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LET THERE BE NEON!

Joe McKendry discusses his new book on times square

Voice Readers Raise Thousands For Couple That Refused to Spy for Scientology

We've always been suckers for the final scene of It's a Wonderful Life. No matter how many times we see it, we tear up at the sight of George Bailey's friends coming to his aid in his time of need, proving to him that he really is the richest man in town. Over the last couple of days, we watched so ... More >>

Tom Cruise: I Didn't Audition Girlfriends!

A Maureen Orth-penned story in the new Vanity Fair goes full speed ahead with a rumor we've long heard--that after Tom Cruise's split with Nicole Kidman in 2001, Scientology conducted a casting call to find a replacement, auditoning women in what was basically the biggest star search since Scarlett ... More >>

WRITER UP

Get in the dugout with Chad Harbach

Shane McBride 'In' at Balthazar; Belinda Chang 'In' at Monkey Bar

​Shane McBride, the former chef de cuisine at Colicchio & Sons, is now cooking at Balthazar, where he has been since February. [Eater] Not to be outdone by the likes of Eric Ripert, who has had cameos on Treme, Bobby Flay will appear on Entourage as the lover of Ari Gold's wife. [Eater] Guy ... More >>

Pregnant-Belly Painting Has Gone Mainstream

via @MariahCareyMimi's "attempt @ festiveness."​It's cute when kids get their faces painted. It's scary when Tom Cruise does. It's just plain weird when pregnant women get their bellies painted, but that's a trend, according to the New York Daily News.

Huffington Post Hit With $105 Million Lawsuit By 9,000 Angry Unpaid Bloggers

​In its intermittent battles with unpaid writers, The Huffington Post and its (often reluctant) defenders have trotted out a number of arguments, including most commonly the assertion that the bloggers write without compensation for attention, and most like it just fine that way. Others have a ... More >>

Donald Trump Reads Vanity Fair's Blog (About Himself); Google, New York Times Team Up

​"From the office of Donald J. Trump" reads the accompanying card clipped to a printed-out blog post from VanityFair.com, mailed to that magazine's editor-in-chief Graydon Carter. A veteran of covering (and mocking) the rich and famous, some his friends and some less so, Carter and Trump go wa ... More >>

Tina Brown Excites Staff With Redesign, Still Riding New Newsweek Hype Wave

​If there's one word to describe the media news narrative so far in 2011, it's probably "reinvention," or something like it, what with all of the relaunches, redesigns and restructuring, from AOL and the Huffington Post to Gawker, the New York Times (plus Magazine), New York Observer and Tina ... More >>

Libyan Rebels Take Control Near Tripoli; Tunisian Prime Minister Steps Down; Taxi Passenger Crashes Cab (Sunday Links)

via Gothamist​The Libyan uprising has "reached the capital's doorstep": anti-government forces have taken a town 30 miles from Tripoli, the capital. Yesterday, the U.N. approved sanctions against Libya and President Obama said that Moammar Qaddafi should step down. [NYT] Mohammed Ghannouchi, the ... More >>

Muammar el Qaddafi's Finest Fashions

​Colonel Muammar el Qaddafi just spoke on Libyan state television for over an hour and said that he would die in Libya as a martyr. He promised to make unspecified small changes to the government ("constitutional reform") but said that he wouldn't consider stepping down. Amidst all of the chao ... More >>

The Daily Kill Dossier: A Hit List of News Corp's Freshest Poaches

​As it's been noted, News Corp's daily newspaper built just for the iPad -- The Daily -- is on the way. It is Rupert Murdoch's newest child, the Draco Malfoy to his Voldemort. As such, they're hiring or trying to hire every editorial staffer this side of the Bangkok Bugle Tribune, which I just inv ... More >>

Press Clips, Day 7, Lunch Edition: "Shitshow"-War-at-The-New-York-Observer-Edition

​Press Clips is on hiatus for a special project we're working on. But while we were gone, everything at the New York Observer has gone completely haywire. Three departures, including a 12-year vet. Here's what's happening:

One Man's Desperate Attempt to Find a Reason to Like the Arcade Fire

Look, we're trying here, OK?​There is a thing where people get on the internet and express a strong, contrary opinion in the interests of getting other people angry. This is not that thing. There is a thing where a person sees a lot of other people getting excited about a cultural phenomenon a ... More >>

Lady Gaga Protects Her Vagina

​Lady Gaga's naked in the September Vanity Fair and Huffington Post has the scoop on it. In the interview, the superstar singer admits that she very occasionally does cocaine and more often than that, she feels lonely, even when she's with someone. She's an artist, after all!

