Dolly Parton

Beth Ditto Is Coming To XL! Here's Our Chat

Powerhouse singer and lovable bohemian Beth Ditto is coming to xl this Saturday, where she'll blaze across the stage and belt out her best-known songs, including "I Wrote The Book," "Move in the Right Direction," and "Get a Job." In a phoner yesterday, Beth filled me in on what her performance wil ... More >>

The Best Hits By Big Stars Riding The '70s Disco Wave

Disco was so big in the 1970s--and it will be big again at my upcoming event--that huge names rode the spandex waves by putting out unexpected dance songs, some better than others. Here are the most memorable to my eyes (and my dancing thighs).

Gayest Movie Ever!

It's 1982's The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas, which they show in seeming constant rotation at the HK gay country bar Flaming Saddles. Here's the cast: Burt Reynolds. Dolly Parton. Dom DeLuise. Jim Nabors. And some Broadway types.

Hollywood to Dollywood

When The Gay Topic Is The Deal Breaker With Celebrities

I always push the G word in celebrities' faces and they--or at least their publicists--sometimes respond by using their own G word, Goodbye! For example: *When I interviewed Dolly Parton on the phone once, she was nothing but delightful, as she always is. But when the interview turned to the vari ... More >>

9 to 5

Black Version Of Steel Magnolias! Dig The Casting!

Lifetime is doing a Steel Magnolias of color, and I'm all hopped up about the cast. Get this: In the part of Truvy, the salon owner played by Dolly Parton in the 1989 movie, they've signed the formidable Jill Scott.

Is Nothing Sacred? Dolly Parton and Queen Latifah, Sullied, in Joyful Noise

Kinyarwanda

GOING TO THE CHAPEL

You're invited to a faux drag queen wedding

Dig If You Will These Pictures: '80s Musicals, from Dolly Parton to Prince

Dolly Parton's Dollywood Discriminates Against Gays

​A lesbian couple was trying to enter Splash Country in Dollywood, Dolly Parton's theme park in Pigeon Fork, Tennessee, when they were stopped. One of them was wearing the pro-gay T-shirt that says "Marriage is so gay" and the employee felt it could be offensive to other patrons.

Paige Turner Will Fuck For A Cosmo

Who can't relate to this zesty photo spread of the triumphs and travails of NYC living, photographed by the golden Alexander D'Or and starring drag head-turner Paige Turner? All in a day's work, Paige goes gaily shopping, offers sex for booze, chases after a mugger in an unspeakable hoodie, and rev ... More >>

Top 10 White Stripes Songs To Get You Through Their Breakup

​So the White Stripes officially announced their breakup today. You are understandably depressed. Not shocked or devastated, probably -- they hadn't put out a record in four years, nor toured in about as long, nor generally much resembled an active band. And yet it's now time to regard the sta ... More >>

HERE YOU COME AGAIN

Our Lady J does our lady Dolly

SHEAR GOODNESS

We’re takin’ our memories out tonight

Susanna & the Magical Orchestra

Results of Librarian Sex Survey about as Exciting as Librarians Actually Having Sex

Is that your card catalog or are you just happy to see me?​Hold onto your library cards, peeps. Will Manley has released the results of the librarian sex survey that Wilson Library Bulletin refused to run in 1992 -- the one which he got fired over. The results are... less than scintillating. B ... More >>

Heidi Montag's 3-D Boobs: The Movie, Hopefully With a Dolly Parton Cameo

Reality star and plastic surgery victim Heidi Montag tells People she's "writing" what appears to be a sci-fi action-adventure movie about her magical 3-D breast implants saving a small beach community from shark attacks. It's unclear just how Montag, who says she will play a lifeguard named Summe ... More >>

Marianne Faithfull

The Low Point in the David Carradine Coverage

Fighting off the recession with priceless gems. Plus, a few Debbie taunts.

Attention Dream Fanatics: Go Listen to the Electrik Red Record

So How to Be a Lady, Volume 1, the avidly anticipated debut of The-Dream's quantum-sass girl-group, Electrik Red, is still streaming in full on their MySpace as of 1 a.m. (sleep troubled by Roberto Bolaño dismaying Cavs loss). It's out Tuesday. "We Fuck You" is now "W.F.Y." (Probably for the bes ... More >>

Quick Hits

Well, it is a nice shot, but $329,000 is a little over our standard freelance rate. Best of luck, Luis Caldera. Great medical PR headline of the day: "Overeating to blame for U.S. obesity epidemic." The face transplant lady still loves her husband, who shot her face off. Brownsville Recreation C ... More >>

Miss California Partied Down with a Trannie!

Actually, I never even leave my seat at intermission.

Live: The Ingenious Maude Maggart at the Oak Room

Here we have Maude soundtracking a Stephen Colbert tribute video, and why not. Maude Maggart, who recently opened a five-week run at the Oak Room, has a sweet and pretty voice, but this is at most a secondary attraction. There are plenty of singers in New York clubs who can out-sing her, but none ... More >>

Dolly Parton's Boobs and Pharrell Williams' Balls

Parton also reveals her pray-to-play policy. Plus: The revolution doesn't start without me.

The Gospel According to Dolly Parton

On the defiantly trashy and tremendously appealing queen of country-pop cheesecake

American Idol Week Seven: Dolly Parton, Butchered

YEE-HAAW!

Let’s get country

Dolly Parton's Backwoods Barbie

Back in the saddle, but wilier than you think

Shitty Band Promo #1: Broad Noodles

Judy Fox's Snow White, El Museo's Bienal, and Antony Gormley's 'Blind Light'

Recommendations by R.C. Baker

Download: Porter Wagoner, 1927-2007

Live: The White Stripes at Irving Plaza, 06.20.07

Well Regulated

Lido Bar's stoner-pal familiarity

Fat Tuesday: The Patriot Edition

No Honky-Tonk, Just Well-Poured Drinks and Room to Relax

Three 6 Mafia: Oscar Winners

Three 6 Mafia: Oscar Nominees

Peace Train

It's a rich man's game no matter what they call it

Against Interpretation

Rod Stewart finds a brand-new batch of catchy and literate songs he can put his mark on

Mohawks, Pink Tentacles, and other flaming creatures

A Manner of Speaking

Rust-belted Motor City meets mined-out Appalachia in the battleground state between

Crazy/Dutiful

DJ Culture Meets Garage

Music

Old Time Punk & Roll

Struggling to the Surface

Cleanup Time

Hello Dolly