Michelle Obama

As Romney Goes Down, Rightbloggers Double Down on Liberal Media Bias B.S.

By now you've heard about the Romney 47% video and the lousy poll numbers he's been getting. Were you aware that it's all the fault of the liberal media? Yeah, we know, you've been hearing conservatives talking about liberal media bias forever. It's their version of the Bowery Boys' Routine 11. But ... More >>

What Should You Wear To Rob a Bank?

Blame Sex and the City... Today brings us news of the "Burberry bandit," a man who reportedly robbed 14 Manhattan banks to fuel his high-fashion addiction, according to the New York Post. Cornell Neilly, 21, supposedly used the haul from the heists to buy "$400 sneakers and a Burberry shirt" whic ... More >>

Marilyn Hagerty to Dine at Le Bernardin and the Olive Garden on Upcoming New York City Trip!

Marilyn Hagerty, America's most famous food writer of the moment, is planning a trip to New York City. And she's going to be blogging about her visit, which will include stops to Le Bernardin and, of course, the Olive Garden in Times Square.

Let's Stay Together: The Messages Of Barack Obama's Re-Election Playlist

Yesterday, President Barack Obama's team released a Spotify playlist for his 2012 re-election campaign, announcing it via every form of social media imaginable. According to an announcement that accompanied the more traditional means of releasing political information—a leak—the playlist ... More >>

The Roots' Walk-On Music For Michele Bachmann Was Ha-Ha Funny, But...

Monday night the Republican Presidential candidate and frequent source/target of Photoshop japery Michele Bachmann appeared on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon in an effort to promote both her autobiography and her appearance at last night's Presidential debate. As a rebuke to the Minnesota congresswoma ... More >>

Wallsé Chef Kurt Gutenbrunner Explains His Culinary Philosophy: Interview Part 2

Photo courtesy Kurt GutenbrunnerKurt Gutenbrunner brings Austria to New York.​ Yesterday we spoke with Kurt Gutenbrunner about the meaning of "neue" cuisine and the release of his just-published cookbook. Today he tells us more about his restaurants and why it's not so much the type of food t ... More >>

Walmart Goes After New York Locavores

Your friendly neighborhood Walmart​ You may want to check your mailbox (the snail one) for the latest effort by Walmart to butter up New Yorkers into letting the massive chain set up shop here. Now that it has Michelle Obama proclaiming its expansion into "food deserts" part of the country's h ... More >>

Marty Markowitz Fined $20,000 for Taking His Wife on Free Trips to Turkey, the Netherlands

​Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz is in trouble, to the tune of $20,000, for accepting free travel and other accommodations for his wife, Jamie, on recent trips to Turkey and the Netherlands. The city's Conflicts of Interests board ruled that Markowitz is allowed to accept free trave ... More >>

Betty Ford Remembered by the Late George Carlin

When we heard the news that Betty Ford (the accidental First Lady married to the accidental 38th President of the United States) had died, we immediately thought of how George Carlin spoke of her in his last stand up special, It's Bad for Ya! In the above segment, Carlin brings up Mrs. Ford in a r ... 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 >>

Beyoncé, "Move Your Body," The Obamas, And The Body Politic

​It was popular, for a while, to talk about African-Americans born after the civil rights movement as "the hip-hop generation," which implied that the swath of people being discussed was tied together more by a shared culture than by a shared political purpose. But it was hard not to notice th ... More >>

Red Rooster's Marcus Samuelsson Dishes Up the Comfort Food: Interview Part 2

Photo courtesy Marcus SamuelssonThe way to this man's heart? Make him a tartare.​Yesterday we spoke with Red Rooster's Marcus Samuelsson about his new food and lifestyle website geared towards men. Today he tells us about cooking for the ultimate diner--President Obama--and what it means to ... More >>

Chris Christie: Hot, Sexy, Lying and Popular!

Above is a video clip of a woman at a Sussex County town hall meeting telling New Jersey governor Chris Christie, who the New York Times Magazine called "fat," that he is "hot and sexy" because he's "smart and... has the perseverance to do what's right." A recent national survey named Christie the " ... More >>

Women Building Bridge Over Media Gender Gap; NY Times Quotes Anonymous Commenter

​At the beginning of 2011, the writer and reader Anne Hays published a much-discussed open letter to The New Yorker, decrying the lack of female voices in recent issues and demanding a refund should the gender imbalance not at least move toward righting itself. In the weeks since, the women's ... More >>

Fashion Week: Naeem Khan Overestimates the Simplicity of Women

Sharyn JacksonNo, models don't like high heels either​Last night I made my first visit backstage at a fashion show, and I learned a few things about models: it takes at around four people to dress one in about 10 seconds; as suspected, their feet do actually hurt in those shoes; and they can r ... More >>

