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May 25, 2012
Curtis Stone On His New L.A. Restaurant, Cookbook, and Accessory Line Part 2
Yesterday, we talked with Curtis Stone about his new Bravo show, life as a parent, and what it's like to film while traveling the world. Today, we move on to find out that this busy guy isn't content just doing television; he also has a new restaurant and cookbook in the works. Triple threat? This ... More >>
Blogs
May 24, 2012
Curtis Stone Talks Around the World in 80 Plates, Filming All Over the World Part 1
He has a new Bravo show and a recently born son, so it's a miracle that we got Curtis Stone on the line. Despite a whirlwind media day, the Top Chef Masters host gave us the scoop on Around the World in 80 Plates, traveling the world, and some destinations he'd like to re-visit. You have a new show ... More >>
Blogs
March 6, 2012
Bravo's New Real Estate Star Has A Gay Porn Past!
UPDATE: Bravo tells me Eklund has been addressing his porn days in interviews and it will come up in the very first episode of the show. Bravo, Bravo! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Tomorrow night, Bravo launches its sp ... More >>
Blogs
March 6, 2012
Ex Gay Porn Star Is Addressing His Past On Reality Show!
Earlier today, I relayed the info that Frederik Eklund--star of Bravo's Million Dollar Listing New York, which premieres tomorrow--used to be the gay porn star Tag Erikkson. Well, Bravo tells me that not only is Eklund talking about his porn past in interviews promoting the show, but the first epis ... More >>
Blogs
February 23, 2012
Oh, Happy Day! Choice Eats Unveils Even More Restaurants
The Village Voice's fifth annual tasting event is rapidly approaching, and if you haven't yet purchased your tickets, here are seven more reasons why you should. Choice Eats has just announced that Despaña, Four & Twenty Blackbirds, Jimmy's No. 43, Nunu Chocolates, Peppa's Jerk Chicken, Xe M ... More >>
Blogs
February 16, 2012
Gail Simmons on Being a Top Chef Judge
Photo courtesy Gail SimmonsGail Simmons, television star and now authorGail Simmons has worn many hats in the culinary world, having begun her career as a cook and journalist before working her way to Food & Wine, a position that nabbed her a role as a regular judge on the hit television show ... More >>
Blogs
November 21, 2011
Sucklord "Jerk of Art" Street Art Appears Downtown
It's been a monumental week in the Suckadelic quest for world domination. Last Wednesday, the Sucklord found himself unceremoniously banished from BRAVO's Work of Art, after the endearing reality-TV character failed to impress judges in a street-art challenge. The masked Voice cover star's immediate ... More >>
Blogs
November 17, 2011
Q&A: The Sucklord on Graffiti, His Work of Art Failures, and Why He's Like Darth Vader
The SucklordEarlier this year, New York magazine's culture blog, Vulture, asked Work of Art co-producer Sarah Jessica Parker, after this season's shooting had started, if she foresaw any breakout characters. She laughed. "Um, I suspect there might be one." The one is Sucklord, who went from the de ... More >>
Blogs
October 13, 2011
Michelle Matson Wins, Sucklord Rules: Your Cheat Sheet to Bravo's Work of Art 2, Episode One
Actual poll currently running on the Bravo site There is a Bravo show called Work of Art: The Search for the Next Great Artist. As we've told you before, it's a reality-TV competition ostensibly about searching every gallery nook and gutter grate for America's Next Great Artist--not a Very Good Art ... More >>
Blogs
October 12, 2011
Sucklord on Art Critics: "If the Jerry Saltzes of the World Don't Like My Work, I Don't Give a Shit"
Dustin Fenstermacher"Who the hell is this guy? Get him out of here." The second season of Bravo's Work of Art: The Search for the Next Great Artist, the gallery world's Top Chef, premieres tonight at 9pm. Completely randomly, the 14-person cast stars two recent Village Voice cover-story subjects: ... More >>
Blogs
August 11, 2011
Ron Suhanosky 'Out' at Stuzzicheria; Marcellus Coleman 'In' at Alias
Ex-Sfoglia chef Ron Suhanosky has left Stuzzicheria after just four months, due to creative differences with owner Gerard Renny. Paul Di Bari, who worked at sister restaurant Stuzzi has taken over. [Grub Street] James Kent, who competed a in Bocuse d'Or this year, has been promoted to chef d ... More >>
Blogs
August 11, 2011
New York Post Defines 'Hamptons House Ho'
Should you not know, now you do: A "Hamptons house ho" is a young lady of perhaps working-class means who escapes her dull workaday life and embarks on a jaunt to Long Island's narrow beach-dappled sections during the months in which sun shines down on all of us, swapping her white Reebok hig ... More >>
Blogs
June 14, 2011
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 >>
Blogs
April 13, 2011
The Next Food Network Stars? Not Quite.
WikipediaThe one "real" starBeing the Next Food Network Star is kind of like being Top Chef, Minus the chef aspect. But ultimately it can be much more lucrative than winning the $100,000 on the Bravo show, since it's an opportunity to build a brand...or is it?
