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Michael Hastings' Autopsy Finds Traces of THC, Meth

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Michael Hastings' Autopsy Finds Traces of THC, Meth

The medical examiner's report in the death of muckraking journalist Michael Hastings has been released and, conspiracy theories aside, the coroner has determined his death on June 18th was an accident, and that he had traces drugs in his system at the time he died.

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Top Fox News Executive Fired Over “Financial Issues” [Updated]

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Top Fox News Executive Fired Over “Financial Issues” [Updated]

Fox News executive and Roger Ailes acolyte Brian Lewis was fired and escorted out of the cable news station’s Manhattan headquarters earlier this month, marking an unprecedented departure from the channel’s tightly-knit leadership. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Lewis was let go amidst unspecified “financial issues” and “complaints about complacency.” Whether that implies something boring (Lewis’s salary) or interesting (actual misfeasance), Fox’s notoriously cruel PR team is—for now, at least—in the hands of its most notorious flack: Irena Briganti.

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'Bored' OK Teens Who Shot and Killed Jogger 'for Fun' Identified

Spike Lee Amends "Essential Film List" to Include Women-Directed Works

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Spike Lee Amends "Essential Film List" to Include Women-Directed Works

Spike Lee, a very accomplished New York film director and NYU professor, has spent a substantial part of this summer promoting a Kickstarter campaign he'd launched to crowdsource a $1,250,000 budget for his vaguely defined next movie. (On Friday, his $1.25-million goal was met.) One of the ways he'd drummed up publicity for the project was by releasing the academic list of essential movies he considers "the greatest films ever made," a slugsheet of cinematic titles he'd routinely hand out on the first day of class, which we published here.

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Internet Megastar Lucas 'Fred' Cruikshank Comes Out

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Lucas Cruikshank, the incredibly popular Internet comedian who parlayed the fame of his YouTube character Fred Figglehorn into Nickelodeon superstardom, has officially come out.

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Runaway Taxi Severs Tourist's Leg in Rockefeller Center

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Runaway Taxi Severs Tourist's Leg in Rockefeller Center

A British tourist visiting Rockefeller Center suffered horrific injuries on Tuesday, after a New York taxicab jumped a curb where she was standing and severed her foot.

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Shocking research concludes that rich people are entitled narcissists.

Chicken Purse Made of Fake Chicken


Scary Anti-'Stand Your Ground' Ad Features Trayvon Murder Reenactment

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A haunting new PSA produced with crowdfunded dollars employs audio from the night of Trayvon Martin's murder in order to recreate the crime scene from the point of view of both George Zimmerman and one of the witnesses who phoned 911.

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Here's What the New York Times Should Do: Nothing

The Incomprehensible Horrors of North Korean Prison Camps

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The Incomprehensible Horrors of North Korean Prison Camps

The UN is currently hosting a "Commission of Inquiry" about North Korea. The most impactful thing to come out of the commission's hearings will almost certainly be stories like the ones that were told to day by survivors of North Korean prison camps.

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Scandal: 'Double Stuf' Oreos Don't Actually Contain Double the Stuff

If a "Wives" Reality Show Airs Without a Fight, Does It Make a Sound?

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If a "Wives" Reality Show Airs Without a Fight, Does It Make a Sound?

Last season, VH1's Basketball Wives franchise documented a sustained nadir in humanity, and a peak of the kind of extreme human behavior that viewers ostensibly sign up for when they tune in to watch a bunch of women who have been hired to argue with each other do so. Tami Roman eviscerated a woman for coughing. Evelyn Lozada and Suzie Ketcham hid dead fish around another castmate's hotel room. Lozada attempted to physically attack former BFF Jennifer Williams by climbing over a table.

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"Oh god Cher, what are you doing this time?"

Taylor Swift Mashes Four Years of Rage Into Delicious Fruit Jam

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Taylor Swift Mashes Four Years of Rage Into Delicious Fruit Jam

Remember four years ago when something happened to photogenic millionaire Taylor Swift while she was accepting a fake award at a ceremony held by a channel that exists to market cell phones to teenagers? Taylor Swift remembers too. It's the first thing she thinks about when she rolls out of bed and the last thing she pictures before she falls asleep. Her life is an endless carousel of misery, circling 'round and 'round that single moment. Every day she wakes up and discovers it is September 14, 2009; every day is the day after Kanye West's bizarre outburst ensured that the 2009 VMAs would forever be remembered as one of Taylor Swift's Top Four Worst VMAs Ever.

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Report: The NSA Still Doesn't Know Which Files Edward Snowden Took

Man Critically Injured Trying to Rescue a Stolen David Hasselhoff Ad

Georgia Student Banned From Social Media for 5 Years for Tumblr "Joke"

Katy Perry Beats Lady Gaga In Least Exciting Charts Battle Ever

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Katy Perry Beats Lady Gaga In Least Exciting Charts Battle Ever

Last week, Katy Perry and Lady Gaga released the first singles of their respective upcoming albums, Prism and (my fingers groan a little bit louder with old age every time I type this) ARTPOP. The ensuing battle to the top of the charts was like a taste test between a Saltine and a Saltine piled with sprinkles, truffle oil, caviar, gold flakes, Madonna's post-True Blue eyebrow pluckings, and lead paint chips from the walls of Andy Warhol's Factory. Both songs are meta-noise — Perry's reggae-lite "Roar" is about working up the nerve to cause a ruckus ("I am a champion and you’re gonna hear me ROAR"), while Gaga's aggressively ugly "Applause" is about having the nerve to declare how life-affirming ruckus directed at you can be ("I live for the applause, applause, applause"). If you play "Roar" and "Applause" simultaneously on stereos facing each other, the songs solve each other while opening up a black hole of infinite vacuousness.

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Here Is Sub Pop's First Contract With Nirvana, Promising $600 Advance

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