on America's Next Top Model, and Amanda Leigh Dunn from Showtime's The Real L Word. (Above photo: Amanda, Kim) Put t ... More >>

Harding's Opens in Flatiron; The Dalloway Opens in SoHo

Former Acme chef Ariel Fox is heading up the kitchen at Harding's, Flatiron's newest American restaurant. The menu features cold weather comfort food like steak and potatoes, oysters Rockefeller, and pumpkin pie soup. 32 E. 21st St. Aamanns-Copenhagen opened over the weekend. The massive restaurant ... More >>

Live: The Secret Policeman's Ball Speaks Freely At Radio City Music Hall

The Secret Policeman's Ball: Coldplay, Mumford & Sons, Russell Brand, Eddie Izzard, and many others Radio City Music Hall Sunday, March 4 Better than: Watching the Lohan Saturday Night Live on DVR. Going to a live show that's actually meant to be broadcast on television can be a deadly propositio ... More >>

How to Prepare for Snow This Weekend

​Have you heard!? It might snow this weekend! In October! People are freaking out! Also, it's very cold this morning, a mere 40 degrees right now. The tips of our fingers are chilly, but we will press on! In truth, there's not too much to do until we see those frozen bits of precipitation fall ... More >>

Fashion's Night Out Preview: Must-Go Spots

​Back in 2009 when Fashion's Night Out launched, Anna Wintour, the brainchild behind the event, aimed to celebrate the fashion industry and its consumers with an all-night party at shops and department stores throughout the city, in an attempt to spruce up retail sales in the wake of the marke ... More >>

Platinum Hit And The Mythical Aspects Of Making Music

via BravoMagic in action?​ Platinum Hit, Bravo's new talent competition for songwriters with Jewel as host and Kara DioGuardi as head judge, is not particularly enjoyable. Aside from the talented but super-ADD Sonyae (pronounced, somewhat ironically, like "soigné") and the arrogant but though ... More >>

Ten Hot Famous Fat Chicks

Sam Zide Dan Weiss is the author of the blog Ask a Guy Who Likes Fat Chicks and he's profiled in our recent feature, "Guys Who Like Fat Chicks." He put together a list of ten hot famous bigger women with the disclaimer that he "tried to mix girls I personally think are pretty with girls you don't ha ... More >>

Fashion Week: Herchcovitch Trails in the Wind, the Blonds Stage a Chinese Extravaganza, Gwen Stefani's L.A.M.B. Goes Six Ways 'Til Sunday

style.comL.A.M.B.​If there were a venn diagram of the final three shows we saw for Fashion Week, the central overlap would simply read "these are clothes" - because beyond the very basic scale of function, these designers had absolutely nothing in common in terms of aesthetic, quality, or succ ... More >>

Rich Juzwiak, Ripped Off By A TV Show, Again

"I'm laughing, really I am," insists our friend/colleague Rich Juzwiak, guru of dance music/horror movies/America's Next Top Model, upon announcing that yet another prominent TV show (The Insider) has lifted, seemingly without credit, yet another of his quick-cut web-video delights (Mariah Carey pra ... More >>

Rush Limbaugh and the Many Faces of Evil: A Photo Gallery

​Rush Limbaugh is pretty much the king of the pot calling the kettle whatever, so, it's not terribly surprising that he decided to go off on recent photos of Barack Obama looking "demonic." And, we'll admit, the POTUS does look a little terrifying here...not that there's anything wrong with th ... More >>

Fashion Week Day One: Nicholas K; Michael Kors, Heidi Klum, and Jessica Simpson at the Extra-Long Project Runway Show

​We've been counting down the days until this very moment: the first day of Fashion Week at its new location. And although Bryant Park is a mere two miles away from Lincoln Center, it feels like we're in another world. We take our first glimpse of the new setup and see no sign of white tents or bi ... More >>

David Paterson vs. Philip Morris: A Great American Smokeout

​In today's battle of greater and lesser evils.... On one side, we have Altria (the pleasantly named yet clearly partial parent company of Philip Morris, which sells products that are proven to kill people). On the other, there's the Paterson team.

(NSFW) Catching Up With America's Next Top Model: The Steak Tartare Episode (Where Is PETA When We Really Need Them?)