Gabrielle Giffords Opened Her Eyes

​In a speech full of heart-wrenching moments last night, President Obama went off script to describe the condition of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in the head on Saturday in Arizona by Jared Loughner. "Gabby opened her eyes," announced the president. "So I can tell you, she knows we a ... 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 >>

The Day 50 Cent Threatened Gawker.com, Michelle Obama, and His Own Grandmother on Twitter

Though 50 Cent has had his own verified account on Twitter for a while now, it's safe to say that yesterday was the rapper's official debut on the social media site. How do we know this? Because about 24 hours ago the robotic, self-promotional, ghost-written stream of updates occasionally posted t ... More >>

Morning Links: Gay Marriages on Hold in California; Tapes and Photos of 9/11 Plotter Emerge

​• An appeals court put same-sex marriages on hold in California yesterday, ruling that "Proposition 8 could remain in effect while it considers the case." Oral arguments will be held the week of December 6, which means that a decision will probably not be made until sometime next year. [WP, ... More >>

Sniffing Out Oil-Tainted Seafood; Just Who Is Ruth Bourdain?

​Ruth Bourdain, the tweeting persona who is half Ruth Reichl, half Anthony Bourdain wants to keep his/her identity a secret, even turning down the chance to appear on a panel with Bourdain and Reichl at the New York City Wine & Food Festival. [Wall Street Journal] Michelle Obama invited more ... More >>

The Dalai Lama Is Super Deep, But Not So Good at the Twitter Yet

​Wow, the Dalai Lama is complex! At a news conference yesterday he denounced capitalism as a shallow system whose main goal is profit-making and said he was a "Marxist in spirit." But when dogged hypocrisy-seeking reporters asked what he thought about the fact that tickets to his Radio City Mu ... More >>

Food Companies Pledge to Remove 1.5 Trillion Calories From Their Products

thisiswhyyourefat.com1.5 trillion calories...​Yesterday, a coalition of food companies pledged to remove 1.5 trillion calories from their products by 2015. The announcement from the group, the Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation, was made yesterday by Michelle Obama at a White House press con ... More >>

Bloomberg's Favorite Vegetable is 'Steak'

Mayor Bloomberg may want to take away our salt, but he can't seem to stay on message. His do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do approach to pushing healthier food on New Yorkers is well known, including in a New York Times article that documented how much he loves Cheez-Its and salty pizza. But at a recent press ... More >>

National Enquirer Recycling Obama Sex Scandal, Powered By John Edwards Goodwill

​Did President Barack Obama have an affair with Vera Baker, a campaign aide on his run for Senate in 2004? Definitely (maybe), says the National Enquirer! Probably, says the Drudge Report, amid vivid Vietnam-style flashbacks while muttering "Lewinsky" repeatedly. Everyone else is hedging their ... More >>

On April 12, KFC's Double-Down Sandwich Will Bear Down Upon Us Like a Train Without Breaks

​Hey, America! Why pay one angel's hair of attention to what Michelle Obama, Jamie Oliver, and those killjoys at the American Heart Association are telling you when KFC keeps giving us moist, crunchy ways to kill ourselves, one bite at a time? There are now a little more than nine days left un ... More >>

Super Bowl XLIV Ads Mediocre; Michelle Obama Fights Child Obesity

​Wal-Mart is testing the idea of switching to private-label spices by replacing McCormick products with its own generic brand in some stores. The chain is currently responsible for 11 percent of McCormick's sales. [Wall Street Journal] Weight loss success stories marketed by such fast-food ch ... More >>

FIRST STYLE

From Jackie O. to Jacko

Michelle Obama hosts Iron Chef America tonight

​First Lady Michelle Obama is promoting her signature healthy eating initiative on Iron Chef tonight with a fresh vegetable challenge. The secret ingredient is anything the contestants can gather from the White House garden. White House executive chef Cristeta Comerford, a holdover from the Bu ... More >>

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

​ Twitpic via DPixel. It was a short week but a merry one, with or without a vodka infused turkey. Now that Thanksgiving has been properly ruined, thanks to the diabolical War on Thanksgiving, and Black Friday has passed without fatalities, we descend into Xmas, which has apparently been mad ... More >>

Google Apologizes for Michelle Obama Image Bomb

​The latest Google Bomb is apparently this awful Photoshop of Michelle Obama, which comes up first when you look for her on Google Images. Google, being devoted to free exchange of ideas (void in China) has chosen not to game its system, but has placed an ad on the page to explain its policie ... More >>

