Jessica Lange Performing "The Name Game" Was the Best Thing on Television...
This transcendent moment from last night's American Horror Story: Asylum features Jessica Lange's defrocked nun character Judy launching into a musical hallucination in which she performs Shirley...
View ArticleEx-Gay, Former Porn Star Joseph Sciambra on Why Satan Loves Anal Sex
"Anal sex would release into the world these rare demonic entities that even in the body could be conceived this, um, devil, it would be given birth to anally, not physically it was more of a...
View ArticleSix-Year-Old Suspended from School for Making a 'Gun Gesture' with His Finger
The parents of a first grader suspended from school for making a "gun gesture" at another student are hoping their lawyer can get the school to strike the incident from the boy's permanent record....
View ArticleYou Listened to Your Witch Doctor and Now the Tiny Rhinos are (Almost) Gone
This is why we can't have nice things anymore. Do you see that majestic beast? Well that's as close as you'll ever get to seeing a Javan rhino because now they're extinct (in Vietnam). Researchers...
View ArticleGawker Is Roughly Ten Years Old (We Think?)
It is January 3, 2013. We are proud(?) to inform all of you that this website you are now reading (Gawker.com) is now ten years old. Double digits. Fuck. As you all know, Gawker was founded in January...
View ArticleTackling a Guest Who Bleeds Everywhere; How to Eat Lunch at Work and Other...
Welcome to Thatz Not Okay, a regular column in which I school inquiring readers on what is and is not okay. Please send your questions to caity.weaver@gawker.com with the subject "Thatz Not Okay." Last...
View ArticleFunemployed Couple Who Visited Disneyland Every Day for a Year Rewarded with...
A hero can be anyone. It can be a fireman who runs back into a burning home to save a beloved childhood pet (toad). It can be a teacher who stays after school to help a student struggling with math. It...
View ArticleWho Is the NYC-Known Chef Who Just Confessed to Farting on 'Every Single One'...
In a blind item that popped up on Eater's radar this afternoon, a person claiming to be "known in and around NYC" for his "somewhat famous restaurant in the meatpacking district" and "several" Food...
View ArticleToday's Song: Alunageorge "Diver"
Everyday that a new song by British duo Alunageorge surfaces, it is the song of the day. "Your Drums, Your Love" was one of 2012's very best, and these the R&B retro-futurists are among the most...
View ArticleRemember When a Million Horses Died on the Set of HBO's Luck? According to...
Last spring, horses everywhere neighed a sigh of relief when production was cancelled on HBO's horse-racing drama Luck, after three gambling-addicted horses died on set. Now, the Hollywood Reporter...
View ArticleTeen Jokes About His Drunken Hit-and-Run on Facebook, Gets Busted by Cops
Returning to his Astoria, Oregon, home after a busy day of driving drunk, sideswiping cars, and fleeing the scene, 18-year-old Jacob Cox-Brown couldn't wait to let all his Facebook friends know what...
View ArticleJoe Biden Was Being Verrrrrrrrrry Joe Biden Today
Joe Biden, your slightly creepy yet enchanting uncle, welcomed a host of new (and returning) senators to the Capitol today, and boy, was he happy to be the center of attention. If you've ever wanted...
View ArticleIt Has Been a Bad 24 Hours For Strippers
It's almost never a good thing for a stripper to make the news. The last 24 hours — which has seen strippers hospitalized, arrested and fired — has proven at least that much. In Cleveland, a...
View ArticleThis Sandwich Artist Fired From Subway (Yes, in Florida) After Threatening...
The customer is always right — unless the customer is a person that wants to put ketchup on his Philly cheesesteak. Because, what the fuck? This is an indisputable fact backed up by sandwich artist...
View ArticleRIP Fiscal Cliff Parody Accounts
The fiscal cliff has been avoided, and here's the best news: it means the end of fiscal cliff parody accounts! Assuming you're sane, you weren't following any of these accounts, anyway. But let's roll...
View ArticleSubway Violence in New York City Continues Unabated in 2013
Towards the end of last year, two people were shoved onto subway tracks and killed in separate incidents. Tonight, two plainclothes NYPD cops were shot, a bystander was grazed by a bullet and a...
View ArticleTough Guy Esquire Writer Hilariously Challenges Anyone to Ten Round Boxing Match
Esquire and ESPN Magazine writer Chris Jones—winner of both a National Magazine Award (though not as many as he believes he deserves) and a Gawker Least Important Writers award—has long been known as...
View ArticleSuperstorm Sandy Victims Stunned to Find Themselves in Allstate Ad — Because...
Sheila and Dominic Traina of Staten Island were in the middle of Thanksgiving dinner when they suddenly spotted their New Dorp Beach home in an Allstate ad aimed at patting the insurer on the back for...
View ArticleHere Is a Heartbreaking Photo of President Obama First Hearing About the...
Just as we all remember that famous AP photo of then President George W. Bush first hearing about the 9/11 attacks, so too will we remember this image of counterterrorism official John Brennan...
View Article'Salacious' Photo of Princess Diana Ordered 'Not to Be Published' Finally...
An "intimate photo" of an 18 or 19-year-old Princess Di is being published for the first time after being put up for auction at a New Hampshire-based auction house. The photo, owned for years by the...
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