FOFA #983 – Jack of All Trades
Interview with Project Runway designer Jack Mackenroth.
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On the fourth season of the reality tv show Project Runway- mens designer Jack Mackenroth abruptly withdrew from the show due to a serious staph infection completely unrelated to his HIV status.
A real life jack-of-all-trades, he is now working on a design-inspired TV show pilot with Kevin Christiana.
He’s in Chicago to promote his Merck sponsored HIV Education Campaign Living Positive by Design– as an honorary guest of Design for a Cure.
And, he’s training to compete in Men’s Swimming at the Out Games in Copenhagen. How does he do it all?
We’ve got the sexy, fashion savvy Jack Mackenroth in the home studio. He’s taking your questions through Facebook and he’s telling it all!
Listen as Jack talks about how he manages to stay healthy, muscular and sexy, how serious he got with fellow reality TV star Dale from Top Chef and what it was like playing a dead body on the TV show Law and Order. Plus, what are the fashionistas REALLY like? Find out on today’s show.
Check out these fun pictures of Jack taken by our friend Jason Smith during the taping of the show.
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FOF #1042 – Japhy Grant Raw & Uncensored
Blogger Japhy Grant looks at the challenges he faced and the inspirational moments he cherished working in gay news. Japhy also dishes the dirt on Perez Hilton, RuPaul’s Drag Race and the new season of Project Runway.
Last time we had blogger Japhy Grant on the show, he was working for a certain high profile gay news blog. Now he’s moved on to new projects.
Today Japhy is back to take a look at the challenges he faced and the inspirational moments he cherished working in gay news.
Japhy was quoted extensively in the Advocate’s July cover story about his former classmate, Celebrity Blogger Perez Hilton. Perez threatened to sue Japhy over what he said and even tried to discredit him by portraying him as a jilted lover.
What really happened between Perez and Japhy? Is there a sex tape floating around?
Japhy also reflects on the future of NASA, the state of privacy and anonymity on the internet and Obama’s health care reform and his actions on gay rights. Should we be pushing or shoving the President forward?
Project Runway is back! The reality fashion TV show returns to Lifetime television with a triple feature focusing on former contestants, new designers and the models who walk the runway.
Did something happen between judge Lindsay Lohan and lesbionic designer Ari Fish? The designer whose tragic dress got her kicked off the show bears an uncanny resemblance to Lohan’s ex-lover Samantha Ronson. Check out our side by side comparison! I wonder if Lilo asked AFi for a date after she had her kicked off the show?
Brazilian Big Blue Seats for plus-sexy people, RuPaul’s New Fashion Tips Book (physician heal thyself) and why the New York Times is stretching it when they claim that bellies are in fashion.
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FOF #1041 – Getting in Hot Water
Interview with Matt Johnson the manager of a coffee shop in Oak Park who’s gotten into hot water for booking a minister who advocates gay reperative therapy. Tyra Banks yanks out her hair extensions and Project Runway returns to TV.
Buzz Cafe in is in hot water! The Oak Park, Illinois based coffee shop was forced to cancel an event featuring author and pastor Cornelius Williams after local residents were in an uproar.
Williams claims he’s gone straight with the help of Jesus, and that you can too, if you buy his baloney, and by baloney we mean book.
Today we’re talking to Matt Johnson, the manager of the coffee shop who argues that we should want to give kooks like this some attention in order to expose them for the frauds they are. Matt is also one of the people behind Outworld.tv
Does hate speech have a place in your community or should we simply ignore the madness?
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Project Runway is back! The hit fashion reality tv show returns for its sixth season.
In an interview with AfterElton, mentor Tim Gunn shares his frustration with out gay former contestant Santino Rice.
Tyra Banks announces plans to reveal her real hair on her season premier.
Does the Wendy Williams diet, which is simply to eat off smaller plates really work?
Katy Perry gets ready to bitch slap Lady Gaga over her hermaphroditic hi-jinks.
Rush Limbaugh says Barney Frank lives on planet Uranus. He should know, since he’s an expert on being a gas giants himself.
Do it yourself home sex-changes, and Manpower’s strange job requirements for one of their trans employees- a picture of her cootchie!
“I went to a cafe that advertised breakfast anytime, so I ordered French Toast during the Rennaisance.” - Stephen Wright
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Jack Mackenroth’s Fashion Tips
Fausto Fernós, Marc Felion and Jack Mackenroth get together on the Feast of Fun podcast to talk fashion tips. Camera by Jason Smith.
FOF #983 – Jack of All Trades
Standard Podcast [48:33m]:
On the fourth season of the reality tv show Project Runway- mens designer Jack Mackenroth abruptly withdrew from the show due to a serious staph infection completely unrelated to his HIV status.
A real life jack-of-all-trades, he is now working on a design-inspired TV show pilot with Kevin Christiana.
He’s in Chicago to promote his Merck sponsored HIV Education Campaign Living Positive by Design– as an honorary guest of Design for a Cure.
And, he’s training to compete in Men’s Swimming at the Out Games in Copenhagen. How does he do it all?
We’ve got the sexy, fashion savvy Jack Mackenroth in the home studio. He’s taking your questions through Facebook and he’s telling it all!
Listen as Jack talks about how he manages to stay healthy, muscular and sexy, how serious he got with fellow reality TV star Dale from Top Chef and what it was like playing a dead body on the TV show Law and Order. Plus, what are the fashionistas REALLY like? Find out on today’s show.
Check out these fun pictures of Jack taken by our friend Jason Smith during the taping of the show.
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FOF #833 – Project Drag Queen
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If you love drag queens and Project Runway, today is the show for you!
