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May 18, 2012
Cannes Film Festival: Did Berlusconi Turn Italy Into a Reality Show?
Today in unexpected Cannes headline news: a convicted felon turns in one of the best performances at the festival thus far (and it's not Roman Polanski -- rimshot! -- who was the subject of a softball vanity documentary which screened here earlier in the week, and isn't really worth talking abou ... More >>
Voice Choices
May 9, 2012
SOME KIND OF WONDERFUL
Because Stevie is the sunshine of your life
Blogs
April 5, 2012
Under the Toque: Top Chef Spin-Off, Fried Chicken Face-Off
A new Top Chef spin-off, Life After Top Chef, will follow the lives of four former Top Chef contestants: Jen Carroll, Richard Blais, Fabio Viviani, and Spike Mendelsohn. [Zagat] In case you're following the David Chang-Questlove fried-chicken battle: the Momofuku chef and Roots drummer have set a d ... More >>
Blogs
February 17, 2012
Gail Simmons on How She Deals with Foods She Doesn't Like: Interview Part 2
Yesterday we spoke with Top Chef judge Gail Simmons about her new memoir, Talking With My Mouth Full: My Life as a Professional Eater. Today she tells us more about the judging process and reveals the foods she just can't stand. Do you think there's a big difference between the cheftestants on Top ... More >>
Voice Choices
January 18, 2012
BEEN GONE
Kelly Clarkson returns to New York
Blogs
November 2, 2011
This Week In The Voice: St. Vincent Plays It Candid And Coy, Kelly Clarkson Offers Real Talk
Tina TyrellAnnie "St. Vincent" Clark in repose. In this week's Village Voice: Jessica Hopper gets deep—but not too deep—with Annie Clark of St. Vincent; and I look at the evolution of Kelly Clarkson in the wake of the first American Idol winner releasing her fifth album, Stronger. ... More >>
Blogs
October 14, 2011
100 & Single: The Erratic Chart Fortunes Of TV-Crowned Idols, From Kelly To Scotty
Scotty McCreery—winner of the 10th edition of American Idol, and owner of the new No. 1 title on Billboard's album chart, Clear as Day—sets a handful of chart records this week that certainly sound impressive. As Billboard reports, McCreery is the first country act to debut at No ... More >>
Voice Choices
August 31, 2011
A STAR IS BORN
It's time to step up to the plate and show your goods
Blogs
August 12, 2011
Here's Something Else To Do Before The Summer Ends: Attend A Free Concert Put On By A Morning Chat Show
Idol runner-up Lauren Alaina at Central Park this morning.Yesterday my wonderful colleague Jen Doll penned a list of 11 things to do in NYC before the summer ends, and I'd like to add one item to her list: Catch one of the outdoor concerts put on by the national morning shows. This morning I ... More >>
Blogs
August 5, 2011
Radio Hits One: Reality TV Propels Aging Stars Back Into The Top 40
When I heard that Jennifer Lopez was leveraging her new position as an American Idol judge to launch her new single, premiering the video for "On The Floor" on one episode and performing the song on another, I rolled my eyes at what I thought was her hubris. It'd been less than two years sin ... More >>
Blogs
June 30, 2011
Dispatch From The X Factor Auditions: Makeovers, Preening, And Missing The Machine
In Seattle on Wednesday, The X Factor was doing its damndest not to be American Idol. Producers had overseen the first round of auditions, and now, in front of an audience of 4,000, the few acts who had passed muster would perform for judges Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul, L.A. Reid, and Nicole Sc ... More >>
Blogs
June 15, 2011
Stephen Baldwin Wants Some of Alec Baldwin's Attention in Fake NYC Mayor Campaign
The crazy born-again Baldwin brother Stephen, a contestant on Celebrity Mole Hawaii, Celebrity Mole Yucatán, Celebrity Apprentice and I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, told conservative radio nut job Alex Jones that he'd consider a run for mayor if his big brother Alec does. (He won't.) "I'd s ... More >>
Blogs
June 14, 2011
Platinum Hit And The Mythical Aspects Of Making Music
via BravoMagic in action? Platinum Hit, Bravo's new talent competition for songwriters with Jewel as host and Kara DioGuardi as head judge, is not particularly enjoyable. Aside from the talented but super-ADD Sonyae (pronounced, somewhat ironically, like "soigné") and the arrogant but though ... More >>
Blogs
May 26, 2011
Live: Kelly Clarkson Shows Those Whippersnapper Idol Finalists How It's Done
Bryan Horowitz Kelly Clarkson Highline Ballroom Wednesday, May 25 Better than: Watching the American Idol finale in real time. I'll be honest: There was something pretty delicious about spending last night, during which a super-frustrating American Idol season came to an end by crowning a ... More >>
