Michelle Obama

White House Words with Woodward More Proof of Obama Tyranny, Say Rightbloggers

Last week we learned that a White House official got into an argument with Bob Woodward. Woodward is the biggest name in Washington journalism; he has survived seven Administrations (counting the one he helped take down with his Watergate reporting), and will probably continue to publish bestsellers ... More >>

Thank You, Donald Trump!

Blowhard businessman-slash-press-whore Donald Trump has been bloviating about having some bombshell up his sleeve that will hurt Obama's chances. Well, word has leaked out that it's just might be the contention that in 2000, Michelle Obama had divorce papers drawn up, though obviously the couple di ... More >>

Live: Madonna Brings Her Set Pieces, Sex Pieces, And Masterpieces To Yankee Stadium

Madonna w/ Avicii Yankee Stadium Thursday, September 6 Better than: The VMAs. If ever you need a concise summary of Madonna's year, the billing for her New York dates will do nicely. There's Madonna, her name in no way styled to resemble that of a party drug. And there's Avicii, a Swedish stadium- ... More >>

Not Healthy Enough: Professional Chef School Lunch Program Discontinued

Wellness in Schools, a program that recruited culinary professionals to cook in New York City schools, has been discontinued because it does not meet new federal nutritional standards. In the past four years, the program has gathered chefs like Eddie Huang from Baohaus, Michael Anthony from Gramer ... More >>

The Amazing Wisdoms Of The Homeless Man On My Corner

No, he's not the person in the above image. He's camera-shy--and in fact told me he'd like to only go by the appellation "H.G." As in Homeless Guy. And he's got some great things to say. To wit: "If you're happily married, then you're not doing it right."

Barack Obama's Birthday Bash: We're Totally Invited, Maybe

Oh my God, guys! OH MY GOD! Michelle Obama, who's totally like, my BFF, keeps sending me e-mails -- she, like, knows me by my first name and stuff. We're that close. Anyway, she told me that Barack's having a 51st birthday party next month, and the best part is that I'm totally invited!!! Well, ... More >>

The Ten Most Fashionable Asian-Americans In NYC

I've met them all and narrowed it down to these 10 amazing A.A. specimens:

Iced-Coffee Economics, Pop-Up Tools

Iced-coffee season is upon us: see why you'll pay more for a cold brew than a hot one. [Grub Street] McDonald's has launched a project to support farmers and agricultural research in England and Ireland. [UKPA]

De Niro to Potential Republican First Ladies: Fuggedaboutit

Can you imagine any other First Lady in the Oval Office other than Michelle? Robert De Niro can't. Last night, at his trendy TriBeCa restaurant, Locanda Verde, the star of Taxi Driver and Raging Bull packed 85 wealthy Obama supporters into a fundraiser dinner, where tickets started at $5,000 a head ... More >>

New York Fashion Week Fall 2012: The (British) Empire Strikes Back at Rag & Bone; Shopping for Michelle Obama at Cushnie et Ochs; the Good, the Bad, and the Meh of Green Fashion

It was moments before the Rag & Bone show was to begin when our ears perked up: Was that Darth Vader's theme song? It was merely a few notes thrown into the mix, but immediately our mind began racing with possible ideas: Were designers David Neville and Marcus Wainwright going to treat us to Stormt ... More >>

Jaded NYC Liberals and Progressives Drink to Obama's State of the Union

​It seemed like every archetype of New York liberalism--from your pashima-wearing UWS grannie to the pseudo-anarchist who introduces himself with a PGP -- was out and in rare form Tuesday night. At the Drinking Liberally State of the Union Watch Party at Forum, the drinking wasn't liberal enough ... More >>

How Long Must We Wait With Bated Breath for Michelle Obama to Tweet Something Exciting?

​Guess who's on Twitter, now!? Yeah, you, me, Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber, Rupert Murdoch, that guy we broke up with 100 years ago who still insists on creeping into our everyday virtual reality, and, yes, Michelle Obama! The First Lady! We are so excited! Whatever will she say? Well, upon her ... More >>

100 Most Powerless New Yorkers

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Obama Celebrates Pagan Unholy Day

Barack and Michelle Obama spent part of their Saturday night handing out candy to trick-or-treaters on the northern portico of the White House. President Obama doesn't appear to be overwhelmingly in the Halloween spirit, but we're pretty sure he's wearing a studio-quality Green Lantern costume unde ... More >>

Food Prices to Rise Even Higher; Chefs Are Tweeting Up a Storm

​Opting for produce from small, local, organic farms cannot guarantee that you will avoid the food safety issues that go along with large-scale farming. [Washington Post] The USDA is reporting that food prices are expected to rise up to 4.5 percent, the sharpest increase since 1978. [Wall Str ... More >>

Guess What Stories I've Been Pitched This Week?