Blogs
April 6, 2011
Hell's Kitchen Is Hot; Sandra Lee to Launch Kitchen Line
Increased food prices have begun to affect diners directly, with restaurants like Per Se and 'wichcraft raising their menu prices. [Wall Street Journal] A group of women at Bravo were said to be bitching about the special treatment Top Chef's Padma Lakshmi gets. (This is news?) [NY Post] He ... More >>
Blogs
April 6, 2011
Top Chef Masters Airs Tonight, New York Chefs Poised to Dominate (Hopefully)
theage.com.auPretty yes, but he's no PadmaBecause there can't be more than two weeks without a Top Chef show on the air, Season Three of Top Chef Masters premieres tonight on Bravo at 11 p.m. Nevertheless, this season is shaping up to look exciting.
Blogs
February 8, 2011
Top Chef and Just Desserts Will Hold Local Auditions
Attention, masochists, drama queens, and egomaniacs!
Blogs
February 4, 2011
Top Chef: Just Desserts Will Return for a Second Season
Because there can never be too much sugar and spice in one's life, Bravo announced today that it will bring Top Chef: Just Desserts back for a second season.
Blogs
January 21, 2011
Food Network Losing Its Fan Base
newsworld22.comDon't worry, Giada, men are surely still watching you.Things aren't looking so cheery for Giada De Laurentiis and Sandra Lee. Their TV home, the Food Network, is showing signs of decline as it experienced a 10.3 percent drop among viewers ages 25 to 54 -- a key demographic for ... More >>
Blogs
January 7, 2011
Kathy Griffin and Camille Grammer: Out!
Big reality show shakeups, people. Tart-tongued funny lady Kathy Griffin is calling it quits with her Bravo show My Life on The D-List after six seasons. Chatty Kathy never intended to be a reality star, she says. Besides, I would imagine it would be hard to pretend to still be D-list when ... More >>
Blogs
December 1, 2010
Tonight, Top Chef Returns ... Again ...
They're here for your soul. Beginning this very evening, Bravo will drag Top Chef howling from the vaults and back onto television screens across the nation. Yes, as threatened, Season 8 will serve audiences a steaming portion of Top Chef: All Stars, pitting the ghosts of seasons past against ... More >>
Blogs
September 23, 2010
Top Chef: All Stars Line-Up Announced
Weeks after everyone pretty much figured out that Top Chef's next season would feature an all-star line-up, Bravo used last night's Season 7 reunion episode to formally announce that next season will be, yes, Top Chef: All Stars. It will premiere on Dec. 1 with the following contestants:
Film
September 15, 2010
The Cream Puff of Food Docs, Kings of Pastry
Weeks after everyone pretty much figured out that Top Chef's next season would feature an all-star line-up, Bravo used last night's Season 7 reunion episode to formally announce that next season will be, yes, Top Chef: All Stars. It will premiere on Dec. 1 with the following contestants:
Blogs
September 15, 2010
Free Dessert Throughout the City Today
BravoThem again.With tonight's premiere of Top Chef: Just Desserts comes, unsurprisingly, opportunities for cross-promotion. In honor of the show's pilot episode, Open Table has come up with Free Dessert Day, a multi-city gorge fest that will entitle Open Table users to a free dessert at part ... More >>
Art
September 8, 2010
Work of Art Winner Abdi Farah Limps Into the Brooklyn Museum
No bravos for this Bravo reality show winner
Art
August 4, 2010
Our Roundtable on Bravo's Art Reality Show
'Work of Art' gets its own 'crit' from three Village Voice writers
Blogs
August 4, 2010
This Week's Voice: The Arcade Fire, Lilith Fair, Neu!, and More
Win Butler, serenading The Kids. Photo by Kim Erlandsen.In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla takes on the grandiose, unintentional comedy of the Arcade Fire's The Suburbs, Maura Johnston wanders around the revitalized Lilith Fair, and David Cotner breaks down the long-awaited Neu! retro ... More >>
Blogs
June 18, 2010
Top Chef's Premiere Suffers From Half-Cooked Ratings
Who's looking smug now?There may be plenty of discreet charm to be found in Washington, D.C., but discretion does not a ratings juggernaut make. That's a lesson that Bravo executives are probably mulling over in the wake of Wednesday's Top Chef premiere, which The Washington Post reports pull ... More >>
Blogs
May 17, 2010
Top Chef University Teaches Us, Again, That You Really Can Buy Delusion on the Internet
Get schooled.Do you have $200 and a desire to spent it on something you can get for free? Then the brand, spanking new Top Chef University may be for you. The eternally plotting masterminds behind the show have rubbed their sweaty little hands together and come up with an online cooking schoo ... More >>
Blogs
May 13, 2010
Top Chef: Washington, D.C. Promises Us Eric Ripert, Three New York Chefs, Bad Dreads, and an Occasional Cross-Dresser
BravoIt's called the Oral Office, Beavis.So close, yet so far: Bravo today announced that there is but little more than a month remaining until the premiere of Top Chef: Washington, D.C., which will premiere on June 16. Season Seven already has a few things going for it, including three New Y ... More >>
Blogs
March 25, 2010
Top Chef Masters Bestows Preview Upon the Internet
On April 7, the second season of Top Chef Masters will premiere. In the meantime, Bravo has bestowed a 54-second preview upon the Internet. You can use it to either whet your appetite or stoke a wave of nausea, or simply marvel at the sight of Susan Feninger exclaiming "people here are kah-ra ... More >>
Blogs
September 17, 2009
Bravo Confirms in a Backhand Sort of Way that Top Cheftestants Are Chosen Partly for their Tattoos
What is that tatt on the left--the love child of Alfred Hitchcock and a bulldog? Thanks to Eater for pointing out a slide show on Bravo's Top Chef website. It features an astonishing 57 pictures of the tattoos of Season 6 contestants, inadvertently demonstrating that, in a desperate attempt ... More >>
Blogs
August 12, 2009
Let the (Top Chef: Las Vegas) Games Begin
BravoThe sixth season of Top Chef begins next Wednesday, August 19, and Grub Street gets things rolling with an interview with the show's lone New York contestant. Ash Fulk, a cook at Trestle on Tenth, dishes about trying to be a locavore in Las Vegas, how cooking on the show is harder than i ... More >>
Blogs
July 23, 2009
A Gay Bravo Show About Tops?
