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Lil B to Play 4Knots Music Festival After Party

Over the last couple weeks we've rolled out all the acts playing this year's 4Knots Music Festival, our annual FREE outdoor concert taking place down at South Street Seaport's Pier 17 on June 29 from 1 - 8pm. And what a lineup it is: Kurt Vile, the Men, Parquet Courts, Marnie Stern, Reigning Sound, ... More >>

What If The Sound of Music Starred Leslie Mann And Diane Keaton?

As Maria Von Trapp and the Mother Abbess. And Emma Stone as Liesl von Trapp And Claire Danes as Sister Margaretta And Ellen DeGeneres as Uncle Max And it was directed by Tom Hooper, with lots of loving, crying closeups.

Ellen Just Turned 55! Here Are 55 Reasons Why We Love Her

HuffPo has come up with a list as long as Ellen DeGeneres's life, and it's pretty lovely stuff. For example: She's always early. She doesn't think humor should be mean. She did the voice of Dory in Finding Nemo. She came out.

Queen Latifah Was Discussed At Gay Book Event Last Night

Born This Way is the new book that compiles the childhood stories of various gay personalities who recall the hints and signifiers that they were "growing up gay." (I'm in the book, talking about my early love for the Supremes and TV's Tarzan--exploding into gayness when the Supremes guested on Tar ... More >>

Flogging Nemo: Pixar's Grand Fish Tale Needs No Enhancement

The Five Worst Types Of Commenters

Not you, mind you. I'm talking about the icky, boring, cliched, hateful wretches that ocassionally pop up here or on Facebook and Twitter, to turn my whole milk sour. The worst: (5) The "zzzzz" trolls. Nothing is ever exciting enough for these people. I'm handing them tidbits and observations ... More >>

Lesbians . . . Funny?!?

Dyke comics have moved far beyond Ellen DeGeneres's comfy, homespun humor

Does 'Gay Inc.' Believe in Free Speech?

In the battle over gay rights, dissent during wartime isn't always tolerated

The Top Six Game Show Appearances By Rappers

The news of a rapper-packed revamp of Hollywood Squares has been greeted positively, not least because everyone has been able to join in the fun of Googling the demographic term "malennials" to find out if they are going to be allowed to watch the show. It's also allowed some people speculate on whi ... More >>

Ellen Reveals Why She Left American Idol

​In her new book, Seriously...I'm Kidding, Ellen DeGeneres reveals what it was like to be a judge on American Idol for a short but concentrated period of time. First of all, she writes, "Ryan is truly a workaholic. He never stops." Ellen jokingly adds that during commercials, Ryan runs arou ... More >>

Ellen DeGeneres Is Vegan, and Now She Has a Website to Prove It

Going Vegan With EllenA vegan, two dogs, and a couch.​ For years, Alicia Silverstone was the sole Hollywood vegan to dedicate an entire website to her her dietary and lifestyle preferences. But no longer! Because Ellen DeGeneres has gone and launched her own vegan website.

Lesbians That Do Not Look Like Justin Bieber

​Jane Lynch Ellen DeGeneres Chely Wright Jodie Foster Melissa Etheridge k.d. lang Well, maybe k.d. lang.

Betty White Is Now a Comic Book!

​Is there anything this old broad can't do? The only surviving Golden Girl, 88-year-old Betty will be featured in the Female Force comic-book series available in late November, with a portion of the proceeds going to the Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association (GLAZA) per the request of Betty her ... More >>

"That's So Gay!"

​I was the first one to lambast this expression some years ago, a phrase which is used to denote something tacky, sad, awful, and tasteless. I thought the phrase itself was appalling, and couldn't believe it was being used by people who would surely never have the nerve to publicly say things ... More >>

Lady Gaga Tops Pelosi and Sotomayor on Power List

​Forbes magazine has named Lady Gaga the seventh most powerful women on the planet, topping House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor. This is an outrage! Gaga should have been higher! Maybe even at number one, above their actual choice, Michelle Obama. After all ... More >>

Tuesdays With Snooki: GTL also Includes Side Trips to Barnes & Nobles, Guys!

via BuzzFeed​Snooki and the gang of Jersey Shore-ists would like you to know that you are hopelessly misinformed as to their true nature, despite you watching them regularly on that "reality TV" show. Gah. On real, live talk show Ellen DeGeneres today, they expressed the existential dilemma of ... More >>

Was Ellen Axed?

