Chloe Sevigny should get her own comic strip for updating the Bass Weejun Loafer. Come on, if Brown Shoe Company—after purchasing cartoonist Richard F. Outcault’s mischievous character Buster Brown—can send actors out on the road in the first decade of the 20th century, each dressed as Buster (with his little dog too), then why can’t Sevigny have her own? We can only imagine the trouble that the lovable scamp, whose new line of Weejuns is on sale now at Opening Ceremony, would get into. 

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Buckle your seat belts, La Roux’s not your typical day-at-the-races, but then again, neither were the Eurythmics, Depeche Mode or David Bowie, all of who went on to have critically-acclaimed careers.

La Roux’s new single “Bulletproof” debuted at No. 2 on Billboard’s Heatseekers Chart. It went to No. 1 in England. So what does all this mean? Hot. Red Hot. Plus isn’t it refreshing to learn, in a world where contest-driven TV shows seem to be the only way to get head, that a band—talent, touring, perseverance and all—can still make it to No. 1.

But what makes La Roux —playing tonight at the Highline Ballroom—thrilling? Could it be the fact that feisty front woman, Elly Jackson, sports a signature copper-red pompadour and dresses in vintage clothes; or that she, at 21 (along with partner Ben Langmaid), actually writes her own songs, melody and all; or perhaps it has something to do with the fact that she sang in her school choir. I had the great opportunity of asking her myself.

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Playboy magazine is trading in its notorious bunny ears this month for a famous blue beehive. The November edition of Playboy will feature centerfold Marge Simpson posing semi-nude, nipple and all. Really!

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Upon entering the Baruch Performing Arts Center, audience members are confronted with four white draping panel backdrops with the words and teachings—namely the Pali canon—of the Buddha. It’s an appropriate introduction for The Buddha Play, a 90-minute crash course in Buddhism written and performed by Evan Brenner. 

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“I think it may have something to do with the joint I smoked…” Madonna said on Late Night with David Letterman, when confronted about her behavior from a prior interview and now coming out about smoking pot is trendy.

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"I’m fucked, have only 120 bucks, my kid hasn’t eating a decent meal, and I’m getting evicted [from the Mercer Hotel]," our dream date Courtney Love reportedly claims. Love may be taking a financial nose dive, but that hasn’t stopped her from getting her hair done at Sally Hershberger Downtown, which isn't exactly known for its cheap prices. Sally herself uses phrases like "$800 haircut" and "$3,000 hair extensions" when referring to her salon. And it was just last week that we saw Courtney's gorgeous daughter, hard-to-believe-she's-a-teenager Frances Bean Cobain, purchasing expensive cappuccinos at Joe The Art of Coffee in West Chelsea. Hey Courtney, maybe you should hit your daughter up for a loan.

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“You will eat your babies,” and “Bitch burger” were just some of the anti-Semitic slurs that were thrown outside Park Slope and Cobble Hill synagogues this weekend. The fundamentalist Westboro Baptist Church—a Kansas-based religious sect that regularly protests Jews, gays and President Obama—thought it might be cool to spew hatred amidst the Jewish high holy days. But they were wrong.

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There have been occasions where the work at a museum makes us want to hang ourselves, but never like this! Over the weekend, artist Mat Benote was able to sneak into the Brooklyn Museum and hang his artwork in the museum’s contemporary art section during peak hours without notice.

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I wonder if Ashley Alexandre Dupre ever took out a loan to buy a home or paid her taxes. And if so, would she have used ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), the nation’s largest grassroots community organization of low--and moderate--income people. Probably not… she was too high end. But not all prosties can say the same.

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