GAY-A-R-P: A new ad campaign hitting city subways and buses aims to give a face to New York's aging gay and lesbian population. "Too often, the senior members of our community are really invisible," said Michael Adams, executive director of Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE), which is spearheading the $350,000 campaign that features the slogan, "There's no expiration date on a full, active life." (NYDN) Phony Mahoney: Only in Congress can you begin an affair with a volunteer working on your campaign to replace someone who was ousted in an ugly sex scandal. Tim Mahoney -- who won the seat vacated by the congressional-page-happy Mark Foley in 2006, then fired his mistress, Patricia Allen in January 2008 (she dumped him because she believed he was seeing other woman -- not just his wife!), and she began legal proceedings in February that concluded with a settlement in March. Full story...
Debbie Harry wigs out again, this time at the grand opening of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ANNEX NYC in SoHo (76 Mercer St).
THIS is a fun story about the so-called health halo -- people's tendency to think because they eat one "healthy" item with a meal that it negates the calories (or unhealthiness) of the rest of it.
With the lighting of the Christmas tree last night at Rockefeller Center, there's no denying that the holiday season is officially upon us.
Are you shitting me? Hockey bad boy Sean Avery gets suspended indefinitely by the National Hockey League for this obscene sexual reference: "I just want to comment on how it's become a common thing in the NHL for guys to fall in love with my sloppy seconds.
I had such a crush on Hart Bochner back when I first saw him in "Apartment Zero," but I don't have much faith in his "Starter Wife" co-star Debra Messing's new vehicle(!), "Nothing Like the Holidays.
It's good to see that being starved and imprisoned weren't going to stop this poor kid from getting back into his gym routine the second he got out.
Well, it's not just my ear lobes that (not-so-little) Larry can't get enough of. So next time the veterinarian tries to tell me my baby needs one of those $500 teeth cleanings I'm going to know they're just trying to hose me.
Isn't that Cathy Renna in the middle?
Dwight Garner reviews "The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For," an anthology of comic strips by Alison Bechdel, in today's NY Times: "This strip, printed mostly in college-town alternative newspapers over the past two decades, has chronicled the fractious lives and loves of an articulate group of lesbians in a city that resembles Minneapolis.
So I'm rushing to work yesterday afternoon, leaving myself my customary 10 minutes to get to work. As I get down the stairs of the subway stop on 14th Street, I can hear my train pulling into the station (I'm only going to Times Square, so the A C or E will do).
Whether he's operating as one-third of Ivy, one-fourth of Paco, or solo under the moniker of Brookville, Andy Chase is consistently writing, playing and producing a low-key brand of music that's always catchy, always intelligent and always makes me want to hear more.
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