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The Wackiest Things Celebs Have Ever Said To Me

In their dealings with a potentially scary press person like myself, celebs are sometimes solicitous, occasionally pandering, at times delightfully ass kissy, but always tons of fun. Here are just a few of the highlights through the years:

Three Predictions About the Near Future of Art

Burning police cars, anyone?

ROAST BEEF

It’s not easy being mean

Say Something Banal

​Please!!! Descend to the occasion and say something really cliched and obvious, just so we can get it out of our systems and cleanse our palates for some more stimulating exchanges. Come on, bore yourself to tears with something even a slug would have rolled its eyes at five years ago. I ... More >>

Rapture Was a Bust; Mitch Daniels Won't Run For President; Who Will Replace DSK?

​So, we all made it! No Rapture. Despite having assets of over $104 million, Harold Camping's Family Radio didn't quite get it right. How are Rapture believers dealing with it? Reuters talked to a man, Robert Fitzpatrick, who spent $140,000 of his life savings getting the word out about the Raptur ... More >>

The Brains And Boxes Behind Blip: Six Video Game Consoles To Use As Instruments, And The Geeks Who Love Them

​NYC's annual three-day Blip Festival, which starts tonight, is the world's most important celebration of "chiptune" music, wherein gamers-turned-composers write songs using their favorite ancient video game consoles. Wanna see how the sausage gets made? Let's take a look at the consoles that ... More >>

Huckabee Out, Gingrich, Paul In, Which Rightbloggers Declare Good News for Herman Cain

There was some action in the GOP 2012 Presidential race last week, with Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul declaring themselves in and Mike Huckabee declaring himself out. Rightbloggers sifted the results, and found them good -- because there was at least one true conservative left whom they could support ... More >>

Osama Bin Laden Dies in the Cartoon Version Too

The ineffable Next Media Animation, the Taiwanese company responsible for cartooning every current event from the Tiger Woods sex scandal to the Royal Wedding, has already delivered their dramatization of Osama bin Laden's death, entitled "Osama Bin Laden get got," starring Donald Trump, a finger-gu ... More >>

Barack Obama's Birth Certificate: Here It Is! But Something About It Looks Fishy...

​Kenya, East Africa?! It says so right there on the paper... (Haha, just kidding.) That's the birthplace of Obama's father, who shares the name Barack Hussein Obama, but was not birthed on August 4, 1961. Our president was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Shut up, birther idiots. Shut up, Donald Trum ... More >>

Cathie Black, We'll Miss You: A Retrospective

​Cathie Black, the former magazine executive turned chancellor of New York City schools, is leaving her position after only about 100 days in office. Say it ain't so, Cathie! What will we do without your hilarious gaffes? Let's hope that Mayor Bloomberg's replacement Dennis M. Walcott, the Dep ... More >>

This Week on the Gay Marriage Beat: Whoppers and Lies, Fence-sitting and Delays

​A gay couple can have a whopper of a hard time just trying to order a sandwich at Burger King, let alone trying to obtain a license to get hitched. Here are six more things you should know to keep it all straight.

Top Ten Greatest Rap-Acronym Anthems

​Kanye West and Jay-Z's Lex Luger-produced "H.A.M." is a creative union of the two biggest currently recording rap stars in the world -- as the lead single to the duo's upcoming Watch the Throne project, it's a feisty statement of intent. But more importantly, it's a fresh edition to the canon ... More >>

Donald Trump Denies 2012 Presidential Run, But Rants About China and OPEC Anyway

Donald Trump, real estate mogul and Celebrity Apprentice boss, went on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon yesterday and played coy, as usual, about a 2012 presidential run. He then ran through the cast of the new Apprentice season which features Mark McGrath, Lil' John, Latoya Jackson and Star Jones. Bu ... More >>

"Nobody Likes Cathie Black": This Week's Score Card

​Cathie Black, Mayor Bloomberg's Schools Chancellor appointee that nobody likes, is getting less popular with each passing day -- so unpopular, in fact, that she was given a big "thumbs down" by the panel chosen to evaluate her. Several groups, including city councilmen, state assemblymen, par ... More >>

Trump SoHo Residents Sue Over Lack Of Neighbors They'd Never Talk to Anyway

Trumped SoHo? ​Fifteen condominium buyers of the Trump Soho hotel have filed a lawsuit against the feather-haired millionaire for fraud. The disgruntled would-be residents of the $1.2 million (or more) condos claim they were misled into signing contracts through false statements of the project ... More >>

New Plans Seek to Return Tavern on the Green to Its Bucolic Past

More sheep, less Swarovski.​It's been a few weeks since we last heard any rumblings from Central Park, but make no mistake: like leaking oil and America's Next Top Model re-runs, the Tavern on the Green saga continues.

