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Rihanna Leads the Way With Amazing Women For Glamour

PopSugar — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:25:19 -0800

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Rihanna and Stella Join Fellow Women of Year

PopSugarUK — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:38:31 -0800

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Halle, John, Padma, and Adrian Have a Ball Together

PopSugar — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:13:19 -0700

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The Red Carpet Gets a Dose of Bumps, Black and Purple

PopSugar — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 20:59:50 -0700

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Padma Lakshmi Brings Fashion and Food Together

partysugar — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:09:49 -0700

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Cool Idea: Hanging Furniture For Your Home

CasaSugar — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:00:36 -0700

When furnishing this year's Hampton Designer Showhouse, Manhattan-based interior designer Brad Ford made the unusual, and delightful, decision to replace sofas with porch swings. Inspired by Ford's out-of-the-box decision, I decided to check out some other hanging furniture that would look great on the inside of your home. While some of the choices are classics, others are definitely a bit more unusual. In every case, though, these hanging chairs and swings add an element of whimsy and excitement to the rooms in which they are placed.
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Meet Your Top Chef Sin City Contestants!

partysugar — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:47:31 -0700

The moment you've been waiting for is here. The contestants for the sixth - and according to Gail Simmons, "I've never eaten better on the show," best - season have been announced. This time around there are 17 chefs who will duke it out in Las Vegas. Guest judges include Wolfgang Puck, Natalie Portman, and Tyler Florence, among others. Set your TiVos: the first episode debuts on Aug. 26. Here you can find a first taste of the competitors – there's one Euro, and brothers!
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2008's Best Moments at Aspen Food & Wine

YumSugar — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 05:50:09 -0700

As I mentioned yesterday, Party and I are headed to Aspen this weekend for what is considered the food industry's biggest gathering of the year. Before we report back with inspiring moments and witty words from this year's gustatory fest, I wanted to take a look back at the best that Aspen had to offer last year.

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Padma Lakshmi's Jewelry Line Debuts Tomorrow

partysugar — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:16:35 -0700

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Paris and Doug Aim For the A-List With Bravo

PopSugar — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 08:59:51 -0700

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A Starry November Night To Keep Children Alive in NYC

PopSugar — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:51:34 -0800

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Celebs Can't Contain Their Election Night Excitement

PopSugar — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:15:15 -0800

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YumSugar's Top 10 Things Found in Aspen

YumSugar — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:56:38 -0700

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Let's Dish: Top Chef 4.14 - In It for the Win

YumSugar — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:45:13 -0700

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Chefs Get Glamourous For Bravo's A-List Awards

partysugar — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:00:46 -0700

On Wednesday night, Bravo hosted their first-ever award show, the "A-List Awards" honoring those who have made a significant impact on the arts - beauty, design, fashion, food, pop culture - that are featured on the network's shows. Although the awards won't be televised until June 12, you're in luck because I have a sneak peek! Along with the judges Tom Collichio, Padma Lakshimi, Gale Simmons, and Ted Allen, the majority of this season's Top Chef contestants and some from seasons past were present at the event. This award show was hosted by Kathy Griffin who gave awards to the "A-List Chef" and "A-List Restaurant," but as far as I'm concerned, the highlight was seeing the chefs out of the kitchen and on the red carpet!

To take a closer look at the chefs including Daniel Boulud, Jose Andres, Rocco DiSpirito, Brian Malarkey, Dale Levistsky, Dana Corwin, and all of your faves from Top Chef Season 4 - read more.

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Chefs Get Glamourous For Bravo's A-List Awards

partysugar — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:28:03 -0700

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Let's Dish: Top Chef 4.11 - The War Is On!

YumSugar — Wed, 21 May 2008 23:56:44 -0700

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FiFi's Fragrances Attract the PYTs

PopSugar — Wed, 21 May 2008 13:30:30 -0700

We're sad to see our favorite TV shows head to hiatus for another Summer, but luckily the stars of the small screen are still coming out to play in Hollywood. Last night Alyson Hannigan, Minka Kelly, and Taylor Momsen got dolled up for the 36th Annual FiFi Awards in NYC. The ladies helped honor the night's big winners, which included Daisy Marc Jacobs and Intimately Beckham Women. We can see that they looked gorgeous in their springtime dresses, and something tells us that the lovely ladies smelled just as sweet.

