The Maroon 5 frontman, Voice judge, and Jewish heartthrob is now at age 37 also officially a Hot Dad. This week, on September 21st, his wife of two years, Behati Prinsloo, 27, gave birth to a baby girl. The little girl is named Dusty Rose Levine, which sounds like a great lipstick color, but is also a pretty good way to describe being born on the last official day of summer. Or, is it perhaps a lighter version of MAROON??

Levine was so ready. “You’re born to be a parent, that’s what we’re here for, really,”he told Entertainment Tonight in April. “All the other shit is great, but it’s not what we’re here for.”

Will young Dusty be raised Jewish? Likely not, given her father’s rejection of formal religious practice and her mother not being Jewish at all. Will her father sing her to sleep at night with “She Will Be Loved?” We can only assume so.

Mazel tov to the whole Levine clan on the bundle of joy.

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Though I was hoping that my teen crushes, Jack Black and Ethan Embry, would finally get their deserved attention and give People’s “Sexiest Man Alive” arbiters a tough choice this year, it seems that the title is going to Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine. The ladies and gents go wild for this tattooed, high-pitched singer/judge of other singers. His music is OK, his face is pretty good—is it Ethan Embry good? Let’s not make jokes. This is serious sexy business. The Hollywood Reporter reports:

He was asked about the rumors on Friday’s Today show but seemed reluctant to say anything and squirmed as he was being questioned. After initially telling host Savannah Guthrie he didn’t believe her, he remarked, “It would be an interesting idea … I know nothing.”

Well, he’s probably about to know something. People is supposed to make the announcement this week—so obviously stop everything you’re doing until the press release is out and about the interwebs.

Good luck with the photo shoot, Levine. You should remember to flex— flexing is important. And, for the rest of you, if you can’t wait until the sexy issue, watch Maroon 5’s music video for “Payphone” and see Levine dressed in different looks: prim and proper for business or dirty from fire.

(Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty)

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You were probably sad when Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine proposed to Victoria’s Secret model Behati Prinsloo. One of those nonsensical depressions. Like, you probably would never have actually met and married Levine yourself, but you wanted the option. Anyway, there’s a new, more practical way to be close to him: wear his clothes. Levine’s “222” line is doing really, really well at Kmart, the Daily Mail UK reports:

The 34-year-old launched a collection of men’s clothing and accessories for Kmart on October 1, and according to Kmart boss Bernt Ullmann, it’s doing incredibly well.

So well, in fact, that Mr Ullmann thinks the singer is destined for great things in the fashion world. He told WWD: ‘We couldn’t be happier. . . There is nothing on the floor that is not working,’ adding: ‘I think Adam has the ability to be Kmart’s Calvin Klein business.’

That’s right. Kmart’s Calvin Klein. With such high praise you must be wondering: What about the ladies? Glad you asked. Come springtime, you can show off your legs in Levine’s new line for ladies. His wife will even help him get that feminine look right.

The womens’ clothing will undoubtedly be a hit among Mr Levine’s mostly female fanbase, and it will also be helped by Miss Prinsloo, who is expected to ‘have a voice in the development’.

We know. YOU wanted to help Levine design the clothes, but you can’t, remember? Maybe you can help Joseph Gordon-Levitt design his future clothing line. Oh, wait. He’s taken, too. Sigh. I guess we’ll just wear the clothes and move on.

(Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty)

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“Adam Levine and his girlfriend Behati Prinsloo are excited to announce they are engaged to be married,” the rep says. “The couple recently reunited and Adam proposed this weekend in Los Angeles.”

Prinsloo isn’t the model girlfriend in this naked photo shoot with the clothing-averse singer, but now the pair has a lifetime to take pictures together in various states of undress. Though feelings about the Jewish pop star are decidedly mixed (see: ‘Adam Levine Continues to Ruin Everything‘), we wish him nothing but the best on his impending nuptials.

Mazel tov, guys. (And if it doesn’t work out, Adam, call us!)