Another Day, Another Tiger Woods Mistress (This Time With Child)

​Some days we almost feel a little bit sorry for Tiger Woods. Almost. Like when we hear that yet another mistress (a dime a dozen, these) has come forward and blah, blah, blah. But this time the story has a twist! "Adult film actress" Devon James has announced that he is the father of her 9-ye ... More >>

Debrahlee Lorenzana Story Goes Global, Viral, Crazy

CBS​Ex Citibanker Debrahlee Lorenzana has been all over the national and local news, starting with last week's issue of the Voice and, most recently, hitting the TV morning show circuit, including appearances on Today and Good Morning America this morning -- despite her current employer JPMorg ... More >>

Michael White Is Planning to Take Over the World

Underneath the friendly exterior lies the soul of a relentless empire-builder.​Michael White may have a reputation as one of the city's nicest and most humble chefs (being from Wisconsin helps), but his ambition is pure Donald Trump. The chef told Crain's, which profiled him as one of their an ... More >>

Barrett: Leslie Crocker Snyder's Unsavory Campaign Donors

​Judging people by the company they keep may not always be fair game, but it is fitting, on the eve of next week's primary, to take the measure of Leslie Crocker Snyder by examining the dubious donors bankrolling her campaign for Manhattan District Attorney. News stories about bad-boy contrib ... More >>

Michael Huynh on Bia Garden, His Growing Army of Baoguettes, and the Wisdom of Donald Trump

​In the space of the past year or so, Michael 'Bao' Huynh has more resembled a whirling dervish than a chef, opening Bar Bao, Pho Sure, and a host of Baoguettes. Currently, he's readying his latest project, Bia Garden, for its opening, working on O Bao Noodles & Grill in Midtown, construct ... More >>

Did Carrie Prejean's Firing Get Me Fired Up On Olbermann?

Last night, I went on Countdown With Keith Olbermann to discuss Carrie Prejean's dethroning, but don't believe the headline someone put on YouTube ("Musto Lament's Carrie Prejean's Firing.."). The truth is, while I DID point out Donald Trump's hypocrisies in suddenly turning against Carrie, I said ... More >>

The Literature of the Spindle-Hole: Ben Greenman's Please Step Back

The New Yorker writer cues up superstar Rock Foxx in a liner note of a novel

Interview: Andrew "Dice" Clay

Andrew "Dice" Clay headlines the Nokia Theater Times Square on Friday, January 16. Tickets are still available here. "Me and my wife broke up in 2002 but since then I've gone through 26 mattresses. It's like these beds can't take a beating. And these chicks aren't even fat." Andrew "Dice" Clay, ... More >>

Late Edition: Apple Knockers, Men's Rights, Mad Cops, Soap

The Very Best "Best of '07" Round-Up!

The absolutely last word on words not to have lived by during the previous year

Being Stanley Kubrick

Plus new Oscar bait, and the attack of the right-wing lesbian polemicist

Interest-Free!

James Scurlock's debt doc not worth price of admission

Horoscope

Celebrity, the Brand That Fits

Is Jessica Simpson slowly taking over your world?

Debate: 2 of 3 Ain't Bad

Horn-to-Horn Combat With No Real Casualties, From the Jam-Session Donald Trump

A Dirty Trickster's Bush Bonanza

The man who stopped Miami recount makes gaming millions

NY Mirror

Infernal Racket

The Mafia Doesn’t Just Break Legs. It Can Also Break the Spirit.

Jew Eye for the Black Guy: Odd Couple Swap Stereotypes

Winning Ugly

What a Racket When the U.S. Open Champion Turns Out to Be a Loser

Landlords Vote With Bucks

Where the Real Estate Dollars Are Going

Deciphering the City’s Hidden Code

Is That a Mountain or a Sidewalk?

Dark Angels of a Bogus Catholic Museum

Felons, Wiseguys & Usual Suspects Back a Bizarre Charity

The Ego Candidates

Bloomberg Lands First Endorsement: Abe Hirschfeld

A Landlord’s Road to Bountiful

The Propertied Class Gives Thanks

Quiet Riot

Free Tickets and Free Passes Equals Bad Scene in the Bronx

NY Mirror

On HBO, Falcon talks about his burgeoning drama career. Kidding— he talks about his penis.

NY Mirror

''How can you dislike a Barbara Walters co-anchor who had a birthday party at Hooters?''

NY Mirror

When I asked Jane Horrocks if she's a gay man trapped in a woman's body, she said, 'No! If so, I haven't discovered it!'

Trickle Down Dow?

Don't Expect Regulated Rents To Slide

Twenty-five Reasons To Develop an Edifice Complex