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Dita Von Teese: How She Became the Most Famous Stripper in America

See also: *Top 10 Strip Clubs in Los Angeles *Marilyn Monroe's Seven Never-Before-Seen Mostly Nude Photos at Duncan Miller Gallery Dita Von Teese can't remember the first time she took her clothes off for someone. It was probably early on, before she became the queen of burlesque and undressing bec ... More >>

Big Pimpin'

Pimp cups have real players and white kids alike dropping cash

Joey and Anthony Hernandez, the T-Shirt Millionaires

Sift through the sale rack at your local Forever 21 mall store and you may come across a T-shirt with a picture of a girl staring into shards of a mirror. Retailing for $14.90, it is a seemingly edgy but ultimately innocuous shirt. It has no particular brand affiliation, no band or product or compan ... More >>

Academy Awards Losers to Receive Consolation Gift Bag With Crystal Necktie, Stem-Cell Serum, Doggie-Slobber Cleaner -- and More!

Life ain't so bad, in the end​Now now, child. You're way too pretty for tears. What's a promising young starlet like yourself doing way down there in the dumps on such a fine day as the Oscars? Oh, shit -- you lost the Best Actress statue to Natalie Portman? Well, do try to refrain from kinki ... More >>

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Rob Marshall tries to connect the dance numbers

Fugly Furniture & Home Decor: The Moggit Girls Hate Your Eel Coffee Table

​ Joy Zaczyk and Janet Villeneuve are probably thinking what you're thinking whenever you see a fancy-schmancy design item that is too precious for its own good. They are the bloggers behind Moggit. They are unafraid to call out "fugly" furniture when they see it. Snarky is their full-time job ... More >>

Artist Studio Tour: Liz McGrath

It's been a busy year for Liz McGrath. In addition to working as a successful artist, her band, Miss Derringer, has released an album, toured and spent last weekend working on a video. Despite the buzz that the band has earned this year, this weekend, the focus will be on McGrath's whimsical sculptu ... More >>

Truly Terrifying Fashion Accessories: Reid Peppard's Rodent Taxidermy Jewelry

Would you put this guy on your head?​Reid Peppard makes accessories out of taxidermy. Like this, uh, guinea pig (?) hair comb. Peppard also makes rat bowties ("black leather bowtie with medium white rat head" and blue Swarovski crystal eyes) and rat medallions and rat coin purses and pigeon wi ... More >>

Wazuzu Chef Jet Tila Craves a Vegas Version of Thai Town

Jenn GarbeePlenty of Donuts in Vegas for Tila​The sprawling 27-foot-long Swarovski crystal dragon writhing across the dining room wall at Wazuzu, the pan-Asian restaurant in Steve Wynn's recently opened Encore Las Vegas hotel, appears rather famished. Jet Tila, the restaurant's 33-year-old exe ... More >>

Whatever Happened to Judith Lieber? Crystal Clutches for Cougars

Remember Judith Lieber? Her thousand-dollar Swarovski crystal-encrusted clutch purses were all the rage a decade ago or so. Her aesthetic is still raging hard in Las Vegas, mostly among the cougar set. Pictured here above (before the sales lady at the Bellagio, herself a cougar, politely stopped m ... More >>

Bees, Bees, Llamas & Squirrel Dioramas

Artist Kyle Ng's exhibit "We Hear It All" is ongoing at FLUX in Venice until July 18. He's done up the space into a "pop-up natural history museum" with taxidermy dioramas, animal sculptures, bee artifacts, fake snow, a baby llama, honeycombs, a telescope, a mouse fetus and squirrels. This is a cl ... More >>

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Edited by Kateri Butler