The Stir, 12/28/11

CafeMom blog

I can get over the hilarious fact that foodie Guy Fieri has his own jewelry line. What I can't get over is how gaudy all of it is.

Pandora Boxx, 12/28/11

Drag queen, comedian and reality TV personality

I've certainly got my work cut out for me for 2012! But I feel like with enough determination and homemade moonshine and the right pair of heels, anything is possible. Here's to all of you having a wonderful new year.

Traver Rains, 12/28/11

Fashion designer, T. Rains

Charlotte Robinson, 12/28/11

Broadcast journalist and host, 'OUTTAKE VOICES'

I have been fortunate for the last three years to have Kate Clinton (our favorite gay political humorist) participate in our LGBT year-end review and chat about what the new year will bring our LGBT community.

Laurence Watts, 12/27/11

Freelance journalist and founding member, Servicemembers United's Campaign for Military Partners

During this month, journalists do one of two things: write an article summing up the main events of the year almost gone, or write a forward-looking piece about the year to come. 2011 was a great year for the LGBT community, but I think 2012 is going to be even better.

Scott Mendelson, 12/27/11

Film Critic at Mendelson's Memos, Valley Scene Magazine

Topping the box office was the wide release of Mission: Impossible: Ghost Protocol, which earned $29 million over the Friday-to-Sunday portion, with $61.3 million between the Wedneday-Monday six-day wide opening.

Mitch Rofsky, 12/27/11

CEO, The Better World Club; Chair, New Voice of Business

PBS' recent broadcast of a two-part biography on Woody Allen and the encomiums of Chris Rock, Larry David, and many others raises an interesting question: Is Woody Allen the greatest American artist of the past 50 years?

Kristin McCracken, 12/27/11

Editor, TribecaFilm.com

As his 10th feature film hits VOD, the indie pioneer talks about marriage, distribution, and his "puzzling" way of making movies.

Alex Horsey, 12/24/11

16-year-old Editor at Wilson High School's Statesman

Though I've grown out of Disney programming, I will not be happy with the network until they issue a formal, public apology.

Vicky Tiel, 12/27/11

Designer

Elizabeth Taylor's New Year's Eve at Home, during our "fun years" in the sixties, consisted of family, fashion, and food.

Jason Stuart, 12/27/11

Actor and comedian

I have had 35 years of people telling me the limits of casting me because I am gay, when really the limits are in their own vision.

Shannon Melnyk, 12/24/11

The songstress joined Kris Kringle in boarding the train from New South Wales into the Outback to perform free concerts in rarely visited communities.

Lance Bass, 12/23/11

Singer, actor, producer, writer, entrepreneur and philanthropist

I'm sorry to anyone who was offended or hurt by my use of the word "trannies" while appearing earlier this week on Access Hollywood Live. Let me share what I have learned in the last 24 hours.

Marlo Thomas, 12/23/11

Award-winning actress; Author; Activist

Here's what my merry Christmas contingent had to say about their favorite memories. Enjoy!

Dan Mirvish, 12/23/11

Director, screenwriter, author

As the awards season brings a renewed -- and mostly well-deserved -- attention to the film Bridesmaids, I feel it might be worth revisiting.

Laura Prudom, 12/22/11

Associate Television Editor, The Huffington Post

We kicked off with a supremely awkward group number (what else is new?) in which the final 12 performed Lady Gaga's "The Edge of Glory" with no discernable sense of timing or harmony. Thankfully, some enterprising individual backstage made certain that Lakoda Rayne's microphones were turned down, but there was no disguising how shaky Chris Rene sounded and Rachel Crow pretty much shouted her lines. An inauspicious start, to say the least.

Oyster, 12/23/11

Celebrities have been spotted canoodling at hot hotels all over the country, so those looking for a hip, modern locale to engage in a little good old-fashioned necking, take note.