Lady Gaga & Cyndi Lauper by Maciek Kobielski for NY Times. Click the images for bigger size.     + see more Lady Gaga | Maciek Kobielski | Celebs ...

DJ Permanent Wave loves to sit on the lap of Christmas elves With a dirty name like that, how could you not want to don your mustache, chaps, and prepare for a club night ride? DJs Permanent Wave, Yer Momm and Lucas take over Rotture (315 SE 3rd) tomorrow night and turn it into a Menz Room. But contrary to the more elite boy parties the “men” at this party are sure to be a genderlicious extravaganza. Dirty masculinity as as a theme to embrace, enjoy, problematize and even make fun of, is emcapsulated perfectly by the bathroom. A traditional ...

As regular readers of this blog know, I've had a lot of fun with former WWE CEO/Diva Linda McMahon's efforts to buy the Connecticut Senate seat up for election this year. However, I admit that her background in WWE fakery will do her well if she is able to complete that purchase in November.An extreme example of this GOP faking is in its mock opposition to the wealthcare bill for the HMOs and health insurers. Let's look at why the Goppers love, love, love the legislation.The Wealthcare Bill Is Epitome GOP Policy GoalsThink about what this legislation ...

Keeping tabs on gay Atlanta's media landscape the last four months has been a ride worthy of Six Flags, yet one that left its gays without a paper. That changed Thursday as the GA Voice hit the streets. ...

here's my girl whitney houston talking about her nothing but love world tour (in support of her new album i look to you) which has already hit a few snags while she was in australia - i seriously hope girlfriend can keep herself together (she's due in france and england next month) because she must play a few dates here in the states! i've already seen her in concert once back in like 1998 (in NYC) but i would love to see ms. houston sing live again! popbytes over & out ...

It's only eight days away, so hopefully you've purchased your tickets and started steaming out the stains in your cumberbund and freshioning up your taffeta...the third annual dinner and auction to benefit Three Dollar Bill Cinema, the fine folks who put on the Seattle Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, the Translations Film Festival, Cineoke!, numerous film series and events thoughout the year including those fabulous summer screenings in Cal Anderson Park, is going down NEXT Friday, March 26th at Sodo Park, 3200 First Ave South starting at 6pm. Here's what it's all about:Guests will enjoy silent and live ...

The Seattle organization "We Need Queer Youth Space", lead by Kyle Rapiñan, was seeking to get a space for queer youth, led by youth leaders. Recently, they organized a large meeting at Seattle Central Community College and had made fliers and stickers that they posted around town promoting the organization. They even invested $150 in Facebook ads to get more fans to their fanpage. Then Facebook came along and deleted their page claiming they had violated the Facebook Terms of Service.The group pleaded for more information in an email to Facebook:Our non-profit organization does not believe we have violated ...

Here is the problem benefit of the laws protecting religions in this country; you can get away with just about anything. Take Jobcentre Plus apologising to a hoodie who believes himself to be a Jedi, after they rather insensitively asked him to remove his hood. As a fan of Star Wars, I must say the reason for the apology seems somewhat bizarre. Nowhere in any of the movies or in the Expanded Universe is the wearing of a hood proscribed as being demanded by observance of the Force. In fact most Jedi's seem to wear it only when attempting ...

Young model Adin shot by  Kai Z Feng. More after the jump! → Kai Z Feng Official Site Tweet This Post ...

Michael W. and Luke Briggs are the winners of VMAN Ford Model Search 2010. They will be photographed by Terry Richardson for the next issue of VMAN, out April 20, 2010. Tweet This Post ...

Vogue Hommes International Spring/Summer 2010 feat. Kate Moss by Mario Sorrenti Tweet This Post ...

Carnival has been celebrated in Brazil and in Rio de Janeiro for centuries, but samba schools were only first inaugurated in Rio Carnival in the 1920s. Here Brazilian-hunky Rodrigo poses in front of Estácio de Sá samba school’s flag for the lens of Paulo Cabral. → Paulo Cabral Official Site Tweet This Post ...

