Christine Bacareza Balance (CBB), Karen Tongson (KT) and Alexandra Vazquez (ATV) are pop culture Ph.Divas, cultural critics and children of the corny who met in The Academy’s undercommons. Their sensibilities were spawned in the transnational suburban hubs of So. Cali and So. Florida. Little did they know the immigrant lovesongs, casio-toned jams and butane anthems of their youth would forever bind them in the fellowship they now call the “Audre Lorde of the Rings.” Oh! Industry is here to challenge all you culture vultures, vinyl taxidermists and prickish poseurs to the muthafukkin’ dance-off of your lives.
11.27.09 A post-Thanksgiving day double whammy: 1. Michael Douglas + lunching in a restaurant across the street from the American Museum of Natural History, and2. Chris Noth + leaving the scene of the Christmas Tree lighting ceremony in Rockefeller Center.
7.7.09 Laura Dern and Courtney Cox + Each taking advantage of the recessionista-friendly prices at West Elm in Santa Monica near the McLukeses.
7.1.09 John Lone + Sexy Chinese screen legend who was both the Last Emperor and M. Butterfly, spotted by UnG and WM dining with his dog at Thai Patio in L.A.'s Thai Town.
6.13.09 Annette Benning + Gnoshing on healthy, Asian fare with her kids at Buddah's Belly in Hollywood next to Neal T--who also shared a snack (or snack area) with Anita Pointer of the Pointer Sisters at the Orlando airport just days before.
4.16.09 Giada de Laurentiis + The lithe Food Network star looked bright-eyed and radiant at 6:30am when she plopped next to CBB, Kangagi and KT on the TSA benches at Terminal 3 in LAX. She even chatted for a brief second when Kangagi said "We love you, Giada."
3.28.09 Elijah Wood + Brunching with an expansive posse including a baby sucking on a lollipop. Our friend Frodo was smoking cigarettes and "wearing girl jeans" at Maxwell's Cafe in Mar Vista, CA within striking distance of GY and TH. Perhaps Elijah was glancing nervously at their table because T is a dead ringer for this season's Idol contestant, Kris Allen.
3.16.09 Spotted: Chace Crawford and Taylor Momsen + The Gossip-worthy pair was spied by JKP at her NYC gym, looking as if they were "post break-up." JKP ran into Chace again 2 days later, as he emerged from her elevator building.
3.10.09 Abject homo preacher, Ted Haggard and his wife, Gayle + At a production of This Beautiful City at the Vineyard Theatre in NYC. Irony alert (from AP who spotted Haggard): This Beautiful City is documentary theatre about the world of Christian evangelicals in Colorado City; many of the characters in the play are based on people involved with Pastor Ted's former church, New Life. The interviews were underway when the Pastor's life came roaring out of the meth-addled closet.
2.21.09 Amber Tamblyn, Sarah Jones and 2 members of Betty + Gnoshing sisterhood style at a brunch with JKP and AP at Gloria Steinem's house.
2.1.09 Natalie Portman + With princess-quality skin, spotted by El Bee walking in Griffith Park with an entourage of 4 white-looking lean hepsters and 2 hand-bag size dogs on a leash
Sandra Oh + Our favorite prime time surgeon, spotted by CBB and JWo nestled into some scruffy white hipster type at the Hollywood Farmer's Market
1.31.09 Ed Westwick + Gossip Girl's sexy scoundrel, Chuck Bass, was spotted strolling on Mr. Schwartz (aka "Robin Thickey")'s block in NYC. 1.1.09 Jeff Lewis + Famed fagacious house-flipper from Bravo's Flipping Out, enjoying a New Year's brunch adjacent to M.E., M.O. and LAP at Dusty's in Silver Lake.
12.24.08 Sandra Bernhard + looking like "gorgeous hell" at Westside Bakery in the Village, NYC, eating lunch alongside JKP after a huge morning shop.
