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The Horrors of India's Beauty Pageants in The World Before Her

Under Review: Sietsema is in Spicy Heaven at Sweet Yummy House; Rao Devours "Fresh-Killed" Chicken at Hanjan

For our own Robert Sietsema, hearing the name Sweet Yummy House "conjured up gingerbread dwellings deep in the woods made by witches." In reality, the Elmhurst restaurant is one of the city's newest Sichuan restaurants, specializing in "delicious peculiarities resulting from fusion with other cuisin ... More >>

Hot and Happening Plastic Surgery Tips For Your Face!

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Hot and Happening Surgery Tips For Your Face

This week's column is a hilarious yet informative trip to the land of nips, tucks, pulverizations, and compensations. I interviewed several top plastic surgeons to find out what the most fabulous things are to do to your face under anesthesia these days--things that will make you emerge looking lik ... More >>

How Far Would You Go For Your Pet?

In the old, more heartless days, whenever a pet got sick, most people simply "put it out of its misery" or maybe just walked it into traffic. But that was then. Now you hear people who barely take care of their own medical problems saying stuff like, "I'm getting 14 rounds of kitty dialysis for my ... More >>

Botox Party Tonight! With Wine And Cheese!

And it's on the early side, so you can pulverize your forehead by 9:30, then head to the clubs looking fierce! Check out the info on Facebook -- or if your face is too frozen to move, I'll just tell you the deets right now.

Donald Trump: 'I Wouldn't Say Retirement Is for Losers' (But You'll Probably Get Fat and Old)

​Donald Trump spoke to SmartMoney recently and revealed some things of potential interest to the career-interested layperson. For one, though he's 65, he's planning to stick around for a long time, work-wise: "My father, who worked until he passed away at 93, used to always say, 'to retire is ... More >>

Get a Shot of Collagen at Takashi

Chantal MartineauTakashi's Collagen Soup​ Haven't had your Botox this month? No worries: you can get a cupful of collagen soup now at Takashi in the West Village.

Why I Hate Being Gay! 62 Reasons!

Here's why we hate being gay

GMA Won't Pay Botox Mom Now That Botox Mom Is a Liar

​Ethics are a fascinating thing. While it was okay for ABC News to pay $10,000 for a story -- or, more specifically, to pay $10,000 as a licensing fee for photos given part-and-parcel with an "exclusive" Good Morning America interview with Kerry Campbell, or "Botox Mom" -- it is not okay to pa ... More >>

Botox Mom 'Kerry Campbell' Fooled Everyone, Is Not Really a Botox Mom, Is Still Messed Up

​Oooh! Will America be mad at this, or what? The alleged Botox Mom is a farce! A hoax (as earlier speculated)! A tawdry effort to make a bit of cash and get a little bit famous, reports TMZ, which claims to have a sworn declaration written by a woman named Sheena Upton, who says she was approa ... More >>

Kerry Campbell, Botox Mom, Is Sorry, Vows Never to Give Her 8-Year-Old Botox Again

​The Botox mom, a/k/a, Kerry Campbell, a/k/a, the woman who gave her 8-year-old daughter Botox and "virgin waxes" to prevent hair from growing "down there" and basically make her a better pageant contender, feels very sorry (as she should) that her daughter was taken out of her custody after C ... More >>

Child Services Investigate Botox-Injecting Pageant Mom; Update: Mom Loses Custody

via The Sun​California mom Kerry Campbell, who has publicly admitted to giving her 8-year-old daughter Botox injections before beauty pageants, is under investigation by San Francisco child protective services. Finally! After the jump: Kerry Campbell has lost custody of her daughter.

Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon Already Visited by Child Protective Services

​It's been a big week...for child protective services? First there was Botox mom, and now this: Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon, new parents of twins Moroccan and Monroe (I know), have already had a little moment with CPS. Cannon told Piers Morgan of all people that he was approached in the hospital ... More >>

Plastic Surgery as Revenge: Cutting Your Nose to Spite Your Ex

​The latest trend in getting over your ex is, guess what? Plastic surgery! Because looking good is the best revenge. Even if it means diets, Botox, boob jobs, recovering from surgery, and hardly recognizing yourself in the mirror. Surgery is way easier than loving yourself, take it from those ... More >>

Living in New York Keeps You Young!

​As you stumble home at 4 a.m. after a night of debauchery only to rise by 8 a.m. for work, and do it again and again, you might not think that your lifestyle is doing much to combat nature's curse, that is, getting old. But it is! (Well, it may depend on how many days of debauchery.) But eith ... More >>

Mom Gives 8-Year-Old Botox and 'Virgin' Waxes So She'll Be Famous

Britney and Mom, via The Sun​I'd suggest we take this story with a grain of salt, though who wants even a grain of salt to dilute any of the Internet crowd-rage related to this story? Britain's The Sun tells the tale of the worst mom of all pushy, awful stage moms, a mom who is, without a hin ... More >>

Lil B To Last Night's Sold-Out Crowd At the Highline Ballroom: "I Adopted A Cat!"