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Two more contestants were voted off NBC’s vocal competition reality show The Voice last night, leaving rookie coach Usher with only one contestant left on his team—the fourth season’s surprise favorite, Michelle Chamuel.

Thank you guys so much for voting and keeping me here to sing more for you! You are the stars.

— Michelle Chamuel (@MichelleChamuel) May 22, 2013

Only eight contestants remain, each vying for the grand prize, a recording contract with Universal Music Group (and more screen time with celebrity coaches Adam Levine, Blake Shelton, Usher, and Shakira). But 26-year-old Chamuel, from Amherst, MA, has unexpectedly stolen the show. The diminutive and talented singer has a quiet charisma which is offset by what can only be called humility, unusual in a rock star.

She’s also queer and Jewish, though she won’t let that define her—a difficult feat on reality television. I don’t think of myself as “a lesbian musician” or a “Jewish artist,” she said in an interview with After Ellen. “It’s not one and alone. I think of myself as a musician.” (She also revealed she only shaves one of her legs, which is pretty awesome.)

“I think I represent nerdy people,” Chamuel said with a disarming smile in the opening episode. “People misunderstand me sometimes. As an introvert, people take me to be aloof. Someone says hello to me, and it’s terrifying. Like, should I tell them I just had the best day ever? And then they’re like, what is wrong with this person?”

Despite her introversion, Chamuel seems to have run away with America’s heart. Throughout every round she’s been saved by viewers, who call in or text message votes for their favorite contestant. From her first appearance, she had the judges eating out of the palm of her hand. For her blind audition (the judges can’t see the performer, they only hear her voice), she appeared on stage in a black and grey striped shirt under a red cardigan and sang Katy Perry’s “I Kissed a Girl.”

Adam Levine pushed his buzzer for her after she had sung only two phrases of the song. Shakira followed suit soon after. Usher’s hand lingered over his buzzer—will he press it? won’t he?—until finally, with a smile that looked almost like defeat, pressed it just seconds before the music stopped.

With three judges at her disposal, the choice was now Chamuel’s. The celebrities began to fight for her vote.

“There’s a rock chick inside of me,” Shakira tried, “and I see the rock chick inside of you.”

“There’s a rock chick inside of me, too,” Adam Levine said. “You look so pure, yet when you sing, it’s like, you’re gonna stop the earth. I love you!”

“I love you too!” Shakira threw in, not to be outdone.

Usher was less enthusiastic. “You impressed me,” he said simply. “It’s your first time, it’s my first time. We could go far.”

And yet, despite the faintness of his praise, it was Usher that Chamuel chose to be her coach. She selected the one coach who turned around at the last second, the one coach who didn’t say he loved her.

The show has impressively wide-ranging appeal, garnering 13 million viewers mid-season (all the more significant considering rival American Idol’s subpar finale ratings). This success, as far as this viewer is concerned, stems from the show’s unique set-up, powerfully evocative of family life. Think about it: you have a bunch of authority figures, beloved and all-knowing, with both the power to judge and the power to teach. Then you have your group of youthful hopefuls, wanting the world and more, desiring first and foremost the love of these superstars—and then, no doubt, to ultimately supersede them.

But here’s the kicker: instead of having a gaggle of siblings competing for the love of two parents, four parent-figures compete for the love of a group of artists (in the first slew of episodes, anyhow). There’s even a section of the show devoted to “stealing”—should a judge reject an artist, the other judges can swoop in and rescue the artist, bringing him or her over to their family—I mean, team. There’s something deeply compelling and rather perverse about it. Perhaps this is what might lead an artist to change her plans last minute, from selecting the coach she had planned on choosing (Chamuel initially said she probably would choose Adam if he hit his buzzer for her) to selecting the only one who wouldn’t tell her he loved her.

Chamuel ends each song with an utterly heartbreaking look at Coach Usher, but her humble charm has all the coaches rooting for her. “You take the competition right out of this for us,” Adam said Monday night after her performance, a rendition of Pink’s “Just Give Me a Reason”, in which Chamuel wore slacks, a jacket, and her trademark black plastic glasses. “We’re all just beaming with pride over how much success you’ve had,” he said.

