Hugh Hefner

Different Tongues: 10 Foreign Language Songs That Rule the World

A couple of caveats to this list: first, it actually includes more than 10 songs. Since one is sung primarily in English and another isn't technically a "foreign" language, they're considered halfsies, making up one whole. Also, no songs sung in Spanish are on this list. I'm not saying Spanish isn ... More >>

Gilbert Gottfried: Who Do I Apologize To?

Hilariously angsty comic Gilbert Gottfried is coming to Caroline's on Broadway December 20 and Gotham Comedy Club (in a benefit for PS 11) on February 12. What's more, he has a book out called Rubber Balls and Liquor. (In the flap copy, Gottfried explains that he cares about the sanctity of the wri ... More >>

Live: At Westway, Three 6 Mafia Turn a Former Strip Club Into a Fight Club

Three 6 Mafia Westway Thursday, September 6 Better than: Waiting in line outside of Supreme. There was a problem. Three 6 Mafia couldn't get to the stage; 50 people blocked their way, a fire hazard if there ever was one. A man got on the microphone. "Ladies and gentlemen, please clear a path. Ple ... More >>

Live: Cam'ron Throws A Homecoming Party At The Well

Cam'ron w/Flatbush Zombies, Asaad, Reese The Well Saturday, July 14 Better than: The Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival. Mark July 14 on your calendar as another historic date in New York hip-hop's current growth spurt. On this day, people from all corners of the city gathered in a semi-legal warehouse yar ... More >>

CMJ Day Two: Pujol Get Out Of The Garage, Caveman Start Their Long Trek, And Bleached Stake Out Their Turf

​ In Waste Of Paint, our writer/artist team of Jamie Peck and Debbie Allen will review goings-on about town in words and images. You know how Hugh Hefner has to have sex with fifty women and an endangered panda at once in order to feel anything at all? I went into this year's CMJ Music Marath ... More >>

5 Reasons to Get Excited About the Royal Wedding in Monaco

WikipediaYou can call him Al. ​OMGEEZE ANOTHER ROYAL WEDDING. Okay, so this one isn't quite as engrossing as the Kate and Wills hoopla in April, but there are reasons to get excited about the upcoming nuptials of Prince Albert II and South African former Olympic swimmer Charlene Wittstock. The ... More >>

It's Fathers' Day; Obama and Boehner Golf Together; Four Die in Montauk-Bound Cessna

via AP​Today is Father's Day! Call your Dad and grill something. Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner had a friendly lil' round of golf yesterday with Joe Biden and Ohio Governor John Kasich, and it fixed America. [The Atlantic Wire / Politico] A Manhattan family died yesterday in a ... More >>

Playboy Mansion Party May Have Sickened 100

​Los Angeles County health officials are investigating Hugh Hefner's Playboy Mansion because 100 people fell ill after attending a party there. In the days after the party on February 3rd, all these people started reporting "fever, respiratory problems and violent headaches." Because of the Pl ... More >>

Is Playboy Coming to the iPad?

​Maybe, sort of! Hugh Hefner took to Twitter on Tuesday to share the good, if incomplete, news: ""Big news! Playboy--both old & new--will be available on iPad beginning in March." According to its founder, the digital editions "will include the whole magazine from the first issue to the latest ... More >>

Hugh Hefner Buys Back Playboy: The Privatization of Private Parts

​After last year's scare that Hugh Hefner would have to sell the Playboy Mansion to keep his company, it seems that everything is working out for good old Hef. He was originally outbid for his company by competitor Penthouse, but the board of Playboy has decided to accept his offer of $6.15 a ... More >>

Hugh Hefner Engaged To 24-Year-Old

​What's the male equivalent of a cougar? A dirty letch? Whatever the case, 84-year-old Playboy founder Hugh Hefner just tweeted his Christmas Eve engagement to Crystal Harris, December 2009's Playmate of the Month.