More pics including Padma Lakshmi, Vera Wang, and Nikki Blonsky, so just read more.

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Images Include: Alyson Hannigan, Aubrey O'Day, Bernadette Peters, Zac Posen, Cheryl James, Sandra Denton, Dana Delaney, Cynthia Rowley, Danity Kane, Ernest Borgnine, Tova Borgnine, Kim Raver, Nikki Blonsky, Minka Kelly, Matthew Modine, Taylor Momsen, Padma Lakshmi, Sean Avery, Vera Wang, Shannon Bex

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Gwyneth, Elizabeth, Elton & More Think Hottest Pink Ever

Molly — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 06:03:00 -0700

From one charity event right to another, Gwyneth Paltrow is on a giving roll this week! She was looking just gorgeous at last night's Hottest Pink Party Ever thrown by the Breast Cancer Research Foundation in NYC. She was joined in pinkness (which we obviously love around here) by Elizabeth Hurley among others. Elton John, who has long been a supporter of the event, performed in honor of his friend Linda Stein who recently passed away. Big gold stars to everyone in attendance at last night's event, especially those looking fierce (yes Christian was there, too) in the hottest pink ever.

To see more from the party including Tommy Hilfiger, Padma Lakshmi, Christian Siriano, Rocco DiSpirito just read more

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Images include: Gwyneth Paltrow, Tommy Hilfiger, Elizabeth Hurley, Padma Lakshmi, Carson Kressley, Evelyn Lauder, Arun Nayar, Rocco DiSpirito, Donna Karan, Christian Siriano, Aerin Lauder Zinterhofer, Katrina Bowden, Deborah Norville

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For Charlize, It's Not Easy Pretending to Be Ugly

PopSugar — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 13:30:50 -0700

Charlize glowed in gold (with a questionable hairstyle) alongside her co-star Nick Stahl at a screening of Sleepwalking in NYC last night. In the past few years she's earned a bit of a reputation for choosing roles that hide her beauty, and her newest film fits right in with the trend. According to the actress, her character's appearances don't have any impact on how she picks her parts, saying,

"At the end of the day, it isn’t about what I physically look like - it comes back to storytelling. If I can find a good story, [that] is all that matters; I don’t judge a character on what I physically look like. I really don't care about appearance; that is so secondary to everything else that's more important in life."

Charlize has vented her frustrations about getting picked on for her movie choices more than once, but somehow it's hard to feel bad for someone who wakes up looking like that in the morning.

Lots more pics including Padma Lakshmi, Carson Kressley, and Terrence Howard, so just read more

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Images include: Charlize Theron, Nick Stahl, Terrence Howard, Padma Lakshmi, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Carson Kressley, Skeet Ulrich, Milena Govich, Tinsley Mortimer, Dean Winters, Salman Rushdi, Andrew Saffir

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The Tasting Villages at This Year's SOBE Festival

YumSugar — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:34:25 -0800

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Blonde Parade at Young Collectors Council Ball

Molly — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:22:57 -0800

Some hot young blondes came out in NYC last night for the Guggenheim Young Collectors Council Artist's Ball hosted by Chloe. Blake Lively looked great, as usual, helping Chace fill our Gossip Girl fix for this rerun week. One half of your favorite platonic TV duo of the year, Becki Newton looked hot other than those boots. Fab's got the look for you (with a better choice of footwear). Meanwhile, not Piper Perabo's best look at all. I'm sure a few fashion mishaps didn't get in the way of any sort of good time had by all the lovely ladies.

To see more from the event including Padma Lakshmi, Erin Fetherston, Emily Mortimer and others just read more

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Images include Amy Sacco, Leelee Sobieski, Feist, Padma Lakshmi, Erin Fetherston, Blake Lively, Becki Newton, Emily Mortimer, Elettra Rossellini Wiedemann, Paulo Melim Anderson, Blake Lively, Jacquetta Wheeler, Piper Perabo, Julia Restoin-Roitfeld and Natalia Vodianova.

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The Live Action Top Chef Cook-Off Results Are In!

