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Jekyll & Hyde's Deborah Cox Tells Me What Whitney Houston Personally Taught Her

Plus: Game of Thrones in NYC

Sightings' New Album Sounds Like Nothing Else

Sightings' 14-year long history might be thought of in Car Talk-qua-Three Stooges terms: a trio of grease monkeys go in on a lemon together for the thrill of fine-tuning its engine, then discovers that tweaking the engine's innards and fluids to produce variations on a sputtering, splintering theme ... More >>

YOU RANG?

A GIFT FOR DOWNTON ABBEY FANS

This 1941 Women's Magazine's Actual Lead Article: "Women Talk Too Much"

On Thursdays your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from thrift stores, estate sales, and flea markets. The Woman magazine Date: December, 1941 Publisher: Farrell Publishing, Chicago Discovered at: A junkshop in Kokomo, Indiana The Cover Promises: T ... More >>

Cheerful Weather for the Wedding

HIGH SOCIETY

Two proper experts of Downton Abbey tell all

Skyfall Lays Bare the Unknowable Spy

License to feel

Jessica Chastain on Broadway In The Heiress: My Review

A well made play by Ruth and Augustus Goetz, adapted from Henry James' 1880 novel Washington Square, The Heiress is back in a sturdy if not revelatory production. The play was last on Broadway in 1995, in a stunning revival starring Cherry Jones as Catherine Sloper, the shy plain Jane who's awakene ... More >>

In the Undead Comedy Vamps, Amy Heckerling Loses the Pulse

You kids get off my grave

Mitt Romney Will Lead Us Into An Age Of Sheer Stupidity

My new column is a bracing look at what a vote for Mitt Romney will amount to: A solid endorsement of intolerance, lies, and most of all changing his mind!!!

Everything that is the Case for Two Young Women on the Eve of the Great War Among Other Elegant Lies: A Play With Long Title Heads Into the Woods

Frank Boudreaux founds the Oxbridge Forest Gymnasium School

Steamy Blind Items About Coke, Whoring, And Bestiality

Go on, guess who we're talking about

TV Sucks! 43 Reasons Why I Can't Watch Anymore!

43 reasons to hide the remote

Shirley MacLaine Is Playing A Battle-Axe

Who meets an untimely death as the town rejoices! And it's based on a real story!

What Gals Really Want for Valentine's Day: Luxury Chocolates

Williamsburg's taciturn Mast Brothers know just what I'm talking about. This time of year always presents a dilemma for straight boys and gay girls: how to celebrate Valentine's Day -- the only holiday focused on carnal love and desire -- with your significant other? Taking her out to dinner is t ... More >>

Don't Care About Football? Care About New York.

This blogger doesn't like football. If she's going to watch a sport it's going to be baseball and she's going to root for the Yankees. Therefore, this Super Bowl Sunday, this blogger is not going to tell you which players to watch. In fact, the only ones she really feels qualified to even mention ar ... More >>

For the Love of God, It's Not 'Downtown' Abbey!

Have you seen the extremely popular British period drama called "Downton Abbey"? It's all the rage right now. It won a Golden Globe! People are talking about it, watching it, DVR-ing it, weeping with joy and raising their glasses to it as we speak. And people and news organizations, which are bigger ... More >>

Five Things To Do Before You Watch The Golden Globes Tonight

Far away, in a place known to some as "La-La Land," the region's princes and princesses are preparing for a big magical celebration. Yeah, no. It's just that the Golden Globes are happening tonight in Los Angeles. Will you watch? Will you not watch now that you know that Ryan Gosling will not be att ... More >>

Downton Abbey Star: My Kids Think I'm Stupid!

January 8 marks the Season 2 premiere of Downton Abbey, the Masterpiece series on PBS, which has earned kudos for its wondrous mix of period dramatics and comedy-of-manners satire. Trust me, it's even better than the Kardashians.