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May 13, 2011
American Idol: James Durbin's Not-Very-Good Voice Finally Leaves Us
Michael Becker/FOX Tonight, American Idol lost James Durbin. I was sorry to see him go, but only because his departure meant that we'll never get to see the live-TV Tourettic freakout that I was really excited about back when he first came into our lives. As it turns out, most people with Tou ... More >>
Voice Choices
May 11, 2011
Gabrielle Stravelli
Michael Becker/FOX Tonight, American Idol lost James Durbin. I was sorry to see him go, but only because his departure meant that we'll never get to see the live-TV Tourettic freakout that I was really excited about back when he first came into our lives. As it turns out, most people with Tou ... More >>
Blogs
April 27, 2011
"The Voice" Closes Its Eyes And Takes On "American Idol"
So: The Voice. The big challenge. American Idol has been the dominant ratings force in American TV for a full decade now, but none of the other networks has really managed to do much with that show's format, which seems like a relatively easy thing to steal. (Or they haven't made a big singin ... More >>
Film
April 6, 2011
Soul Surfer: Christian Pandering That Pretends It Isn't
So: The Voice. The big challenge. American Idol has been the dominant ratings force in American TV for a full decade now, but none of the other networks has really managed to do much with that show's format, which seems like a relatively easy thing to steal. (Or they haven't made a big singin ... More >>
Blogs
April 6, 2011
Top Chef Masters Airs Tonight, New York Chefs Poised to Dominate (Hopefully)
theage.com.auPretty yes, but he's no PadmaBecause there can't be more than two weeks without a Top Chef show on the air, Season Three of Top Chef Masters premieres tonight on Bravo at 11 p.m. Nevertheless, this season is shaping up to look exciting.
Blogs
April 5, 2011
Pork's Slogan Still Sucks. But Now They Have a Café!
The National Pork Board didn't take our suggestions for a new slogan and is sticking with Pork: Be Inspired. And to show off their new slogan, they're creating the even more awfully awesomely named Pork Inspiration Café. Which will be run by Top Chef: All-Stars winner Richard Blais! Oh, h ... More >>
Blogs
March 24, 2011
Top Chef: Still Not Over
Yet another week in the Bahamas, and still, that light at the end of the tunnel is maddeningly faint. What can Top Chef's producers give us that we haven't seen before on a cooking show, aside from a virgin sacrifice? A Quickfire Challenge that's "different than anything you've experienced in ... More >>
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February 25, 2011
Eli Kirshtein Goes From Top Chef to Spider-Man: A Meal To Die For
BravoThe face of the modern superhero?Two worlds are colliding in the latest Spider-Man comic, and it's not a clash between the forces of good and evil. Well, that eventually happens, too, but more surprising is the merging of the culinary world and the artistic. Eli Kirshtein, best known a ... More >>
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February 18, 2011
Angelo Sosa On Being Naked On Top Chef All-Stars and Having No Fear
bravotv.comAngelo Sosa, clothed.Yesterday, we talked to Angelo Sosa about his forthcoming restaurant, Social Eatz, expected to open the first week in March. Today, he tells us a little more about how his second time around -- both as a restaurateur and Top Cheftestant. With Xie Xie, you talk ... More >>
Blogs
February 3, 2011
Adam Lambert's New Boyfriend: Approve?
Glam singer Adam Lambert has stepped out with his new man, a Finnish reality show star named Sauli Koskinen. Socialitelife got the photos, so now we can pore over them and try to figure if the guy is good enough for our Adam. Not lookswise, because that's only superficial, after all. But s ... More >>
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December 6, 2010
The 20 Worst Songs of 2010, #15: Susan Boyle, "Hallelujah"
F2K10 is a countdown of the 20 worst songs of 2010. Track our progress here. Leonard Cohen's ode to sex and music theory "Hallelujah" reached a certain saturation point this year--there was a moment when it seemed like there would be one overwrought cover of the track appearing on TV per mon ... More >>
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November 18, 2010
Top Chef: Just Desserts Names Its First Winner
BravoFinalists Yigit Pura, Morgan Wilson, and Danielle Keene explain themselves to the judges. The first season of Top Chef: Just Desserts drew to a close last night ...
