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more about #gallery more comments → Btwbfdimho: Is this really the celebration of the Maoist Revolution or just a response to S. Palin's speech in Hong Kong? more » Uncle_Billy_Slumming: After reading the comments and reflecting on the post: We do need to ridicule military parades. We do need to call attention to the murderous undert... more » Trai_Dep: China's Tibetan float's diorama was, overall, quite impressive. But the anamatronic soldiers raping Tibetan nuns was just a bit over the top. more » SaritBarlow: Naive people always want to make naive comments on other countries' own affairs more » Maya Twocents: Wow. The whole tone of this post is just...nasty. Seriously. Big country, lots of people - so they want to celebrate big, so what? And you're just... more » Smitros: They may look alike to our (generally) round eyes, but all classical music sounds alike to some people as well. Lest I be accused of conflating cult... more » the lost texan: That's a lotta women wearing skirts in the 6th pic. Nothing wrong about that. more » jbwan: I cant wait till that first picture shows up at tea bagging protests with Obama photoshopped in for Mao more » Claire Buoyant: Well Andrew, you're skirting awfully close to asking "why do all the Chinese people look alike?" I'm not saying that you've made a racist remark with ... more » once: The Boston Pops/annual fireworks offer infinitely more variety more » jubjub: Well to be fair. Red, white, blue. Fireworks, flags, singing/howling. Can you say what U.S. celebration that is? more » City_Dater: "This Dictatorship Brought To You By Adidas." more » friend_of_a_friend: Geez, reading this article would make you think that a great leader with radical ideas has never died and been resurrected before. more » Gregoire: He's not dead, but that look is. more » Theimbellis: For your information... Fidel Castro haven't died but yes, he's dying due to a lot of physical problems. more » -
#jubilations
Why Do All of China's Celebrations Look Alike?
Today's the glorious 60th anniversary of China's rebirth as a communist nation. And, as it does, the government pulled out all the predictable, synchronized stops to celebrate. Yawn. We've seen it all before. Let's take an excessively red-blooded American look.
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#death
Happy Second Anniversary of the Death of Fidel Castro
As Perez Hilton readers know, Cuban dictator Fidel Castro died two years ago today, when he fell off some cliffs in New Zealand while filming a movie with Jeff Goldblum. Despite that, the Cubans keep releasing new photos of him! More » -
#nutrition
Kate Moss, Lily Allen, and The Rock Chick Diet
Want to know how awesome starlets Lily Allen and Kate Moss stay in shape? This isn't a joke about blowcaine! You can do it, too. Kate and Lily took the most awesome Rock Chick vacay ev-ah and looked awesome. How?
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#allieverwanted
On Vacation with Jon Hamm
Well here you go. Best Week Ever managed to get their grubby mitts on some images of Mad Men hunky-dory Jon Hamm on a (maybe fake? maybe ad campaign? maybe real? who cares, really) vacation, playing boardgames, smoking, and drinking. More » -
#loudandproud
So You Think You Can March? The World's Pride Parades
There're parades, and then there are Pride Parades: today's New York's turn, but that doesn't mean that there haven't been awesome ones around the country over the last few weeks as well. Here's a gallery of some of the best:
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#weddings
Happily Ever After
On Tuesday, the New York Times' hosted a party for same-sex couples whose weddings have been featured in the Times' Weddings pages. Out.com has a wonderful, picturesque gallery of the attendees (including former NJ Governor Jim McGreevy). [Out.com -
#teampartycrash
Reluctance and Distaste at The Webutante Ball
Last night, the country's media-tech-social scene collided in something called The Webutante Ball. Instead of forging an alternate universe in a Big Bang-esque explosion, it thankfully existed for one evening atop the Empire Hotel. We braved it for you.
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#gallery
Flirty Prancing: Havana Nights
Cuba will begin performing sexual reassignment surgeries it was announced today, a year after a nationwide ban on the operation was lifted. To cover the story, AFP photographer Adalbert Roque took shots of some transsexual women in Havana, which are intriguing and lovely in an odd, quiet way. A gallery: -
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#teampartycrash
Smiling Through the Mediaocalypse
Who are these kids, exactly? Rachelle Hruska's not-a-nightlife-blog blog, Guest of a Guest, kicked off "summer" and a new season of Hamptons coverage with an apocalyptically cloudy rooftop tequila drinking thing on Sunday. -
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Donald Rumsfeld's Judgment-Happy, Scary, Biblical Defense Briefing Art
This isn't crazy, or terrifying: alongside Robert Draper's GQ piece on Donald Rumsfeld being called out by former colleagues, they're running covers of his White House morning defense briefings. You have to see these. More » -
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Paris Fashion Week: Stocked Up On Crazy
It's Fashion Week in gay Paris! Making it, you know, even more gay. The event always showcases the wildest of modern garments, so we've put together a gallery of some of our favorites. Bon Appetit! More » -
#americanidol
The Top 13's Fifteen-Minutes-Long Party
On Thursday night, the newly-minted Top 13 of American Idol had a red carpet party. A celebration before most of them fade back into sad, eternal obscurity. More » -
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Watchmen's New York
Just in time for New York to revert back to the mean streets of old, the blockbustery film Watchmen comes out offering us a reimagined 1985 cityscape. How does it compare to the real thing? More » -
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The Day We Decided to Work From Home
There was a big snow storm in the Northeast today! But more importantly, there was a big snowstorm in New York today! Take a look at a gallery of the wonderland after the jump. More » -
#nostalgia
The Stork Club's Secret Hand Signals
Continuous Lean points out a series of Time Life photos detailing the collection of hand signals that Sherman Billingsley, the owner of Old Manhattan institution The Stork Club, used to communicate silently with his staff. More » -
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The Oscar Parties You'll Never Be Invited To
While you sat on the couch bleary-eyed and stunned that you lost your Oscar pool, the rich and famous schmoozed and drank til dawn. To share the experience, we have a gallery for you. More » -
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Red Carpet Oscar Fashions
Evening! The celebrities are stumbling down the red carpet into the Kodak Theater for the Academy Awards right now. Keep checking here for updates on all the fashionz. Also, someone please smack Ben Lyons. More » -
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New York Fashion Week Day 7: The Beautiful People
Lots of people at Fashion Week are pretty and/or glamorous and, sigh, we'll never be like them. But at least we can look at them. In a gallery, after the jump. More » -
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New York Fashion Week Day 6: The Little People
Fashion Week isn't just low-tier celebrities and odd-ball fashion designers. It's also backstage people and ugly old people and stuff. Let's take a moment to honor them, in a photo gallery after the jump. More »