Brazilian-born photographer Wander Aguiar is sharing with us these offensively sexy images of Justin Leonardelli. Continue for more after the jump! → More exclusive contents on YVY → Wander Aguiar Official Site Tweet This Post ...

Music for a Thursday AfternoonI never considered the gym a hotbed of new music until a few weeks ago. While sweating away the pounds on a precor, my attention kept flowing between the four TV screens mounted on the wall above the stationary equipment. Three were playing various news programs, but the fourth showed nothing but music videos with the sound being piped through the gym's speaker system. I usually don't pay attention to it because the music's all generic dance beats with warbling interchangeable skinny women.When I fell into the mindless groove of music and exercise, a different song ...

Last Friday, myself and boyfriend T headed away from London for a long weekend elsewhere. We got back late last night. So can anyone identify where we've been from the rather phallic object in the photo below? ...

When legendary music manager Frank Murray (the Pogues, Thin Lizzy, etc.) announced he wanted to make Fleadh Austin a revel that would rival St. Patrick’s Day celebrations in Boston, New York and other Irish-American metropolises, we smiled. That would be lovely, wouldn’t it, daydreamed the Irish half of my brain. Frank Murray, Kay Gourley and Dara Murray Pronounced “flah,” fleadh is Gaelic for festival. Murray lined up some of his Irish acts — Broken Records, the Lost Brothers, Julie Feeney, Villagers, the Minutes, the Mighty Stef and the Coronas for the St. Paddy’s party at the Fourth Street Fort (former Levi’s ...

Form our various spies this week and compiled in Newsmakers … You can’t leave the house without tripping over a celebrity during South by Southwest. On Sunday night, singer Patty Griffin and “Friday Night Lights” actress Dana Wheeler-Nicholson were among those celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Hotel San Jose. R&B legend Barbara Lynn rocked a crowd in the parking lot, and then Amy Cook, David Garza, Dan Dyer and other locals honored hotelier Liz Lambert in the hotel courtyard. … On Monday morning, Ashton Kutcher wrote to his 4.6 million Twitter followers that he was “Headed to South by Southwest.” Later, ...

Mayor Lee Leffingwell welcomed the SXSW guests to Austin on Wednesday. I didn’t hear him do so. In fact, I’ve come to think of Leffingwell as our stealth mayor. He’s always on the job, always doing the city’s work, mind you. But I always just miss him, unlike his predecessor Will Wynn, who stuck around, soaking up the sunlight of Austin socializing. Erin and Michael Portman Just different styles, that’s all. The party — and the exchanges of vital SXSW information — still continued after Leffingwell slipped back into his no-nonsense office off the City Hall extension called the Mayor’s Balcony. ...

Heading from the amicable Fleadh Austin at the Fourth Street Fort to the more established, roped-off St. Patrick’s Day festival at Fourth and Lavaca streets, I passed SXSW guests bemused by this improvised Green Circuit. While the Fleadh was free, the tented fest outside Fado’s cost $15. Costumes, beads and funny hats proliferated. Erin Johnson and Caitlin Kuhn I encountered something unexpected for Austin: The closest we come to Irish toughs. Here were a couple dozen guys, bulked up, wearing the green like a dare, horseplaying early in the afternoon, but looking entirely capable of scuffling as the hours and the ...

We all need a little respite. My SXSW began Wednesday, March 10. By Wednesday, March 17, I was still on pace, not fatigued, but definitely slowing down. And SXSW Music had only just begun. Five more days to go. Sometimes, readers say to me: “I get tired just reading your column.” I get tired just reading about the 1,900 bands and 700+ sideparties during SXSW Music. There’s no way to pace that. I don’t even try. Anyway, after the Mayor’s Welcome, I toddled across the street with colleague Marcus Harper for appetizers at III Forks. Ideal respite. Key ingredient: The room was ...