The Atlantic's Ross Douthat, who helms a popular and analytically sincere right-leaning blog for the magazine, has been tapped to write opinion for the New York Times, the Columbia Journalism Review reports. According to a memo from editorial-page editor Andy Rosenthal, "he will start out primarily ...

Meanwhile, Bethenny basks in the glow of gays. This week's episode of The Real Housewives of New York City was like a tickle on the inside of your elbow: It was giggly and confusing at first, but as time went by, you realized that it might just somehow be connected to a nerve that could potentially ...

We love that "just out of bed" look on our ladies. According to some study dreamed up by Combos, the delicious snack that is actually fashioned in the form of a clogged artery just so that you know what you're getting into, New York is at the very bottom of a list of the top 50 Most Manly Cities in ...

Such a pity, they'd make such a lovely couple. The thing about Ann Coulter is, she'll make you laugh even as what she's saying appalls you. Her column yesterday was an excellent example. She attacked liberal MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann over his habit of playing "gotcha!" clips when politicians (usu...

Rush Limbaugh has challenged President Barack Obama to a debate, in spite of the fact that Democrats are on the record talking about how they're purposefully blowing up his ego by demonizing him and trying to connect his knee-jerk, hard conservatism with the entire Republican party. (And even though...

We've known that Madonna's been taking her boy thing Jesus Luz to Kabbalah classes already. (Is this a thing in other religions? Should we have been taking our new Jewish boyfriends to CCD when we were growing up?) So that's not what caught our eye about this video from the photo agency x17 from out...

We've never understood the relationship between Tinsley and Topper Mortimer. And frankly, why should we? We're not their friends — we just follow their story as it plays out in the society pages. We were riveted by the Times story about their star-crossed love in 2007. And we were, we have to ...

Are you a consultant who is MATH-educated? Then you'd better get your butt to Greenpoint to help with the top-secret project advertised on a telephone pole on Franklin Street. "Payment deferred," reads the ad. "If Consultation and math correct then payment will be immediate upon answering this posti...

The last thing we expected when we turned on The Real Housewives of New York was a solemn treatise on life and death, but that's what we got last night. Jill's mother's conversation with Bethenny about aging ("Life goes by in minutes. And then the minutes turn to seconds. I see sickness wherever I g...

It seems Aaron Bruns, the Fox News political producer who was busted for possessing and distributing child pornography, had a side gig. Our friend Kenneth in the 212 found Bruns posing for some perfectly legal, adult (and even educational!) soft-core pornography. It was for The Complete Idiot's Guid...