Model-turned "wellness expert" and "spiritual counselor" Kathy Freston credits yoga and veganism with helping her gain self confidence, quit smoking, and find her soulmate—who just so happens to be exceedingly rich former CEO of Viacom, Tom Freston. She's been peddling her self-help books to socialites on the Upper…
Finally, some shoes that Natalie Portman can eat. The actress (and ScarJo doppelganger) launched her own line of vegan shoes yesterday at a New York boutique, the natural environment of fervent vegans. These things would be made out of what, plastic? Yarn? It's hard to tell in this scientific era we live in. Take a…
Patrick Waldo, the Huffington Post's video guy, is also an out and proud vegan. Vegans are people who don't eat or use anything that came from animals, so obviously they hate Thanksgiving, the holiday that celebrates our Puritan forefathers' victory over the savage turkeys of The New World. Vegans refuse to exploit…
This month's collection of dispatches from Interview's developmentally-disabled readership contains a bit of advocacy for the cause of veganism. We don't want to cause any controversy amongst the smug "I don't eat animals but I have plenty of time to write angry letters to people who do" set, so we'll simply say that…
We don't know about you, but when we first heard about New York City's trans fat ban, we were all "meh, whatever." We were amused that it flummoxed some prissy-sounding restaurateurs, and we worried momentarily that our morning pastries would be slightly less greasily satisfying. But other than that, we weren't fazed…
We've long suspected — okay, known — that people who work in the troll-infested field of book publishing don't need beer goggles to find hotness in the least likely of places. It's a phenomenon we like to call "skinniest girl at fat camp syndrome." Case in point: a tip we received today about dumpster-diving British…
