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“Oh yes, bitch, I’ll be having that extra glass of chardonnay,” said thousands of middle-aged moms (and me) last night right before The Go-Go’s performed at the Billboard Music Awards. We needed those extra drops of the sweet nectar to keep us going as we shook our shit to a 35-year-old song. Who cares if our leg busted out a spasm from doing actual physical activity. It was worth it.

Original Go-Go’s members, Belinda Carlisle and Jane Wiedlin are getting together with longtime members Gina Schock, Charlotte Caffey and touring bassist Abby Travis for a month-long farewell (until they need money again) tour this summer. And last night, they gave everyone a taste of their final tour by performing “We Got The Beat.” Here’s a piece of it:

80s music is the best music ever made! We got the beat! #gogos #BBMAs .@BBMAs pic.twitter.com/JhECpjK5yg

— @Eva_Smith (@Eva_Smith) May 23, 2016

Viva mom rock! And Jane Wiedlin’s FernGully cosplay gets an A++ from me too.

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With one fell swoop, Scott Disick just accidentally revealed the entire machinations behind Instagram sponsorships by way of an astoundingly lazy copy and paste mishap, a kind of mishap that is impressive in and of itself. While the Instagram has since been deleted, nothing ever really dies on the Internet, and a screenshot survives. Behold, true DGAF-ery in its purest form:

Whoooooops.

Racked recently discovered that these kind of health brand sponsored celeb posts can be extremely lucrative — like $250,000 kind-of-lucrative — and here is cut and dry evidence of how little effort goes into them.

Another day, another celebrity makes thousands of dollars by doing aggressively little work.

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You may spot him at Red Lantern and Empire

Local cocktail legend and musician Brother Cleve, an alum of B-Side Lounge and so much more, is joining the Big Night Entertainment Group as cocktail ambassador, the company announced today. Cleve will be working on the cocktail program for Red Lantern's Boston location as well as Empire. (BNEG also has a few other spots in Boston and at Foxwoods in Connecticut, and there are two more spots in the works in Boston's Seaport District.) It's not his first rodeo with group — starting with an event in 2012 at Empire, Cleve has collaborated with BNEG on various occasions over the past few years.

Keep an eye out for the launch of the "Summer of Cleve" promotion at Red Lantern and Empire, where his new summer drink list will include cocktails, Asian beers, sake pairings, and a drink called the Island Sno-Cone, boozy shaved ice with rum, ginger, falernum, lime, and cardamom.

In addition to working on seasonal drink lists for the restaurants, Cleve will be "improving already popular signature cocktails on the menu, training, and hiring talent," according to Jamie Pollock, BNEG's director of restaurant operations in Massachusetts. While the role is mostly behind the scenes, fans "may even spot him behind the bar mentoring and shaking it up."

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Nothing gets a woman in the mood like her breasts being called “milk tanks.”

Sarah Jessica Parker in Monse. Photo: Larry Bussaca/Getty Images

Just two seasons old, the up-and-coming brand Monse hit a big milestone on Monday night: dressing Carrie Bradshaw Sarah Jessica Parker for the Met Gala. The actress wore a white Monse coat with some dramatic ruffles sticking out of the sleeves, matching white breeches, and blue heels of her own design. Like a luxury pirate at a wedding. Or a Hamilton cast member.

While other designers aren't wrong to take social media heavyweights like Gigi Hadid and Selena Gomez as their dates, SJP demands a different kind of respect — at this point, she qualifies as one of the Met Gala's grand dames. Remember 2006, when she attended on the arm of Alexander McQueen and the two twinned out in tartan? Remember that Philip Treacy fauxhawk she wore to the punk-themed benefit in 2013? Remember the headpiece she wore last year? Dressing Parker isn't a small win, especially for a brand as new as Monse.

Founded by Oscar de la Renta veterans Laura Kim and Fernando Garcia, Monse debuted at New York Fashion Week last September. It couldn't have gone better: not only did Kim and Garcia's professional pedigree attract high-powered fashion types to the show, but their collection impressed those in attendance. The elegant, slouchy clothes, which emphasized classic shirting twisted off the shoulders and tied at the waist, won a good deal of critical approval and promptly got picked up by retailers like Bergdorf Goodman and Net-a-Porter.

