February 2009

  • U.S President Barack Obama (L) walks with his family, including first lady Michelle Obama (2nd R), her mother Marian Robinson (R) and their daughters Sasha (3rd R) and Malia (2nd L) towards Marine One on the South Lawn of White House in Washington February 13, 2009. The first family is travelling to their Chicago home…

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  • Callie Shell, an Aurora Photos for Time photographer based in the U.S., has won the first prize of the Spot News Stories category of the 2009 World Press Photo Contest with this photo of Barack and Michelle Obama during the U.S. presidential campaign. The prize-winning entries of the 2009 World Press Photo Contest, the world’s

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  • New Slideshows

    Roasrio and Clive Owen in Sin City, all on the Wall of Sexy.Too lazy to trek over to “Athena La Trelle’s” Flickr site? You can now watch the slideshows on The Snob. Just check them all out here — from TJ Holmes to the Obamas to the never-ending Wall of Sexy — at Athena’s Slideshow

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  • Eva “The Diva” Marcelle I’ve gotten away from more of my fluffy celeb reporting. Thank goodness there are a million and one other blogs to take up the slack and invest in a WireImage account. Today’s random gossip blog I’m pointing you to is Red Carpet Colors, where they keep an eye on blacks who…

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  • The Atlantic’s Ta-Nehisi Coates reported that Juan Williams offered up a non-apology apology for that comment he pulled out of his ass about his fears of an angry, black First Lady. Williams recently called out Michelle Obama on some fantasy black militancy that apparently only exists somewhere between Williams’ ears. He really didn’t think it…

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  • Do you think the picture is big enough? I dunno. I think it could be bigger. I can’t see directly into his pores and corneas. That said … delicious. Don’t forget to vote for TJ (and some other folks … aw, eff it. Who cares. Vote for TJ!) for the Ed Bradley Award of Journalistic

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  • A bunch of pictures of me from my “A Bunch of Pictures of Me” series.Often I get the question of how on earth I came up with the name/alias of “The Snob” for the Web site. This question is usually posed by people who: A) Find the word “snob” so offensive that they can’t be

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