PINKBERRY

NEW, NOW, NEXT:

Remember those Izod/Lacoste polo dresses from the Eighties??

Welcome to the 2012 version a la Marc Jacobs style.

Ha!

MAD ABOUT HUGHES

I'm mad about you

You're mad about me, babe

Lost in your eyes

Mad about love

You and I

Chris Hughes and Sean Eldridge

Grab a hankie because if this doesn't make you blubber we don't know what will.

Chris and Sean have posted 29 images of their engagement photos.

Seeing this couple so happy is inspiring to us all to find our ONE (one, sluts, not the ONE for tonight) true love!!

PROGRESSIVE PURCHASES PROGRESSIVE PAPER

Hot and handsome Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook-- you know, the GAY one that the mainstream media and movie studios ignore-- has bought a huge stake in The New Republic and has made himself Editor-In-Chief.

WORK!!

SNAP!!

In his first dictu, Hughes pens:

To the Readers of The New Republic:

Nearly 100 years ago, the founding editors of The New Republic wrote these words to introduce their inaugural issue:

The New Republic is frankly an experiment. It is an attempt to find national audience for a journal of interpretation and opinion. Many people believe that such a journal is out of place in America; that if a periodical is to be popular, it must first of all be entertaining, or that if it is to be serious, it must be detached and select.
Yet when the plan of The New Republic was being discussed it received spontaneous welcome from people in all parts of the country. They differed in theories and programmes; but they agreed that if The New Republic could bring sufficient enlightenment to the problems of the nation and sufficient sympathy to its complexities, it would service all those who feel the challenge of our time.
A century later, people are once again skeptical that quality journalism can flourish. Technology’s disruption of traditional forms of media has led many to believe that independent, thoughtful media institutions are on the decline and that there are not enough readers to support serious reporting and analysis.

But in 1914 the founders of The New Republic chose to strike out and pursue their vision in spite of the prevailing opinions of their time. They saw a need for a magazine of informed opinion and insightful, thorough reporting.

I share their vision. It seems that today too many media institutions chase superficial metrics of online virality at the expense of investing in rigorous reporting and analysis of the most important stories of our time. When few people are investing in media institutions with such bold aims as “enlightenment to the problems of the nation,” I believe we must.

Many of us get our news from social networks, blogs, and daily aggregators. The web has introduced a competitive, and some might argue hostile, landscape for long, in-depth, resource-intensive journalism. But as we’ve seen with the rise of tablets and mobile reading devices, it is an ever-shifting landscape—one that I believe now offers opportunities to reinvigorate the forms of journalism that examine the challenges of our time in all their complexity. Although the method of delivery of important ideas has undergone drastic change over the past 15 years, the hunger for them has not dissipated.

In the next era of The New Republic, we will aggressively adapt to the newest information technologies without sacrificing our commitment to serious journalism. We will look to tell the most important stories in politics and the arts and provide the type of rigorous analysis that The New Republic has been known for. We will ask pressing questions of our leaders, share groundbreaking new ideas, and shed new light on the state of politics and culture.

The New Republic has been and will remain a journal of progressive values, but it will above all aim to appeal to independent thinkers on the left and the right who search for fresh ideas and a deeper understanding of the challenges our world faces.

As the founding editors reminded their readers in 1914, the success of this endeavor ultimately depends on the public support of readers in search of “sound and disinterested thinking.” As long as there are readers who continue to crave that kind of journalism, we will aspire to serve them.

Chris Hughes

Publisher & Editor-in-Chief, The New Republic

Laurence Grafstein had this to say about Chris Hughes coming on board:

We are delighted to welcome Chris Hughes to the top of The New Republic masthead. As we approach the centennial year of this remarkable institution, we believe that he will bring extraordinary talent and commitment to the ideas and causes we value. He not only has a track record of success but also possesses a keen appreciation of our calling. With Chris’s leadership TNR will pursue its longstanding, ongoing mission of helping to define liberalism while contributing to the American project. You will all enjoy getting to know him and you will learn, as we have, that he is a special individual.

Now, about a subscription......

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Most of the cast of Downton Abbey have inked their contracts. Some actors have secured their spot FOR the fifth season!!

Can we get a definite confirmation on Rob James-Collier (Thomas)????

All actors are contracted through the third season. It is the fourth and fifth that are up in the air.

The hold outs: Dan Stevens (Matthew), Siobhan Finneran (O’Brien) and Jessica Brown Findlay (Lady Sybil).

FAB MEN

THE SEXTIES:

“When billionaires fight, it takes a lot longer to settle.....So we had some very wealthy people determining how long we would be off the air.” --Jon Hamm explains to David Letterman about the series 17+month hiatus.

WORK!!!!!!

SNAP!!

SMELL SO FINE, ADAM LEVINE

Can you smell it??

Take a good, hard randy whiff.

That is 222, a new fragrance Adam will launch in May of 2013.

Levine teams up with ID Perfumes. Price points range from $35-$65 and will be available at major department stores.