Though reviewers found Monse's sophomore collection to be weaker than its first, the brand isn't ready to drop off the industry's radar just yet. Thanks to early support from celebrity stylists, Monse has accumulated a solid amount of mainstream exposure. Lady Gaga, Kate Bosworth, and Sienna Miller have all worn the brand; Selena Gomez has done so multiple times. At Vanity Fair's Oscar Party this year, Brie Larson wore a peachy velvet gown from Monse's fall 2016 collection to tote around her Best Actress award. (She started off the evening in heels but later subbed those out for Converse, which is a perfect endorsement of Monse's vision of "relaxed glamour.")

And now Sarah Jessica Parker. May the hype never end.

Nicole Kidman attends the “Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology” Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

Oh, LADY. WELL DONE.

About a month ago, we featured Miss Nicole in a darkly whimsical McQueen that didn’t really suit her, but got us thinking about a direction she could and probably should take her style. “We think Nicole might do well with a little bit more of a dark fantasy vibe in her red carpet style,” we intoned sagely. And lo, did the heavens part and inspiration shine down upon Nicole’s brow. And thus was she filled with the glory and wisdom of T Lo. “I am but only a handmaiden to their whims,” she said demurely. “I will do as they suggest. BRING ME THE MOON DRESS.”

For reals, though: this is pretty awesome. The bust is a little small on her and the cutouts in the bodice aren’t necessary, but the overall effect is stunning. She’s been hauling herself around in a lot of whites, neutrals and pastels over the years and they all tend to wash her out, and in some cases, age her. But going the Cher route really works for her, surprisingly. We bitch a lot about the preponderance of LBDs on the red carpet, but this is one lady who would do well to work more dramatic and theatrical blacks into her style wardrobe.

Nicole, we’ll keep it simple. Every time you have to choose something for the red carpet, start with the question, “What would a Disney Witch wear?” It seems you can’t go wrong if you go that route.

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Zendaya Coleman attends the “Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology” Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

We love this little mushroom-headed fashion pixie.

It’s a credit to her style team that they could take what is, in most ways, a very standard (but fabulous) Michael Kors red carpet-ready gown and, with some smart and thoughtful hair and makeup choices, turn it into something uniquely eye-catching. Sure, it’s a relatively simple gold metallic (on a night where there were plenty of other metallics on the RC), but it seems to stand out a little from the pack because no one really looked quite like her that night. We can’t quite call something this glittery and uber-styled “minimalist chic,” but there is something stripped-down about it that makes it appealing. It’s styled more like something for the runway than the red carpet. And we think she’s just about the only celeb who could’ve pulled off this styling.

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Michael Kors One-Shoulder Sequin-Embellished Gown with Train Detail

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The Ryan Murphy Network (real name: FX) set fire to the b-holes of fans of legendary bitch fights and Old Hollywood scandals today when they announced that they have ordered a new Ryan Murphy anthology series about classic feuds. The first season of the series, titled Feuds, will cover the rivalry between Joan Crawford and Bette Davis while shooting What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? Ryan Murphy’s muse Jessica Lange will play Joan Crawford and Susan Sarandon will play Bette Davis. In the future, every show on television will be a Ryan Murphy anthology series starring Jessica Lange.

American Horror Story is about horror (and wigs), American Crime Story is about crime (and wigs), and Feuds is about legendary scrappin’ (and wigs). Variety reports that the pilot is based on a script titled Best Actress. Ryan Murphy bought the script a while ago. Variety explains the show like this:

The first season of “Feud” will tell the story of the legendary rivalry between two of the greatest movie stars of all time, Crawford (Lange) and Davis (Sarandon), and how they came together in 1962 to collaborate on a picture each hoped would revive their careers — “What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?” which received five Academy Award nominations and became a cult classic, but not without the horror of the two women working together.

Also in the cast are Alfred Molina (as Baby Jane director Robert Aldrich), Judy Davis (as Hedda Hopper), Stanley Tucci (as movie mogul Jack L. Warner) and Dominic Burgess (as actor Victor Buono). Feuds got an eight-episode order and Ryan will direct a few episodes. He’ll also executive produce along with Brad Pitt and Dede Gardner. Shooting will start this fall and the show will premiere sometime next year.

I think all of my genes exploded, came together again and exploded again over this news. Ryan Murphy + Old Hollywood + Bette Davis vs. Joan Crawford + Jessica Lange = PEAK CAMP. Think of the wigs! Think of the side-eyes! Think of the ten layer eyebrows made with tar! I bet John Travolta just thought of all of that while reading this news and he had to take off his wig to fan himself off. Batman v. Superman, who? If done right, this show will be my Marvel and DC rolled-up into one.

I hope it’s good and I hope it’s a hit, because there’s many legendary feuds that need to be covered:

Season 2: Susan Sarandon v. Debra Messing starring Debra as Susan and Susan as Debra!

