Next time you see a guy wearing his hair in a bun, you can thank the NY Times for being on top of this trend. Because there's a feature on the proliferation of this new 'do: "In certain arty neighborhoods like Williamsburg and Bushwick, some men are twisting their long hair into a form more famously worn by librarians, schoolmarms and Katharine Hepburn. But don’t call the male version an up-do or a chignon. Call it a man bun." more ›

Ever since President Obama revealed his birth certificate, roasted him at the White House Correspondent's Dinner, and announced Osama bin Laden's death, the entire nation has made a tacit agreement to collectively wipe Donald Trump from our memories. But now that his poll numbers have sunk like the Titanic, we can all focus on the important questions and issues which really define Trump, such as: how does he get his hair like that? more ›

A couple of weeks ago, Diddy's PR blitz took a turn for the worse when a model sitting in a bathtub managed to set her hair on fire at his album launch party. But Diddy, always the gentleman, is now planning on paying for her hair repair! TMZ reports that he called the model, Miyoki Jones, after the party to see how she was doing, and promised to foot the bill no matter what. Even if it costs $1,000, which TMZ estimates it will. more ›

Much has been made of UGG Boots spokesman Tom Brady's absurd hairstyle—seriously, what a terrible haircut—with most onlookers guessing that the 'do is due to a bald spot up top. And as Monday's game between the Patriots and Gang Green approaches, it's hard not enjoy the schadenfreude piling onto the player's not-so-luscious locks. Earlier this week the Boston Herald spotted Brady outside of a hair transplant outfit in Rhode Island (which isn't the first time Mr. Gisele Bundchen has been seen near such a business). And now Rogaine is offering the very wealthy player a three-months free supply of their product. Somehow we suspect he won't be taking it. Not that there is anything wrong with a bald quarterback. more ›

We tend to keep our hair nice and short, partially because it absolves us of a lot of hassle, and partially because of our receding hairline. So we've never had to worry about going to special hair care places for styling and such. And though we're sometimes jealous that we may never get to whip our hair around in the middle of a mosh pit, we're mostly grateful to not have to worry about or someone burning our bodies with scalding water while braiding our hair. more ›

Today NY1 anchor Pat Kiernan (also head honcho of Pat's Papers) divulged that he does his own hair and makeup every day prior to being on air, and before you've even had your breakfast, slacker. Naturally, we had to find out what kind of tips Kiernan could give us—below, he delivers: more ›

A few days ago, Randy Moss finally had the courage to tell Tom Brady what everyone was thinking: you look like a girl. And the nation's stylists agree! In a feature imagining NFL Quarterbacks with different hairdos, the Wall Street Journal shows a few professional stylists a photo of Tom Brady with a short buzzcut and one with his new, flowing mane. Stylist Rodney Cutler said, "Looks good, but he's trying too hard to be stylish. Relax." more ›

The Daily News seems a little concerned about a hairstyle that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sported over the weekend: Noting that she's "had more hair styles than a beauty-school dummy," the tabloid said, "The secretary of state's chic coif was nowhere to be seen as she arrived at the United Nations over the weekend with her hair clipped back" and then generously added, "It was a more severe look than usual, but showed off some earrings that matched her vibrant blue suit." Now, we don't want to get into a whole style argument, but the butterfly clip is maybe too distracting. more ›

If you had to do the whole Desert Island List thing but instead of your favorite albums you had to bring cast members of The Real Housewives of New Jersey, you would probably just choose the solitude scenario that made Tom Hanks befriend a volleyball in Castaway because those are some crazy bitches on that show. In this week's very special episode, we see a chinchilla-clad Teresa Giudice chase after drama-whore Danielle Staub as she tries to escape Guidice's Mean Girl mind games, which, let's be honest, never had a chance at working. more ›

Big Broadway news this week, people! Brace for Elf, Evita, Spidey (yes, still happening!), Funny Girl and Annie. And say goodbye to the successful revival of Hair, which was not specifically too good anyway. Click on the images here for all the fabulous details. Also, as you no doubt know, the Tony Awards will be broadcast Sunday night—you can watch the red carpet and Creative Arts Tonys between 6 and 8 p.m. via webcast on Tonys.com, and then the show is broadcast on CBS starting at 8 p.m. more ›

Ahh, the things New York women will justify spending money on. The latest trend: $10,000 hair extensions from Gemini 14, the upscale downtown salon beautifully coiffed celebrities like Miley Cyrus frequent. But Park Slope resident Brandi Irwin takes the cake for extravagance, estimating she spends over $47,000 a year for extensions and coloring. She told the Post, "Without the hair, I’m this normal average person. But with it, I walk around the corner, and it’s like there’s a wind machine on me. It’s like I’ve stepped off the pages of a centerfold." more ›

