Blogger to Publicists: Please Send Valuables

Here's a new "revenue stream" that you can try out, whether you're in PR, or in media, or just particularly shameless: Giving a sob story to publicists and begging them up for free stuff. That's what this guy did:

4:19 PM on Tue Jun 9 2009, by Hamilton Nolan, 4,731 views, 57 comments
http://gawker.com/5284890/blogger-to-publicists-please-send-valuables

Real Housewives: The Brooklyn Sex Dungeon and Other Adventures

The penultimate Housewives! With tales of rejuvenation and renewal, discord and disharmony. But mostly tales of women on the verge—about to pop or explode, to shit or get off the pot. How'd it go?

1:14 PM on Wed Apr 29 2009, by Richard Lawson, 41,817 views, 144 comments
http://gawker.com/5232660/real-housewives--the-brooklyn-sex-dungeon-and-other-adventures

5 Of Gossip Girl's Product Placement-iest Moments

My distinguished colleagues at Daily Intel are in something of a snit today over some recent cameo-casting news from the cruel temptresses at Gossip Girl. On an upcoming episode of the unpopular teen soap will be, of course, a party. And at that...

4:22 PM on Wed Sep 10 2008, by Richard Lawson, 8,710 views, 29 comments
http://gawker.com/5048119/5-of-gossip-girls-product-placement+iest-moments

Non-Lesbians Able to Heal Baby Deer With Their Whimsical, Name-dropping Charms

A reader suggested that this week's Look Book in New York magazine was so over-the-top that we should bring back our old "Looking at the Look Book" feature, at least temporarily. And, because it's cucumber season, we obliged. This week's subjects,...

5:43 PM on Mon Jul 21 2008, by Sheila, 9,043 views, 59 comments
http://gawker.com/5027492/non+lesbians-able-to-heal-baby-deer-with-their-whimsical-name+dropping-charms

Meet the Real Housewife Whose Husband is Buying the 'Times'

So. Remember how Harbinger Capital Partners is buying and destroying the New York Times and the very institution of journalism itself? Almost 500 of you should! While we've focused mainly on jocular idiot Scott Galloway, the marketing professor...

2:00 PM on Tue May 27 2008, by Pareene, 16,259 views, 24 comments
http://gawker.com/393436/meet-the-real-housewife-whose-husband-is-buying-the-times

New York's Look Book: How it Launched One Girl's Career

As Nylon points out, the rainbow gal to the left—photographed at age fourteen for New York magazine's LookBook section, a street-fashion centerfold in which oft-annoying people explain their outfits—is actually in one of their ads for...

5:45 PM on Wed May 21 2008, by Sheila, 10,016 views, 21 comments
http://gawker.com/392560/new-yorks-look-book-how-it-launched-one-girls-career

Daddy, What Does a Hedge-Funder Do?

Hey! Can you help Jonah Green (son of Mark Green, best known for having run against Bloomberg and being president of Air America Radio)? He's starting a new video series for New York magazine tentatively called "On the Job." Explains Jonah, "It...

6:03 PM on Mon Mar 17 2008, by Sheila, 1,279 views, 13 comments
http://gawker.com/368941/daddy-what-does-a-hedge+funder-do

Musto's Blind Item Madness

Village Voice gossip Michael Musto tossed out something like 10,000 of his classic blind items yesterday. So why not go nuts trying to figure out who they refer to? Here's one we feel like we should get: "Which CBS personality sits in his car...

4:27 PM on Wed Feb 20 2008, by Pareene, 6,914 views, 38 comments
http://gawker.com/358854/mustos-blind-item-madness

Andre J, 'Muse,' Finally 'Makes It'

In our line of work, we're used to seeing tall black bearded ladyboy hustlers with long legs, big smiles and a penchant for self-promotion. But even in this hurlyburly rough and tumble world of free booze, those stupid VIP bracelet things that are...

11:00 AM on Mon Nov 26 2007, by Joshua Stein, 8,449 views, 38 comments
http://gawker.com/326338/andre-j-muse-finally-makes-it