YumSugar — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 06:58:31 -0700

Yesterday, to kick off New York's Restaurant Week, Bravo TV hosted a cook-off pitting season 2 crowd-favorite Sam Talbot against season 2 winner Ilan Hall. I was really hoping that Sam would show everyone that the wrong winner was chosen, but as it turns out, Ilan won the cook-off with a softshell crab dish. His winning dish, which beat out a quail entrée from Sam, will be tentatively added to some of the top restaurants' menu during restaurant week.

Also present at the event were Top Chef judges Tom Colicchio, Padma Lakshmi and the cast of Season 3 (which starts tonight!).

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Top Chef 4 Star All Stars Recap

YumSugar — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:20:59 -0700

Last night Top Chef kicked off its new season with an All Star battle that pitted season one chefs against season two. On the season one team we had Harold, Stephen (oh how I missed his condescending smug attitude), Tiffani and Dave - surprisingly absent was Leanne, but she couldn't participate because she is now Bravo TV's food producer). The season two team consisted of fan favorite Sam, Elia, Marcel and Ilan. The two teams were going head to head and the team with the most wins contributed $20,000 to their favorite charity.

Overall it was a bit lackluster - there was no drama unfolding, as no one was getting kicked off, and all the food looked delicious - however it was fun to see my favorite contestants back in the kitchen. It was definitely a great tease (or should I say amuse-bouche) to lead into season three. There were a few good quotes and I'm sure you guys want to know about the food, and see some pictures. So let's get started, just read more

First of all, I can't get on with any of the recapping without pointing out three things. (1) Marcel rapped, again... (2) was that the Brooklyn bridge carved into Ilan's hair? I'm pretty sure it was and (3) the immersion blender in Ilan's mouth looked a bit... wrong? Oh my, now on to the recap!

The challenge started off with Padma and Chef Tom telling the former contestants that each team needed a team captain. Initially I thought it would be the two winners, but I should have known better! Instead of having the teams pick captains, the captains were chosen by a quickfire challenge! They were presented with two eggs and a large oven mitt. The oven mitt was for them to wear, because Padma tells them that they will be cooking eggs with one hand behind their back. They then cut to Stephen who says, "If you can't cook eggs, you're probably better off not being in the kitchen." I guess no one told those folks in Hell's Kitchen that.

In the end, Stephen wins with a "perfect omelette" and is chosen captain of season one - competing for the Susan G. Komen foundation. And even though his dish was topped with a dollop of saffron foam, Marcel is the runner-up and is chosen as captain for season two - competing for Share Our Strength.

The teams are then told that they're making a four course meal consisting of scallops, lobster, duck and kobe beef. Each team member chooses an ingredient and they will go head-to-head against the other season's chef. The team with the most winning dishes will be the victors.

Up first: Dave vs Elia with scallops - Elia produces two versions both paired with a marmalade, Dave produces a smoked scallop with a tapenade. In the end Elia's wins, although I must admit, I was rooting for Dave.

Next up: Stephen vs Marcel with lobster - Marcel's dish includes both a gelee and a foam (served tableside even!), both of which begin to deflate in the hot Miami heat. Stephen's is immaculately plated and consisted of beautiful saffron tones. Winner? Stephen.

Third course: Harold vs. Ilan with duck - The showdown is on! Season one winner vs season two winner, should be impressive, no? Actually turned out that the judges didn't really love either of them. Harold's was "incomplete" and Ilan's was a mess. In the end incomplete wins over a mess, and I say hurray, because well it's no secret, I heart Harold.

Last up: Tiffani vs Sam with kobe beef: Both dishes looked great, but Tiffani's was the winner. Chef Tom even mentions how nice it is to have her food again.

With a vote of 3-1, season 1 is declared the victor!

If you missed the show, you can check it out later this week (check the Bravo schedule) or stream it over the internet. Also, for a few hysterical comments on last night's show, visit our pals at We Cook, They Dish.

Now for a few of my favorite quotes:

"If the bitch can cook, let him cook!" - Dave about Marcel

"I have way too many people at home watching, I can't go home against this guy." - Harold about Marcel

"I'm so weeded right now." - Marcel

"I don't want to prove myself to these guys anymore." - Dave

"He's KIND OF cute?!?" - Ted Allen about Sam

"Don't read the blogs because you'll find shit on there that you don't want to know about yourself. Stuff that you probably didn't even know about yourself." - Sam

Oh Sam, was it something we said?

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