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Oprah Winfrey

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    April 20, 2006
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    March 13, 2009

    George-Clooney-Flavored Tofu?

    After coming into possession of his sweaty gym towel, PETA reportedly asked George Clooney for permission to harvest his perspiration to make a Clooney-flavored tofu line. The proposed name for the proposed soy product? CloFu, of course.[EOnline via Eat Me Daily]In Lucca, Italy, a new law banning ne ... More >>

  • Long Island Voice

    October 26, 1999

    The Reform Party's hostess

    After coming into possession of his sweaty gym towel, PETA reportedly asked George Clooney for permission to harvest his perspiration to make a Clooney-flavored tofu line. The proposed name for the proposed soy product? CloFu, of course.[EOnline via Eat Me Daily]In Lucca, Italy, a new law banning ne ... More >>

  • Columns

    December 21, 1999

    Hot Potato Sex!

    After coming into possession of his sweaty gym towel, PETA reportedly asked George Clooney for permission to harvest his perspiration to make a Clooney-flavored tofu line. The proposed name for the proposed soy product? CloFu, of course.[EOnline via Eat Me Daily]In Lucca, Italy, a new law banning ne ... More >>

  • News

    November 14, 2000

    ‘The Position’

    Weekly Webzine From the Museum of Sex

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    October 20, 1998

    Miracle Worker

    Beloved's Song of Oprah

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    October 20, 1998

    The Haunting

    Beloved's Song of Oprah

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    May 29, 2007
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    August 7, 2007

    J&L Mall is Back!

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    June 25, 2002

    Horoscope

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    December 30, 2003

    Slaughterhouse Politics

    Ranchers Fought Rules That Might Have Prevented Mad Cow

  • NYC Life

    August 9, 2005

    Swap Meet

    Clothing trades: How to make friends and shop without money

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    November 19, 2008

    The Monsters of Templeton

    Clothing trades: How to make friends and shop without money

  • Theater

    April 4, 2006

    Theater

    Clothing trades: How to make friends and shop without money

  • NYC Life

    June 28, 2005

    Oprah and Hermes—Shopping While Black

    Clothing trades: How to make friends and shop without money

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2009

    Oprah KFC Deal Leads to Snafus, Delays, Riot

    That coupon Oprah was offering for free chicken at KFC was never a good idea. For one thing, it ain't too enlightened a choice: as PETA Europe says, "KFC is the world's largest killer of chickens... nearly 800 million chickens are killed every year in the cruellest ways imaginable." The guy in this ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2009

    Quick Hits

    Hee hee. (h/t Joe my God) Oprah tells graduates, "It's great to have a private jet." Wizbang responds, "Oprah didn't tell these graduates the truth about their new reality. They live in Obama's world now," and Obama will not let them have a private jet unless they are "in The One's political favo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2009

    What's The Worst Way You've Ever Been Dumped?

    Remember when Minnie Driver turned on Oprah and discovered that Matt Damon had given her the axe? What a way to go! Even worse was the actress I know who found out that her longtime director lover was tossing her to the curb--via fax! Not even a messenger pigeon! I've always felt that anyone who's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2009

    Fabolous: The Twitterview

    Fabolous, the Brooklyn rapper whose Loso's Way is forthcoming in June, maintains a Twitter feed of such complicated brilliance and wisdom that we felt the need to interview it. What up Fab? Morning my twiggas. As the rooster crows. What's on the docket? hav a show n Niagara Falls 2day.. Ah, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 18, 2009

    Is Black Dick Really Better?

    Even positive stereotypes are still stereotypes, and one of the oldest ones in creation--often patronizingly used by white folk--is that black dick is the best shit on earth. It's supposedly bigger, hotter, livelier, and more do-able than any other appendage on the planet, even more welcome than a s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2009

    It's Project Runway vs. Oprah!

    ​Jack Mackenroth, the HIV-positive guy from Project Runway, caught the recent Oprah Winfrey show about women with AIDS and found it to be a bit archaic, sensationalistic, and damaging to the cause. But otherwise, he liked it, ba dum pum. Anyway, here's the very thoughtful letter Jack wrote to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 20, 2009

    Au Revoir Oprah

    One of the benefits of this gig is, we can avoid direct contact with traumatic events like the emotional announcement by Oprah Winfrey that she is ending her show this season, and instead rely on reports from classy outlets like the New York Times and the Washington Post, who have not that option. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2010

    Puppets Were Up In My Face!