​Every TV show has a point where it totally jumps the shark. With America's Next Top Model, it came during Episode 4 in Season 10. In the hour-long show, broadcast March 13, 2008, the contestants were brought to Manhattan's Meat Packing District and sequestered, scantily dressed, inside the co ... More >>

Diane von Furstenberg Commits to Sparkle Motion, Betsey Johnson Shoots and Scores

Discussed: Diane von Furstenberg, Rachel Roy, Betsey Johnson Stacey AndersonDVF​In Diane von Furstenberg's Fall 2010 line program, she explains her inspiration thusly: "I always wanted to live a man's life in a woman's body." And in that man's life, there will be glamour--oh, endless glitz. ... More >>

Carlos Miele Digs the Chains; Jill Stuart's in the Army Now

Discussed: Carlos Miele, Jill Stuart Stacey AndersonCarlos Miele​Carlos Miele is on the chain gang this season; he's one of many designers this season to favor link-metal accents in unexpected places. This morning, in the Bryant Park Promenade, the Brazilian label trotted out its usual discor ... More >>

Patti Smith and Metric Paid Tribute To Alexander McQueen at Last Night's LNA Afterparty at MILK Studios

Metric photo by Anne Koller. We'd have put the Patti Smith shot here, but it's sort of terrifying.​"When people like Alexander McQueen leave us so young we have to remember to live," Patti Smith said in between songs at last night's LNA afterparty at Chelsea's MILK Studios. "Don't forget, you' ... More >>

In Praise Of The Whitney Houston Oprah-Interview Soundboard

Rich Juzwiak's FourFour blog is required reading for any number of reasons: his absolute command of subjects ranging from horror movies, The-Dream, or America's Next Top Model chief among them. But mostly it's the animated GIFs. Nobody on earth is doing better work in this regard. We have already ... More >>

Fashion Week in Review: Carlos Miele, Jill Stuart, Tracy Reese, Erin Fetherston

​ From the Jill Stuart show. Photo by Graham Rayman. What makes the fashion industry such an elitist, exclusory world? Vogue's Anna Wintour attempted to explain it in the moderately sympathetic new documentary The September Issue; she insisted, with clipped British finality, that the unstyli ... More >>

Video: Inside the "Top Model" Riot

In the middle section of this citizen journalist's YouTube video (warning: horrible music) we get some crowd-level footage of trash talk among the participants in last weekend's "America's Next Top Model" audition/riot. A policeman removes some attendees, one of whom promises that someone is going ... More >>

"America's Next Top Model" Audition Ends in Stampede, Arrests

Saturday's auditions for the TV show "America's Next Top Model" were open for the first time to women under 5-foot-7, causing a larger-than-usual crowd of aspirants -- several hundred, it appears from the above video -- to start gathering outside the Park Central Hotel on West 55th Street on Frida ... More >>

Monday's Headlines: Times plays catch-up on our Rikers Fight Club story

[HARKAVY is now blogging at The Smart Asset]Your Monday New York headlines...Times catching up on the Rikers Fight Club story that the Voice's Graham Rayman has been reporting for nearly two years.More AIG drama: Bailout money went to foreign firms and other big banks that AIG owed in derivative gam ... More >>

The Year's Fashion Lowlights

Presenting the first annual list of style's ugly moments

Morning Light's Squeaky Clean Disney Agenda

Jane Comfort and Lloyd Newson Tell It Straight (or Not)

‘What Candidate Are You Wearing?’

Taking the political pulse in the corridors of fashion.

Runway to Nowhere: Ford Supermodel of the World Competition and Make Me a Supermodel

A global model competition that wobbles. Plus, the latest example of displaying shell-shocked beauties.

Becoming Kevin Aviance, Again

A year after he was bashed in the East Village, a New York diva is ready for his second act

The Great White Hope Makes Good

Ego Trip's The (White) Rapper Show marks its cringe-worthy and triumphant debut

The New Fred

Shirley Phelps-Roper is just like her notorious father — except in one crucial way.

The Mind-Body Problem

Don't hate me because I'm beautiful—and smart: College students who model

Where's the Party?

The Girls Get Ready to Turn It Out for Pride

NY Mirror

Girls vs. Boys

Two gender-specific cable networks undergo extreme hormone therapy

Remote Patrol

Education Listings

The Year in TV: Stinkers

Beauty and the Modeling Beast

Talking with Top Model contestant Kim Stolz

Something to Fall Back On

'America's Next Top Model' searches for America's next reality stars

Punk Porn Muse

Model-artist Barbara Ann Crumm bares body, soul in exhibit

Almost Famous

Reality TV spawns spin-offs: Wannabes compete for spots and hope to become Mega Stars

Dirty, Pretty Things

An interview with Simon Doonan about his nastiest, favorite memories

America's Next Top Model Comes to a Screaming Conclusion

Full of Grace

Court TV's secret weapon brings her flaring nostrils and female rage to CNN Headline News

Tranny TV Train Wreck

Transgender characters did not fare well on television this year

Bravo's Project Runway

Machine Age

Carry Your Torch

By the time they make Albuquerque, she'll be modeling