​Think the life of a columnist/blogger is nothing but glamour and gift bags? Well, it is--sort of--but it also involves sifting through the piles of angsty promotional emails begging for my attention. Here are the pitches that have passed by my technology in the last week alone. You decide ... More >>

The Five Best First Ladies Of All Time

IMHO... ​ (5) Hillary Clinton She's smart, tough, and almost ran for President, securing a high-power job in the administration when that didn't work out. Besides, she behaved classily when humiliated by her husband's trouser antics, not letting us see her pain and using it to build char ... More >>

Indian Food On the Rise; NYC Chefs Serve MyPlate-Friendly Dishes

​Purdue ads will now feature not only chairman Jim Purdue, but 10 or so employees, and will take a more earnest approach toward chicken. [NY Times] A number of casual Indian restaurants are cropping up around the country, including Café Spice in New York. [Nation's Restaurant News] Experts ... More >>

Ballet Opening Gala Brings Out The Hair!

Photo by Christian Svoboda​Socialites wore their best gowns and biggest coiffs for the ABT opening night gala at the Met, which made it a bad idea to nab a seat right behind them. What you witnessed from a better perch were snippets of the ballet company's upcoming season--some old, some new, ... More >>

Michelle Obama Writing a Healthy Food Book; Coffee The Musical Coming to Broadway

​Vikram Chatwal is being sued by the group that owns such Meatpacking spots as Abe & Arthur's over the deal he had allegedly promised them to run hospitality operations for his forthcoming Downtown Dream Hotel, which he later gave to the group that owns Marquee. [NY Post] Michelle Obama will ... More >>

Brooklyn "Hipster" Politician Meets Obama

​Lincoln Restler, the young co-founder of the New Kings Democrats, won an election back in September to represent the 50th Assembly District as State Committeeman, a.k.a. District Leader, calling himself as "an independent, reform-minded" member, the likes of which Brooklyn hadn't seen in a ha ... More >>

Newark Mayor Cory Booker Vows to Lose 57 Pounds, Will Facebook and Tweet All About It

​Just a week ago Newark Mayor and "social media darling" Cory Booker was digging out his own citizens a tweet at a time, subsisting on Diet Coke and Advil, and becoming the hands-down hero of Snow-pocalypse 2010. Now he's taken to Facebook and Twitter with another cause: He plans to hit 240 ( ... More >>

Junk Food Is Popular? Shocker!

healthnative.comSo tasty​ The New York Times is at the forefront of trends once again (err, not) with an article that notes--gasp--that junk food restaurants are popular on Capitol Hill.

Our 10 Best Bakery Desserts in NYC

Cannelle Patisserie's pear tart.​ The season of overindulgence is fast descending upon us with the subtlety of a Zeppelin, bearing glad tidings of weight gain and dental despair. To celebrate the occasion, we've decided to round up our favorite bakery desserts, the ones that make us cross riv ... More >>

Stuff Crazy White People Like: 3 Ways Rightbloggers Deal (or Don't) With Race

You may have noticed the controversy over last week's Voice cover story, "White America Has Lost Its Mind" by Steven Thrasher. The story has drawn at this writing more than a thousand comments, many of them devoted to proving Thrasher's proposition by example. Among the more choice reader contribu ... More >>

King of Falafel Takes Vendys; Seafood Soup All the Rage

​First lady Michelle Obama hosted spouses of world leaders at Blue Hill at Stone Barns, where a lunch of ingredients from the farm and from the White House garden was served. [AP] The King of Falafel won best vendor and People's Choice at the 2010 Vendy Awards. Fares (Freddy) Zeideia can usua ... More >>

Make Choptank's Steamed Maryland Blue Crabs

Choptank's Steamed Maryland Blue Crabs​Choptank participated in this past weekend's Taste the West Village, which helped raise funds for P.S. 41 and its Greenroof Environmental Literacy Laboratory (GELL), Michelle Obama's Healthy School Food Initiative, and Share Our Strength's Project Frontli ... More >>

Lady Gaga Wears Meat to MTV Awards; Corn Syrup Hoping to Change Name & Image

​Michelle Obama addressed the NRA recently -- the National Restaurant Association, that is -- calling for increased efforts to fight childhood obesity. [Nation's Restaurant News] U.S. Foodservice Inc., a food distribution company, agreed to pay $30 million to settle civil fraud charges that i ... More >>

Week in Review: You Rejected the Youth

Goodbye to all that. Photo by Sam Horine.​In the week one of our team successfully transitioned into the "expert" phase of her juggalo fascination, the rest of us just kind of got silly. Hence: the top ten songs named "Fuck You" or the immediate equivalent; Jay-Z's ten most shameful rock and r ... More >>

