Palm Springs

He's Old, Missing Teeth, and Has a Funny Haircut: He's Danny Brown, Rap's Biggest Deal

Apart from the overcrowding and cost of living, subway ads are one of the most depressing things about New York City. But now, next to the usual ads offering escape in vacation destinations and self-realization in a pair of shoes, you'll find a glimmer of hope in a Uniqlo ad featuring 32-year-old De ... More >>

Best of Coachella 2013: Weekend Two

The Visual Stimulations for People Who Were High Coachella's art installations -- the ones designed to impress you while you're high, aka all of them -- were particularly impressive this year. There was the tesla coil, the crane that was formerly a flower but now a praying mantis, the giant floresce ... More >>

Meningitis Outbreak Accelerates in NYC Gay and Bi Communities

Department of Health calls for 100,000 vaccinations as fatalities climb in 2013

Lorna Luft Was Amazing At Birdland Last Night

Nobody can sell a song like Lorna Luft, and last night--in her Lorna's Living Room show at Birdland--she really delivered. In the Jim Caruso-produced night, Lorna paid tribute to three women who changed music with their intelligent, passionate gifts: Dorothy Fields, Betty Comden, and Laura Nyro. I ... More >>

Why Is Everyone So Pissed About the EDM Reality Show?

By Andy Hermann As the Hollywood-based casting guru behind Jersey Shore and A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila, Doron Ofir knows how the lowbrow culture game is played. But even the man who gave the world Snooki might have been caught off-guard by the outrage over one of his latest projects: a compet ... More >>

See Photos of the Gingerbread Extravaganza at Le Parker Meridien

Lincoln Memorial by Baked Ideas If you want to check out some serious architectural feats that you'd love nothing more than to take a fork and knife to, bundle up and mosey on over to lobby of the luxurious Le Parker Meridien Hotel (119 W 56th Street). From now until January 3, you can gawk at thei ... More >>

Grindr Awards For Gayest Cities, Beaches, And Marital Destinations

People on the gay sex app Grindr rally know their stuff (even if they never quite learned the proper spelling of Grinder). So the app polled them about the gayest places in the world, and they voted with one hand while doing God knows what with the other. Here are the illustrious winners: Gayest ... More >>

Other Desert Cities: My Review

​Move over, Addams Family. The most intriguingly dysfunctional clan in town is now the one in Jon Robin Baitz's Other Desert Cities, in which a tell-all book manuscript surfacing at Christmastime puts the hell back in holidays.

Occupation of Wall Street Happening In September; Planning Meeting Tomorrow

​On September 17, Wall Street will be occupied. Not by warring/face-grabbing traders and not by troops sent in to put the volatile area under martial law, but by protesters who are going to "set up tents, kitchens, peaceful barricades and occupy Wall Street." #OccupyWallStreet has been organiz ... More >>

The Top 25 People Crippling Scientology

​We're starting something new here at Runnin' Scared. From our underground bunker, where we keep an eye on all things Scientology, we've been stunned to see how hard things have been for the venerable church lately. From surveys which suggest membership is dwindling, to a mass exodus that is ... More >>

Power Lesbians Raise the Stakes

A female version of the Lavender Mafia is in the cards as more women gain power

Quintron and Miss Pussycat Cancel Their Upcoming Tour, Including Brooklyn Show on May 28

We spoke with swampbuggy bad-ass Quintron very briefly on Monday afternoon, amid the throes of a pre-tour van emergency. But since then something else far more harrowing has developed, specifically an undisclosed "family emergency at home," which has sadly forced cartoon lady Miss Pussycat and her o ... More >>

"I Hear Q-Tip D.J.'s Here on Fridays": The Ace Hotel Story

​This post is basically going to write itself, but hoo boy, Matt Gross' breathless feature on the Ace Hotel in the Times Styles section this weekend is a doozy. It's a portrait of arch-hipness that is so complete and detailed as to be an achievement in its field. There's a lot to unpack here.

Lesbian Country Star Keeps Her Top On!

Out of Nashville, out in New York

Other Desert Cities, Where the Family Business Is Deception

Jon Robin Baitz heads to Palm Springs for his new play

This Week in the Voice: Zaire Paige Shoots to Kill

​​The cover of this week's Village Voice is the story of Zaire Paige, a budding young actor who went from playing a killer in the Ethan Hawke film Brooklyn's Finest, to becoming one in real life. He now faces 107 years in prison for the murder of suspected gangster Lethania Garcia, a killing ... More >>

DESERT STORM

A family battles over a memoir

Winter Guide: New York Theatre Workshop Uncorks Three Pianos

A guide to winter plays

Elton John Whored At Rush Limbaugh's Wedding

​Anti-gay hatemonger Rush Limbaugh just married a woman who's 26 years younger in Palm Springs---in fact, she's 26 years younger everywhere--but that's not the vomity part. The vomity part is that lord queen Elton John sang at the wedding! Our out gay pal--who does so much for our cause when ... More >>

History According to Gone With the Pope

Shelby Lynne, Miss Independent

Country vixen finally free to indulge in partial nudity and not make a Polly Perfect record

A Catalog of the Eight Gingerbread Houses on Display at Le Parker Meridien

The Chrysler Building by Soutine Bakery​Last night, Le Parker Meridien unveiled a holiday gingerbread display, showcasing elaborate architectural confections from bakeries around the city. You can pop by the hotel's atrium anytime during the month of December to take a look, and to donate $1 t ... More >>

Rudy for Senate: he won't say, aides say no

​After parading his somewhat tarnished national security street cred, ruling out a gubernatorial run and floating a run at the Senate, America's former Mayor has gone to ground in Florida and isn't talking. His aides, on the other hand, say the Senate isn't big enough for him.

When Did You Know You Were Gay?

​If indeed you are gay, that is. If you're not, then when did you know you were straight, bi, or bicurious? Was it your reaction to your first Judy Garland song? Vin Diesel movie? Weekend in Palm Springs? I'll tell you how I knew. As a 12-year-old, I felt vaguely sexual and kept looking at ... More >>

Scientology Gets Its Ass Kicked In the Desert

[Tommy Davis on the hot seat, from KESQ]SEE UPDATE, after the jump.Wise Beard Man tipped us recently that KESQ, a local television station in Palm Springs, California, has put together a pretty terrific 5-part investigation of Scientology.Why Palm Springs? Well, one of Scientology's stranger facilit ... More >>

Tristan Goes To a Unique BDSM Event

Desire in the desert

Will & Grace Star Lusts for Straight Guys!

Stalker Alert: I'll Be At Splash Tonight!

How To Wear Your Vote

In search of that perfect 'candidate-beater' tank top

The Lush Life of a Rudy Appointee

Aide spent a quarter of a million dollars on food, fun, and travel

A Lesbian Reworking of Sophocles Turns a Classic Into a Complex

Oedipus Resexed

The Five Lesbian Brothers reveal why they've gone Greek

NY Mirror

Letter to the Editor

Letters

Inside Bush's Indian Bureau

A labyrinth of lobbyists is manufacturing millions

Army of Lovers

Bareback to the Future

Foreign Bodies

The Lush Life of a Rudy Appointee

How a Politically Tied Aide Spent a Quarter of a Million Dollars on Food, Fun, and Travel

Leather Puppy Love

Mr. Hot Potato

California Lawmakers Keep Condit at Arm’s Length

Sarafem Nation

Renamed Prozac Targets Huge Market: Premenstrual Women

NY Mirror

Dirty Work

Clash of the Titans

Mr. Blass and Mr. Beene

The Second Sex and SI

Women models win out over women writers

Frank Sinatra 1915-1998