    I've been interviewed by all the greats from Oprah Winfrey to Al Goldstein, but I'd never been interrogated by two felt creatures until May and Ted cornered me on my couch for some heavy duty grilling the other afternoon. It was as if Sesame Street and Avenue Q had suddenly intersected with MY bl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2010

    I Talked Oprah on Joy Behar!

    ​Yes, a talk show host had me on to discuss a talk show host last night, when the hilarious Joy Behar devoted a segment of her HLN show to Kitty Kelley's headline grabbing book about Oprah Winfrey. When Joy mentioned the lesbian rumors shot down in the book, I smirkily said:

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2010

    Video Proof of Tom and Katie's Unbridled Passion

    Here's all the proof you need that Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are as romantically on fire as they were the day he proposed to her atop the Eiffel Tower.

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2010

    Subway Rant: Keep Your Music In Your Ears, Not Ours!

    ​Every once in a while (okay, maybe more than that) something really annoys us. Often, it's on the subway, because let's face it, that's where a lot of annoying shit goes down. We're not talking about blaring headphone seepage or full-body-against-pole offenses -- at least those assholes are o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2010

    Chelsea Clinton's Wedding to Feature Luxury Porta-Potties, Increasing Odds of Awkward Encounters

    ​Before you click away from this post thinking that it'll be just more blather about Chelsea Clinton's wedding, be aware that it is exactly that, but with a twist: outrageously huge porta-potties. Seriously. These rent-a-johns are bigger than my apartment by far, and carry a hefty cost of $15, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2010

    Anderson Cooper Will Soar as The New Phil Donahue

    ​Technically, Anderson Cooper will be the new Oprah, since he's pretty much jumping into daytime talk TV next fall in the wake of the chat queen's dramatic exit. But he's more like Phil Donahue--gray haired, compassionate, with a healthy sense of humor, and a supportive spouse.

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2010

    Oprah, Amused by Panhandler's Bum Joke, Breaks Fourth Wall, Gives Him $100

    Julio Bazan, lucky recipient of Oprah-dollars​Make Oprah laugh, and the world laughs with you. Or you get a hundred bucks, whichever's cheaper. Julio Bazan, a 49-year-old panhandler, was hanging out minding his own business in the Meatpacking on Sunday when he noticed the queen of daytime tele ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2010

    Whole Foods Now Selling Oprah

    Natasha MartinOpah on ice​ Spotted last Friday at Whole Foods Union Square: fresh whole opah. The fish mongers hoisted the Hawaiian catch onto a bed of ice, all the while referring to it as Oprah, instead of by its real name. "We've got Oprah Winfrey here! Oprah Winfrey for sale!" said one cl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2010

    Oprah Breaks Down Crying When Talking About Her Beloved Gayle (Video Below)

    ​Barbara Walters has an uncanny ability to make people sob, even when simply asking them what kind of tree they'd be. In fact, it must be in Barbara's contract that her interview subjects don't leave the studio until they shed some showy, large-scale tears--and they invariably oblige, just to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2010

    Does Oprah Promote Greed?

    ​Sure she does, and as someone who adores grubbing for all sorts of things, I think that's marvelous! But satirical commentator Bill Maher objected to her recent, elaborate series of giveaway shows and said so in a sardonic holiday-themed video he just made waves with. Well, last night on MS ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2011

    Suicidal Jumper Saved by Landing on Garbage; Arkansas Birds Fall From Sky; Facebook Now Worth $50 Billion

    ​Good morning, happy back-to-work Monday, and welcome to 2011! Today is Joe Coscarelli's first day of weekday blogging on Runnin' Scared, which we are very excited about. Please join me in heckling him as much as possible. In other morning news... • Yesterday in New York a suicidal man jump ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2011

    Oprah's Best Australian Vacation Ever -- While You're Stuck in The Snow!

    via Faces Of The Last Season of Oprah​This week on the final season of Oprah we were treated to her voyage to the land down under. And of course, she blew our freaking minds away. She said, "Everyone has Australia on their bucket lists but people are scared of coming here because the flight ta ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 24, 2011

    Oprah Reveals Secret Half-Sister, "Patricia II"

    ​Oprah, Oprah, Oprah. Can you make us love you more? Just like us, Oprah struggles with desires and ambitions and delicious foodstuffs. Just like us, Oprah has power and charisma. And just like us, Oprah has longheld deeply buried family secrets! Unlike us, however, Oprah has a TV show, upon w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2011

    Jazz Ison Sinkfield Has Grown 24-Inch Fingernails to Entice Oprah Into Meeting Her

    Today in things that my coblogger does not want me to write about but I have to write about anyway because they involve an Atlanta woman named Jazz Ison Sinkfield and her 24-inch fingernails, which she has grown for 22 years in pursuit of accomplishing her dream and meeting Oprah ("and a lot of more ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    February 9, 2011

    END TIMES

    How would you survive the apocalypse?