Barack Obama Turns 49 And A Lot Of Things Are Right With The World

​Birthdays should be spent in happiness and celebration, and the news cycle did just that for our Nation's President today. Causation vs. correlation be damned! We lay all the day's good news in one blog post in honor of the 44th President's big day. Think of it as our version of a birthday card, ... More >>

Anita Lo Gets a Feng-Shui Boost at Annisa; Starbucks Launches Low-Cost Coffee Brand

​Steve Cuozzo takes aim at bad hotel restaurants, listing The Fives at Peninsula, Arabelle at Plaza-Athenee, and Commodore Grill at Grand Hyatt among the worst offenders. [NY Post] Despite being something of a "non-believer," Anita Lo hired a feng-shui consultant to help her redesign the inte ... More >>

Michelle Obama Visits New York, Exhibits Watered-Down Cultural Tastes Yet Again

​President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle have shown pretty decent taste whenever they visit our fair city. So why the hell'd they do this, of everything else there is to see in town?

Beekeeping Law to Be Reviewed; More on the 99-Cent Pizza Craze

​Restaurants are still feeling the sting of the deep tomato freeze, which isn't likely to let up until at least mid-April. All winter, restaurateurs have been forced to find ways to use fewer tomatoes or find alternative sources. [Nation's Restaurant News] Michelle Obama is taking her fight a ... More >>

Jamie Oliver Starts a Food Revolution; Michelle Obama Gets Pepsi & Coke Support

​Dozens of seniors in Brighton Beach have been complaining about the poor quality of their daily Meals on Wheels lunches. The problem, they say, started last year when the Jewish Association for Services to the Aged abandoned its own kitchen in favor of catering services. [NY Post] Pepsi and ... More >>

Rightbloggers Find the Real White House Gatecrasher Story: Obama's Radical Ties

Last week's state dinner for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was from the beginning fraught with controversy -- or what passes for controversy among rightbloggers. First, the dinner menu was leaked. Right Pundits was miffed that "such cultural oddities as potato and eggplant salad, arugula, r ... More >>

President Obama Loves A Good Burger; For the First Lady, Mexican Food Rules

Douglas Emlen, an entomologist at the University of Montana, has sparked some debate over his comments in an NPR broadcast about the dung beetle. During the segment, Emlen said that he avoids ground coffee because it's full of ground up cockroaches. [NPR] Robyn O'Brien, known as the Erin Brockovich ... More >>

Earth Day Prompts Green Talk; Big Ag No Fan of White House Garden

A new study shows that the more choice we have, the more likely we are to opt for unhealthy foods. Fries or salad? Er, what do you think? [CBC] Michelle Obama has incurred the wrath of Big Agriculture by aligning herself with the locavore movement. The Mid-America CropLife Association (MACA) wrote ... More >>

The Queen 2: This Time It's Personal

How long before we get a sequel to the Oscar winning The Queen, with Helen Mirren recoiling as American First Lady Michelle Obama (played by Angela Bassett), dares to touch her royal-assed self? The film will examine the conflicting emotions inherent in a situation involving the first time the Queen ... More >>

Vegetable Gardens on 60 Minutes

Last week, Alice Waters was on 60 Minutes talking about the local/organic food movement and urging President Obama to plant a garden on the White House grounds. This week, President Obama took his turn on the show, and told correspondant Steve Kroft all about the vegetable garden on which Michelle O ... More >>

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What They Ate: The Obamas' First State Dinner

While much of America was watching this years' Oscars, with its awkward montages and musical numbers, on Sunday night, the Obamas were, of course, hosting their first state dinner for the country's governors and their spouses. A staff of ten, including White House executive chef Cristeta Comerford, ... More >>

Sexy Veggies at Dirt Candy

Breaking the vegetarian rules

Barack and Michelle Dance to Beyoncé's "At Last"; Nation Looks For Scrolling Credits, Other Signs of Unreality

This clip of Beyoncé singing Etta James's "At Last" at last night's ABC-televised inaugural ball while Barack and Michelle Obama sway giddily on a spotlit stage seems more like the final, triumphant credit-rolling frame of a movie than real life, but then again, this is our next four years. I thi ... More >>

Obama's Kitchen Cabinet

Rightbloggers: Blago, Richardson Prove Obama Corrupt, Dems Racist

It's a rare treat when liberals and conservatives can get together, and they seem to agree that Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is one awesome crook. Lefty outlets have been following the Blagojevich "fiasco," exploring the linkages between Blagojevich and Illinois politicians who might accommo ... More >>

Michelle Obama on the Food Network

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Just One of the Girls? Michelle Obama's Appearance on The View