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branding
You Can't Trademark Sexy
I don't claim to be an expert on hair, or sexiness, but I'd be willing to wager that far fewer people have heard of "Sexy Hair Concepts LLC" than have heard of Victoria's Secret. Nevertheless, Sexy Hair Concepts somehow managed to persuade a Trademark Board that "consumers were likely to confuse the lingerie giant's 'So Sexy' trademark for haircare items with Sexy Hair Concepts' various trademarks using the word 'sexy' for its coiffure line." Consumers will be wandering around in a sheer sexiness daze! Victoria's Secret's response to the ruling: you trademark people must be crazy: More »
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Chris Matthews and the Legend of the Reddish Skull
So Chris Matthews' new hair. It's... odd. Off-putting, at first. But doesn't it remind you of something? The hair, perhaps, of another man? A man who might hold the very job that Chris Matthews covets so dearly? Almost, Chris. Almost. [HuffPo]
hair
You may remember Chris, the Williamsburg gentleman with the controversial haircut pictured at left, who was just this past February spotted in the wild by our own intrepid Hamilton Nolan. And you may also be a woman aged 21-35, within 10 miles of Brooklyn, and optionally an assertive, sarcastic "braniac" with piercings. If so, perhaps Chris, aka LowRezChris on Match.com, could show you why they say he puts the "party" in the phrase "party in the back?!"
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Williamsburg Mullet Guy Seeks Love
You may remember Chris, the Williamsburg gentleman with the controversial haircut pictured at left, who was just this past February spotted in the wild by our own intrepid Hamilton Nolan. And you may also be a woman aged 21-35, within 10 miles of Brooklyn, and optionally an assertive, sarcastic "braniac" with piercings. If so, perhaps Chris, aka LowRezChris on Match.com, could show you why they say he puts the "party" in the phrase "party in the back?!"
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advertising
Texas Oddly Expects You To Visit
Houston: what's the point? The Texas city is most famous for the Bush family, big hair, and sippin on the sizzurp. At least that's the stereotype, and as a non-Houstonite, I don't care enough about the city to put in the effort to dispel that stereotype. But the city has anticipated this; they're rolling out an ad campaign designed to boost the city's reputation [NYT]. It's called "My Houston," and it features celebrities talking about what they like about the city. Unoriginal idea, Houston! Really now, are tourists going to flock to a hot, sprawling, asphalt-covered outpost in Texas just because racer A.J. Foyt fondly reminisces about speeding around its traffic-choked outer loop roads? In any major city, no matter how forlorn it is, you can find a handful of prominent citizens who will talk it up. They're called the rich. They'd get along pretty well anywhere—even Houston. Besides, why did the city go and spend a bunch of money on a new ad campaign when they could have just gone to YouTube and pulled off this perfectly adequate "Great Day Houston" rapping promo for free? More »
grooming
The Time Has Come For Women To Buy Lasers
After much delay, the future has arrived. Everybody's buying lasers! And, everybody's hairless! If you guessed that these two things are related, you are probably an astute female consumer of laser hair removal services. But now that the world of science fiction is here, you don't have to sit around cold, impersonal cut-rate salons to have some young whippet blast the hair off your body with concentrated pulses of scalding light; you can do it in the comfort of your own home, with no training or safety at all! We can already anticipate the hilarious domestic violence battles that will end with a laser being drawn. Two consumer-targeted lasers, the Tria ($995) and the Silk'n ($800), are about to be launched [WSJ ($)]. Just one slight drawback: these lasers are sexist and racist! More »
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Pop Star Points to Who We Can Thank for This
[Nick, Joe, and Kevin of The Jonas Brothers performing at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York today, for a segment on CBS' Early Show; image via AP Video of the sensation after the jump.] More »
polls
In Defense Of Malcolm Gladwell?
If the internet has any effect on Malcolm Gladwell's psyche, the dude has had a rough week. His tall tale about Jayson Blair reporting, which was first deemed offensive for being true, was later deemed even more offensive for not being true. Added to that, The New Republic recently called him an idiot . New Yorker fact checkers are claiming that Gladwell tends to exaggerate for rhetorical effect. But some people, including me, think Gladwell is quite smart. Other people, not including me, think these charges of false story telling are ludicrous. What do you think? Does the public have a right to be outraged about this? Or has James Frey turned us into bitter, bitter hags? Poll after the jump.More »
magazines
ESPN: Fashion Leader
ESPN Magazine is celebrating its tenth anniversary, and you know what that means: it's finally time to become a leader on the fashion scene. Really! The magazine is hiring its first "style director" and increasing its fashion coverage [WWD] because, as they explain rather doubtfully, "People want to know what athletes are wearing to and from the ballpark." What will the sports-centric mag's style look like? We're guessing that the hat that they put on Alex Rodriguez for the issue's cover is a pretty reliable guide to their future in high fashion: More »
celebrity
Paparazzi Hordes Angered That Anyone Else Owns A Camera
Regular paparazzi are pissed about the lowering of standards in their fine profession these days. The culprits are the unwashed "citizen paparazzi"—the regular people wandering around their hotel in Acapulco or whatever who suddenly bump into Nicole Richie engaging in sex acts with a dolphin, snap a picture, and sell it to some photo agency, or straight to the tabloids. But not for enough money, which is driving down the price for the pros [WSJ]. Plus, the career paparazzi object to all these rank amateurs staking out celebrities alongside them, without observing the honorable, secret codes of conduct that make the pros so popular around town. The amateurs are disdainfully referred to as "TMZ-type" photogs who are bad because "In the past, photographers would've given (Angelina Jolie) some breathing room." We here at Gawker know how it is. We had to fight off all those citizens with cell phone cameras to snag our own celebrity photo holy grail: More »
mystery solved
Mystery Williamsburg Hair Man Found!