Season 3: Angelina Jolie v. Jennifer Aniston starring Denis O’Hare (in Liz Taylor drag) as Angie and a bottle of Smart Water in a wig as Jennifer!

Season 4: Donald Trump v. Ted Cruz starring John Travolta (in Robert Shapiro drag after letting a stick of dynamite blow up in his face) as Trump and a blobfish as Cruz!

Season 5: Phoebe Price v. Quween on the Scene (that reference will only make sense to those of you who have been reading this mess of a blog since the olden days) starring themselves!

And on and on and on…..

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Break out your saddest country ballads: Nashville is officially canceled. Though it was not among ABC's set of early renewals, there seemed to be hope for Nashville when Lionsgate TV hired Thirtysomething and My So-Called Life veterans Marshall Herskovitz and Ed Zwick as showrunners for the potential fifth season, but like so many soap-opera twists, that gambit did not come to fruition. Still, we can hope the show will go out with a bang on its May 25 finale, or at least one last melancholy rendition of "Fade Into You."

“Is that bitch over there also wearing a choker? Chokers are my thing. Didn’t she get the memo that I’m totally edgy and cool now?”

As Michael reported last month, the home-made Debbie Harry Barbie doll known formally as Taylor Swift received the Taylor Swift Award at the BMI Pop Awards last night. And this is what she wore to collect her award. I know that Taylor Swift recently discovered Tumblr’s interpretation of the ’90s, but there is such a thing as leaning in too hard. It’s like Taylor had a ’90s style checklist and wouldn’t leave the house until it was completely covered in glitter gel pen ink. Velvet slip dress? Check! Vaguely ’90s floral print? Check! Black choker? Check! Sun-In fried hair? Check! Transformation into a model from Delia’s 1997 prom catalog completed!

At least Taylor Swift is self-aware enough to realize how ridiculous it is that Taylor Swift – who took home 10 trophies last night – won the Taylor Swift Award. While accepting her award, Taylor made a joke about how ~awkward~ it would have been if BMI had given it to somebody else.

BMI created an award called The Taylor Swift Award because BMI is very very nice

A video posted by Taylor Swift (@taylorswift) on May 11, 2016 at 1:08pm PDT

“Ha ha ha ha ha no but seriously, ‘bummed’ doesn’t even begin to describe how screwed you would have been. Taylor Swift has a lot of very expensive lawyers, and she isn’t afraid to use them. Ask anyone on Etsy – if you create something with Taylor Swift’s name on it, it belongs to Taylor Swift.”

Here’s more of Taylor looking like she got lost on her way to an audition for a L’Oreal Rouge Pulp commercial.

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I meet a girl on Tinder. I think I won her over with my jokes about loving dirty socks and Ol’ Gregg.

We talk for a while and finally decide to go to a lake. We both love nature.

We go, meet, hug, and sit down on a blanket by the lake.

We talk for a bit. After about 10 minutes, I hear a “SPLAT”. She looks down and laughs. I look down at her leg.

There, sitting there on her right leg, is a big, white, pebbly, bird shit.

I ask, “Did a bird just shit on your leg?”

She says, “Yes,” and laughs again.

Before the date we promised no bullshit. We must be ourselves. I don’t think before I catch myself wiping the bird shit off her leg with my hand. I go to the lake, wash my hand off, and go sit back down.

We have a little laugh, talk for another couple hours, and decide to call it a night.

We go back to our cars and I go to give her the “goodbye.” I wasn’t sure if I should give her a hug or kiss at this point. I didn’t want to be invasive.

As I’m hugging her and thinking about the kiss, I start to get a boner. I start to regret the decision to wear athletic shorts.

I think. I have 2 options.

1) Turn around after the hug and walk back to my car.

2) Try to conspicuously tuck the boner into my waistline of my athletic shorts and go for the kiss.

I go for option 3.

“I’m getting a boner, I can’t keep hugging you.” We laugh. I hug her again and say, “I’ll talk to you soon.”

We promised we’d be honest. But on my way back to my car I just keep thinking, “Shit, too honest, too honest.”

I turn on my car and wait to see if she’s going to leave first. Then she gets out of her car and walks towards me with something in her hands.

I roll down my window.

“You forgot the banana bread I made you.”

I couldn’t believe I made her come back to the awkwardness to make her give me the banana bread she made for me. I take it from her, we both still laugh a bit about the boner thing, and I put the banana bread on my passenger seat.

Then, and this is the part I still can’t believe, she leans in. We kiss. A gentle, small, but amazing kiss.

