The Best of the Web

Our guide to the most entertaining blogs, fansites, viral videos, and more

STAGE

About Last Night
artsjournal.com/aboutlastnight
Terry Teachout's erudite theater and arts blog.

Broadway.com
broadway.com
Theater hub with news, tickets, and interviews with stars like David Hyde Pierce.

Internet Broadway Database
ibdb.com
Find answers to questions like which movie hunk made his musical debut in 1971 beside Peter Allen. Or, look up any and everything related to the Great White Way. (It's Richard Gere).

NEWS/GOSSIP

Ain't It Cool News
Ain't It Cool News
An unabashedly geeky source for movie news. The geek core here, led by Harry Knowles, has also been known to affect the trajectory of films in production

TMZ
tmz.com
When Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, or Britney Spears does something stupid, TMZ is there.

Defamer
defamer.com
Nobody does snarky Hollywood gossip like these bloggers.

People.com
people.com
Tired of unsubstantiated celeb gossip? PEOPLE's website broke the news of Suri Cruise's birth and posted the first pics of Brangelina's spawn, Shiloh.

La Dolce Musto
villagevoice.com
Michael Musto's weekly Village Voice column chews on the latest New York gossip.

Perez Hilton
PerezHilton.com
The raunchy blog by the ''queen of all media''—founder Mario Lavandeira—was one of the first to dish about Britney's many, many woes.

PageSix.com
pageSix.com
Even with all these new bloggery kids on the block, the New York Post's gossip column remains a must-read.

WeSmirch.com
wesmirch.com
A solid aggregator of celebrity news.

The Huffington Post
huffingtonpost.com
C'mon, you know what this is. Do we really have to explain it? Have you been under a cyberrock, lo these many years?

Go Fug Yourself
GoFugYourself.com
Saucy attacks on celeb fashion foibles with annotations of red-carpet pics.

LaineyGossip.com
laineygossip.com
Bright, barbed writing, plus juicy blind items. Which are everyone's favorite kind.

Pink Is the New Blog
trent.blogspot.com
It's not about the celeb pics — of which there are plenty — but the commentary.

GoldenFiddle.com
GoldenFiddle.com
Celebrity snark from Atlanta can be just as juicy as bicoastal gossip. But with a little more swagger.

UsMagazine.com
usmagazine.com
Even big gossip rags blog now. Because that's where it's at, yo.

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