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Lena Dunham’s new HBO show Girls is set to add some honesty to your female-centric TV viewing.  It looks a lot like her mumblecore hit Tiny Furniture, which those who have seen it know is a good thing.  Produced with Judd Apatow and a far cry from the laugh-tracked Whitney or sing-songy cuteness of New Girl, the show promises to adhere to realism with its storylines about four friends suffering post-college ennuie in Brooklyn.  They sat down with NYT Magazine to talk about the show.

Lukas Haas is one of those great actors that you never see enough of for some unknown reason.   He’s played bit characters in movies like Inception and had memorables role in little seen but worth-watching indies like Brick.  This year, he's upping his game. He stars in a romantic comedy premiering at SXSW, is signed on to star in a thriller called Dark was the Night, and is in a new movie called Meth Head.  While it doesn’t have a distributor yet, it looks good so expect someone to pick it up.  Watch the trailer below. Wilson Cruz, who we haven't seen since he played the lovable Ricky on My So-Called Life, plays his boyfriend.

Lanvin designer Alber Elbaz sent his clothes down the runway for Paris Fashion Week, showcasing a collection full of peplum skirts, low backs, canary yellows and big fake jewels. The 10th anniversary of the brand, they also sent down archived pieces and followed with what the invitation stated would be “d’une fun party.” The event, held in a Left Bank warehouse, lived up to its promise.

Lindsay Lohan and her new puffy face are in comeback overdrive. Her strategy of telling Matt Lauer how much she wants a job and an Oscar (or at least an invite to the show), along with her maybe-she’ll-bomb-maybe-she-won’t performance on SNL tonight has already worked.  She just booked a new gig. That was fast!

What do you get the person who has everything?  How about their very own Oscar?  Fifteen statuettes are going up for auction this Tuesday, including those awarded for Citizen Kane and Wuthering Heights. Get ready to pony up the dough, these things don’t come cheap.

Forget fine art.  Brian Dwyer, the Guinness World Record holder for the largest collection of pizza memorabilia, has started building the world’s first pizza museum in Philadelphia. What will you be able to see there? While you’re probably imagining glass display cases holding moldy pieces of Little Caesar’s crazy bread, it's not that disgusting.

Milan Fashion Week is in full swing and along with dark colors and patterns, asymmetrical hemlines, billowing skirts and excessive amounts of fur, there seems to be a strange make-up trend happening: lightened eyebrows.  Fashion It Boy Derek Blasberg even Tweeted “I'm getting into this eyebrow-less trend at Prada, Bottega Veneta and Versace,” adding to the makeup artist “(You're just the right amount of twisted, @PatMcGrathREAL...)”  So let’s take a look.

Ben & Jerry’s new ice cream flavor honoring Asian-American Knicks star Jeremy Lin caused a stir this week.  Sold only at the Harvard Square location and called “Taste The Linsanity” the original recipe called for fortune cookies which had many calling racist. Now the liberal company, famous for it’s crunchy promotion of the environment and support for sustainable food systems, is apologizing.

Are you sick of hearing about the Oscars and all the amazing movies you haven’t seen and probably won't see until they end up on TV when you are bored or too hung over to even reach for the remote? Let’s take a look at the flip side of Hollywood lauding Hollywood: Adam Sandler officially had a crappy year when it came to the Silver Screen.  The former SNLer has taken the record when it comes to the Razzies, the awards show that honors the year’s worst films, being nominated for a whopping 11 categories.

Burning Man, the desert costume party where people create theme camps, make crazy looking cars and consume massive quantities of drugs, has gotten more and more popular over the years.  Last year they sold out for the first time in history and this year things are looking bleak for the festival that’s basic tenant is “radical inclusion.” There’s already a “ticket fiasco” at hand.