Here's the Beef

Watching Serena Williams is suddenly even more entertaining thanks to Venus's hunky boy toy.

Venus might be coming up short as far as tournament trophies these days, but she sure is covered in the arm-trophy department ...

His name is Nicholas Hammond, millionaire heir to publishing magnate Walter Annenberg’s fortune through his mother, Dana Hammond.

Remains of the Day (04/02)

Page Six: Tennis Tuesday came early when Venus Williams and her 25-year-old boyfriend's pecs took Manhattan

Dlisted: Easter just isn't the same without Peeps-flavored beer

The New York Times: There isn't a conspiracy theory/right-wing trope Crazy Donald doesn't believe, including the myth of the criminal immigrant

Instagram: So it turns out Chris Meloni's ass isn't just genetic

Boy Culture: Winnie Mandela, South African anti-apartheid crusader, dies at 81

Towleroad: Anti-gay pastor arrested for trying to get little boys to sit on his face

Joe's Pub: Unitard is bringing a refreshed version of its "Tard-core" show to NYC on April 18 and May 16

The Washington Post: Trump proposed Putin visit White House during March call, Kremlin says

The Hill: Mueller probing Roger Stone's claim of meeting with WikiLeaks's Julian Assange

The Gay Curmudgeon: Gay of a certain age discovers Luke Evans ... and his body

POZ: Generation PreP? Pre-exposure prophylaxis has an uncertain future among youth under 25

BosGuy: "I'll show you what's in my Speedo if you show me what's in yours"

GQ: The best buzz cuts to get this spring

Mirror: Three schoolboys found suicidal man about to jump off bridge - they grabbed him and didn't let go

Outsports: Far from home, sexy gay college diver finds a second family in Wyoming

The Cut: "Affluenza teen" Ethan Couch released from jail after serving two years

The Wall Street Journal: The Justice Department has notified immigration judges that it will begin evaluating their job performance based on how quickly they close cases, setting quotas for the first time

Deep Dish: 10 groovy things to do in April starring "Lana Turner" and "Lily Dare"

SLOG: Do Joe Kennedy III's views on marijuana legalization disqualify him as a presidential candidate?

The Gay Almanac: Happy birthday to MSNBC's Rachel Maddow

Greg in Hollywood: Behold John Halbach's full-time chest and part-time 'stache

Tennis Life: Harold Solomon has had enough of Genie Bouchard -- and ditto for Andre Agassi and Novak Djokovic

The Randy Report: The first openly gay man has just been named to the Basketball Hall of Fame

The New Yorker: Honoring Martin Luther King Jr., 50 years after his assassination 

Hot Cat of the Day: Harvey is the sweetest and most rambunctious cat I've ever known, so Damian and I have been dying to catify the house a bit more for him.

After doing away with my huge CD collection, we cleared out a space over the weekend for a way-too-big-for-an-apartment-our-size cat tree, and the only one more excited about it than Harvey is us! 

Page 1 Roundup (01/12)

The Daily News: Donald takes a dump on the American dream

Venus Williams's 'private' new boyfriend, Nicholas Hammond, is the talk of the Australian Open

John Mellencamp's son Speck sentenced to community service after public intoxication arrest

The New York Post: Jet-setting law student nearly crushed under subway car

Page Six: CNN uses pic of unknown woman to promote Patty Hearst docuseries

Deadline: Patty Hearst biopic based on 'American Heiress' canceled by Fox after she blasts it

The New York Times: Outrage over teacher's arrest leads to death threats for superintendent

'Media Men' list creator outs herself, fearing she would be named

The Wall Street Journal: Please visit our collection of stores under one roof, which totally isn’t a mall

Funny they should write this story about the death of (actual) malls seeing as I was just up the other night researching what happened to my childhood home-away-from-home, Fiesta Mall, which residents once rated as their favorite place to shop. (My first job was at the nearby (and later-condemned) Fiesta Village AMC movie theater.) Coming from a mall mecca like suburban Detroit -- where everyone identifies where they live based on one's home's proximity to a mall ("near Oakland Mall") -- the bar was pretty high when we arrived in the Valley of the Sun. 

But when it opened the fall after we moved to Mesa, what 12-year-old queen could resist the allure of anchor stores like Goldwater's (founded by the storied politician's grandfather), Diamond's (owned by the familiar-to-us people behind Hudson's) and The Broadway Southwest (founded by the man who developed Holmby Hills)? All of that glamour, plus an Orange Julius, Spencer Gifts, Fiesta Travel (where I booked my first ticket to NYC in 1985), Musicland (where I bought "She's So Unusual"), Wherehouse Records (where I cut class to buy the "Island of Lost Souls" 45 the Tuesday it was released) and, of course, Judy's, where all the New Wave kids bought their clothes. But as you've undoubtedly heard, tastes and shopping habits have changed over the years. And after watching Diamond's become Dillard's, Goldwater's become Robinson's (later Robinson's-May) and everything becoming Macy's, Fiesta Mall is now one of the country's most notorious (and saddest) "dead malls." RIP.

Lots of great mall history over at the Department Store Museum HERE.