Giuliani beats the 9/11 drums

​The baseball season is over, and both Michelle Obama and prominent example of his terror-fighting judgment Bernie Kerik stepped on whatever good press Rudy Giuliani might have gotten from his sweet World Series seats. So what's a putative gubernatorial candidate to do for a little free media? ... More >>

Conservatives Enraged By 2007 Sesame Street Episode Get Apology from PBS

​As often happens in the madhouse that is the rightwing blogosphere, a conservative recently got mad about an old TV show: Big Hollywood denounced Sesame Street for a 2007 episode in which Oscar the Grouch said, "I am watching 'Pox' News. Now there is a trashy news show." The episode actually ... More >>

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

After the parade. Twitpic by Mzthicknflychic. Theeeee Yankees won! Doooooouuug Hoffman lost! The week was a mixed bag -- half fire, half dog poo. How 'bout them Yanks? They won one in Philly, then another, and were back home at the climax. Local merchants didn't get much out of it -- nor, Tom R ... More >>

Sam Kass Acts as Presidential Chef & Advisor; First Lady on 'Iron Chef America'

​Apparently, we've all been eating sushi the wrong way. You shouldn't use chopsticks -- it's finger food. And keep the wasabi out of your soy sauce. For more tips, attend The Story of Sushi author Trevor Corson's sushi appreciation class at Jewel Bako. [NY Times] White House chef Sam Kass is ... More >>

Obama Outrage Du Jour: Won't Meet With Hippies in San Francisco

Fresh from disgusting the nation with his so-called "Nobel 'Peace' Prize," President Obama's latest outrage is that he will not meet with hippies in San Francisco, but will instead meet with rich people at a Democratic fundraiser there. "Hiding from the leftists in San Francisco," says Michelle Mal ... More >>

Rightbloggers, Sarah Palin Celebrate Failure of Obama Hitler Health Care Speech

Congressman Joe Wilson's cry of "Lie!" at President Obama's health care speech had not stopped reverberating in the halls of Congress before rightbloggers declared it a failure. Scared Monkeys refutes Obama's claim that preventative care would save money. "Preventative medicine saves lives, it doe ... More >>

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

​ Museum of Natural History. Twitpic by ashelamb. The week was hot as hell -- which, a quick scan of our stories reveals, is an apt comparison. In a tribute to democracy, people with guns started following around President Obama. Busybodies were all over Michelle Obama's butt. Old peo ... More >>

More Steamy Blind Items! And Some With Names Too!

Michelle Obama swears by Isabel Toledo's gowns, and now crowds do, too.

Congress Probing Obama's Firing of AmeriCorps Watchdog

There's more today on President Obama's firing of Gerald Walpin, the inspector general for AmeriCorps who put out negative audits of City University's Teaching Fellows program and of former NBA star and Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson's Hope Academy. The American Spectator writes that House Republic ... More >>

Say Something Nice

Gossip boards like this one so often become forums for venting and kvetching, and that's fine--in fact, that's my bread and rancid butter. But just for once--just for one teeny, tiny second--let's reflect favorably on the world and post a nice thought or two. Anything nice, as long as it's not sarca ... More >>

Sneak Preview of the Caroline Kennedy "Female Force" Comic

We're not surprised that someone has put out a Michelle Obama comic, nor that the same company, Bluewater, has also put out Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton comics as part of their "Female Force" Series. And we applaud their effort "to show women in a positive light." (As to their decision to "tone d ... More >>

Auf Wiedersehen, Fashion Week!

It's been a long fashion week. Voice editors Araceli Cruz and Stacey Anderson say goodbye. Stacey AndresonBest model at Betsey Johnson AC: Ok, I'm sad. I feel my life becoming ordinary again. SA: And I'm sick. It is so exhausting, this fabulousness. AC: That's what happens when you cover a gazil ... More >>

Last-Minute Commutation Makes America Even Happier to Be Rid of Bush

(Updated) George W. Bush celebrated Martin Luther King Day by commuting the sentences of two Federal agents who seriously wounded* a Mexican. Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean shot up unarmed illegal immigrant Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila as he fled, and then conspired to cover up ... More >>

Worst Nativities of 2008

Sarah Palin Erotica

The ex-beauty queen takes down her hair and goes wild—in your dreams

New York Senator Helps Party, Herself in Convention Address

Nas Makes Fox News Look, Go Back to Eating Lunch

How Does the Obama Campaign Feel About the New Yorker cover?

Letters 7.09.08

Burying, Not Praising Hillary Clinton in the Indiana and North Carolina Primaries