Christian Teen Raps About the 'Evils of Homosexuality' in What Surely Must Be...
This must be one those "how long can you last" videos: A painfully flow-less Christian teen spitting h-ate-ful rhymes about homosexuality in a video entitled "Rated T for Tolerance." Sartre was wrong:...
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Adalia Rose and Her Family Will Make their National TV Debut with Anderson...
Adalia Rose, the six-year-old girl with progeria we told you about recently, is going to make her national television debut on an upcoming episode of Anderson Live, according to her mother Natalia...
View ArticleTerrence Howard Praises Oprah's Tig Ol' Bitties
Lee Daniels' upcoming historical drama The Butler was bound to be weird given Daniels' guiding hand (have you seen his The Paperboy, and did you like when Nicole Kidman peed on Zac Efron?), the...
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Was a Gay Mayoral Candidate's Mississippi Murder a Romantic Tryst Gone Awry?
Ever since 22-year-old Lawrence Reed, pictured at left, was found driving—and subsequently crashing—33-year-old Marco McMillian's SUV on a highway in Tennessee last week, news outlets have been trying...
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IKEA Recalls Almond Cakes After Realizing They Might Contain Poop
Remember last week when IKEA recalled some meatballs for containing horsemeat, even though horse is a kind of meat, so technically they were still balls of meat, i.e. "meatballs"? Today the Swedish...
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Man Slashed in the Face at Rikers Island Sues Correction Officer for...
After a vicious random attack at the Rikers Island visitors' center left him with a long, gory gash on his face, 20-year-old Chard Seegars thought his suffering had reached its apex. But when he...
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Jon Stewart Is Taking the Summer Off to Make a Movie About Iran
Deadline reports that Daily Show host Jon Stewart is taking the summer off to make a movie about an Iranian journalist Maziar Bahari, who was imprisoned after appearing in a Daily Show sketch. For...
View ArticleTina Fey Did Not Get Into Princeton Either So Quit Your Whining
It's only 25 days until the 24,000 of you who applied to Princeton University will receive a letter on Princeton letterhead regretfully informing you that your application does not meet the...
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When to Write a Personal Essay: A Reasonable Standard
The past few months have been full of navel-gazing essays about the relative merits of writers writing navel-gazing essays. Blogger Kate Fridkis weighs in with one more this week—a fairly...
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Pizza Delivery Guy Gets Tipped $10 on a $1,500 Order: Fair or Unfair?
Tipping! It's not a city in China, but it might as well be considering how foreign it is to many Americans. The latest example of questionable tipping that is stirring controversy on the web comes...
View ArticleFrances Ha Trailer Sets Up Winning Hand of Indie Movie Bingo
The trailer for Noah Baumbach's new movie, starring and co-written with Greta Gerwig, is black and white and indie all over. It ostensibly tackles the pitfalls of relationships and derailed ambitions....
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Is This the Worst Headline in Newspaper History?
An utterly baffling layout decision at the Mankato (Minn.) Free Press has resulted in what, by most accounts, may be the most unfortunate article headline in print journalism history. What was...
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Hugo Chávez Is Dead
Hugo Chávez, president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, has died at the age of 58 after a long battle with an undisclosed type of cancer, Vice President Nicolás Maduro announced today. Chávez...
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Woman Offers Passing Motorists $500 to Give Her Daughter a Job
After a collision with a drunk driver in 1996 left Linda Smith with brain damage and a mild case of dementia, her daughter Lisa quit a full-time modeling job to become her mother's live-in caregiver....
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Urban Outfitters Coming to Williamsburg; Williamsburg Finally Gonna Learn How...
Yesterday, when Williamsburg revealed its designs for the old Domino sugar factory site, people marveled at the gleaming new towers planned for the waterfront, or, more specifically, the giant gaping...
View ArticleParkinson's Group Produces the 'Worst Harlem Shake Ever'
The Harlem Shake has been declared over time and time again. But despite getting students suspended, getting miners fired, and launching a full scale federal investigation, the phenomenon simply...
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Did Kate Middleton Let It Slip That She's Having a Girl?
On Tuesday, Duchess of Cambridge Kate Middleton was tottering around a "fishing heritage center" in the middle of nowhere (technically: the coast of nowhere), all pregnant, probably singing Britney...
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Gay Couple Kicked Out California Mall for Kissing and Holding Hands
A young, gay couple was kicked out of a California mall last Saturday for holding hands and kissing. Jose Guzman, 24, and his boyfriend Daniel Chesmore, 21, were in the Westfield Galleria in...
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Half-Naked and Drunk Arkansas Woman Attempts to Escape Police in Toy Power...
Florida Man, meet Drunk, Half-Naked Arkansas Woman: sometime Tuesday, 28-year-old Jamie Craft, of Jonesboro, Arkansas, allegedly went for drunken joyride in Jonesboro, Arkansas and crashed into a...
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Playboy Is Launching a Hebrew Language Edition
Big week for Israel: First came news about Palestinian only buses and now an exciting announcement about a Hebrew edition of Playboy. The English-language edition of the magazine has been available in...
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