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Catching Up With Paul Iacono, Who Came Out On This Blog

Last year, Paul Iacono, best known for MTV's The Hard Times of RJ Berger, came out on this blog to kudos and roses. And that's not the end of his gay news. A film Paul costars in, GBF (which just played the Tribeca Film Festival) brings a refreshing gay spin to the glib, colorful teen comedy genre ... More >>

Jesse Metcalfe Tells Me: Dallas Stars Will Converge For J. R.'s Funeral

On TNT's hit Dallas--a continuation of the original series, set 21 years later--Jesse Metcalfe plays Bobby Ewing's adopted son Christopher, alongside such original Dallas stars as Patrick Duffy and Linda Gray. I just caught up with Jesse to find out what's cooking in Texas, TV-style. Hi, Jesse. Wh ... More >>

Summer Books Guide: Padgett Powell's You & Me: A Novel

Desperate Housewives Is Kaput! Here's What Felicity Huffman Says About It

Wysteria Lane is off the map--in a bad way--as of this Sunday, when the Desperate Housewives divorce themselves from the reality of having a TV series. It's the finale. And Felicity Huffman (who has won awards for playing Lynette for eight years) spoke to Parade about the big kissoff: The final ... More >>

Emily Bergl Puts A Fresh Spin On Cabaret

Uptown cabarets are generally the places for high-priced, reverent song stylings performed on various well-oiled standards. Well, at the Cafe Carlyle until May 12, Emily Bergl is infusing that format with some freshness and originality, bringing a little bit of downtown uptown. She's utterly deli ... More >>

Eva Longoria Wants You to Know Kids Are Farming Your Food

The Harvest​Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria is promoting a documentary that exposes the ugly truth about child labor in this country's agriculture system. If you missed The Harvest's short run this summer, the film is now out on DVD. Some 25 percent of the food we eat is harvested by c ... More >>

Download: Household's Moody, Brittle "Go Away"

​Brooklyn post-punk trio Household has all the taut, jittery rhythmic propulsion of vintage art-pulsers like LiLiPUT and Delta 5, but the band adds a gorgeous, infectious layer of minor-key harmonies taken from the first wave of '90s twee. Guitarist Talya Cooper says the twin vocal dynamic bet ... More >>

'Night Of 1000 Judys' Is Tonight! They'll Sing 'Em All!

​No, not Judi Dench. Anyway, tonight's attractions: Jackie Hoffman will sing "Swanee." Tony winner Daisy Eagan will do "The Trolley Song." Emily Bergl (Desperate Housewives) will croon "Zing! Went The Strings of My Heart" And there will be more. They'll sing 'em all and they'll stay all n ... More >>

Anthony Weiner Would've Loved Cheating Site Ashley Madison Says CEO Noel Biderman

What's that URL again?​Noel Biderman, the CEO and founder of married-person dating website Ashley Madison (tagline: "Life is short. Have an affair."), like any observer of powerful men in America, was not all that surprised by Anthony Weiner's obsession with cyber sex, but he does appreciate t ... More >>

Year of the Rabbit Begins Today; Zac Efron to Profit

jimw​If you're like us, you started the Year of the Rabbit by waking up with a hangover in the butt-end of a discarded parade dragon in Flushing. After brushing the taste of Tsingtao out of your mouth, you probably wondered, "What's this all about?"

Emmy Nominations Announced; HBO Maintains Primetime Stranglehold

We will never own one of these. ​Whee, the 62nd Annual (Primetime!) Emmys have been announced. There aren't that many surprises: As usual, HBO rocks, as does Mad Men, True Blood, 30 Rock, Glee, Neil Patrick Harris, and Tina Fey. Losties may get another chance to see the objects of their affect ... More >>

Vanessa Williams Is Doing Her Memoirs

Richard Termine​That's what I'm hearing, and it'll surely be a rewarding read. After all, Vanessa Williams came to national attention as a lovely beauty queen whose crown was ripped off her pretty head when a lesbo-nudie spread surfaced.

Michael Douglas Collects a Paycheck for Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

Fringe Festival 2009 Reviews

This Week's Voice: Todd P Goes to Austin, John Forte, Abandon Ship, Lev Grossman's The Magicians, and More

Polaroids from another long, strange trip by Bridget Finn. Todd P, far right. In this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla talks with the director and main subject of the new doc Todd P Goes to Austin: "A documentary or other such deification was inevitable, though Austin, directed by longtime Todd ... More >>

More Steamy Blind Items! And Some With Names Too!

Michelle Obama swears by Isabel Toledo's gowns, and now crowds do, too.

Interview: Artist Ben Frost on His Latest Show, Plague Landscapes, at Brooklynite Gallery

"I faked my own death and everybody believed me: even my mum cried when she read about it in the paper." In 2000, Australian artist Ben Frost faked his own death, sending out newspaper funeral notices that doubled as invites to his solo exhibition. Some, of course, saw this in poor taste--but wha ... More >>

Club Queen Turns Down Reality Show

Isn't it nice that someone has actually turned down an offer to appear on television? In the age of reality TV, where people push their disintegrating families into your face for the glamour of it all, saying "no" is so very rare. And yet longtime club goddess Susanne Bartsch just refused the chanc ... More >>

I AINT SAYIN' SHE'S A GOLD DIGGER

When times are tough, just marry up

A Final Report from the Cannes Film Festival 2009

This time, it's visceral

Cannes Film Festival 2009, Closing Credits: Gaspar Noe's Enter the Void, Haneke's The White Ribbon, and More

Our longtime film critic J. Hoberman spent this year's Cannes filing regular dispatches. This is his last one. Enter the Void Memorable for its in-your-face sensationalism, the 62nd Cannes Film Festival opened with the 3-D computer animation Up, saving the "Yours" for the final minutes of the comp ... More >>

The Babysitters: Reductive, Painful Fun

A cock-meat sandwich?

Strike While the Irony's Hot

Making lemonade from lemons; reflections about a golden eye; jousting with Joosten.

Knockin' Vintage Boots

Golden girls get their groove on past 60

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

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All In The Family

Bizarre love quadrangle binds a Mormon businessman and his three wives

Bubble Economy: A New Era of Narrowing Release Windows

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Awards for Awards

Fashionable highlights and lowlights from last night's Golden Globes

You Do You

Love scholar looks past butt-or-not floss, toward crunk

La Dolce Musto

Born Again

When it comes to the abortion issue, TV shows are where they were 30 years ago.

Music

This Is Your Mom on Drugs

A new series about a drug-dealing suburban homemaker kicks against conservative pricks and Christian bitches

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Our Cheating Hearts

Jealousy tends to run amok no matter how much we try to contain it

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Screen Gems

The year in TV: Another season, a smattering of reasons for tuning in amid all the mediocrity

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This Is Your Fall Season on Crack

ABC goes bonkers with hysterical retro housewives, crash dummies, and loopy lawyers

Desperadoes

Going mad inside the debate bubble