THE DALEY NEWS

BULGING HEADLINES:

Tom Daley

WILLIAM. I. AM.

William Levy

NOT SO LUCK OF THE IRISH

While the owner of Urban Outfitters is busy giving your hard-earned money that you readily, quickly and willingly hand over for their crappy items to that scum Frothy Mix in the past (over $13,000 to that scum's campaign and political action committee--this news is really old), the store has managed to piss off another group, the Irish, by selling some racist merchandise depicting that group in negative stereotypes.

This isn't Urban Outfitters first offense. The retailer sold Navajo-themed items that pissed off Native Americans, last year. The retailer was forced to pull those items and rename some.

Urban Outfitters is taking a lot of flak from Irish organizations that say its St. Patrick’s Day merchandise defames and debases the entire Emerald Isle as a bunch of drunks. And like the Navajo-themed merchandise that came before it, the t-shirts and other products that inspired this anger may be headed off the shelves.

Irish people from all walks of life have responded to Urban’s Irish-themed product lineup pretty negatively, and some are prepared to wage a full fledged campaign to have the items removed from the store. And with products like a beer growler labeled Leprechaun Piss and shirts that say things like “Kiss Me, I’m Drunk. Or Irish, Or Whatever.” their anger isn’t really all that surprising. Congressman Tim Crowley, head of the Congressional Ad Hoc Committee on Irish Affairs, sent a letter to Urban Outfitters CEO Richard Hayne, asking him, and nicely, to stop selling the products.

WORK!!!!!!

LOVE!

LOVE!

LOVE!!

Matt Taibbi.

MARRY US, MATTY CAKES!!!

That way, you can intellectually fuck us 24/7/365.

Your scathing pen for Rolling Stone gets us all wet!!!


GIVE GOOD HEAD(LINES):

BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE

COCKED AND LOADED:

Angel Rock

THIS IS SOMETHING WE CAN STOMACH!!

RA-TAT-TAT

TAT IS BEAUTIFUL:

He definitely drums up our interest!!!

TAYTAY TUESDAY

SALES PITCH

IT'S IN THE BAG:

A hop, skip, jump and a lean to sell a bag.

What about a backflip??

TIGHT SPOT

Kevin Zegers VPL

TO A "T"

Gay men are such geniuses!! But, of course!!

And, let us not forget, SO creative.

Oliver Theyskens transformed the city of New York into The New York Times' iconic 'T."

Theyskens explains: I worked with an extremely high resolution satellite map to get all the details of the city and did plenty of graphic design work to make it all fit perfectly into the shape of the “T.” It was a thrilling game to place every neighborhood and famous building or park inside it.

DUSTIN OFF WINTER

We are off by a week. We thought T Magazine was next weekend...oy.

We are like long lost lovers that reunite every six months.

We're all wound up, anxiously padding around. We extract a note pad for the wish list and start dreaming for the must- haves.

We're talking about the Men's Style issue of The New York Times, T Magazine.

Dustin Hoffman covers the Spring 2012 issue:

The men’s spring fashion issue of T is filled with actors of every stripe. Our cover star Dustin Hoffman dissects his career with Giles Foden, Paul Dano brings morning into midday with a pajama shirt, and Willem Dafoe talks about his distinctive features with Joan Juliet Buck. There’s also a behind-the-scenes look at “Of Men and Mavericks,”the Curtis Hanson-directed film about surfing, starring Gerard Butler. Inside you will find cocktail-inspired grooming products, a primer on how to pack smarter and our must-haves: Italian suits, canvas kicks and weekend watches. When you’re done shopping, read the essay by the photojournalist Trevor Snapp about his assignments around the globe, Suzy Menkes on the runway’s military moment and Will Self on the hip-hop starAzealia Banks. And don’t forget our fashion portfolios: “Freshly Pressed,” with the likes of Martin Amis and Richard Ford, showing off the season’s stand out shirts, and “Riffraff Revisited,” in which the art collective Still House cleans up cool.

Oh NYT, keep the fashion foreplay talk going... it has us all excited.

The sharp, hard-edged cut of the new Tom Ford suit. Yes. Keep talking.....

The fresh new Polo Ralph Lauren ads. Oh.... we're edging!!

Those beautiful models in the editorials. Yeah, you are IN, keep a rhythm, baby. Keep givin it to us... we like it Jean-Paul Gaultier rough.

The squareness and elongated look of the new Prada loafer. Oy, we came!!!

T, you sure know how to give good fashion. **as we light a ciggie**

LIVE: 8

http://www.youtube.com/user/AmericanEqualRights/featured


A global broadcast of the reading of the play 8 on YouTube, RIGHT NOW!!!

It is a play about the fight for Marriage Equality by Dustin Lance Black.

Actors are reading from scripts. Kevin Bacon, Brad Pitt, Matt Bomer, and Martin Sheen to name a few.

The play reading started 7:30 p.m. Pacific Time.

#8LA