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Even frat boys can use a little Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. The lifestyle-makeover show recently descended on the Sigma Chi house at the University of North Texas in Denton. While the rest of the Fab Five spruced and styled, interior-design expert Thom Filicia took a study break to talk to TIME's Jeffrey Ressner about dorm décor. "People define themselves aesthetically at a very young age," says Filicia, who spent his college years at Syracuse University. "The idea is to create a space that represents who you are and also something that's in your...
...Books; 339 pages). This primer provides would-be style mavens with sample-sale survival skills, tips on befriending shopkeepers and the ABCs of Kabbalah. Sartorially challenged men can pick up Off the Cuff: The Essential Style Guide for Men and the Women Who Love Them (Dutton; 168 pages) by Queer Eye for the Straight Guy's Carson Kressley. The Fab Fiver has a take on everything from basic questions like boxers or briefs to weightier dilemmas like the blurry line between metrosexual and gay (hint: manicures, metro; French manicures, gay). --By Kate Novack
...also happens to be the most complete pop tune of the summer, with a jaunty piano melody that Elton John would kill to have written and a giddy retro chorus--"Gonna take your mama out all night/Yeah we'll show her what it's all about." Even mildly inquisitive Queer Eye viewers could imagine it was just another great party anthem. For the sake of the Scissor Sisters' bank accounts, long live obliviousness...
...also offended that the authors would equate ‘mere convenience’ with the aforementioned plight of transgendered individuals attempting to find a safe bathroom. For one thing, a straight, non-gender queer individual can easily enter an opposite-gender marked single occupancy restroom and, if approached on exit, shrug and explain that he/she really had to go; I have done it in gas stations, and really nobody cares. But a trans individual (or even a queer individual such as myself) trying to enter a public, multiple-occupancy restroom faces the threat of verbal and physical abuse, angry...
Thanks to Thom Filicia and the Queer Eye guys, everyone wants a home makeover these days. So much so that K Mart extended Martha Stewart's contract until 2009--assuring that her coveted $12.99 bath towels will be available at the discount retailer for many years to come. Other mass-market retailers are ramping up their home-decor products too. Target just added Rachel Ashwell's Simply Shabby Chic collection of bedding, bath accessories, curtains, table linens and throw pillows to its lineup of designer goods, which include home products by Michael Graves and Isaac Mizrahi. LaZBoy has enlisted...