Dedicated Disneyland Employee Owns Her Role as the Park's Evil Queen
With Disney having cornered the market on cutesy, it's pretty easy to forget that some of the company's characters are supposed to be evil beyond redemption.Read more...
View ArticleWalgreens—which owns Duane Reade—has announced that it won't be selling the...
Walgreens—which owns Duane Reade—has announced that it won't be selling the Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Rolling Stone, either.Read more...
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Kate Middleton Is Having a Girl Because She Is Fat, Says Doctor
Kate Middleton: she’s fat! Got a fat face stretched across a marshmallow head, perched atop a neck made of a stack of quarters (if we’re keeping everything to scale) that's connected to a potato body....
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“There Is No Evil Scheme Behind It": A Q&A with Candy Crush Games Guru
This summer, you won’t have to go far to find a Candy Crush player. There they are: begging lives off strangers on the subway platform, bonding with fellow acolytes at the DMV, taking time off work to...
View ArticleAriel Castro, the man arrested in May for allegedly holding three women...
Ariel Castro, the man arrested in May for allegedly holding three women captive in his Cleveland home for more than 10 years, pleaded not guilty today to 512 counts of kidnapping and 446 counts of...
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Zen Koans Explained: A Night in Dreamland
For many, "Zen" is a vague and foreign concept, as impermeable as the rock over which the river flows. Zen koans, those mystifying stories— what do they mean? And why? Gawker, an internet blog, is here...
View ArticleFilm collector Fernando Pena, who found the original version of Fritz Lang's...
Film collector Fernando Pena, who found the original version of Fritz Lang's Metropolis in 2008, just discovered alternative footage of Buster Keaton's The Blacksmith. It contains never-before-seen...
View ArticleRolling Stone has just published the Janet Reitman story accompanying its...
Rolling Stone has just published the Janet Reitman story accompanying its controversial Dzhokhar Tsarnaev cover online.Read more...
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Little Old Lady Denies Robber Cash, Offers Him Tootsie Rolls Instead
For the past 54 years, grocery store owner Margaretta "Marge" Wolf has held her own against a big-box store encroachment that has left her one of the last remaining mom-and-pop shop operators in her...
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Here's the Flag-Crazy Senate Intern Email Everyone in D.C. is Reading
Byron Thomas, a patriotic young man from "the extremely beautiful state of South Carolina" loves flags. He loves Confederate flags, like the one he hung in his room at the University of South Carolina...
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Tumblr Is Pushing Porn Into an Internet Sex Ghetto
Since Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer began circling around Tumblr's billion dollar GIF vortex, we wondered what it'd do with the nasty stuff: the dog sex, the rape porn. Or even the more mild takes on...
View ArticleHow Fox Faked Crowd Enthusiasm For Neil Diamond Last Night
Last night's MLB All-Star Game in New York featured a few high moments, several low moments, and one weird moment. Neil Diamond's distorted, off-tempo rendition of "Sweet Caroline" just prior to...
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Texas Man Finds Home Gone After Demolition Crew Sent to Wrong Address
The three-bedroom ranch-style home overlooking Lake Worth had been in David Underwood's family for decades, so it struck him as rather odd that he was having a hard time locating it after returning to...
View ArticleThe American Journalism Review is killing its print edition.
The American Journalism Review is killing its print edition. Sounds like some of that "symbolism" we heard about. Read more...
View ArticleThe Ivy League's side hustle—pricey summer camps that don't improve a...
The Ivy League's side hustle—pricey summer camps that don't improve a student's chances of admission—are raking in revenue by preying "on the anxiety of parents."Read more...
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Taking the Stairs Will Not Get You in Shape
Having failed to curb soda cup sizes, NYC mayor Mike Bloomberg has a new public health initiative: he is working to convince New Yorkers to take the stairs. This will accomplish nothing.Read more...
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Jailed Hero Hitchhiker Kai Tried to Kill Himself
Kai, the "hatchet-wielding hitchhiking hero" whose claim to Internet fame took a dark turn a few months back when he was accused of murdering an elderly lawyer, tried to take his own life yesterday,...
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Ask a Professional Chef How to Dine Out Like a Grownup
There are a few basics things to keep in mind if you want to truly enjoy your “dining experience” at a restaurant. Most of these things are actually up to the guest – but remember, if you do your...
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Canada Used Malnourished Aboriginal Kids as Test Subjects
The Canadian government conducted unethical nutrition studies on malnourished First Nations children in the 1940s and 50s, research by a food historian at the University of Guelph has revealed.Read...
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Everyone at Comic-Con Smells Like a Garbage Can
Lots of industry folk are excited to head down to San Diego today for the start of Comic-Con. All the major film studios and television networks will be there, hosting awesome panels where fans will...
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