Hugh Hefner Announces Engagement on Twitter

​Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, 84, announced on Christmas, via Twitter, that he will marry Crystal Harris, 24, December 2009's Playmate of the Month (pictured with Hef). "When I gave Crystal the ring, she burst into tears. This is the happiest Christmas weekend in memory," wrote Hefner, handing ... More >>

Hugh Hefner May Have to Downsize to Single-D Life

​Bad days! Hugh Hefner, once the epitome of masculine opulence and virility, may need to sell off the (in)famous Playboy mansion to keep hold of his company. Not only does he need to raise $115 million to pay investors who will likely demand payment of their convertible bonds in March 2012, hi ... More >>

Sunday Evening Link Dump: Lindsay Lohan's Meth Addiction and Sarah Palin's "Cojones"

Needs more meth​• Lindsay Lohan will head straight from jail to rehab at Morningside Recovery for 90 days, in order to be treated for addiction and bipolar disorder. According to a source, "methamphetamine and opiates are her 'drugs of choice,'" which makes cocaine and alcohol feel really le ... More >>

R.I.P. Michael Batterberry, Founder of Food & Wine, Food Arts Magazines

Michael Batterberry​Michael Batterberry, who with his wife, Ariane, founded Food & Wine and Food Arts magazines, died on Wednesday of complications relating to cancer. The New York Times is reporting that Batterberry -- a genteel man, as anyone who met him might describe him -- declined to di ... More >>

All Gloss, No Dirt in Hugh Hefner

After Miramax

Measuring the prospects of a new crop of independent distributors

Morning Links: Hef Saves the Day, Goldman Faces Senate, Everyone Hates PowerPoint

​• Today is Ulysses S. Grant's 188th birthday. If you're so inclined, head up to Grant's Tomb for a 21-gun salute and ceremony. • Hugh Hefner gave $900,000 to save L.A.'s iconic Hollywood sign. Thank goodness, because how would anyone know where they were otherwise? "The Hollywood sign r ... More >>

'Northern Exposure' Swedish Cinema Series at Walter Reade

Once taboo subjects are now the norm, thanks to extraordinary Swedish cinema

What Does Barbie Have to Do With Playboy's Lesbian Spreads?

And a slice of wry from Douglas Carter Beane about Mr. and Mrs. Fitch.

JUST BETWEEN BROS

Dudes hug it out with Paul Rudd

MEAN MACHINE

Jeffrey Ross shows off the art of the insult

2009, The Year of the Snuggie: A Handy Timeline From "The WTF Blanket" to Weezer's Wuggies

The people behind the Snuggie know they are bugging the crap out of you, and it's working out pretty well for them. The cultural impact of the sleeved blanket, largely due to those unbelievably campy commercials by Allstar Marketing Group, might've exceeded that of any other "As seen on TV" produc ... More >>

The 50 Worst Songs of the '00s, F2K No. 10: Fieldy's Dreams, "Baby Hugh Hef"

F2K is a countdown of the 50 worst songs of the decade. Track our progress here. Korn bassist shouldn't quit his day job. No wait, he should do that too.

Devendra Banhart and R. Kelly, 'Maturing'

ROYAL EXCELLENCE

Festival made for the insanely curious

Macbeth

Let Us (Briefly) Address the Appalling Theme Song to Girls Next Door Spinoff Kendra

Having spent more time than I'd generally care to admit following the bubbleheaded, utopian antics of Hugh Hefner's then-girlfriends on drama-free E! juggernaut The Girls Next Door ("It's Wednesday, and Hef usually throws a party on Wednesday, so..."), I approached inevitable spinoff Kendra, focu ... More >>

Mad Worlds: Sigmar Polke and Harvey Kurtzman

Soaking up the garish pleasures of two kindred spirits

Clip Job: The Education of a Playboy Bunny

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesNovember 29, 1962, Vol. VIII, No. 6Bunnies on a Rabbit RunBy Jane Kramer A man named Hugh Hefner is raising bunnies in every major city across the United States but Boston. His bunnies are playboy bunnies, a new breed -- all female, all youn ... More >>

Miss March: Sprays like an Exploding Colostomy Bag

ACT COOL

The best place to chill is at this fest

Free Will Astrology: August 20 through 26

What If the Bachelorette Was Polyamorous?

How TV shows represent open relationships—and how they could do better

Live: Rilo Kiley (a/k/a Jenny Lewis's Band) at Terminal 5

Horoscope

Every Man's Fantasy?

Two television shows explore nontraditional relationships

Coming of Age

1976–1985: Punk to Pomo, Basquiat to Breakdancing

Meet the Randalls

Tristan talks to a unique mother-daughter team of pornographers

Mad Skills

There's much more to Will Elder than Little Annie Fanny

Be the Game

Bosom Maximus

Back To Plastics

NY Mirror

Breaking and Entering

Who Does Your Pubic Hair?

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Monster Mash

The Son Also Rises