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Scientists Discover Remains of 'Drowned Continent' East of Madagascar
Science, what mysteries is the sea ready to disclose today? The drowned remnants of an ancient microcontinent may lie scattered beneath the waters between Madagascar and India, a new study suggests....
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Let's All Speculate On the Identity of the 'Inappropriate' Times Columnist
Public editor Margaret Sullivan has a few questions about the editorial freedom with which the average New York Times columnist operates: I interviewed Andrew Rosenthal, the editorial page editor, and...
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Afghanistan Orders US Special Forces Out of Province After Reports of Torture...
The government of Afghanistan has banned elite American forces from operating in the province of Maidan Wardak, claiming that Afghans working with US special forces have been involved with the torture...
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Who What Wear?: The Best and Worst of the Oscars' Red Carpet
Unless they get invited to a coronation or a really fancy funeral, the Oscars are the dressiest event most stars will ever attend. Whose beautiful gown will prompt Ryan Seacrest to shed his first,...
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Welcome to the Gawker Oscars Live-Blog
A naked Ken doll spray painted gold: everyone wants one, but not everyone can have one because Seth MacFarlane didn't order enough. It's time for the 85th annual Academy Awards! We'll be live-blogging...
View ArticleJamie Foxx Hitting on Kelly Rowland Was the Red Carpet's Best and Most...
Jamie Foxx on the red carpet outside the Oscars, introducing his daughter to former Destiny's Child Kelly Rowland: "She's an Aquarius... like you." Lincoln? Jamie Foxx is linkin' right here! Zero Dark...
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Best Animated Short Film Producer Kicked Out of Oscars for Throwing Paper...
When Paperman won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short early in the Oscar telecast, the film's director John Kahrs (pictured above) gave a lovely, brief speech, giving a special thanks to his...
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Firefighters Rescue Bloodied Woman From Cleaver-Wielding Husband in the...
There was a gruesome scene Sunday morning in Manhattan's Chinatown after a man attacked his wife with a meat cleaver, causing critical injuries before nearby firefighters came to the woman's rescue....
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Watch Oscar Nominees Lose Again and Again
Oscars host Seth MacFarlane closed out the show alongside proud pipsqueak Kristin Chenoweth with an original musical number dedicated to the night's losers. Since it was dreadful (and murmured as if...
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First Lady of U.S. Awards 'Best Picture' Oscar to CIA Propaganda
Michelle Obama, the First Lady of the United States, appeared live via satellite at the Academy Awards on Sunday night. What was she doing? Announcing the winner of Best Picture, of course: Argo, Ben...
View ArticleHere Are All of Seth MacFarlane's Predictable Sexist, Homophobic, and Racist...
At this point there's no question that Seth MacFarlane was a terrible Oscar host. Not only were his jokes unfunny, tired, self-centered and boring, but also incredibly sexist, homophobic and racist....
View Article'Movie: The Movie' The Sequel: Jimmy Kimmel Brings All of Hollywood Together...
Jimmy Kimmel's Movie: The Movie movie parody trailer has been viewed over 20 million times on YouTube since its debut following last year's oscars. "And when you have a big success in Hollywood,"...
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If You Go to Vet School, You Will Be Broke
Ever since you were a little kid, you loved animals. Cats, dogs, other animals: you just loved them. Petted them and everything, real nice. You always dreamed, since you were a little kid, of growing...
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IKEA Stops Serving Meatballs After Some Found to Contain Horse Meat
Swedish meatball purveyor Ikea confirmed this morning that it was the latest in an ever-increasing number of European companies to get caught up in the continent's horse meat scandal. A batch of...
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Jennifer Lawrence Did a Shot Before Going Into the Oscars Press Room and...
Plucky actress Jennifer Lawrence is now Academy Award-winning plucky actress Jennifer Lawrence and her irreverent, straight-talkin' routine was on full display in the Oscars' press room last night....
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1,139-Word Essay Composed about the Experience of Receiving a Lena Dunham Tweet
In much the same way that countless volumes could be composed in ode to the beauty of a single snowflake, countless words could be written about one single Lena Dunham tweet. Well, not countless: 1,139...
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'Humans of New York' Photographer: DKNY Stole My Photos After I Turned Them...
Brandon Stanton is a street photographer who has made a name for himself snapping shots of New York City's inhabitants for a "photographic census" he calls "Humans of New York." His project has...
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Why Did Kristen Stewart Look Like She'd Been Hit by a Car at the Oscars?
Was anyone even surprised when Kristen Stewart showed up to last night's Oscars ceremony hobbling on crutches, looking disheveled as all get out? Bedraggled disarray is just her natural state. Of...
View Article'Furry Convention of Unacceptable Adults' Scars One Hotel Guest's...
For a few days each year, Texans of the furry persuasion head down to the Crowne Plaza North Dallas-Addison to let their fur flag fly at the annual Furry Fiesta fandom convention. But one guest —...
View ArticleKanye West's New Song Goes, 'WAAAA WAAAAAAAAAAAAA'
Kanye West concluded his Sunday concert at London's Hammersmith Apollo by repeatedly howling, so you know it was a great show. He was performing 2006's formerly breezy single "Touch the Sky" when he...
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