Jessica Simpson, Robert Downey Jr. taking off weight It’s been awhile since we brought you a roundup of diet news from the world of celebrities, and we almost missed the drama (if you want to call it that) surrounding Jessica Simpson’s weight. First she was all over the magazines saying she like...

Are you sitting around waiting for the football games to start? As I’m writing this, there’s still over 7 hours until the Steelers-Chargers game begins. Ugh. Well, here are some links to help you pass the time. The New York Times has been busy writing about Pittsburgh this week with articles abo...

Hello. My name is Joshua David Stein and I am here to recruit you in a quest to find Padma Lakshmi's true love. Last Thursday, we set about trying to find a husband for Padma Lakshmi, an impossibly beautiful woman and host of Bravo's Top Chef . This task has become paradoxically both more difficult ...

It's always a little strange when holidays come to reality-television shows, since you know it had to have been taped, well, beforehand, and so everyone is just faking that it's Thanksgiving. Such was the case when the Top Chef crew headed up to a downright balmy Rochester, N.Y. (they cooked outside...

Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Food/Home/DIY, Episode Reviews (S05E02) And as the contest resumes, the 17 chefs have now been whittled down to 15 as episode two unfolds. After watching the second installment of Top Chef New York, it's clear this is going to be a good season. Tough competitors, gr...

When I saw a tall, dark-haired, model-esque woman sliding through the pre-awards crowd at the National Magazine Awards in the Rose Ballroom on 60th St. last night, my canny journalistic sixth sense kicked in. "She sure doesn't look like a magazine writer," I thought. Later, she strode out on stage d...

Instead of apologizing to my faithful readership of three about the infrequency of blog posts, instead I shall apologize for the lack of literary oomph that I wish I gave these infrequent rantings. By literary, I mean books. I'm reading all the time and never seem to comment much about it, usually r...

The arrival of the cherry blossoms means one thing -- folks all around Washington are scrounging for tickets to next month's White House Correspondents' Association dinner, and news organizations are scrambling to get the hottest guests....

The arrival of the cherry blossoms means one thing -- folks all around Washington are scrounging for tickets to next month's White House Correspondents' Association dinner, and news organizations are scrambling to get the hottest guests....

Out magazine’s pop-culture blog, Popnography, recently ran a particularly dishy Q&A with Ted Allen, the former Queer Eye food guy, who is now a judge on Top Chef . Here’s a snippet of the interview: Do you think the subtext of everything that Padma Lakshmi says is ‘I’m so...