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NYC Chefs Modeling For J. Crew, Uniqlo

Fashion brands like J. Crew and Uniqlo are recruiting NYC chefs as models for their brands, according to the New York Post. Mission Chinese Food chef Danny Bowien is modeling for Uniqlo, the culinary team behind The Fat Radish is in a new ad for the prepster label Gant, and Michael Chernow of the ... More >>

Jane Fonda Deserves Better Than Peace, Love & Misunderstanding

The Top 9 Things Overheard Outside Last Night's Secret Skrillex Show

As you may have by now heard, last night, as part of his weeklong New York takeover, dubstep phenom Skrillex played a show so secret that even he didn't know its whereabouts. Nevertheless, Voice nightlife correspondent Puja Patel managed to score an invite, one that required us to meet at another se ... More >>

Dr. Keith Ablow: Misinformer Of The Year On LGBT Issues

​Media Matters says that in 2011, Fox News' Dr. Keith Ablow "brought a toxic mix of homophobia and pseudoscientific anti-LGBT talking points to new lows. "The 'Fox News Medical A-Team' member has been a prolific source of anti-LGBT misinformation, disguising his animosity toward gay, lesbian ... More >>

Princess Diana Covers Newsweek Because Tina Brown Said So; David Carr Pisses Off America

​The newish editor-in-chief of Newsweek is the very famous and talented Tina Brown, who took over when her floundering web project The Daily Beast partnered with the floundering newsweekly. During her editorship, Brown famously made both Vanity Fair and the New Yorker sharper and flashier, and ... More >>

Q & A: Chunklet's Henry Owings On The Indie Cred Test, Not Being A Hipster, And Paying Tribute To Jerry Fuchs

Ian Cone​The 100 Biggest Assholes in Rock Issue, The Shit List Issue, The Overrated, The Rock Bible--Chunklet mastermind Henry Owings redefined the 'zine aesthetic with his deliciously wisecracking, ass-chewing tongue, dumping on everyone and their mother while taking a little bit of time to e ... More >>

This Royal Wedding Will Be Live-Blogged...By Us

​Since the world is holding its collective breath waiting for Wendy and Frank Jr. to tie the knot -- oh, you know who we're talking about -- we would hereby like to announce that the royal wedding will herewith be live-blogged by our own Runnin' Scareders -- royal wedding expert Rosie Gray, ou ... More >>

High School Boy Sent to Principal's Office for Wearing High Heels

Horribly, this is an ad for karate lessons.​Remember the conservative outrage that met that J.Crew ad of a little boy happily sporting pink toenails? Now we have a Florida student who's been sent to the principal's office for wearing high heels in class. According to a friend, the boy is now e ... More >>

Who Will Destroy America? Little Boys With Pink Toenails.

​Some of our nation is up in arms over a recent J.Crew ad of a little boy, Beckett, who's the son of designer Jenna Lyons. In the image, Lyons is painting Beckett's toenails hot pink, and the two are having a grand old time. Beckett is also sporting a rather Frenchy striped long-sleeved tee, a ... More >>

In Defense of Dating in New York City

​One of the most common things to say about the New York City dating scene is that it's abysmally awful, and that the guys suck. How many times have you heard this? We've heard it so many times it's abysmally awful, and it sucks. But the repetitive nature and unoriginality of the claim means i ... More >>

Hadley Nagel, Most Perfect Socialite Ever, Graduates (With Honors!) to the New York Times

​In 2009, the New York Observer dubbed Hadley Marie Nagel the "Egghead Debutante." At the time, Nagel couldn't believe she had received a four-year scholarship to Johns Hopkins. ("I mean, I didn't apply for it, so it was totally out of the blue!") She was the youngest lobbyist in Washington at ... More >>

Bloomberg Puts Cheap Things On His Feet

How about these Mike?​Our mayor, like every other over-sixty jewish man probably does, buys his socks for cheap from Filene's. The New York Post got the mayor to tell where the emperor gets his new clothes from. He said, "I buy my suits at Martin Greenfield, my shirts from Paul Stuart and my s ... More >>

Press Clips: Scattered Showers of Media Men

​The New York Observer's man-tastic new look! Big ups to Bill O'Reilly. Breitbart wants us all to die, or something. Hugo-a-go-go at the Times Magazine. Pissy paywall battles, angry clowns, the Lloyd Grove Orgy, and more! Press Clips, Day 17, Lunch Edition, right here.

