La Daily Musto
1:06 am
Aug. 20, 2011
Sizzling Book By Old Gossip Columnist
By Michael Musto
No, not me.
What I'm wearing on my book cover isn't anywhere near as alluring as this guy's Ed Wood-ian drag.
He's Bill Dakota, who edited the legendary Hollywood Star magazine, which regularly ...
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Runnin' Scared
6:33 pm
Aug. 19, 2011
Here Are Your Comments That Made Us LOL This Week
By Jen Doll
Hi guys! This week instead of awarding you for your smartest or most well-said or snarkiest comments, not that you don't have plenty of those, we're giving a shout-out to the comments that made us...
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La Daily Musto
6:25 pm
Aug. 19, 2011
Power Ranger On Rentboy?
By Michael Musto
If it isn't, then someone else is using his photo!
And I don't begrudge it at all. It's an honest living--and besides, just like with that last guy we found on that site, I'm sure he's just offer...
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Runnin' Scared
5:34 pm
Aug. 19, 2011
NYT Comes Out Against 'Yarn Bombing'
By Rosie Gray
If you read Runnin' Scared regularly, you'll know that we have a thing for yarn art. Unfortunately, it's made it onto Neil Genzlinger's list in the Times this weekend of things in NYC ...
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La Daily Musto
5:33 pm
Aug. 19, 2011
Two Classic CNN Clips In One Week
By Michael Musto
There was Anderson Cooper's gigglefest as he reported on the sad story of Gerard Depardieu's public urination spectacle, which Cooper used to drum up puns like "Intercontinental Airlines" and "Edi...
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Runnin' Scared
5:04 pm
Aug. 19, 2011
The Case for A.J. Burnett? You Mean There Really Is One?
By Allen Barra
I was really surprised to check the stats an hour ago and find that the Yankees are second (to the Angels) in team ERA for the league, 3.57. (Boston is ninth at 3.89.) What's all the more surpris...
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Fork in the Road
4:10 pm
Aug. 19, 2011
Finland Exports Its 'Have Your Own Pop-Up Restaurant Day'
By Chantal Martineau
Finland held its first Restaurant Day in May of this year: a magical day when anyone was allowed to create his or her own pop-up restaurant, permits and inspections be damned. The second one will...
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Fork in the Road
3:30 pm
Aug. 19, 2011
Posts of the Week
By Rebecca Marx
It is thankfully Friday afternoon. Which means it is time to look back at the four days preceding it.
Mark Simmons talked to us about hipping Americans to New Zealand cuisine at his new Park S...
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La Daily Musto
2:30 pm
Aug. 19, 2011
Death Takes A Holiday: Meh
By Michael Musto
Death may be taking a holiday over at the Roundabout's Laura Pels Theater, but laryngitis isn't; it affected the male lead (above), who dropped out and was replaced by his understudy.
The ailing...
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Fork in the Road
2:13 pm
Aug. 19, 2011
Fork in the Road
1:06 pm
Aug. 19, 2011
Nathan Foot Has Parted Ways With Northern Spy Food Co.
By Rebecca Marx
Almost two years after Northern Spy Food Co. opened its doors, chef and co-owner Nathan Foot has parted ways with the restaurant. Christophe Hill, who opened Northern Spy with Foot and Chris Roni...
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La Daily Musto
1:00 pm
Aug. 19, 2011
Tony Little's "Miracle Babies"
By Michael Musto
You know Tony Little.
He's the fitness expert who's prone to shouts of "You can do it!" on his long running infomercials.
Well, it turns out the little Littles were littler than expected.
He a...
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Runnin' Scared
12:18 pm
Aug. 19, 2011
Chances Are, Your Brain Will Not Be Eaten by an Amoeba
By Jen Doll
This is worrisome. We have been reminded that a science-fiction horror-film-esque fear is actually a reality. Brain-eating amoebas exist, and they have killed three people this summer, including ...
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Fork in the Road
12:16 pm
Aug. 19, 2011
The Current State of the Restaurant Industry in NYC
By Robert Sietsema
Read Fork in the Road, Eater, Grub Street, or any of the other New York based restaurant-watching websites and everything seems hunky dory. Each month, for example, statistics show that far more e...
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Sound of the City
12:00 pm
Aug. 19, 2011
Here Is A Glossy Pop Cover Of The Cro-Mags' "Malfunction"
By Maura Johnston
The New York pop outfit Lavalette has among its members New York hardcore stalwart Mike Dijan, so perhaps it shouldn't be too surprising that its first single is a cover of the 1986 track "Malfun...
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Fork in the Road
11:35 am
Aug. 19, 2011
The Vanderbilt's Brian Floyd Explains His Barman's Fund
By Chantal Martineau
There's a lot of talk about tipping these days: how much is appropriate, when it should be withheld, how it should be divvied up. But a bartender in Brooklyn is throwing a kink into the conversat...
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La Daily Musto
11:30 am
Aug. 19, 2011
When Someone Waves You Over...
By Michael Musto
...make sure you stay as immobile as a Republican in a bathroom stall when a cop walks into the room.
Even if the waver looks like the above chesty dude.
For years, I've had a steadfast rule tha...
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Sound of the City
11:00 am
Aug. 19, 2011
Is It Time To Re-Reconsider The Guilty Pleasure?
By Nick Murray
In general conversation, the guilty pleasure is a simple enough concept: it describes something you might like but, well, feel guilty about liking, presumably because it isn't otherwise up to y...
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La Daily Musto
10:30 am
Aug. 19, 2011
Guess Who This Is In Drag?
By Michael Musto
Back in the 1960s, he was a hunky star of a popular dopey sitcom.
And on occasion, he would also don blonde pincurls and pretty ginghams and play his sister, looking a bit like Mae West as Baby J...
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