​I'm a little bit suspicious whenever I hear of someone stepping down from a lucrative TV job. I always question the truth behind someone saying "This wasn't the right fit" as they exit a big paycheck that puts their face out to kazillions of people on a weekly basis. I mean, did anyone real ... More >>

Kanye West's Twitter Account Getting Huge, Fast

​If you've been living under a rock or something, you may not have noticed that the one and only Kanye West has opened a Twitter account. He's only had it for a day, and as of this posting has over 265,000 followers, meaning he's been garnering about 80 followers a second. How long will it tak ... More >>

GLAAD Disses Ellen DeGeneres With Ill-Advised Remarks

​The LGBT watchdog group GLAAD does a lot of good work, but sometimes they drop the gay ball and embarrass us big time. I recently wrote about how they tried to pull the movie Ticked-off Trannies With Knives from the Tribeca Film Festival, partly because it didn't depict the kind of tasteful ... More >>

American Idol Season 9, Idol Gives Back: Shut The Fuck Up, Alicia Keys

I don't want to be too cynical about "Idol Gives Back", the big annual charity-drive American Idol episode, because God knows the thing does more good with ten minutes of on-air banalities than I will ever do with anything in my life. But every year now, the thing is just sitting in the middle of ... More >>

American Idol Season 9, Lennon/McCartney Week: A List of the Remaining Contestants and Their X-Men Equivalents

Andrew Garcia: cornball bubblefunk. Photo by Michael Becker / FOX​First things first: Two hours? To hear nine people sing for a minute and a half each? That is some ridiculous shit. Is FOX that starved for programming? They couldn't have lopped off like half an hour and run an old episode of P ... More >>

Week in Review: Fist Fight in the Parking Lot

In the week a chipped tooth kept Lil Wayne out of jail and a secretive, proprietary Billboard chart made a success out of his new, abysmal Rebirth, we pulled our Paul Wall grills out of the closet, just in case. You never know when your hood pass might get pulled, you know? Care for a Sightings p ... More >>

Thank You, Out Celebs!

​I've spent so much energy all these years railing at celebrities who cower in the closet that it's important I take a step back once in a while and throw some bouquets at the ones who actually opened the door and did us proud. So thank you, out celebs!

Ellen Replaces Paula Abdul on Idol

​So they ignored all our suggestions--LaToya Jackson, Abe Vigoda, and so on--and went with Ellen DeGeneres to fill in the woozy dormouse slot on the American Idol panel, formerly occupied by "Straight Up" star Paula Abdul and her morphine patch scar. But I think this is a good thing! Ellen wi ... More >>

News Roundup: Girls Album Listening Party, Music at Fashion's Night Out, Ellen DeGeneres Takes American Idol, Lee Ranaldo's Broken Wrist

​--If you somehow haven't heard Album, the sublime glazed-over debut by San Francisco's Girls, Impose and Insound are holding a listening party for the record--and for fellow Matador signees Times New Viking's Born Again Revisited--at Bruar Falls in Williamsburg next Wednesday, September 16th. ... More >>

Free Will Astrology: September 2 through 8

The Queer Issue: Rachel Maddow, the New Sexy

The Butch is back, with a poster girl

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 >>

Ass-Baring Parties Conquer Nightlife!

These are hairy times, but you can still enjoy yourself, if Bingo is your game-o

Terrence Howard's Latest Hustle and Flow

Black people revive the Great White Way. Plus a hue and cry from Mel Brooks.

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

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

Hillary and Condi and Dykes, Oh My!

Plus items of purely prosthetic appeal.

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Jiggle Belles: Anderson's Busty Bimbo Bibliophile Jiggles All the Way

The Death of the Dumb Blond

Why peroxide rot is, like, officially over

Tough Advice for Ellen, Angelina, and the Olsens

Border Rapper's Got a Squeezebox; Baby Mamas Miss Osama at Night

Best and Worst of Sex 2004

From Hollywood to the Ballet, the Year In Sex Gets Mixed Reviews

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Leather Puppy Love

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Let’s Get Real

String Me Up! String Me Down!

The Love Letter

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''At Kurfew, the revelers sloppy-kiss as if their only romantic experience was from watching Freddie Prinze Jr. movies.''

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