As America shed its provincial nineteenth-century sensibilities and slowly entered the modern era, the media emerged as one of the twentieth century's most powerful forces. But until the early 1920s, journalism was still influenced by an older...

The columns mix factual material on marriages, divorces, and arrests, obtained from official records with more speculative gossip stories, rumors, and innuendo about romantic relationships, affairs, and purported personal problems. Gossip columnists...

Southerly’s, Krist Krueger’s nom de plume, résumé would be rather extensive if he wrote it out on clean white sheets of paper rather than within musical bars. Let’s start with singer, then add: songwriter, music arranger, recording engineer, label manager, booking agent and music critic....

Popular Internet gossip columnist Perez Hilton had his Web site shut down for several hours after the company hosting it received a flurry of complaints about copyrighted photos being posted on PerezHilton.com.After being silenced on Tuesday, the site was back online Wednesday but hosted by...

Everyone who’s tripped over, say, any section of The New York Times lately knows that Tina Brown has written a new biography of the late Princess Diana. She celebrated it at the Sony Club, the penthouse of 550 Madison Avenue, on Monday, June 11. “I...

“Social Washington has undergone quite a decline over the last few years,” opined the writer Christopher Hitchens. It was around 3:30 a.m., and the Vanity Fair party that Mr. Hitchens had hosted at his spacious apartment on Columbia Road near the Hilton was over....