Game-Change of the Week: Bill DeBlasio showing his TRUE, fancy colors by
eating pizza with a fork. Feel so betrayed.
-- Elizabeth Thompson
Best Cover of Andrea Bocelli's "Time to Say Goodbye (Con te Partiro)" We Heard All Week: Vampire Weekend's. It's pretty damn charming to hear Ezra Koenig belting out some Italian.
-- Sarah Bellman
Craziest Cleavage of the Week: Malin Akerman's after she split her décolletage in two at the People's Choice Awards. Not even sure where to look.
-- Maggie Dolan Best News of the Week: Shia LaBeef has announced he's retiring from "public life." Ok, buddy! See ya.
-- E.T.
Best Throwback Photos of the Week: Russell Brand's. Good to know he has ALWAYS been such a weirdo. Look at that smolder.
-- S.B.Thing We Were Most Obsessed With at the Beginning of the Week and Now Could Give an F about: What Polar Vortex?
-- E.T.
Best Casting Choice of the Week: The Row's
choice to cast Linda Rodin, stylist and founder of RODIN beauty line, in their Pre-Fall look book. Perfection.
-- M. D. Best News Story to Come Out of Oregon All Week: This one about a couple who tried to tip their waitress with crystal meth. Oof.
-- Abby Schreiber
Weirdest UK TV Special We Heard About All Week: That one about men who dress up as "Real Dolls." We can't wait for it to come to the U.S.
-- S.B.Best Birthday of the Week: Blue Ivy Carter's. The 2-year-old tot celebrated at the Miami Zoo bird sanctuary in Jungle Island. Momma B and Daddy J rented the whole thing out for her and then took her to get pizza! They grow up so fast!
-- M.D.
Most Interesting Photos That Also Make Us Feel Weird and a Little Sad of the Week: Dona Schwartz's
photos of empty nesters posing in their children's
shrines rooms. They parents all look a little, uh, empty.
-- A.S.
Best Dusty Apartment Interior Photos That Made Us Feel All Asthmatic and Scratchy: These images of a Paris apartment that, until recently, had sat untouched since 1942.
-- E.T.Most Exciting Food World News We Heard All Week: That Anthony Bourdain
is opening a New York food market that will serve international street food.
-- A.S.
Most Fantastic Cover of the Week: Bloomberg Businessweek's January cover. Similar to my feels about bitcoins, I don't fully understand it but I'm really, really enthusiastic about it.
-- Gabby Bess
Best High Fashion Bathroom Moment: the new Alexander Wang campaign.
-- Mickey Boardman