CBGB West 2: NYC Punk Pioneers & Their Music
Kristian HoffmanNext Saturday night, my old pal, CBGB veteran Kristian Hoffman celebrates New York punk pioneers and their music, aided by his musician friends from the original scene in NYC, and his...
View ArticleWatch Now: WOWPresents Weekly Video Recap
Here’s what you missed this week on WOWPresents! Get all caught up before this week’s new episodes! Guuuuuuurl, you’ve got some marathon watching to do. Happy Saturday! And DON’T forget to subscribe to...
View ArticleIt’s Birthday, Bitch
Amy Winehouse Andrew Lincoln Ashley Roberts Ben Cohen Carmen Kass Dan Cortese Faith Ford Jessica Brown Findlay Joey Heatherton Katie Lee Kimberly Williams- Paisley Melissa Leo Michelle Stafford Morten...
View ArticleToo Soon?: Lady Bunny Roasts, Uh, Remembers Joan Rivers…
Well, it’s just been a week since Joan’s funeral, so that’s long enough to wait to make jokes, right? (Joan would have given it 24 hours, maybe) As she was THE Queen of the inappropriate joke, to...
View ArticleTheater 80: Snow White & the Seven Bottoms, Starring Varla Jean Merman
Hey, kids, it’s a BRAND NEW Fall show from the Gold Dust Orphans. All your fairy tale dreams come true as they bring you an all new musical adventure set in uncircumcised Germany! Look out, New York,...
View ArticleIt’s the WOW Report Longer Reads Section!
Welcome to our Sunday morning Longer Reads section. It’s your chance to catch up on some of the more interesting and obscure news items you might have missed. This week: Facebook cracks down on drag...
View ArticleMariah Carey Gets a Makeover By Monroe
Mariah Carey’s daughter Monroe is starting early with her diva lessons, after all her mom is one of the biggest divas in town. Let us not forget that Mariah does have her cosmetology license. Sidebar:...
View ArticleBinge-Watching: Kath & Kim Are My New Obsession
I know. This might not be news to you. I’m late to the party in discovering Kath & Kim, the hilarious Australian sitcom. The antithesis of AbFab, K & K celebrates the feuding mother and...
View ArticleGuess What?: Twin Brothers Come Out To Their Parents – On YouTube
Today is my little brother’s birthday. Happy birthday, Tad! (He’s 50! I’m older. Don’t ask, don’t tell.) The reason I mention it here is that we both are gay. I remember very vividly coming out to my...
View ArticleQuote Unquote: Bill Murray On Being (Buddha) Bill Murray
Bill Murray and his St. Vincent co-star Melissa McCCarthy. No idea why he’s soaking wet, but THIS is further evidence that he’s ALWAYS in the moment. Last Friday was “Bill Murray Day” at the Toronto...
View ArticleWiig Out: Welcome To Me Is A “Mental Illness Comedy”?
The new film starring Kristin Wiig Welcome To Me, just premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and it has me SO intrigued. I don’t want to see a frame of it before I sit down in a theater watch it...
View ArticleFlashback: Joan Rivers Roasts Lady Bunny
If you saw my post yesterday of an upset Lady Bunny “remembering” Joan Rivers (along with a few other targets) you know that she gave it to her with both barrels. And just so you know that there WAS a...
View ArticleTOMORROW: Drag Queens to March on Facebook HQ, Protesting “Real Names” Policy
If you’re in the San Francisco area tomorrow, I urge you to join the march against Facebook, protesting their diabolical new “real names” policy. At 9:30am, meet at the Castro Safeway to get on the...
View ArticleToo Soon? Urban Outfitters Sells Fake Blood Splattered Sweatshirt from Kent...
Urban Outfitters is selling faux-vintage “blood-splattered” Kent State sweatshirts, referencing the 1970 shooting that left four dead. (Random fun fact: My grandmother was Dean of Women’s Colleges at...
View ArticleRyan Serhant Shuts Down Time Square to Propose to Fiancée Emilia Bechrakis
Sorry ladies and gentlemen, Ryan Serhant is taken OFFICIALLY! 7AM this past Sunday, Million Dollar Listing New York‘s Ryan Serhant, literally shut down Time Square in New York to propose to his...
View ArticleGroundskeeper Willie Weighs in on Scottish Independence
Opinion polls have put the pro-independence and pro-union camps neck-and-neck in the run-up to Thursday’s referendum. To help sway voters, The Simpsons‘ resident Scotsman has thrown his support behind...
View ArticleThe First Ever Tsunami Flip in Mountain Bike Competition
What’s going on here, you ask? Why would James care about some mountain bike contest? Isn’t that a tad… hetero for the WOW Report? Well yes and no. Far be it to me to pooh pooh a sport that’s nothing...
View ArticleSoft Robot Slithers Through Fire and Gets Run Over By a Car – And Continues...
Skynet called. They want their Terminator T-800 prototype back. Harvard University has created an unnerving soft quadrupedal robot whose “silicone body is innately resilient to a variety of adverse...
View ArticleCheck Out these Pop Art Portraits of the RDR Girls By Sham Ibrahim!
Bianca! Sharon! Raven! Alaska! and Jinkx! In all their garish glory! Check the faaaaaabulous portraits after the jump. And don’t forget to come to Sham’s opening night gala at the World of Wonder...
View ArticleTransformations: Mariah Balenciaga’s MUG4DAYZ
Yes, GAWD! RuPaul’s Drag Race Season Three LEGEND Mariah Balenciaga joins us in the Transformation studio today to BEAT MY FACE INTO OBLIVION! The end result is somewhere between Marlene Dietrich in...
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