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Diner Owner, Tabloid Gossip Trash Michael Wolff

Gossip gal Liz Smith chats with Michael's owner Michael McCarty over at Radar. (What goes into a $35 burger? Uh, "Really good meat," allegedly. More accurately: "The price of real estate in Midtown Manhattan?") And then Michael gets to finally knife Vanity Fair writer Michael Wolff over his boycott of Michael's. more »

10:50 AM ON THU DEC 20 2007
BY CHOIRE
1,665 views, 74 comments

burkle blaster! pub busts prez pals!

Burkle Bites Back With Clinton Freak Show Friends Feature

Last week, HuffPo reported that Bill Clinton might allegedly be CUTTING ALL TIES with his good buddy and fellow chaste admirer of the female form, Ron Burkle. Today, Radar, which is secretly owned by supermarket magnate Ron Burkle, ran a hilarious gallery of Bill Clinton's most unattractive friends and acquaintances with no news peg except, you know, "Bill Clinton's sure been in the news a lot lately, you guys noticed?" Weird, wild stuff.

Clinton's Funky All-Stars [Radar]

4:30 PM ON TUE DEC 18 2007
BY PAREENE
708 views, 22 comments

Latest by NeverEnough: Linda Tripp looks like a bag of smashed assholes. more »

Zachary Quinto, the guy who plays Sylar on Heroes, was at the Radar party last night. I love Heroes and hate Sylar. He's such a dick and he totally screws over that cute South American girl with the eyes that cry blood or whatever. Plus he's annoying. So when I saw Quinto, I wanted to punch him, naturally. It could have been because I ran into him just as the upstairs bar was shutting down and wouldn't serve us and he's like (to his friends), "I just talked to the Skyy Vodka® people downstairs, they'll totally hook us up." So I was clenching my fist and cocking my arm, when I realized he was wearing kind of emo black rimmed glasses, chucks and a pea coat. He had spiky hair too. He even had a scarf. And then it dawned on me. Zachary Quinto looks like a nice gay boy. (Is he gay? I think so but I don't know.) And my rage subsided because Sylar is totes not gay. Cognitive dissonance is such a more deadly foe when you are filled with vodka.

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patronage

'Radar' Celebrates John Varvatos All Over Maer Roshan's Body

Why did Radar honcho Maer Roshan look so good at last night's Radar party at the New Museum? Was it all the drinks I had? Was it that I was sucking up to him for a job? Or was it his suit? Yes. It was his suit. Turns out it was a narrow peak lapel, two-button flannel suit from John Varvatos' Fall/Winter 07 Collection. We hear that rather than pay the $1,495 tag price, Roshan worked out a deal to have his outfit sponsored by the designer. Crafty!

11:30 AM ON WED DEC 5 2007
BY JOSHUA STEIN
1,159 views, 33 comments

Latest by scarcat: @Balk: Oh, cool ! How many Radar covers do I have to send in to get the Balk De-Coder ring ? more »

party fouls

'Radar' Celebrates Radical Innovations In Spelling

Last night Radar magazine had a party at the New Museum to celebrate "the most exciting rogues, renegades, and rule breakers of the year," a list that included facially scary but totally funny comedienne Kathy Griffin, 'The Squid And The Whale' teenfeelings-proxy Jesse Eisenberg, and something called "Spankrock." We didn't notice any of these people (institutions?) in attendance last night, but then, the party was on the ground floor and seventh floors of the New Museum and we fled the college-aged crowd on the first floor as soon as an opportunity presented itself in order to spend time on the seventh floor talking to the same 10 people we always talk to. The view from up there is almost pretty enough to convince you that it makes sense to build misshapen towers all over the Lower East Side. Anyway, Radar had decorated the walls with quotes from their various rogues and renegades and they spelled Riviera wrong. But hey, nobody's perfect.

10:35 AM ON WED DEC 5 2007
BY EMILY
1,478 views, 32 comments

Latest by rod: @artfulroger: who let the hack in? more »

job applications

Who Can "Thrust Gawker Deep Into The New Era"?