The Times's "On the Runway" blog is reporting on the latest trend to go with potbellies and foodie yoga: gray hair! It seems celebrities and fashionistas everywhere are going silver for spring. Manhattan salon Whittemore House started getting requests for gray streaks about six month ago, with owner Victoria Hunter saying, “When one gets on the bandwagon, they all do.” Not in the fashion world! more ›

Last night, at the annual Inner Circle show, Mayor Bloomberg left this business attire for the hippie-stylings of Hair, as he spoofed the past year of his mayoralty in Mair: 3 Terms of Peace and Music. But it's possible that he was overshadowed by his special guests—Snooki and The Situation. Snooki was excited by the prospect of meeting Bloomberg: She Tweeted, "Enjoying some wine and waiten to fist pump with Mayor B!! He double fist pumps lmao!" The Situation was so thrilled he took off his shirt! more ›

In 1967, the Public Theater's production of Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical hit the theater world like a martini spiked with mescaline. The show's sensational embrace of the sixties counterculture struck a nerve with hippies and squares alike, and the production ran for four years on Broadway, garnering two Tony award nominations (but losing to 1776, of all things, in both categories). Some four decades, three Woodstocks, and one 40 Year Old Virgin later, the quintessential rock musical is back on Broadway, following a critically-acclaimed run at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park last summer. Judging by the packed houses at the Al Hirschfeld theater, the Age of Aquarius still has considerable cross-generational appeal, and this month the production accomplished the seemingly impossible: recouping its entire $5,760,000 investment, becoming one of the fastest recouping musicals in Broadway history. more ›

If you're by Columbus Circle today you can get some free food with Hair! The cast of the hit Broadway revival will be performing at 12:45 to launch NYC's summer Restaurant Week at The Shops at Columbus Circle in the Time Warner Center. And if a stirring rendition of the show's popular "Sodomy" ditty isn't enough to pique your interest, be advised that the free event also includes free lunch: Five NYC Restaurant Week eateries—Tribeca Grill, Porter House New York, Spice Market, Bice Ristorante and DB Bistro Moderne—will be offering free tastings from noon to 2 p.m. (Free Coca-Cola, too, people!) Reservations are now being taken for Restaurant Week, which takes place from July 12th through July 31st, excluding Saturdays. (Some restaurants offer the deal on Sundays.) Prices at participating restaurants are $24.07 for three-course prix-fixe lunches and $35 for three-course prix-fixe dinners (excluding beverage, tax and gratuity). Peruse the full list of restaurants here, and head on over to the Time Warner Center (Broadway at 60th Street) now to crack wise about finding hair in your food. (NYC GO has a handy Twitter feed, too.) more ›

It comes as no surprise that model Cindy Guyer would bring the same stormy passion to her husband's fraud trail as she does to the covers of such indispensable romance novels as Tiger Dance and Desire's Song. So last week there was major drama when Guyer showed up at husband Andrew Catapano's trial (the construction honcho is charged with bribing union officials) and spotted his new girlfriend sitting in the front row. more ›

The Public Theater has busted up a group of "professional line sitters" who've been queuing up for hours every day to get free tickets to Hair in Central Park, then selling them through Craigslist for $150 a pair. one ticket-ring mastermind, William Conklin, tells the Times he was shooed away a couple weeks ago, along with 30 other others (including several people he subcontracts to wait for tickets). Public Theater employees became suspicious after seeing the same people "over and over again" on line, and began checking to see if they actually attended the performances. Artistic Director Oskar Eustis defended the move, insisting that free theater “means that your time and presence — waiting in line — matters more than your money. In our commodity-obsessed money culture, that’s a vital civic touchstone. Some things shouldn’t be measured in dollars.” Tickets for Hair are available through the Public Theater website for $160 each. more ›

MSNBC has a long trend-piece about how increasingly younger girls are getting bikini waxing. How young? Well, Wanda Stawczyk, who runs Wanda's European Skin Care on West 57th Street, offers discounts for clients as young as 8, and she says pre-teen business is booming, telling the Post that "in 10 years waxing children will be like taking them to the dentist or putting braces on their teeth." Her company’s website says it all:

"Virgin-waxing for children 8 years old and up who have never shaved before. Virgin hair can be waxed so successfully that growth can be permanently stopped in just 2 to 6 sessions. Save your child a lifetime of waxing... and put the money in the bank for her college education instead