Remember Greg Scarnici, the white guy who did the hilarious Aretha Franklin homage which I posted on this blog after the inauguration? No? Well, now he's done a parody of Top Chef as if it were a gay Bravo show called Top Top!
Voice Choices
July 22, 2009
SURE BET
Play poker with your favorite funny guys
Film
June 24, 2009
The Hurt Locker, Ticking Time Bomb of a Movie
As unconventional as the warfare it depicts
Blogs
June 18, 2009
In "Really Lame" News: Top Chef Masters Winner Leaked
Photo borrowed from Bravo We're week two into Bravo's Top Chef Masters and the winner has already been leaked. SF-based food writer Grace Ann Walden has apparently revealed the winner in her Yummy Newsletter, and MenuPages Chicago confirmed the tip. Quoth the chef's publicist: "You want my comment ... More >>
Blogs
March 5, 2009
Top Chef -- Local Boulder Boy Makes Good
This week, the Cafe Society blog of our sister publication Denver Westword features a revealing interview with Top Chef upset victor Hosea Rosenberg, who was actually a successful chef at Jax Fish House in Boulder before joining the Top Chef competition. Jockeying with the likes o ... More >>
Blogs
March 5, 2009
Fabio Getting Every Cent Out of These 15 Minutes
America is such a beautiful place. Cheftestants can score lucrative promotional deals or simply create their own clothing lines or eat overpriced Italian food at restaurants where your purse gets a special stool. America!Wow, I had no intention of doing another Top Chef post today, but then I stumbl ... More >>
Blogs
July 24, 2008
The Knives Come Out in Williamsburg
America is such a beautiful place. Cheftestants can score lucrative promotional deals or simply create their own clothing lines or eat overpriced Italian food at restaurants where your purse gets a special stool. America!Wow, I had no intention of doing another Top Chef post today, but then I stumbl ... More >>
Blogs
December 13, 2007
Project Runway: The Gastric Bypass Episode
America is such a beautiful place. Cheftestants can score lucrative promotional deals or simply create their own clothing lines or eat overpriced Italian food at restaurants where your purse gets a special stool. America!Wow, I had no intention of doing another Top Chef post today, but then I stumbl ... More >>
Blogs
October 4, 2007
More Top Chef! Rocco DiSpirito on Dale's Lobster: "It Tasted Like Indian Sewer Water"
America is such a beautiful place. Cheftestants can score lucrative promotional deals or simply create their own clothing lines or eat overpriced Italian food at restaurants where your purse gets a special stool. America!Wow, I had no intention of doing another Top Chef post today, but then I stumbl ... More >>
Blogs
October 1, 2007
Hung Speaks: 'What Should I do, Make Sweet and Sour Chicken?'
America is such a beautiful place. Cheftestants can score lucrative promotional deals or simply create their own clothing lines or eat overpriced Italian food at restaurants where your purse gets a special stool. America!Wow, I had no intention of doing another Top Chef post today, but then I stumbl ... More >>
Dining
August 7, 2007
Little Dieterle
The skinny on the first Top Chef restaurant
Blogs
July 19, 2007
Rumors Affirmed: Rocco to Appear on Top Chef
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Blogs
June 8, 2007
Top Chef Now has its Own Holiday
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Columns
September 12, 2006
Al Franken vs. Bill O'Reilly
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NYC Life
September 20, 2005
Don't Call it 'Project Runway, the Art Exhibit'
A Soho gallery turns fashion studio, for one week
Columns
June 28, 2005
D-list Star Says Britney's Trash!
A Soho gallery turns fashion studio, for one week
NYC Life
November 23, 2004
Bravo's Project Runway
A Soho gallery turns fashion studio, for one week
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