Best Top Chef Recap You’ll Read Today (and Every Week) »

I’m a vegetarian, I don’t cook, I know very little about food (I do know where to put it though), and I wouldn’t eat 85% of the dishes made on Top Chef (spoiler: everything this season is made with moose bacon, even the desserts). Still, I love the show. The only thing I enjoy more [...]

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CityFile: NYC Stalking Made Easy! »

CityFile.com is a new, slick database-driven website of who’s who in NYC: celebs, artists, media types, socialites, designers, politicos, and of course, a slew of people who are notable for doing absolutely nothing. The site gives an insane amount of personal information, for example, Gawker honcho Nick Denton is British, Gay, Smoker and Half-Jewish. Did [...]

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Ultimate Washington Insider: "Foodie" Edition »

SM Shrake

First of all, hiiii! I always like to give a warm Southern welcome to my readers, y’all! As some of you who follow my exploits know, I’m working like a rented mule to become the Ultimate Washington Insider (UWI), which is not easy when you’re looking down the barrel of the big Five-O, do not [...]

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Stars & Politicos Mingle Tonight in "Hollywood for Ugly People" »

Our D.C. Insider Scott attended the White House Correspondents Association Dinner last night and snapped some fun photos of celebrities you know and some you don’t. It’s great to see a pic of the lovely Padma without Tom Colicchio’s fat head next to her for once. "Noticed how people that are "sort of famous" are [...]

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Live-Quessay: Top Chef Season 4 Premiere »

Scott Shrake

Is it my imagination, or does Padma Lakshmi now pronounce her name all foreign-sounding all of a sudden? Is (the exquisite) Spike Mendelsohn a Scorpio or what? What was with the awesome death gaze he gave the judges when he was in the loser column in the main challenge? Am I allowed to …

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