12.19.08 Will.I.Am + Taking in some gay pride with an unidentified lady friend at a screening of MILK at the Arclight, 2 rows in front of KT, Kangagi and Mediasheep (himself a dead ringer for Milk co-star, Emile Hirsch).
12.18.08 The Yeah Yeah Yeahs and feisty Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age + indulging in some late nite karaoke at O!I Headquarters, a.k.a. le Smog Cutter (Virgil Village) with KT, CBB, Kangagi, Mediasheep, Un-G, GY, AM and her sis.
12.17.08 Spotted: Matthew Settle aka "Rufus Humphrey" + running into ATV while filming "edgy" Brooklyn exteriors in Carroll Gardens.
Frankie Avalon + Caught by El Bee, frolicking con familia in the snows of Lake Arrowhead, far from any beach blankets
12.2.08 Spotted: Blake Lively and Penn Badgley + The Gossip Girl lovebirds dined adjacent to another sexy duo, AP and JKP, in an undisclosed romantic resto, NYC.
12.1.08 Jackie Chan + At the LAX baggage claim taking the time to chat with Oh! readers NT and Henry.
Nick Cannon aka "Mr. Mariah Carey" + Dressed in oversized pants and spotted by CBB and Un-G at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza, eLAy.
11.28.08 Charlie Rose and Lou Reed + Spied separately by Klippi and LS over Thanksgiving weekend in NYC. Mr. Rose was at the Spotted Pig and Lou Reed was walking his dog along the Hudson River where KP and LS were jogging.
11.5.08 Wanda Sykes + spotted by KT, Kangagi, CBB, VS & SR retreating to Marix after the first anti-H8 protest in WeHo.
9.16.08 Megan Mulally (aka "Karen Walker" on Will & Grace) + passed up by El Bee on a post-yoga walk down Larchmont
9.07.08 Sean Gunn (aka "Kirk" on the dearly departed Gilmore Girls) + spotted by Scexpatriate getting his caffeine to go from the Coffee Table, Silver Lake
8.17.08 Recently ousted Project Runway contestant, Emily Brandle + gnoshing at a vegan barbeque in Highland Park, sans headband, near GY.
8.06.08 Parker Posey+cleaning house at Bed, Bath and Beyond in NYC
7.28.08 Keri Russell of Felicity fame + Getting pedicurrred in NYC next to ATV.
7.22.08 NKOTB's Joey McIntyre and Idol royalty Carrie Underwood + taking in a Tuesday nite screening of The Dark Knight in front of Rae-Rae n' Hooves at the Vista Theatre, Los Feliz.
7.14.08 Jessica Biel + aka Missus Timberbabe, swarmed by paparazzi while lunching at Los Feliz's The Alcove near eLBee.
7.12.08 Miranda Otto + better known asEowyn in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings breakfasting in a hotel in Rome.
7.11.08 Adam Goldberg + the hirsute indie actor of Saving Private Ryan fame, getting intense over happy hour tacos at Malo next to Mr. and Mrs. Troll.
6.28.08 Anthony Michael Hall + rubbing up against a woman nearly half his age while waiting for valet next to eLBee, AA, and CBB in Santa Monica
Jennifer Biesty from Top Chef, Season 4 + spotted by KT and Kangagi (who cheered "Phallic Bread!") at SF Dyke March
6.19.08 Jason Bateman + walking down Bleecker Street in NYC (the 2nd O!I sighting).
6.10.08 Diane Keaton + traipsing awkwardly in her ill-fitting high heels down Sawtelle Ave. in L.A., and flashing a huge smile at eLBee.