We’ve got New York City’s very own Miss Understood of Screaming Queens talking about the Drag Queen Challenge on the hit reality TV show Project Runway.
Miss Understood spills the beans on how reality TV shows are taped and what it takes to make it big.
Join us as we talk about the designers we love, the ones we hate- and the clothes that made a lasting impression.
We watched the airing of the episode at Retro Fit in San Francisco. It’s a shop run by LeMay, one of the drag queens on the show. She who wore the awful dress with the unbelievable collar. As we watched poor Jerrell construct the crazy drag costume, a crushed LeMay kept screaming “No, don’t do it!” The party goers loved her enthusiastic drama.
RuPaul made her first television appearance in quite a while, but why did she look so awful? That wig looked like it had gone through the washing machine. We know, it’s hard to “do a twirl” or “sashay, shante” but just pass a comb through it once or twice. They even used Joan Collins level Vaseline on the lens and she still looked like a hung-over Sarah Jessica Parker!
A cross dressing thief in Florida snatched a woman’s purse but the person left behind a very important clue- a fake breast. Well, it may not be an important clue but the police are processing the water filled condom for fingerprints and DNA evidence.
I think we finally figured out why McCain picked Alaskan Governor Sarah Pallin for his vice president. She is a metaphor for the republican party. She is a loving mother who’s child has strayed and now she is making everything better by getting her pregnant daughter married. She’ll do the same with her faltering party and steer it on the right track.
Her speech at the Republican National Convention seemed to say everything the party wanted to cover- terror, taxes and energy. That’s the great thing about rhetoric, it doesn’t even have to be true to resonate.
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FOF #754 – Work the Runway Steven
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Steven Rosengard was the first Chicago based designer to be on Project Runway, the fabulous reality television show where contestants compete against each other to create the best clothes. Their designs are judged and one or more of the contestants are eliminated each week.
Project Runway Season Four was filled with a lot of great talent and we are glad Steven got as far as he did. He was “auffed” or kicked off of the show after re-styling a wedding dress of a women who have lost a significant amount of weight.
When given the challenge to create a new outfit out of a woman’s former favorite “fat clothes,” Steven was given the impossible task of transforming a woman’s wedding dress. As soon as I saw that dress, I knew whomever got it was going to lose.
The judges said that Steven turned her “wedding dress into a funeral dress.”
Still, Steven doesn’t shy away from talking about his design choices and explaining his reasons for making it.
Steven is a blast! We had a lot of fun with this Chi-town fashionista. He loved our idea for “Project Runway: The Musical!”
Just imagine the incomparable Elizabeth Berkley as chief “auffer” Heidi Klum and Bea Arthur as style guru Tim Gunn singing the breakout hit “Make it Work! Make it Work! Make it Work!” It’ll also feature pop sensation Gloria Estefan as Latina Nina Garcia and a dancing orange as the orange skin toned judge Michael Kors.
Of course all the contestants would play themselves and there would be awesome fashion show montages throughout the show. Jack Mackenroth is already working on his routine. Check him out in this over the top Flashdance number.
Since leaving Project Runway, Steven has spent a lot of time attending charity functions. He’s hosting Make a Statement: Design for the Cure, which showcases top fashions from Chicago’s favorite boutiques and rising designers, to raise HIV/AIDS awareness among Chicago’s 21 – 35 demographic. Presented by the AIDS Foundation of Chicago Junior Board, the event will feature models wearing t-shirts with such statements as: “Condoms: For Wieners Not Wallets,” “AIDS Apathy Makes Your Ass Look Big,” and “HIV Only Needs One Chance.”
Listen as we chat with Steven about the future of Project Runway and how its move to another network will effect viewership. Is Heidi nicer on air than she is off air?
Steven continues to further his design work. If you’d like him to make you a dress just contact him through his website StevenRosengard.com
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FOFA #681 – Project Christian
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Christian wins!
I was overwhelmed by the emotion of seeing our very own Christian Siriano win Project Runway. Was there any doubt in anyone’s mind? Congratulations Christian- you deserved it and your clothes looked STUNNING.
To celebrate, we’re reposting this “Best Of FOF” interview we did with Christian in January, when it wasn’t so clear the outcome of the contest.
Pop open the champagne!
[Originally posted on January 11, 2008.]
Snip snip! The gayest television show on right now isn’t Ugly Betty, it’s Project Runway on Bravo! The Emmy nominated reality series showcases 12 or more fashion designers compete with each other to create the best clothes restricted by time, materials and a theme.
Giving the viewer a great perspective on the anxieties and challenges of being a working designer in any field, Project Runway is right now one of the hottest shows on television.
One of the most talked about contestants is Christian V Siriano, our featured guest on todays show!
Known for being the youngest contestant on the show as well as for his unrestrained opinions and asymmetrical haircut, Christian brings a lot of pizzaz to the show.
Join Marc Felion and me, Fausto Fernós as we talk with Christian about the challenges of being in a reality-tv show competition, finding inspiration as a designer and if there was any sexual tension happening behind the scenes.
Just what is Tim Gunn REALLY like? Was Christian really fighting that much with Matty over the chocolate brown prom dress? How does he cope with the stress?
If you see Christian walking around the streets of New York City, don’t ask him who won. Because fashion week is in February, the producers of the show waited to decide who the winner is during that time despite the current series being filmed in July of 2007.
Do we think Christian made it to the top three? Will he win? We certainly hope so! Be sure to check out his personal website with tons of images of his fashion designs. Photos of Christian V Siriano by Brad Walsh.
Be sure to check out Project Runway on Bravo every Wednesday, 9pm Central, 6pm Pacific.
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