I can’t wait for summer!  Dazzling beams of sunlight will shine across the land as the scent of barbecues, sun block and chlorinated pools waft through the air.  My pasty, winterized complexion will glow like polished copper as I revel in the freedom… Read full post »

 

 

Anyone who believed in the Rapture must be bummed today.  Who wouldn’t look forward to the end of the world in which most of humanity is left to burn in the fiery bowels of Hell?  Personally, I was hoping for the Blondie version of Rapture,… Read full post »

 

 

Disappearing down the rabbit hole of aimless internet surfing, I recently landed upon a 2009 interview of supermodel and Leo DiCaprio babe, Bar Refaeli.  She was plugging the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue after she’d gotten herself on the cover.  When El… Read full post »

 

 

My dating life has always made a political statement whether I like it or not.  Not because I spout off Marxist platitudes over dinner or only date vegetarians.  Romance can be loaded for me because I’m biracial, with a white mother and black father.  Thu… Read full post »

 

 

Few people realize that puny, brown, not particularly cute girls from dull Midwestern towns can morph into Sandra Dee-like bombshells by watching Grease throughout their adolescence.  At least, that’s what I believed when I was a child.  As a second grader in… Read full post »

 

 

So I’m at Trader Joe’s last week shooting the poop with the cashier.  For those who don’t know, Trader Joe’s is an über-hip grocery store that sells the basics along with funky gourmet items and lots of things covered in chocolate; pistachios… Read full post »

 

 

Nothing is more boring than people talking about their various bodily ailments.  And nothing says “I’m old and pitiful” like wasting someone else’s time complaining about your aches and pains.  But I’ve gotta tell you: my left hip&rsquo… Read full post »

 

 

Forget face creams and self-help books!  I’ve got the magic formula to help you feel young again and put some pep in the step of a humdrum life.

It came to me this week when I arrived at the end of a six-week beginner’s… Read full post »

 

 

Know what?  I’m not entertained anymore by Charlie Sheen’s shenanigans and not only because he’s a cracked egomaniac who should be receiving treatment rather than accolades.  And it’s not only because I fear getting my kicks off the ravings o… Read full post »

 

 

My God, what a surprise!  And what a year!  After winning a Tony for my critically acclaimed one-woman show and a Grammy for my Cee-Lo produced debut pop album, I never expected to be recognized for my debut in el ciné.  When I was a… Read full post »

 

 

A good friend in college once admitted to feeling miffed when we were together in public because men sometimes checked me out instead of her.  Apparently, she was attempting to build trust by revealing these monstrous feelings and I was supposed to be touched.… Read full post »

 

 

I used to believe handing a girl a Barbie doll, princess costume or anything über-girly was like lobbing a grenade into her ego.  I thought toys from the pink aisle siphoned the integrity out of girls, creating boy hungry wimps obsessed with shoes, fad die… Read full post »

 

There are two important truths to glean from this past week’s news: women are slowly taking over the world and movie stars are idiots.

Ladies first.

The University of Texas has released the results of yet another study destined to make women want to heave the… Read full post »

OkCupid.com says men on their dating site are more apt to reach out to women other men consider ugly rather than women universally considered pretty.  Gals rated consistently attractive receive fewer messages than gals on whom opinions are split.  The site’s expert mathemat/…

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Anyone else scared?

Every so often, a news item comes along that makes me seriously consider hauling ass and leaving the country for good.  Recent haul ass triggers have been the economy, the bailouts and the pop culture emergence of Snooki.  But this latest… Read full post »

  

I take New Year’s resolutions seriously.  The opportunity to make a fresh start on an annual basis demonstrates the generosity an occasionally cruel universe can muster up.  Usually my list of resolutions takes days to finish, but this year when I sa… Read full post »

 

 

In last week’s Metro, a free paper offered on the subway, readers were asked to vote for 2010’s Person of the Year and provided a list of choices: Barack Obama, Julian Assange, the Chilean miners, Michelle Obama, Sarah Palin… Read full post »

 

 

Black Swan, starring Natalie Portman, will undoubtedly get reviewers and cinephiles musing about the dual nature of man, about the deliciously creepy place within all of us where kink and madness reside.

As a repressed ballerina desperate to win the lead role in Swa… Read full post »

 

 

 Women can fake orgasms.  Men can fake entire relationships.

This juicy tidbit marking the romantic distinction between males and females recently made its way onto my Twitter feed.  Enjoying a brief chuckle after reading it, I soon realized how closely this all… Read full post »

 

 

A woman I know, who we’ll call Emily, wants to marry a doctor.  Actually, she wants to marry a doctor, lawyer or anyone who makes tons of cash.  Whenever I run into her, Emily shares stories about dating medical residents and rejecting normal guys because… Read full post »

 

 

What’s up with Duke University?  Seems every time there’s a scandal around sex, violence or sexual violence in academia, Duke’s the institution in question.  A mere month after the leak of Karen Owen’s thesis listing and rating the guys she&r… Read full post »

 

 

Oh, Madonna, please don’t be a vain, delusional monster who actually believes the barely legal stud boys you date might truly be interested in you.  If so, your legacy risks becoming as absurd as the traffic cones implanted into your cheeks.  If not, you will… Read full post »

 

Have you seen the two music videos, featuring pre-pubescent black children, tearing up the Net this week?  The first, Sesame Street’s “I Love My Hair,” is a confidence-boosting diddy sung by a black puppet girl who adores all the cool things her kinky hair… Read full post »

 

 

Monica was this hot mama sex goddess I used to work with serving cocktails in college.  Slinky as a feline, she was nearly six feet tall with curves galore.  She had flawless skin, a magnificent, traffic-stopping face and a personality as colorful as the Bobbi… Read full post »

 

 

Rahm Emanuel leaving the White House to run for mayor of Chicago would be like Clooney leaving Hollywood to do community theater in Kentucky.  Such an act falls under the category of “Things that Should Never Happen in America.”

I haven’t been a huge… Read full post »