Voice Choices
October 27, 2010
The Script
BravoFinalists Yigit Pura, Morgan Wilson, and Danielle Keene explain themselves to the judges. The first season of Top Chef: Just Desserts drew to a close last night ...
Blogs
September 28, 2010
Yet Another Reason to Love Top Chef's Kevin Gillespie
Food GalKevin Gillespie was far and away our favorite contestant on Top Chef Season 6, thanks to both his extraordinary decency and his extraordinary beard.
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September 23, 2010
Top Chef: All Stars Line-Up Announced
Weeks after everyone pretty much figured out that Top Chef's next season would feature an all-star line-up, Bravo used last night's Season 7 reunion episode to formally announce that next season will be, yes, Top Chef: All Stars. It will premiere on Dec. 1 with the following contestants:
Blogs
September 10, 2010
Contestant on The Amazing Race Attacked by a Watermelon
A contestant and Home Shopping Network host competing on The Amazing Race got more than she bargained for during a recent segment. Faced with the task of hitting a knight with a small watermelon using a giant slingshot, she pulled back on the fruit and let it fly, only to have it come back at her ... More >>
Blogs
August 30, 2010
Top Chef, Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution Win at the Emmys
BravoSmile! You won!Although its current season has so far been its worst yet, that didn't stop Top Chef from winning an Emmy last night for best Reality Competition, ending the seven-year reign of The Amazing Race. And it looks like Jamie Oliver's uphill battle with the residents of Huntingt ... More >>
Blogs
August 19, 2010
Top Chef Season 7, Episode 10: Alex Takes a Swan Dive, Kelly Goes to Paris
Wylie 'n Padma, with Wylie looking wily. I'd been at a birthday party at Momofuku just before Top Chef Season 7, Episode 10 aired. Knowing that I'd drawn the short straw and had to write about it, I cycled home in a lather, filled to the brim with fried chicken, corn salad, and pork-belly ss ... More >>
Voice Choices
July 13, 2010
Melissa Etheridge
Wylie 'n Padma, with Wylie looking wily. I'd been at a birthday party at Momofuku just before Top Chef Season 7, Episode 10 aired. Knowing that I'd drawn the short straw and had to write about it, I cycled home in a lather, filled to the brim with fried chicken, corn salad, and pork-belly ss ... More >>
Blogs
July 8, 2010
Top Chef: 'I'm More Than a Vuitton Bag'
BravoMorning in the Top Chef household this week means 10 seconds of obligatory mourning for Tracey and Arnold's happy conclusion that after last week's challenge, "I guess the grill is my friend." But there's no time for introspection, because soon, the chefs have more pressing concerns: mak ... More >>
Blogs
July 1, 2010
Top Chef: Just Desserts Will Be Judged by Johnny Iuzzini, Hubert Keller, and DailyCandy Editrix
johnnyiuzzini.comJohnny Iuzzini displays his decorating skills.Following Johnny Iuzzini's appearance on last night's episode of Top Chef, Bravo has announced that Iuzzini, Hubert Keller, and DailyCandy editor-at-large Dannielle Kyrillos will be the judges on the forthcoming Top Chef: Just Des ... More >>
Voice Choices
June 29, 2010
Lynyrd Skynyrd+Bret Michaels
johnnyiuzzini.comJohnny Iuzzini displays his decorating skills.Following Johnny Iuzzini's appearance on last night's episode of Top Chef, Bravo has announced that Iuzzini, Hubert Keller, and DailyCandy editor-at-large Dannielle Kyrillos will be the judges on the forthcoming Top Chef: Just Des ... More >>
Blogs
June 17, 2010
Top Chef: Of Weight Watchers Chicken Liver Mousse and Store-Bought Puff Pastry
BravoWelcome back to Top Chef. Some things appear to have stayed the same: Crocs! Rampaging egos! Bad culinary puns ("Eric Ripert joins our culinary Supreme Court," har har)! Copious hostess cleavage! Others have changed: Where once there were Glad bags, now there is Dial NutriSkin. Where onc ... More >>
Blogs
May 17, 2010
Top Chef University Teaches Us, Again, That You Really Can Buy Delusion on the Internet
Get schooled.Do you have $200 and a desire to spent it on something you can get for free? Then the brand, spanking new Top Chef University may be for you. The eternally plotting masterminds behind the show have rubbed their sweaty little hands together and come up with an online cooking schoo ... More >>
Blogs
May 5, 2010
