Big Apple Idolatry

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Big Apple Idolatry: NPH’s Puppet Dreams and the Return of Topanga

- Just in case you thought those  ForeRunner Chronicles that Two and a Half Men star Angus T. Jones participated in were part of a normal religious vlog, here’s the pastor who started the Chronicles, Christopher Hudson, talking about Jay-Z being a Freemason with demonic links, Obama’s ties to Hitler, and how NYC’s current gas crisis will lead to us eating each other, Walking Dead-style. Read More

Cover Story

Illustration by Dale Stephanos

Outward Bound: Celebs Struggle To Keep Sexuality Secret(ish), But Media Make Mischief

At a crowded movie premiere in Midtown recently, The Observer witnessed a young movie and TV star—a dashing young man who’s been involved with several starlets despite whispers about his close relationships with other men—sitting for the entire party in close conversation with a well-groomed gent, even as his co-stars circulated. As we passed, the Read More

Party Circuit

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Dirk Standen

Gilt Groupe’s Park & Bond Launch at the Dutch

A launch dinner was held at the Dutch for Gilt Groupe’s new men’s site Park & Bond. Guests, showing off their best threads, included Tyler Thoreson, Kyle MacLachlan, Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka, Byron Peart, Dirk Standen, Mimi Fukuyoshi, DD Drouet and Thom Browne.

Park & Bond, which claims to be “new shopping destination Read More

Movie Review

Stop! Do not see this movie.

The Best and the Brightest Is Anything But

The Best and the Brightest should be called The Worst and the Dumbest. Written on the lid of a toilet seat and directed in a coma by a first-time hack named Josh Shelov, this is the kind of crap that proves the movie world is overpopulated with amateurs who call themselves producers, always ready with a fast buck to squeeze their names into the opening credits of gibberish in order to establish an entry on the Internet Movie Data Base. Read More

The Bromosexuals

Brian Conroy, a 29-year-old analyst for the chief financial officer of an insurance brokerage downtown, was sitting at his desk the other day when a coworker in his 40s ambled up. The older man picked up a framed photo of Mr. Conroy and his long-term boyfriend, clearly in a romantic pose. “Which family Read More

Three Fearless Predictions for Emmy Night!

It seems fitting that on Emmy night—a night that ostensibly is supposed to celebrate the greatness of television—there is plenty of great television available to divert your attention away from the glitz and glam of the award ceremony itself. Despite the presence of host Neil Patrick Harris—and who doesn’t love themselves some NPH!—the Read More