She walks back to her car and drives away. I do a couple fist pumps and then drive home.

On my way home, I start to question what the fuck just happened. So much about myself to doubt, but so much greatness to it.

WHAT. JUST. HAPPENED?

I’m driving home and Bohemian Rhapsody comes on. I have a Wayne’s World moment. “I WILL NOT LET YOU GOOOOOO!!!!!”

Fast forward three months. We’re still talking. I saw her tonight. We went to a creek again. We have gotten poison ivy from each other, been camping, shared great music. It has all been so great. I don’t ever want to leave her.

When we look back, she says I won her over when I wiped the bird shit off her leg.

Needless to say, that bird was my wingman.

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This was so wholesome.

being on the internet has really lead me to believe every story ends miserably.

A reader writes:

I work at a small branch, which is part of a larger company. My office has a manager, an assistant manager, a receptionist, and nine other employees. I have been diagnosed with cancer. I am able to schedule my chemotherapy on my regular days off. Since my job has no physical labor and we don’t deal with the public at all and only deal with coworkers from other offices by phone or email, my cancer and treatments have not interfered with work and I’m still able to go in as normal. My coworkers know and have been understanding.

Each of us has a calendar where our days off (or in rare cases, meetings at other branches) are shown. The manager is supposed to have access to this, but our manager, Robert, is on the road most of the time and is rarely in our office. The receptionist, Osha, also has access so she can know who is in and who is out so she can direct calls appropriately. No one else is allowed to have access. The assistant manager, Ned, is not responsible for our schedules and is only responsible for dealing with employees who are in the office on a given day.

Recently while I was having chemotherapy, Ned showed up at the clinic and started asking me about work matters. I was completely surprised that he even knew where I was and that he was asking me about work on my off-time. The things he was asking about were not emergencies or work with deadlines. When I went back to work after my days off, Osha was waiting to speak with me and apologize. She was almost in tears because Ned had asked her about my schedule and whether I was on days off or at a meeting. She didn’t want to tell him at first because the calendars are supposed to be confidential, but he threatened to fire her if she didn’t tell him, and he also demanded the name of the clinic after she admitted that she knew what clinic I was getting my chemotherapy at.

I was really upset that Ned had threatened to fire Osha for following the rules and trying to keep the calendar confidential, and for coming to ask me about work stuff on my time off while I have having treatments. When Robert was actually in the office, I complained to him about Ned’s behavior and he assured me it would be dealt with. Well, him dealing with it was firing Osha for revealing confidential information that was on the calendar when she wasn’t supposed to. He gave Ned access to the calendars instead, so now Ned has access to my schedule and will come to the clinic when he has questions about work.

Robert says Ned isn’t doing anything wrong and when I complained to the company’s HR person about both Ned and Robert, I received the same answer. HR said that Robert was within his rights to terminate Osha since she breached confidentiality and she knew that doing so was a breach of our code of conduct. They said that if she had an issue, she should have spoken to the manager instead of taking it upon herself to release confidential information. HR also said that in regard to Ned coming to the clinic, “he is well within his rights” to seek my knowledge on workplace-related matters and “if the manager and assistant manager deem this necessary, it is up their discretion and not a matter where I can advise them to do otherwise.” I have since found out that the HR person is a family member of Robert’s.

I feel bad that Osha got fired and I don’t know where else to complain or what to do next because Robert, Ned, and the HR person are all against me on this.

Also, I have asked the clinic not to admit Ned, but sometimes he comes in anyway or waits until no one is looking before he comes in. There have been times when the nurses have asked him to leave or told him to get out of the room I am in. Sometimes he lies to them and says it is an emergency, and one volunteer told me Ned told the nurse on duty that he was family. I keep trying to tell him that he is disturbing me during my treatment but he either doesn’t listen or makes veiled references to me losing my job (which would also cause me to lose my benefits). His behavior is stressing me out even more than I already am.

What!

Your assistant manager is showing up while you’re having chemotherapy to ask you about work?

And your company has no problem with that?

And they fired the receptionist, rather than this tool?

Aggghhh.

I could name-call your managers for a while longer, but in the interest of giving you advice that doesn’t contain profanity, I talked to employment lawyer and always helpful Donna Ballman, author of the awesome Stand Up For Yourself Without Getting Fired. She says:

Wow! After 30 years of law practice I think I’ve heard it all and then something like this happens. Ned sounds like a real piece of work. I’d say there are a couple of avenues you might use on this, depending on the facts.