American Idol Season 9, Sinatra Week, In Which Ryan Seacrest Does a Better Sinatra Impersonation Than Any of the Actual Contestants
Hey, look, it's freaky little imp Aaron Kelly. CR: Michael Becker / FOX. Oh boy. Here we go. Sinatra Week. What a muddled and ill-conceived concept, even in a season that's attempted to grab attention by grabbing every iconic name off the shelf (Beatles, Stones, Elvis). I honestly can't imagi ... More >>
Blogs
April 30, 2010
Our Ten Worst Food Show Hairstyles
On this fine Friday, we turn our thoughts from food to follicles. Among the many, many reasons to watch televised cooking shows are the coiffures sported by their hosts and contestants. Top Chef wouldn't be Top Chef without its dependable supply of fauxhawks and Sapphic mullets, or, for that matter, ... More >>
Blogs
March 17, 2010
American Idol Season 9, Top 12 vs. the Rolling Stones: Siobhan Magnus Turns Into An Awesome Goblin; Tim Urban Carnival Cruises Through "Under My Thumb"
Siobhan Magnus, unleashing her inner goblin. Credit: Michael Becker/ FOX. Top 12 week is where the real American Idol competition supposedly starts. Everyone's worked out their jitters, most of the no-chancers have been cut, and the singers finally have to start submitting to theme weeks, ide ... More >>
Blogs
March 12, 2010
Explaining the Success of Alvin & The Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, Which Has Sold More Copies Than 50 Cent's Before I Self-Destruct and That Joanna Newsom Record Combined
A small shift at the top of the charts this week -- snoozy country act Lady Antebellum retakes the top spot, with Need You Now selling 126,000 copies to the smoky Sade album Soldier Of Love's 79,000 -- is followed by a slew of debuts from artists of varying notoriety. Polarizing American Idol ... More >>
Blogs
March 10, 2010
Scott Brown to Pen His Amazing Story for HarperCollins
Scott Brown has accomplished much in his short time on earth. He's fathered an American Idol contestant. He's been naked in Playgirl. He's served in the National Guard, as property assessor for Wrentham, Massachusetts, and in the Massachusetts state legislature. And a perfect storm of incompetent co ... More >>
Voice Choices
December 15, 2009
Hedda Lettuce
Scott Brown has accomplished much in his short time on earth. He's fathered an American Idol contestant. He's been naked in Playgirl. He's served in the National Guard, as property assessor for Wrentham, Massachusetts, and in the Massachusetts state legislature. And a perfect storm of incompetent co ... More >>
Voice Choices
September 8, 2009
Sanjaya Malakar
Scott Brown has accomplished much in his short time on earth. He's fathered an American Idol contestant. He's been naked in Playgirl. He's served in the National Guard, as property assessor for Wrentham, Massachusetts, and in the Massachusetts state legislature. And a perfect storm of incompetent co ... More >>
Voice Choices
August 25, 2009
Journey+Heart
Scott Brown has accomplished much in his short time on earth. He's fathered an American Idol contestant. He's been naked in Playgirl. He's served in the National Guard, as property assessor for Wrentham, Massachusetts, and in the Massachusetts state legislature. And a perfect storm of incompetent co ... More >>
Voice Choices
March 11, 2009
Inside/Out…voices from the disability community
Scott Brown has accomplished much in his short time on earth. He's fathered an American Idol contestant. He's been naked in Playgirl. He's served in the National Guard, as property assessor for Wrentham, Massachusetts, and in the Massachusetts state legislature. And a perfect storm of incompetent co ... More >>
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March 7, 2006
Remote Patrol
Scott Brown has accomplished much in his short time on earth. He's fathered an American Idol contestant. He's been naked in Playgirl. He's served in the National Guard, as property assessor for Wrentham, Massachusetts, and in the Massachusetts state legislature. And a perfect storm of incompetent co ... More >>
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November 23, 2004
Bravo's Project Runway
Scott Brown has accomplished much in his short time on earth. He's fathered an American Idol contestant. He's been naked in Playgirl. He's served in the National Guard, as property assessor for Wrentham, Massachusetts, and in the Massachusetts state legislature. And a perfect storm of incompetent co ... More >>
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