And Usher, for his part, stood up to cheer during the performance, and after she was done, said, “There’s nothing on that stage but you.”

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Adam Levine, Jewish rock star and reality TV’s bad boy with a heart of gold (see: The Voice), sat down with The Hollywood Reporter and showed us that deep down he’s just a regular guy trying to make it in the biz. That’s why he did that fragrance line.

The article, which calls Levine “at once charming, cocky, self-deprecating, self-aware, funny and grateful,” also reveals a ton about the Maroon 5 frontman. Your degree in Levineology starts here:

1. His childhood best friend—and longtime manager—is Jonah Hill’s brother, Jordan Feldstein (I KNOW, right).

2. His father, Fred Levine, founded clothing store and online retailer M. Fredric.

3. He knows that before he joined reality singing show The Voice as a judge, “the occasional soccer mom probably thought I was a slut.”

4. According to a polling firm, his “likability” has increased by more than 20 percent since he’s been on the show.

5. He was “a total dickhead” in high school.

6. He watches The Daily Show.

7. He briefly attended Five Towns College on Long Island.

8. His first band, Kara’s Flowers, performed on an episode of Beverly Hills, 90201. At the Peach Pit:

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• The New Yorker has some very Jewish fiction from Nicole Krauss. [New Yorker]

• Go the F*ck to Sleep author Adam Mansbach is offering a fake college course you should probably enroll in. [Salon]

• Animating the Talmud, G-dcast style. [Tablet]

• Jonathan Ames and Jason Schwartzman (the man, not the flu mask) are teaming up again for a film adaptation of a Bernard Malamud story story collection. [THR]

• A look at SkinnyGirl maven Bethenny Frankel’s TriBeCa condo, presumably sans soon-to-be-ex-husband Jason Hoppy. [Curbed]

• In Adam Levine’s The Voice-inspired SNL opening monologue, Jerry Seinfeld played the Jewish card: “I get you—appealing, not as Jewish as your name. I know that racket inside and out.”

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• Beardless Matisyahu is so unrecognizable these days, he can’t even get into clubs. [NYP]

• Turns out not everyone is a fan of Mandy Patinkin’s memorable Princess Bride character, Inigo Montoya—a guy flying from Sydney to Auckland was asked to change his shirt, which said “Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.” [Gawker]

• Mel Brooks talks Catskills comedy and the garment district. [NPR]

• Gwyneth Paltrow does not tolerate slutty friends. [Jezebel]

• Adam Levine was spotted filming what looks like an SNL Digital Short with Andy Samberg and the Lonely Planet guys. [BuzzFeed]

• Children’s frightmaster and author R.L. Stine discusses the early horror classics that influenced him growing up. [MediaBistro TV]

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• Looks like we’re not the only ones excited for the February release of the new Coen Brothers movie, Inside Llewyn Davis. [Flavorwire]

• Is free-associating tour guide and hipster icon ‘Speed’ Levitch the hidden saint of our times? [Tablet]

• Maggie Gyllenhaal will join Michael Fassbender in the upcoming music flick Frank. [THR]

• Move over, DryBar: the celebrity stylist formerly known as Rachel Zoe Rosenzweig is opening several DreamDry blowout spots in New York. [Racked]

• Photographing Zosia Mamet. [The 6th Floor]

• Adam Levine will host Saturday Night Live on January 26. [THR]

Here’s what we’re watching to prepare:

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• After 65 years, San Francisco institution Israel’s Strictly Kosher Market is closing. [Jweekly]

• Jerry Seinfeld wears Nike Shox. That is all. [NYT]

• Time thinks Lena Dunham is really, really cool. [Time]

• We can’t wait to watch Caged Wisdom: Musings from Prison by Arrested Development’s George Bluth Sr. on Netflix [Vulture]

• This season of The Voice may be over, but Adam Levine and Blake Shelton’s camera-ready rivalry lives on. [Jezebel]

• Seth Rogen got freaky at the dermatologist:

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