Just How Inane Was This Weekend in Washington D.C.? Unbelievably So!

Political Powerhouses Jessica Simpson and Jimmy Fallon​No one with any sense of perspective believes that Real America -- most of the nation, fly-over country, everywhere but the coastal cities, whatever you want to call it -- gives a quarter of a shit about the White House Correspondents Dinner. ... More >>

Vanity Fair Reveals Mystery Owner of Sick Wall Street 2 Apartment

​Yesterday, the New York Times set up a nice little mystery. Who could possibly own the freakin' awesome Chelsea penthouse that functions as the cinematic landing pad of Shia LaBeouf (who plays Gordon Gekko's new protege/victim) in the sequel to Wall Street? It's really, really nice by the way ... More >>

Things That Could Ruin Your Day, But Won't: Death by Asteroid

Potential Proctologists Association campaign ad waiting to happen.​You know what asteroids and hemorrhoids have in common? Four letters at the end and the ability to severely fuck up one's day. You should enjoy today knowing that you missed at least one of them.

Valentino is Still Stirring Memories

​Supermodels of the '70s and '80s, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders' exhibit at the Steven Kasher Gallery, features 10 large-format portraits of legendary mannequins taken in 2009 while Greenfield-Sanders was working on a project for Vanity Fair. Thrill to images of Christie Brinkley, Cheryl Tiegs ... More >>

Beach House

The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History Author John Ortved on Today's 20th Anniversary and How Male Simpsons Fans Can't Get Laid

Twenty years ago today, Rupert Murdoch's upstart network FOX aired the first-ever half-hour episode of The Simpsons, a holiday special in which a financially strained fatso dad named Homer ends up at the dogtrack, where instead of Christmas-present money, he and his son Bart walk away with their o ... More >>

Henry Rollins Meets a Woman in a Black Flag Shirt Who Doesn't Know Who Black Flag Is

​Henry Rollins files from Jakarta for Vanity Fair: "At one point, I met a young couple who recognized me and we stopped to talk. Around that time, a female vendor walked up to us wearing a most interesting T-shirt. The couple got the irony of the situation and explained to the woman why I was ... More >>

Fox News Gets Wind of Krispy Kreme Cheeseburger, Smells Sign of Apocalypse

The infamous Krispy Kreme cheeseburger has been making the rounds for a few years and has recently experienced a resurgence of prurient interest. Now, Fox News has decided its existence is on par with that of Islamofascists and H1N1. Looking at footage of the 1,500-calorie zeppelins, an expression ... More >>

Mickey D's Making Customers Happy & The Latest Food Safety Scare? Cantaloupes!

Grilling enthusiasts need not skimp on the steak this summer. Bargain cuts include hanger, flatiron, flank, flap, tri-tip, skirt, chuck eye, chuck shoulder and top sirloin. So, what's the key to the perfect steak? Patience: let it sit before you put it on the grill and after. [Washington Post] A po ... More >>

amNY Finds Holiday Sex More Plentiful, Depressing

Audio From Jet Crash Online at VF; Pilots Angry

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People is Sitcom-Drab

Dysfunctional Family Affair

Sly Stone takes the stage! And even sings occasionally!

Slow Noose Day: 'Visa Loophole' Lets Colored Brits into U.S.

NY Mirror

Big Lies, Blind Spies, and Vanity Fair

Quick Lessons From the WMD Report

High Style

Glamour and comfort in the wild blue yonder

Do Not Recycle

The most stylish magazine photography of 2004

Blonde Ambition

Portrait of a lady: Reese takes on Thackeray's social-climber heroine while playing herself

NY Mirror

How to Say 'Palahniuk'

The Fuckup

Photographic Memory

The Season Envisions a 101 Lesson in the Medium

The Art of the Lead

Glossy Magazines Show How It’s Done

The Liberian Avenger

Obscure Journal Takes on the Glossies

Painting.com

'The New Yorker' Sells Out

Writer John Seabrook Lives to Tell the Tale

In Styles

Talked Up

Hypocritical Oafs

She, Tina

How Tina Brown revived the years with Ross

Seined, Sealed, Delivered