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The East Could Be this Summer's Sleeper Hit
The nefarious corporations in the politically charged cult thriller The East are named McCabe-Grey, Hawkstone, and Hiller Brood, respectively. These monikers, laden with symbolism, are heavy-handed and...
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Pop-Tart Gun Tyke Gets Lifetime NRA Membership, Refuses to Be a Pawn
A young Baltimore boy who was suspended from school earlier this year for eating a Pop-Tart into the shape of a gun received a lifetime membership to the National Rifle Association at a Republican...
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Regular People Are Only Halfway Recovered From the Recession
"The typical household has regained less than half [the wealth lost in the recession]," according to a new analysis by the St. Louis Fed. "That's far below the estimate in a Federal Reserve report in...
View ArticleNew York Magazine Put Up For Sale
"New York Magazine Put Up For Sale." That is true, of course. But it is also confusing, sort of like this "Rob Ford Resigns" headline, just tweeted by New York Magazine.
View ArticleDavid Lynch Is Sharing Mysteries on Vine
Another mystery- vine.co/v/bYx2FX3Qbx2 — David Lynch (@DAVID_LYNCH) May 31, 2013 H/t Dom Hofmann
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Mally Bieber Back in Jail, Asks God "Can I Have a Family?"
OG Mally Bieber, the baby monkey who has been in jail so long he thinks "freedom" is a story made up by grown-ups to scare baby monkeys, will soon have a family of his own, the AP reports. Betcha he...
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'My Name Is City': An Excerpt from the Novel Long Division
Contributing editor Kiese Laymon is the author of the novel Long Division, of which this is an excerpt, and the essay collection How To Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America. He is an Associate...
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Brawl At Cleveland Kindergarten Graduation Blamed on Spilled Punch
Police in Cleveland were called earlier today to break up a brawl that broke out during a kindergarten graduation ceremony at a local elementary school. The fight started inside Michael R. White...
View ArticleFox News Host Smacks Down Misogynist Right-Wing Blogger
Conservative blogger Erick Erickson spent the week claiming that it was "anti-science" to believe in gender equality, but was unable to assert his masculine dominance on Friday when Fox News host...
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Did the New York Times Magazine Publish a Fake Air Scare Story?
When writer Noah Gallagher Shannon's piece about being on a commercial plane that was "about to crash" due to a landing-gear failure came out in the New York Times Magazine two weeks ago, readers were...
View ArticleHere's Some Extremely Rare Color Footage of New York City in 1939
Thanks to the attention of Romano Archives, some incredibly well-preserved 70-year-old footage of New York City has emerged. Filmed in 16mm Kodachrome by Jean Vivier, a French tourist, it captures...
View ArticleSamuel L. Jackson Quits Acting to Become a Crime-Fighting Vigilante
It all started two days ago when actor, philantropist, and all-around badass muthafukka Samuel L. Jackson posted a promise on Reddit to read the most upvoted 300-word monologue if the users in turn...
View ArticleHeath Ledger's Diary from the The Dark Knight Is Sad and Scary
In this clip for a documentary series, Heath Ledger's father flips through the pages of the diary that his late son used to prepare for the role of the Joker in The Dark Night. The diary, which says...
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Introducing "Tom Tips Back"
We get tips. Lots of them. Sometimes Gawker deputy editor Tom Scocca responds to them. These conversations will be memorialized here in an occasional feature we call Tom Tips Back. Charles Ray Cochran...
View ArticleCourtney Love Wants You To Think She's Going To Judge American Idol
The bundle of paranoia and sporadic searing insight that is Courtney Love was on Opie and Anthony's Sirius show Thursday. During her appearance, she mentioned that she was going to appear on a network...
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Smartphone App Claims It Can 'Cure' Homosexuality in 60 Days or Less
Setting Captives Free, a "non-denominational" Christian ministry named after a verse from the Old Testament, peddles in self-help courses it claims can cure you of all that ails you: Drinking,...
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Easy Guide to Making Ghettos: a Dispatch From the Nybro Action Team
The Nybro Action Team consists of Hjalmar Sveinbjőrnsson and Alex Bejerstrand, two under-employed roommates living in Nybro, a small industrial town in southern Sweden. Hjalmar is a chef; Alex takes...
View ArticleA fire that engulfed a Houston hotel today has killed four firefighters and...
A fire that engulfed a Houston hotel today has killed four firefighters and injured others. Though the blaze has been extinguished, three people are still missing.
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Is Animal Planet Real?
This week's re-airing of the fake documentary Mermaids: The Body Found followed by the premier of yet another fake-documentary Mermaids: The New Evidence, has relaunched an internet conversation about...
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Two Fun Gals Arrested Fulfilling Bucket List; One Was Eating Jerky
Two Florida women—childhood friends, recently reunited—were arrested Wednesday for attempting to shoplift swimsuits. One of them, the Ocala Star-Banner reports, was eating beef jerky. The women told...
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