5.19.08 Alex Trebek + cruising in the premiere mileage plus line at LAX near KT and Kangagi
5.08.08 Rami Kashou of "Project Runway" + spotted by CBB draping himself into his Toyota Tundra parked at the Silverlake BofA
5.05.08 Eric Bana + Manwich-deluxe, spotted by ATV while hiking in the Santa Monica Mountains.
5.02.08 Angela Bassett + looking serious at a women's conference with SK.
4.30.08 Dennis Kucinich + spotted by SK in a DC parking lot (with bonus cell phone snapshot).
4.22.08 Rhea Perlman + fit n' trim n' stretching it out with CBB at yoga class in Larchmont
4.06. 08 Ellen Page (aka "Juno") + making smiley faces at YH at the Hollywood Farmer's Market.
4.05.08 Cute and mini-Drew Barrymoreand her "Mac"-daddyBFJustin Long + surrounded by a band of his friends and spotted by El Bee at Mexico City in Los Feliz
3.30.08 David Beckham + cruising by Kangagi and KT's sexy seats (right by super-fan Penny Marshall's) at the Lakers game. Special thanks to Kangagi's sis and bro in-law, aka the Cutlers, for hooking us up.
3.16.08 Tom Colicchio + scanning the concessions with a Top Chef eye at the Sunshine Cinema in NYC.
3.12.08 Donna Karan + lunching, ladies style, near ATV in NYC.
David Hernandez + the freshly ousted Idol finalist and former gay stripper lunching in the Newsroom in L.A. near Sabsy.
3.5.08 Sweet P + rocking the red boots aboard le Jet Blue from BUR-JFK with CBB.
3.3.08
Mary Stuart Masterson + working some kind of wonderful in a yoga class with ATV in NYC.
Perez Hilton + hobnobbing in the E! office courtyard near Sabsy, who was there working some political magic with soon to be assembly-speaker Karen Bass.
2.18.07 Emilie de Ravin+ ("Claire" fr. LOST) + enjoying some "authentic Mexican food" at Tacos Delta in Silver Lake, alongside Raquefella and Sabsy.
2.11.08 Selma Blair + Sporting a Katie Holmes/Cleopatra 'do and chatting in the security line at JFK with DR.
01.13.08 Samantha Mathis + Pumping up the volume (but not too loud) of DirecTV on DJ Un-G's flight from JFK to BUR
01.12.08 SuChin Pak + MTV veejay and resident "gongju" at The Jack Lords' show in Chinatown, NYC
12.26.07 Jason Bateman + Taking in the 2:50pm showing of "There Will Be Blood" at the Arclight, in row P "for powerfully cute," according to Sarah Miller.
12.24.07 Christian Slater + Spotted by E.L. pumpin' up the volume in the kids' section at the Ontario Science Centre (the one in Canada not the Inland Empire).
Robert Downey, Jr. + In a Snoopy knit cap standing on HN Lukes's street corner, West Village, NYC.
12.21.07 James Earl Jones + Also spotted by Ansley at the HMS Bounty on Wilshire Blvd. L.A. (If you build it, they will come.)
12.19.07 Alexis Bledel + Our beloved Rory Gilmore and sister of the traveling pants was spotted "Purchasing reasonably priced steaks (relatively speaking)" according to our pal who wishes to remain anonymous, at Gelson's in Silver Lake, Los Angeles.
Morgan Fairchild + Spotted (with pink pomeranian carry-ons) by our McGal pal MKM on her Jet Blue flight from BUR to JFK . Ms. Fairchild was also seen "making out with a paunchy Dennis Quaid type" at a JFK baggage carousel. Billy Baldwin + Spotted by Ansley at Peet's coffee on Beverly Dr. (L.A.), wearing a red flannel jacket and jeans tucked into suede boots embroidered with gold fluer-de-lys. Billy introduced himself to a total stranger for the express purpose of bitching to him about the wga strike
12.11.07 Quentin Tarantino + Gesticulating wildly at LA's Arclight Cinema bar near CBB and MNG
12.6.07 Chris Meloni fr. "Law and Order SVU" + In leather pants at a wine bar on 8th street NYC.
12.5.07 Kristi Yamaguchi, former Olympic Gold iceskater + Spotted by El Bee and CBB in the Westfield Shopping Center food court, downtown San Francisco