American Idol: Curtains for Chris

Are you sick of all the Sanjaya around you? I am. So I tackled our latest um, bootant? It’s a word now, okay? Over at Blogcritics I wrote:
Chris Sligh has always impressed me as a man with a plan. Walking into the sixth season of American Idol, he and his fellow contestants obviously had to [...]

I am a Feminist (Blogger Gets Death Threats)

Like a lot of young women my age, I always felt a little embarrassed about identifying myself as a feminist.
The cultural image of the feminist is so strongly reminiscent of the 1960s with the long hair, the bra-less t-shirt, the rallies and the loud activism, not to mention this idea of the lesbian with unshaven [...]

Are You Voting for Sanjaya Malakar?

‘Coz you and I need to have some words if you are!
Who knew a 17-year-old half-Indian/half-Italian kid would bring out such passion in people? I’ve written about him twice and I don’t even have strong feelings about him… more like about the circumstances that are building around him week after week.

But man! If he hangs [...]

The Brits do it Better

Why is the X Factor so much more fun?

On Grey’s Anatomy…

They got it right for about a minute with the Meredith-Ellis storyline. And then they killed Ellis off for a lame near-death experience snoozefest. Thanks guys, I knew I could depend on you and this sucky season!

War in Chattisgarh

War has pretty much broken out in Chhattisgarh but everybody is too busy playing ostrich to acknowledge it.
The headlines in every newspaper across India today featured reports of a massacre carried out in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh by a group of naxalites led by the State Military Commission (Maoist). They were reportedly supported by [...]

Anand Jon is a Fashionable Rapist

Anand Jon Alexander. Do you recognize the name? You will by the time you finish reading this.
The 33-year-old India born fashion designer, who made it to Newsweek’s list of people to watch out for (Ha! The irony!) in 2007, has shifted residence from Beverly Hills to an L.A. county jail where he awaits bail on [...]

Karan Johar Hates Marriage

When did Karan Johar transform himself into everybody’s least favorite Nosy Aunty? The USP of his talk show, Koffee with Karan, has always been that he is a ‘fearless’ insider who can get away with asking intimate questions of the glamorous and powerful Bollywood elite of the type that would get the average filmi journalist [...]

Stuff

David E. Kelley tries humor and ruins some guy’s wedding day - Newsweek
Anna Nicole Smith - you just knew there was an Indian angle - TMZ
Yahoo is a dirty little plagiarist - Desigirl
Myspace teens kill drunken mom, stash her body in trunk - Time
The Namesake defies my expectations if you believe Ansen - Newsweek

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