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Limo Liberals Worship Before Their Nemesis

Arianna Huffington's new book — Right Is Wrong — is as partisan a piece of political writing as any during this political season. The subtitle says it all: "How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded the Constitution, and Made Us All...


House of Diehl's Style Wars at the Stoli Hotel

The Style Wars finales are like Project Runway except funner, louder, and thankfully without Heidi Klum. Designers race to put outfits together on-stage—often using tape and string, but who wants to watch somebody hunched over a sewing...


Larry Page says be like Thomas Edison, not Nikola Tesla

While taking risks is valuable, it's only those who can successfully commercialize their breakthrough ideas who will succeed, Google cofounder Larry Page told Fortune in a feature interview.You also need some leadership skills. You don't want to...


Nikola

A rare self-portrait by Gawker party photographer Nikola Tamindzic. More photographs at Home of the Vain.


Lower East Side, Wednesday Night

Nostalgists for urban violence can pretend they're Niko Bellic, the immigrant hardman who stumbles through the crime-ridden version of New York City in the latest version of Grand Theft Auto. Or they can adopt the perspective of another Serb,...


Spring Is Finally Here

Lafayette Street, New York City, 6:30pm. It's finally warm enough for lighter clothes. (More nightlife photos from Nikola Tamindzic at Home of the Vain.)


Lower East Side Sidewalk

Photographer Nikola Tamindzic was on the Lower East Side, on his way to late-night "tea" with friends. More at Home of the Vain.


Idolator-beloved Baltimore duo Wye Oak—p.k.a. Idolator-beloved Baltimore duo Monarch—had their debut album If Children reissued by Merge Records this week, and you should buy it if the idea of "an indiepop record that's equal parts...


New York's Six Gossip Monsters

Let's put aside any judgment on the literary qualities of Sloane Crosley's collection of essays, I Was Told There'd Be Cake. One talent is beyond dispute: the author, a book publicist in her day job, is one of publishing's most expert promoters....


The Nude First Lady (Of France)

Carla Bruni, who recently married noted ladies' man Nikolas Sarkozy and became the First Lady of France, used to be a model. A naked model. A nude—and relatively tasteful—portrait of Bruni by the photographer Michel Comte is up for...


Jakob Lodwick Thinks He's "Diluting" Mary Rambin's "Brand"

Total class: Vimeo founder Jakob Lodwick explains about "this girl Mary [Rambin]," the handbag designer-or-whatever and Julia Allison bestfriend (whose seventeen-year-old sister he shagged), revealing why he's named his moustache after her. It's...


Gotham Sunset

A gorgeous aerial view of Gotham, the computer-generated city of Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins.


Your President And Fashion Leader

It's bad enough that we have to be subjected to the ordeal of companies using our dead heroes to endorse their brands. Now, the real marketing coup is securing an actual (live) world leader to wear your luxury shit for free. French president...


The Pit

Not everybody's so impressed by high dynamic range photography. The relatively novel technique, which produced the gloomy Gotham cityscape we published yesterday, can also be used simply to pump up an image with color. Cheesy. Nikola...


Code Pink Protesters Lay Siege To Union Station

Washington D.C. is a riot zone today, as Code Pink lefty protesters and various other George Washington and Georgetown University douchebags are protesting the Iraq War. On its birthday, of all times! We'll be checking out some of these fun,...


Hipster or Homo? Seven Ways to Tell

Yesterday, a confused reader asked us how to tell the difference between a hipster and a gay: "hipsterdom has permanently destroyed my gaydar." You, the people, responded. We've compiled the lessons learned in a handy guide.


Please Help: "Hipsterdom has permanently destroyed my gaydar"

Can we help this young man? "Dear Gawker, It has come to my attention that hipsterdom has permanently destroyed my gaydar. 'Hipster or homeless' is pretty easy to figure out (most of the time) but figuring out hipster vs. homo-hipster seems to...


Julia Allison, Emily Gould, And Some Minor Celebrities (Rachel Weisz, Alan Cumming and Eddie Izzard)

In case you missed them, Nikola Tamindzic's photos from New York magazine's Oscar night party are up. (And I'm told by Nikola that the man sitting on the couch with Rachel Weisz at cabaret club The Box was in fact a "horribly disfigured" Mickey...


Media Jews Violate Kosher At Spotted Pig

Pictured here, New York's Adam Moss, host of the Oscars party the magazine threw at the Spotted Pig, before ab-obsessed Dave Zinczenko unbuttoned his shirt. Moss, who used to run New York Times' Sunday magazine, is one of the most high-minded of...


Dave Zinczenko Threatens To Show His Abs

The Men's Health editor, who blames flabby abs for all male ailments in a best-selling recent book, threatens to display his washboard stomach. Zinczenko was putting aside his media persona, hetero lifestyle coach and aggressive top, to watch the...


From the Archives

Which is better: Lindsey Lohan re-enacting Marilyn Monroe's Champagne-fueled last sitting, or Jezebel's Tracie Egan (aka Slutmachine) re-enacting Lindsay Lohan's cocaine-fueled arrest? [Home of the Vain]


How to Be All Up In Da Club!

Michael Musto tells us how to be a "nightclub star" in his latest Village Voice blog! His advice is quite thrifty: "Track down the person with the free drink tickets and tell them you love their outfit," and "wear your absolutely shittiest coat....


Michael Musto's Biggest Regret: Sending Out That One Pic of Him Wearing Dress

The HuffPo features Michael Musto in My Favorite Mistake, the column in which they ask luminaries about the big mistakes they learned from. The Village Voice gossip/nightlife columnist reveals that he "purposely sabotage[s] opportunities to get...


Gawker Alum Report

Our much-vaunted, delightfully lecherous Gawker photog Nikola Tamindzic has launched a new photosite, Home of the Vain. It's no longer just nightlife photography! By way of introduction, he's showcasing never-before-seen half-naked photos of Josh...


The all-female-rapper sequel to ego trip's The (White) Rapper Show—which brought the world the vertically integrated stylings of John Brown, for better or worse—is going to premiere on VH1 in April. Unfortunately, the powers that be...


Map enthusiast Nikolas Schiller has taken this 1905 map of Los Angeles oil rigs and overlaid it on modern-day LA via Google Earth. Lots of petroleum near Dodgers Stadium apparently. [via]


No. 12: Wye Oak Sends Out A Signal

And the song at No. 12 shows that two people, when they put their mind to it, are able to emit enough light and heat for everyone to stay warm.


Scores In Sex Suit Scandal

Working at Scores: it's not all giving candy to school children, recovering lost dogs and exchanging glimpses of your breasts for charitable canned goods donations. Sometimes you are asked to exchange sex for money. The Daily News, always your...


There Was A Lot Of Vodka At The Russia! Magazine Party

"Those saying "Na zdorovie" while toasting will be banned from all further parties," warned Russia! publisher Ilya Merenzon in his invitation to a party celebrating the magazine's second issue. But, uh-oh: as soon as guests cleared the...