Urban Honking

Of course I love the Sartorialist’s chic photos of fashion plates on the streets of NY, Stockholm, Paris and wherever… but way more my speed are Fashion Bomb’s round the way chicks from the boroughs – especially BK, especially Havana Outpost in Ft Greene which is where I try to spend every weekend in the […]

I despise Hillary Clinton. If Obama does not win the nomination, I am going to choke, then move to a Spanish-speaking country that is not Mexico (not because I don’t love the motherland, but because Mexican politics are too intricately tied to the States). Maybe I will move to Argentina, where Cristine Kirchner can be […]

Kelsi Rivera is the coolest 14-year-old I know. She also happens to be my cousin, but really she is my sister in soul: I am constantly floored by how smart and strong she is, how creative and cool and inventive and empowered and observant. She writes in her journal every day, she loves Wendy O. […]

I put up this old article from a ’98 VIBE on Ike Turner and it’s essential reading, for real. The writer, Anne Marlowe, examines how Ike was transformed in the public eye from semi-heralded musical genius into mythological “ultimate dangerous black male” almost singlehandedly by the cartoonified Tina biopic What’s Love Got to Do with […]

In the wake of the writer’s strike, ABC is putting back episodes of “My So-Called Life” on their website. It’s nostalgia in a wave of plaid flannel and bad flower-print dresses and Cranberries soundtracks – in high school, i used to watch every episode – and it was the first and final moment Claire Danes […]

So FREAKING BUSY right now – VIBE work! freelance work! I do not even have time to get my eyebrows threaded – but here are some things that are making my day / life / fascinating this morn: The US Accuses Venezuela of Secret Election Funding: I love Argentina’s new PM Cristina Kirchner, I am […]

GOSSIP GIRL HERE. ITEM! Last night at Lit, while doing the forbidden dance with Nick, a certain young, punky Brit supermodel sullied her gorgeous cream-coloured ostrich feather jacket when she fell, drunkenly, flat on her face (giggling). I am not casting stones, because I did the same thing three minutes earlier down Houston, but I’m […]

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_______ quit drinking and is translating his unattended-to psychological burning into unfettered sex obsession. Last night, before, during and after dinner, he referred to his penis approximately 548 times, in contexts I did not even know could exist, including the moment when, as I was biting into my tender sauteed broccolini, he began describing the […]

Avi Bryant is the Steve Albini of web development. Or maybe it’s the other way around. Bryant is a Smalltalk programmer famous for creating Seaside, a web development framework that reverses a lot of the common assumptions shared by its peers and competitors; Albini is a musician and record producer famous for his uncompromising focus […]