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2011

    Oprah Lets Us Read Her Diary! (We Share Our Own.)

    O, The Oprah Magazine, via USA Today​OMG. OMG. OMG. Oprah, yeah, that Oprah, is letting us glimpse into her very personal Oprah world to see what the budding Oprah, she who would be the Oprah that we all know and love, was about! She has shared five whole pages from her "hand-written" (how els ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2011

    Robert Spearing Fakes Own Mugging to Cover Up Failure to Procure Oprah Tickets

    ​You probably already know that the Oprah Show is in its final days. The first of the three-part finale has aired. There is much mystery about what will happen next -- even Oprah doesn't know! Thus, the stakes are high. So high that a Canadian man named Robert Spearing, 44, could not face tell ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2011

    Oprah's Show Is Bye Bye! Which Was Your Favorite One?

    ​"THANK YOU!" blares the headline on Oprah Winfrey's monthly magazine. But I have to step up and say, "No, Oprah, my close personal friend! Thank you! For the years of gab, chatter, talk, giveaways, celebs, and more gab, chatter, and talk. So which was your favorite Oprah: *Tom Cruise jump ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2011

    Oprah's Last Episode: Like a Last Lecture That Isn't Final at All

    ​Say what you will, but we think the last episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show made perfect sense. As R. Kelly says in the seminal classic "Ignition pt. 2": "After the show it's the after party, and after the party, it's the hotel lobby." Well, this episode was certainly the hotel lobby. It wasn' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2011

    Dr. Oz Giving Away Free Cab Rides From 4 to 6 Today

    ​Stations have resisted putting anything that they want to do well up against The Oprah Winfrey Show because, well -- Oprah always wins. But since Oprah's last show yesterday, networks are scrambling to hold the attention of one of the largest audiences in the country. Dr. Oz, a friend of Opra ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2011

    O.J. Simpson Did Not Confess to Oprah; We Repeat: There Is No Confession!

    ​Oprah Winfrey told an audience last week, "I have a dream of O.J. Simpson confessing to me" about the murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, but no confession exists at the moment, despite the proliferation of lies on the internet. False reports are currently making the r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2011

    Jazz, Woman Who Grew 24-Inch Fingernails to Become Famous, Is Kind of Famous

    Do you remember Jazz Ison Sinkfield, the lady from Atlanta with the abnormally long but incredibly special 24-inch fingernails that, she told America, were going to make her famous and help her meet Oprah? Well, the Oprah thing didn't pan out (yet), but Jazz has been honored by reality TV. She is th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 30, 2011

    Men of the Stacks Is Your Sexy Male Librarian Calendar: A Conversation With Mr. November

    Men of the Stacks​Have you seen the Men of the Stacks calendar? It's a calendar featuring 12 months of sexy male librarians, and it's been mentioned on Oprah's blog. If that doesn't excite you, are you even human? If that doesn't excite you, you should also know that Men of the Stacks is avail ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 3, 2011

    Blow Me! Is The Literary Work Of The Year

    ​For a certain demographic, anyway. And it definitely has the official description of the decade: "93% of all men are into oral sex, as a German survey claims. "The fact that approximately 80% of them don't know how to perform a good blow job or how to contribute to a good performance as a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2011

    Jennifer Hudson Loves Mama Oprah!

    ​In her new book, I Got This, Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson talks about her closeness with Oprah Winfrey, whom she lovingly calls Mama O. "I always tease her and say that she is the queen and I am a princess," writes Hudson.

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    January 18, 2012

    Keira Knightley Spanks Me Into Submission!

    ​ Check out my sassy column in which the gorgeous and talented co-star of A Dangerous Method tells me all about her hysteria-laden role, the assurances she needed before delving into it, and the reality behind the sadistic spanking scene. Keira (Oscar nominee for Pride and Prejudice) is very ... More >>

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