Bob in Los Feliz gave me the best haircut of my life. But it cost: I had to spend two hours of my life with the man. Although he’s a hair perfectionist, he spent more time talking about his styling prowess and worldwide acclaim than he did actually cutting my locks.
My mother—who was visiting from New York—and I admired the autographed photos of celebrities on his wall. Neither of us knows much about The Industry, but we recognized one framed photo. “He cut Leonardo DiCaprio’s hair,” we whispered to each other. We were impressed.
When my mom went into another of Bob’s beauty rooms to get her eyebrows shaped, he asks me what I do. “Journalism?” he says. “Oh that’s good. Everyone wants to get written up, so you’ll get lots of perks.” Human rights journalism is more my thing, but I nodded. In his world, I have a feeling writing about Angelina’s adoptions is the same thing as covering Darfur…
Read more of this week’s “Pushing Off” here.
For gay couples, neither candidate in Thursday’s VP debate offered anything remotely resembling change. Tara Graham takes them to task.
Mark Evitt takes a hard look at the recent Village Voice firings and the state of print media in general.
Ryan Barrett takes you through her own person Spin Room on last week’s Vice-Presidential debate.
In our new series on classic pieces of journalism, Emily Henry pulls Martha Gellhorn’s “Dachau” out of the chest for your reading pleasure.
Deborah Stokol takes Rosie the Riveter back from the campaigning co-opters.
Tara Graham hits you with the week in gossip. Catch up on the brain candy.
Emily Henry takes a look at the new import HBO sketch-comedy series Little Britain USA
Missed your dose of gossip last week? Tara Graham rounds up all of the juicy tidbits. (Spoiler: Clay Aiken is gay)
Confused by the pro-corn syrup commercials you’ve been seeing lately? You’re not alone. Mark Evitt breaks it down for you.
Samantha Page previews the Hullaboo fundraising fest for the Silverlake Conservatory of Music
Chris Nelson weighs in on Obama’s candidacy, the punditry poison, and the speech from Invesco Field.
Max Zimbert interviews some political heavyweights on the Dem’s chances in Ohio and Iowa.
The P+P crew gives a Cribs-style walk-through of their sick DNC digs.
Torey Van Oot gets ex-Fugee Wyclef Jean to share his thoughts on courting the Latino vote for Obama.
Brooke-Sidney Gavins gets RZA of the Wu-Tang to open up about the DNC and the election.
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