One thousand based gods at last night's Highline Ballroom. Twitpic via Debby LONDON​"I'm the first rapper ever to write a book in email and text message form," Lil B says from a Highline Ballroom stage, surveying the sold-out room. "At 19! And they had the nerve to call me stupid." Lil B is no ... More >>

Former Staten Island Minister Continues in Rather Epic Plummet from Grace

​It's hard to get to the end of even the headline of this New York Post story about a former Staten Island minister who embezzled $84,000 from his parish to keep himself in plastic surgeries and Botox treatments, who got busted...and who's now been arrested for drunk driving. Whew, dude's got ... More >>

Marketers Are Totally Judging You Based on the TV Shows You Watch

​AdAge has a fascinating little piece on what TV shows you watch and how that relates to the brands you like, based on information from "psychographic" (eek) "ad targeter" Mindset Media. The data was self-reported by about 25,000 TV viewers across 70-plus shows, most of which ended up attract ... More >>

My Morning Beauty Regimen Revealed At Last

​Not that you asked, but I splash warm water on my face, then generously rub St. Ives apricot facial scrub all over it as if it were a golden shower from heaven. Fifteen fame-making minutes later, I shower it off, using the extremely pure and unscented Basis soap in tandem with Nivea face was ... More >>

Will Anyone Buy "Woody Hoodie" Condoms?

Swing-dancing, Fringe-watching, Montauk-visiting—almost relaxing

For Every 100 Single Women, There Are 88 Single Men, and Other Invigorating Findings From the U.S. Census Bureau

Here is a typical single lady, enjoying her cosmo-tini and thinking about being single, and her next Botox appointment (via CNN)​Hey, single ladies! (And single men, too, but mostly ladies, because there are just more of you looking off longingly into the distance and thinking about your once- ... More >>

Sarah Palin Denies Teacher-Hating Eye-Roll, Tells "Left-Stream Media" to Stay Classy

​A video has been circulating today in which a local woman with an enormous Worst Governor Ever sign confronts Sarah Palin at the high-security filming of her Discovery Channel show in Homer, Alaska, about, basically, selling out. As you might expect, the conversation the clip captures is utte ... More >>

Tall Chicks, Getting the Dudes and the Cows

​Hey, ladies... Depressed about your obvious pores, your cellulite-bedaubed thighs, your stringy locks or the growing suspicion that you're totally gonna need Botox in five three years? Take heart in the fact that you don't live in the Sudan, where if you're a petite gal like myself, you woul ... More >>

New Ad Calls for Pinky-Ringed Wall Streeters to Do the Right Thing

​For the two or three of you out there who still watch commercials, you're about to start seeing a rather amateurish statewide ad that asks -- nay, demands! -- Wall Street and big businesses (who all smoke cigars, wear multiple gold rings, and take their Pellegrino with lemon, thank you very m ... More >>

Rev Who Stole for Botox Gets Probation, Must Pay Back $85K

​Continuing our Staten Island/ cosmetic procedure/ crime theme: Earlier this year, when Reverend William Blasingame of Staten Island's St. Paul's Memorial Episcopal Church was accused of stealing tens of thousands of dollars from the church for, among other things, Botox and plastic surgery, ... More >>

The Queer Issue: Beefcake's Golden Age

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Fresh off an arrest for drunken hooliganism, Australian footballer Todd Carney left a full-frontal nude picture of himself on a rented phone, causing embarrassment all around. The refreshing explanation: "He had forwarded the photos to a girl he met on social network site Facebook some months late ... More >>

Elissa Down's The Black Balloon

This auspicious Oz import is a sign of bright, young filmmaking in Australia

Doctors Warn of "Illegal Botox Scammers"

Why Manhunt Sucks Cock

Open Call for Pink to Write a Better Second Verse to "So What"

Trend Alert: Starlets Without Surgery or Eating Disorders

First Peek at The Women Remake!

Gossip Report: Why No News is Bad News

Priscilla, Queen of the Botox: Hunka Hunka Burning Flesh

A Breakfast of Botox

Maker of the wonder toxin shills its latest product

Dr. Santa

Giving the gift of Botox, lipo, and laser resurfacing this holiday season

Chic Child o' Mine

Preschool cool isn't just for toddlers anymore

Strangers on a Train: Wobbly Cartoon Spectacle Lacks Human Element

Machine Age

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Double-G Whiz

Good Riddance, Tom Ford

Vanity, Thy Name Is Man

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Botox Is the Latest Craze for the Appearance-Obsessed. Wrinkled?

Remembrance of Things Crass

The Fashion Magazines of September 2000

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What actor was boyfriends until recently with that hotshot director who helped guide him to Oscar?

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