If you happen to be reading this in East Harlem, you’ve got a good shot at getting quick tickets to the Shakespeare in the Park revival of that ‘60s rock musical HAIR – you know, the one with that song "Age of Aquarius" from The 40 Year Old Virgin. The Public Theater is giving away vouchers for free tickets in all five boroughs through Saturday – today they’re at the El Museo Del Barrio (1230 5th Ave @ 104th Street) until 3 p.m. Sure, tickets are free anyway, but there's (theoretically) not such a crazy line for these. Just check the website for all the uptight, 21st century details about what “voucher” means to those squares at the Public. more ›

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a pedestrian was struck on Wythe and Metropolitan Ave. in Brooklyn, an overturned police car on Gun Hill Rd. in the Bronx, and a bank robbery on Austin Rd. in Queens.
• Joseph Jirovec, one of the teenagers accused of the Hannukah Q train hate crime, says that he and his friends were the victims. He said the fight began only after a racial slur was directed at one of his party and a knife was brandished towards them.
• A commission established by Gov. Spitzer is recommending that the SUNY system of public universities in New York be allowed to vary tuition from school to school and raise tuitions without authorization from the state legislature.
• A commercial laundry worker found a discarded fetus among bed sheets collected from a Brooklyn hospital.
• The father of a teenager testified that he didn't mean to shoot another young man when he pulled a gun on him at his home, but that he was attempting to protect his son and the gun went off when the other man tried to grab it from him.
• A 59-year-old Queens woman got her hair cut for the first time in 45 years.
• The MTA is increasing the frequency of service on the L train over the weekends starting tomorrow. Expanded weekday service on the 7 train is scheduled to begin Monday.
• Why don't pregnant women tip over? The Times reports.

Jaded gourmands looking to spice up their New Year’s Eve dining experience might be interested in the Dark Dining event at the West Village French bistro Camaje. The four course dinner is designed to accommodate a small gathering of guests who, upon arrival, don featherweight blindfolds for the duration of the prix fixe meal, which features wine pairings and mysterious performances between courses. While you surrender to the dark side, a team of attentive servers... more ›

It's all in an Upper West Side day for the Material Girl! The tabloids have reported that Madonna is suing her co-op, claiming the board blocked her attempt to buy a neighbor's apartment. Madonna has a 6,000 square foot apartment at Harperley Hall at 41 Central Park West - a duplex with hair salon and gym. The summons filed in Manhattan Supreme Court accuses the board and Midboro Management of "breach of contract...and orders... more ›

The reviews are in for the $180 million production of The Golden Compass, and they’re lackluster at best, which is a pity not just for fans of the novel from which it’s adapted but for New Line Cinema, which was banking on another Lord of the Rings cash cow. Times critic Manohla Dargis calls it flawed and cluttered, although her description of Nicole Kidman ought to sway any dudes reluctant to see a movie starring... more ›

NY Times restaurant critic Frank Bruni, he of the fast-food cross-country road trip (he swears by Chick-Fil-A, which has but one local outpost in NYU’s food court), has revealed more of his inner workings in a recent interview with website Refinery 29. For starters, Bruni eschews a big breakfast because of all his professional eating burdens throughout the day. On most mornings he strolls over to Levain Bakery and picks up a baguette with butter... more ›

If you were going to read about the fatal stabbing of a 30-year-old Brooklyn man in, say, the NY Times, you'd only learn that the suspect was a woman with a history of mental disturbances. But if you read about the killing of Aleksey Kats in the NY Post and Daily News, then you'd know that Kats' wife Elina and the suspect, Anastasiya Andreyeva, were lovers and that the three had been engaged in an... more ›

We knew open houses were fun for some people, but they offer goods ripe for the stealing. Last weekend, an Upper West Side apartment, where a real estate broker was holding an open house, was robbed by a pair of thieves posing as potential buyers. Prudential Douglas Elliman vice president Heddings posted about the devious crime on Monday on TrueGotham, noting that when the broker confronted the pair, they panicked and dropped "most but... more ›

Photo via Hamevugar's Flickr. The Brooklyn Museum housed a Ron Mueck exhibit that we pointed out last year and CubeMe just reported on. The exhibition, now closed, included "about 15 mixed media works on loan from the artist’s collection, major museums, and private collections..that explore the ambiguous relationship between reality and artifice, creating figures that express the contradictions between the real world and the imaginary. The figures seem to be alive: every detail -... more ›