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Every Runway Look Worn by RuPaul In Less Than 3 Minutes

Every Runway Look Worn by RuPaul In Less Than 3 Minutes
If you've never watched an episode of RuPaul's Drag Race, here's your chance to catch up on RuPaul's fabulous lewks. Our friends over at World of Wonder have strung together every single one of Ru's runway outfits from the show's...… Read Full Story

A Jordanian Writer Tells Us About Amman's Music and Nightlife Scenes

Name? Roba Al-Assi Age? 27 Where do you live? Amman What do you do there? Designer/writer/webbie. What Jordanian bands or DJs are you obsessed with that you think we should know about? El Morabba3 are my favorite Jordanian band.... Read Full Story

Watch Charli XCX Cover the Backstreet Boys' "I Want It That Way"

British songstress and master hair-flipper proved that she's just as obsessed with the Backstreet Boys' classic "I Want It That Way" as we are (and everyone else on the planet is) by performing her more ambient version of it... Read Full Story

All of Arrested Development's Running Gags

A super-cut of all the recurring jokes on Arrested Development. Gene Parmesan better pop up in the new episodes. Ahhh! [PleatedJeans] Merry Christmas, Michele Bachmann is the inspiration behind the new erotic novel Fires of Siberia, about a red-state... Read Full Story
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Scenes from "A Great Night in Harlem" at the Apollo Theater

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The Idiosyncratic Fashionistas Talk Hot Pants and Booties In New Clip

Our friends over at Bib + Tuck, a new site that lets its members sell ("bib") and buy ("tuck") each other's clothes and accessories using virtual currency, spent an afternoon vintage browsing with the Idiosyncratic Fashionistas. For those unfamiliar,... Read Full Story

Mr. Mickey's Top 10 Reasons to Love Paula Deen

Mr. Mickey just returned from Savannah where he attended the SCAD senior fashion show and, while he was there, he fell in love with Paula Deen all over again. Below, he shares ten reasons to love the Queen of... Read Full Story

We've Been Listening to Beyoncé's New Track "Grown Woman" All Day

...Or at least I've been listening to it (and on repeat). After being teased in a Pepsi commercial (which spawned the Beyoncé GIF of all Beyoncé GIFs), having its official release be delayed, and being performed multiple times on the... Read Full Story

Johanna Fateman on the Riot Grrrl Movement + Images from "The Riot Grrrl Collection"

Next month, The Feminist Press at CUNY will publish "The Riot Grrrl Collection," a new book of selected zines, posters, flyers, journals and letters housed in NYU's Fales Library Riot Grrrl Collection. And on May 29th, Lisa Darms (editor of... Read Full Story
Scenes from Amy Cakes Danky Dank's Personae Project

Scenes from Amy Cakes Danky Dank's Personae Project

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