INDIE NEWSROOM: $1.5 M in Gifts for Baby Blue Ivy Carter…Kate Middleton Is #Winning…Cosmo Hides the Vagina
Edited by Lester Brathwaite
- As expected, The Baby Blue Ivy Carter is already balling out of control. [NY Post]
Edited by Lester Brathwaite
- As expected, The Baby Blue Ivy Carter is already balling out of control. [NY Post]
Edited by Lester Brathwaite
2012 is here and you know what that means! That’s right, it’s The End Times. But besides stocking your bomb shelters with all 85 cycles of America’s Next Top Model, it’s time to get a new calendar — you know, those things people used to use before the advent of computers and cellular telephones. Of course, there are any number of options for the schedule-loving, date-forgetting, appointment-missing almanac admirer, so this Male Model Humpday we highlight the best and hunkiest calendars to get you over every hump 2012 has to offer.
Edited by Lester Brathwaite
- Tilda Swinton is putting aside the heavy dramatic roles for the heavy pancake makeup and costume jewelry of filmdom’s greatest drag queen, Auntie Mame. The Oscar-winner is planning to “live, live, LIVE!” it up with her I Am Love director, Luca Guadagnino. [Out via NYT]
Edited by Lester Brathwaite
Some gals got it and some gals would sell their first born just to get it — that “je ne sais quoi”, that “It” factor that makes men want them, women want to be them, and magazine editors want to put them on their covers. But even with that hard-to-categorize quality, the magic can fall short. Some gals can sell a magazine and some gals should stick to their day jobs, starring in movies, recording dance-pop hits and whoring their lives out on basic cable. Assembled here are the biggest winners and losers of the Great Magazine Cover War of 2011.
Edited by Amanda Gabriele
“OMG how does she get her skin so clear?” “Those cheekbones could cut glass – mine are so fat.” “Whoa cleavage! Why doesn’t mine look that perfect?”
The burning questions you hear when walking past the magazines in a bookstore, drug store or bodega. The thoughts that come to mind when you page through the glossy, celebrity-filled pages of Cosmopolitan, Shape, GQ or Glamour. The answers come in the form of digital plastic surgery. In addition to the dietitians, trainers, stylists, hair and makeup teams and radical pressure to uphold the skewed and artificial American standard of beauty, behind every celebrity is a talented and seasoned retoucher. With the help of Photoshop, faces are contoured, cleavage is shadowed, fat is sucked away and muscles are defined with the strategic use of a few very powerful digital tools. Read more…
Edited by Lester Brathwaite
Awful? Boring? A waste of precious ad space? Ever since images of the cover leaked last week, I was less than enthused; I may have said something to the effect of Anna Wintour was rolling over in her grave.
Edited by Rebecca Alexander
Express will be hosting a sexy shopping event today at 1:30 – 2:30 at their 34th Street location. Cosmopolitan’s 51 Most Available Bachelors of the Year will be on hand to provide you a little incentive to dress like a Meatpacking District Sluttle. More after the jump.

Edited by Saynt
Prepare for some major NSFW images after the jump.