Sex, Drugs, Ratt & Roll: My Life in Rock Hits The Shelves With A Bang. (Several, Actually).

I came of age in Southern California in the middle of the 1980's Sunset Strip Hair Metal era. And what an era it was. My teenage years were spent in small clubs watching,...

This Saturday is a big day for Vincent Van Gogh geeks like me. For this day is the 160th anniversary of the birth of our beloved and misunderstood hero. But what to do when the world's largest collection of works by Van Gogh (housed fittingly at Amsterdam's Van...

I like to think that I'm the first to notice, love, and highlight a fantastic new phenomenon that's out there: beautiful, young and brilliant women who specialize and punditize on all things morbid. Have you noticed this yet? No? Do pay attention:

It was my experience with the great Caitlin...

Back around the 1960s (well before my birth, thankyouverymuch), Playboy magazine used to feature a cartoon character called Little Annie Fanny. Look it up. Kristin Davis, the ex "Manhattan Madam" and would-be Mayor of New York City is like a real life Fanny and the epitome of a blond bombshell...all...

Qui vi faccio una confessione - non sono sicuro se molti miei amici ne siano mai stati a conoscenza - ma lo dichiaro qui, finalmente, con orgoglio, e per la cronaca (quel che appunto faccio per voi su Huffington Post!):

Sono un vero Durannie.

Durannie: parola definita dall'Urban Dictionary come...

Here's a confession for you -- I am not sure many of my friends even know this -- but I will state here finally, proudly, and for the record (the things I do for you, HuffPost):

I am a total Durannie.

(Durannie: defined by the trusty Urban Dictionary...

Want to be famous?

Want to die for art?

That's nice. Acclaimed director and producer Jeffrey Schwarz isn't asking people to go quite that far, but he has launched a public campaign this week to secure the final round of funding for his efforts to shoot the likes of...

"Twenty-one years after his death, Freddie Mercury is still very much alive. He influences and enlightens new generations of musicians and fans alike. He will always be unique. He will always be the greatest - and he will never, ever be boring. And now I want to cry." - Rhys...

"Like so many of life's varieties of experience, the novelty of a diagnosis of malignant cancer has a tendency to wear off. The thing begins to pall, even to become banal. One can become quite used to the specter...

"The main function of the museum has been to serve as a pedestal upon which a clique of socialites pose as patrons of the arts" -Dr. Albert C. Barnes

And so it has happened. Despite the heroic, award-winning film expose Art of The Steal, protests from a

Her trademark wrap-around braid gone, her body covered in bruises from alleged mistreatment by prison guards, and her spirit seemingly weakened by untreated, debilitating back pain and several days of hunger strike -- the woman we've seen in the news this week barely resembles Yulia Tymoshenko - -the passionate, thoughtful...

I perked up when I saw the link while browsing the internet on a train to New York yesterday. "Bert Sugar: An Appreciation," it read. My first thought was that someone must have profiled my old friend, whose name I hadn't seen in print for a...

I love trolling dank antique stores, steamy flea markets, random auctions, awkward estate sales and such. I love the whimsical mental charge I get from the thought that if I just stick it out long enough, I'll inevitably stumble upon some long-overlooked treasure which will make me richer, more interesting,...

Mortician And Newly-Minted Internet Sensation Caitlin Doughty Wants To Radically Change How We Think About Death, Dying And The Funeral Industry

Though I am obviously not of the target demographic, Jezebel -- A Gawker Media property that offers "Celebrity, Sex, Fashion for Women Without Airbrushing" -- is a mild...

Pixels aren't ink, a screen isn't paper, and an app will never be a book -- nor a wholly suitable replacement for one in my world, at least. That said, "Van Gogh's Dream", a newly-released app from Mnestra, takes digital publishing and its stunning multimedia potential to a level I've...

In a city known for opulence, decadence and big risks, it takes quite a lot to cause a stir. But IZOD IndyCar series CEO Randy Bernard knew that his racing series needed a wager of epic proportions to push aside Wayne Newton and Celine Dion for a weekend, much less...

Remember that Seinfeld episode where Elaine tested positive for opium because she had eaten a poppy seed muffin? Like most Seinfeld episodes, it was hilarious. But real life situations like that are anything but laughing matters, and one is happening now. It's every bit as outrageous as the Seinfeld episode,...

The greatest art theft in history is happening right now in the suburbs of Philadelphia and the odds are that you've never heard of it.

The world's greatest single collection of post-impressionist and early modern art is slated to be moved next year from its purpose-built home in Merion,...