The unknown haircut man of Brooklyn, previously known only by this crude drawing, has been located. He's currently sitting right next to me at Cafe Grumpy in Greenpoint [UPDATE: He's gone!]. His name is Chris, and he has never heard of Gawker. Good for him! After the jump, an actual photo reveals the man behind the mystery. More »
Bounty
Williamsburg agents! Has anyone seen this haircut? We need photographic evidence. $100 book token to anyone who sends in a pic. (Related: hair restoration is in!)
Williamsburg agents! Has anyone seen this haircut? We need photographic evidence. $100 book token to anyone who sends in a pic. (Related: hair restoration is in!)
advertising
Magic Hair's Big Break
Remember those old, seemingly ubiquitous ads for the Hair Club for Men with the guy who wasn't just the president, he was also a client? Of course you do, they were everywhere. Then, they just kind of disappeared. The anti-balding industry had faded. Until now! Last night an only slightly apologetic contestant on Fox's Moment of Truth admitted to being a member of the Club. I could never have guessed from the the big, bushy pine cone sitting atop his forehead. This morning "Hair Club for Men" is one of the hottest searches on Google. Also, the New York Times ran a story today about the recent upsurge of that other bald dude juggernaut, Rogaine. Their new success is mostly due to some sort of icky foam. Here we have an ad for the product which, for the first time ever, the Times reports, is being directly marketed to gay men. Well, on the Logo channel. So about twelve gay men. Maybe the Hair Club for Men is doing the same thing, because that guy? On the show last night? Uh, let's just say that if he gets to the $500,000 question next episode, it just might start with "A" and end with "re you a homosexual?" Awkward! But with beautiful hair!
contests
Celebrity Hair Mixing Madness!
Hey! There's this really fun website called HairMixer where you can take one celeb's hair and put it on another celeb's head and it looks really, really funny. This is one of Owen Wilson with Pink's hair. It's so fun in fact, that we're going to run a contest! Make your own and send it to me. After we get enough, we'll take some of our favorites and put them up here. Then you can vote. Winner gets a $400 Amazon gift certificate. Go and get their hair did! Be sure to include your name and contact info. Standard contest rules apply. Thanks, CityRag.
your hair in the moonlight
Musical 'Rent' Foreclosed After 12 Years
Musical relic of mid-nineties 'Rent' is finally closing. Last performance on June 1, 2008. I know I'll be pissing off legions of "Rentheads" when I say this but good fucking riddance. I'm as big a fan of Mimi and her unlit candle and of creator Jonathan Larson's compelling narrative both onstage and off as anyone else BUT the musical has spawned a whole crusading brigades of annoying musical theatre queens who crowd Marie's Crisis Cafe and other piano bars to demand the pianist play "La Vie Boheme," They never shut up about how 'Rent' changed their lives. They have 'Rent' sheets and 'Rent' towels and compulsively shout 'Rent' lyrics. These are the same people who are really good at singing and barge in to karaoke and sing 'It's Raining Men' with ample melisma to the annoyance of the general karaoking population who just want to get wasted and sing delightfully inept versions of "Love Will Keep Us Together." But not all is lost, "Rentheads." In other words, don't rend your garments quite yet. More »
trendwatch
'The Rachel' Makes A Comeback Among The Ladies Of Network News
Everywhere we turn we see another network news anchorwoman sporting the exact same long-layered take on the post-Rachel Green do. Does Fox News have only the one style consultant? If you looked at the cable network's anchors (from l-r) Lis Wiehl, Dagen McDowell and Cheryl Casone, you might think so. Alycia Lane may not have abided by the CBS code of conduct, but she certainly toed the coiffure line. CNN Headline News anchor Linda Stouffer and colleague Carol Costello flaunt the style, along with CBS News' Hannah Storm and MSNBC's Contessa Brewer. Longer hair can make you look younger (what woman in TV news couldn't get behind that concept) and both focus groups and the men in them tend to appreciate lengthy locks (Case-in-point: Felicity's post-shearage ratings nosedive. What? You know you watched it once.) Still, when we flip on the tube, it's getting harder and harder to shake the feeling that we're catching the tail end of a Central Perk coffee klatch.
"Live Free or Dye"
Oh God, Lou Dobbs hair is insane on CNN. Just a few weeks ago it was almost a Cooperian grey. Tonight, molasses brown.
Oh God, Lou Dobbs hair is insane on CNN. Just a few weeks ago it was almost a Cooperian grey. Tonight, molasses brown.
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