First of all, are you an exempt employee? And if they claim you are, is it possible you really aren’t? Because at the very least, they need to pay you for your time and any overtime for work you are doing on days off. If you’re hourly, put in those hours and tell them they owe you for that time. If you’re exempt (and I mean legally exempt, not bogus exempt), then you may be out of luck on that.

Second, do they show up to anyone’s house, shopping center or vacation on other non-disabled employees’ days off? If not, then I’d say you are being harassed due to your disability. I would suggest writing an email with the subject “Formal Complaint Of Disability-Based Harassment,” and detail how you are being singled out for this utter invasion of your privacy whereas other non-disabled employees are not similarly harassed on days off. Send with a delivery and read receipt to HR and ask them to investigate and take prompt action to investigate.

Finally, giving out your medical information is a violation of your medical privacy. The fact that Ned is given access to information about your medical treatments, timing and location is very likely a medical privacy violation, which is a separate violation of the ADA. You may also have a state or local law that protects the privacy of your medical information.

I’m not a health care lawyer, but you may also have potential claims against your physician’s office for violating your HIPAA and state medical privacy when they admit a person to your treatment without your consent.

I’d suggest talking to an employment lawyer in your state about your rights to see if there are state laws that might provide additional protection to you. But they should not be harassing you while you are receiving medical treatment for a disability, and the ADA should provide some protection to you.

I asked Donna whether if your employer does in fact have a track record of tracking other people down on their days off, is it correct to think that you then wouldn’t be able to allege disability-related harassment? (One has to think this isn’t their normal practice, but they sound awful enough that who knows.)

Donna said: “Probably not, if they do this to everyone. But then why the heck would anyone work there? I’m guessing they don’t. If they do it to everyone, then maybe it’s time to start talking about forming a union.”

Indeed.

Also, it’s time to have a stern conversation with your chemotherapy clinic because it’s their responsibility to keep Ned from sneaking in. Tell them that you’re having an ongoing struggle to keep him out, that he may lie and say that he’s family, and that you need them to ensure that he can’t get in and disrupt your treatment. Invoke HIPAA, which gives you legal protection here.

I’m sorry you’re dealing with this.

my manager shows up while I’m having chemotherapy to talk about work was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager.

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In a new blog entry for the Huffington Post, Jamie Lee Curtis revisits her history with prescription drugs and urges readers to cease enabling their loved ones' addictions. The actress's post comes tied to the numerous reports that have referenced Prince's use of painkillers in the context of his death investigation. "I too, waited anxiously for a prescription to be filled for the opiate I was secretly addicted to," writes Curtis, who has been in recovery for more than 17 years. "I too, took too many at once. I too, sought to kill emotional and physical pain with pain killers." She goes on to call opiate reliance an epidemic and ends with a plea:

It seems now that the governmental body, the AMA, the FDA and the media are starting to address the rampant epidemic of opiate addiction. There have been reclassifications and attempts at reigning in the overprescription of opiates.

Most people who become addicted, like me, do so after a prescription for a painkiller following a medical procedure. Once the phenomenon of craving sets in, it is often too late.

I, like all of you, mourn the passing of a great artist but I also mourn the passing of potential artists past and present, caught in this deadly vise.

Let’s work harder, look closer and do everything we can not to enable and in doing so, disable, our loved ones who are ill.

This is what it sounds like when we all cry.

In 2008, Curtis had told More magazine how a routine cosmetic surgery led to her problem. "The feeling I got from [the pills] was, Oh, wow, I feel better," she said. "So I rode that. No one knew."

Read Curtis's latest post, in full, here.

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Din Tai Fung, the Taiwanese dumpling destination with a cult following, will open its doors in San Jose's Westfield Valley Fair mall on May 10.

As Eater SF reported in March, Din Tai Fung has been aiming to launch its dumplings at any moment. And now, despite a generous 8,500 square-foot space with seats for 200, the first Bay Area location of the very popular restaurant is most definitely going to cause lines for days. Luckily the restaurant has already thought of this, and will implement a text message system so waiting diners can wander the mall and boost the economy while they wait. (Is this the most genius retail marketing move the world has ever seen? Perhaps.)

The Background: The chain originated in Taiwan in 1958 as a cooking oil shop, then leapt to greatness when it became a dumpling and noodle house in 1974. Now the there are over 100 locations all over the world, including Los Angeles, Seattle, Japan, Australia and a Michelin-starred location in Hong Kong. It's gained a serious legion of dumpling superfans along the way, the result of having "mastered the formula" of XLB, according to Eater critic Bill Addison. Stay tuned for more updates and coverage of all the excitement.

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