Not Even Katie Holmes and Josh Duhamel Can Save True Love in The Romantics

Fox News vs. Hipsters: A First-Rate Lesson in Hate Speech

​Fox News decided to publish an editorial on "hipsters" or what they think they know "hipsters" are, entitled, "The Trouble With Hipsters," written by a Hopefully you've landed here and will not read the actual article. That said, given that Fox News's broad outlook still sees President Obama ... More >>

BlogBeat: The New Yorker Is Working on a Profile of Nick Denton

​After a long hiatus, the column that cost this company a cool mil in advertising has returned! BlogBeat is back, and this week, we're coming out swinging. The New Yorker's working on a forthcoming profile of Gawker Media owner Nick Denton; Guest of a Guest has some disclosure indiscretions; a ... More >>

Old Man Addict David Carr Tackles Young Man Addict Bill Clegg in NYT Book Review

​Generally kick-ass New York Times media writer David Carr wrote a book detailing his experience with addiction and he called it Night of the Gun. But according to fellow Times writer Dwight Garner, Carr is too ugly -- too potato-shaped -- to sell well as a writer with himself as a subject. En ... More >>

Let Us Fondly Recall A Time When Kanye West, And The Music Industry, Were Full of Unblemished Promise

​Please enjoy this fantastic Kanye reminisce from friend-of-SOTC Sean Fennessey, centered on the heady College Dropout days of 2004, and featuring links to several early mixtapes from rap's favorite pariah of the moment. A fine complement to Kanye's own recent wistfulness. Representative sampl ... More >>

Lord of the Flies Meets J. Crew Spread in The Boys Are Back

American Idol Top 8 Results: No Future in Sight for Scott MacIntyre

Frank Micelotta / FOXBye, Scott! When "Year You Were Born" is an Idol episode theme, anything should happen, but last night's predictable mess yielded just one surprise: Simon Cowell's standing ovation for the swishiest contestant in history and new Bill O'Reilly foe, Adam Lambert. So, which boring ... More >>

Paul H-O's Bumptious Guest of Cindy Sherman

Happy holidays: Madoffs shop, Gov. Paterson gallivants

Prepping for Fashion Week 2008

The usual heels, but knock off the complaining

Seven Days in Shea

Why do the Mets keep torturing us?

Rev. Billy Tells Victoria's Dirty Secrets

Bikini Kill

Can the right beach bag make a swimsuit look better?

Mehta Fiction

Enjoying the source of the latest plagiarism scandal

Marketing the Preppy

Lands' End versus J. Crew

Grandma Godsend

Hand-knitted scarves—minus the knitting

The Price Is Wrong

High times at the low end

I Smell Dead People

If you visit 'Bodies: The Exhibition' do so slowly, and with great care

Hole Lotta Love

Spring fashion plays peek-a-boo

Ordinary People

From a lingering case of boarding school nerves to quirky pleasures of the middle ages

Butt Seriously

From The Book of J.Lo: We may be through with the ass but the ass isn't through with us

Malled and Appalled

So Glittering, So Depressing

Cool Hunt

Deconstructing the Gap, J. Crew, and Banana Republic

Photo Shop

Prepping for Spring

Of Chinoiserie, Hardware, Surf, and Other Purported Trends

Listings

In Memoriam

Jane Dudley (1912-2001)

Shirts

Two T's, One Buttondown, and a Plaid Flannel

Copy Shops

Wretched Excess on the Cheap

State of the Unions

NYU’s Teaching Assistants Have Just Unionized. How Organized Are You?

Madness!

The College Basketball Real-Life Top 25

Decoy and Daydreamer

Thorns and Roses

Here she comes, International Ms. Leather

The Supermax Solution

Hopes, Fears, and Prison Building In an Upstate New York Town

Commercial Art

Comme Des Garçons and Tom of Finland arrive in Chelsea

Push in the Bush

Sugar High

Up Against The Wall

Hocus Focus rewrites Apple's ad campaign