The applications are flooding in to be the new honcho of this website! Today we received a submission from an old friend, one that we thought should be shared with the whole class. more »

10:40 AM ON MON DEC 3 2007
BY CHOIRE
8,722 views, 79 comments

allegation of millions

Alleged Epstein Rape Vic Sues 'Post'

Maximilia Cordero, alleged underaged sexual assault victim (who was allegedly born a man) of alleged billionaire pervert Jeffrey Epstein, is now suing the New York Post, according to Radar, for allegedly smearing her and not disclosing after their countless quotes from Epstein flack Howard Rubenstein that he is also the New York Post's publicist. Epstein, former alleged Radar investor, allegedly raped Maximila "Ava" Cordero and also allegedly wore lipstick and asked to be called "Janice." more »

12:10 PM ON MON NOV 26 2007
BY PAREENE
2,365 views, 31 comments

Do you know who Charles Kaiser, Radar's Monday afternoon media critic, really hates? George Bush! [Radar]

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Why would supermarket magnate and billionaire Ron Burkle want to buy a magazine distribution company? (Previously: Posts tagged "Ron Burkle Owns Radar!") [WWD]

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NBC paid "Perverted Justice," the outfit that impersonates children and rounds up would-be perverts for "To Catch A Predator," $802,520 last year. The non-profit's CEO, Xavier Von Erck, who expects to make $2 million in consulting fees in 2008, responded to questions from Radar about the group: "Thanks for contacting us for comment, John. Unfortunately, you're not a legitimate reporter, you're just a rather scummy fellow who writes for a tabloid rag. Other than being told that you're a scummy hack who resembles a stalker more than a journalist, we don't have any comment for you...." [Radar]

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Scandals

Ron Burkle Mistress And Tell-All Author Was Twice-Bankrupt

Poor supermarket mogul, Clinton pal and alleged Radar investor Ron Burkle can't go anywhere without getting extorted. Today's Page Six and Rush & Molloy both report that Chevyn McClintock, an antiques dealer or interior decorator depending on who you ask, is shopping a memoir about her two-year affair with Burkle. He is, by her account, a "sexually inept lover" and "If Academy Awards were given for faking sexual gratification, I would have many, because he had zero sensuality and did not know how to please a woman." Ouch. McClintock's website boasts of her "birth into a classic, traditional, elegant American family," and her "beautiful, gracious life," as a feng shui master, a "rare wine advisor" (now that'd be a pretty sweet gig) and a "lifestyle expert." We checked into Ms. McClintock's lifestyle expertise. It sure looks to us like Chevyn Grappi McClintock is one and the same as Chevyn Hurwitz Grappi, a 45-year-old Texan for whom records show a DWI conviction and some pretty serious financial issues. more »

1:45 PM ON WED OCT 24 2007
BY MAGGIE
5,590 views, 64 comments

Latest by Chevyn McClintock Has a Little Problem With Pia Miller on Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine: Hi, Pia? You suck!Photo: Courtesy of Chevyn McClintockRon Burkle isn't the only one who gets burned in the memoir Chevyn McClintock is shopping, which "Page Six" reported yesterday contained the astonishing news that Burkle was a dud in the sack. more »

Parties

The Political Is Extremely Impersonal At 'Radar'

Last night Radar, which is a magazine, threw a party at Goldbar for its new Politics issue. Outside, someone said that if Goldbar disappeared at that moment from the face of the earth, no one in New York would be offended. But there were free drinks, gold plated skulls, a slew of enemies and a couple of friends and a few awkward situations. Nikola Tamindzic was there to capture the gilded glory of it all. more »

3:39 PM ON THU OCT 18 2007
BY JOSHUA STEIN
7,020 views, 38 comments

Latest by MattGaymon: @generalmills: Give him more credit than that! Blasberg wouldn't even touch Laliberte. Well, OK he would. more »

Catfights

'Radar' v. Richard Johnson: It Is So On!

"Emasculated? We'll See!" was the headline of the Page Six item this morning that basically told New York magazine's Vanessa Grigoriadis to watch what she said about that venerable gossip institution, because the males of Page Six would totally rape her... except maybe not because she's so darn hairy and ugly. Charming. Not to mention completely out of proportion! Grigoriadis's claim—that the column was "emasculated" after former Sixer Jared Paul Stern was accused of trying to blackmail supermarket magnate and (whatever, alleged) Radar investor Ron Burkle, wasn't even that controversial. And Richard Johnson's move to cover his ass by whipping out his dick, as it were, seems to have completely backfired. more »

4:56 PM ON TUE OCT 16 2007
BY EMILY
5,324 views, 46 comments

Latest by KarenUhOh: Mainly it was the tired shrug of nothing profound or witty to say. more »

Radar

Joy Behar Really Gets Radar, Whoopi and Sherri Offended

The on-again-off-again magazine Radar recently put out an issue. Surprising, we know! But there was more. The cover featured Rudy Giuliani, Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama au natural in an homage to Vanity Fair's Tom Ford cover. Some of the ladies on 'The View' were offended. Others weren't. At one point Ms. Behar appeared to read from Sherri Shepherd's cue card. "Rudy looks like a pimp, Hillary looks like a ho and Barack is on the DL," she said, looking as if she had learned the line phonetically. A more accurate limn might be that Rudy is the well-dressed gay one, Hillary has the ability to rebound from clunkers (Domino, Healthcare plan) and Barack is the ingenue. But, of course, that would rob Behar of the Judith Butlerian thrill of appropriating the patois of sexual and racial minorities. That is fierce!

2:55 PM ON TUE OCT 16 2007
BY JOSHUA STEIN
3,930 views, 27 comments

Latest by AugustPeridot: I think it is ridiculous that there are no respect left for anyone anymore and photoshop is used to get to such lenghts. One of them could be the future president of this country. If we ousrselves don't respect our more »

the sad state of sex scandals

The John Edwards "Sex Scandal" For Idiots

So this nutty hippie lady maybe fell in love with John Edwards and they maybe had an affair and then John Edwards' definitely hired her to do some work for his campaign despite her lack of qualifications and then they erased all traces of the work and then a year went by and then the Huffington Post and the National Enquirer both sorta ran with a sex scandal story and then everyone involved denied it. You caught up? Good! Radar wants to know why no "legitimate" news outlets are covering it. Good question! Slate blogger Mickey Kaus has sure enjoyed himself with it! But Edwards is so damn nice and so clean cut and lovable and his wife has cancer and maybe everyone just doesn't want to believe it? Or else maybe his campaign has proven so inept at matching Obama and Hillary in fundraising and polls that no one sees any point in piling on with a story that is so far mostly innuendo and maybe some DAMNING EMAILS from a demonstrably crazy lady.

John Edwards' Secret Affair with MSM [Radar]

12:05 PM ON TUE OCT 16 2007
BY PAREENE
3,121 views, 44 comments

Latest by In Which We See Nothing Shameful About Watching Cruel Intentions 3 on This Recording: Lard and the Real Girl by Molly Lambert I am telling you, someone cast this man in a Harry Nilsson biopic stat. Does P.T. Anderson have a next project lined up yet? This is a golden opportunity to strike more »

Once More Into The Breach With 'Radar' Our Freelancer Action Unit, an elite team of angry reporters, investigates publications that don't pay their freelancers. Got a gripe? Not getting paid? Drop a line!

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Hey! Radar says that our actual President, Al Gore, shot an appearance for "30 Rock." Cool! But we wonder: Are the "sources close to the production of NBC's '30 Rock'" actually "Radar editor Maer Roshan's boyfriend, Matt," who has, we hear, a bit part on that very show? Maybe not! But maybe! Update: We've been assured by Radar folks that it absolutely wasn't young Matt. [Radar]

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why go out?

Art And Magazines Don't Mix At 'Radar' Art Party

"Someone in our art department knows someone at Campari," shrugged a Radar staffer when asked why Radar was co-hosting a party at the Campari gallery in Soho. "Hey, where's Balk?" I rolled my eyes at him. "So are you really upset about him leaving?" the Radar staffer persisted. "Yes, he's like a dadbrother to me," I told him honestly. "But I'm sure he'll have a great time working for you guys. He loves this kind of thing." The Radar staffer was just perspicacious enough to realize that I was being sarcastic. He shook his highball glass, which contained Campari. "Hey, free drinks." Laurel Ptak took photos so you can see just how wrong this scene is.
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2:00 PM ON THU SEP 27 2007
BY EMILY
2,222 views, 30 comments

Latest by scarcat: I have heard it said that the party is not over till there is nothing left to drink but Campari. Strange but true, no ? more »