Kyle Jean-Baptiste, Broadway's First Black Jean Valjean, Dies at 21
Kyle Jean-Baptiste, the first African-American to play Jean Valjean, the iconic lead role in Broadway musical Les Misérables, died on Friday after falling from the fourth-floor fire escape of an...
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Does Chris Christie Want to Put Bar Codes on People to Track Their Movements?
At a campaign event on Saturday in Laconia, New Hampshire, Chris Christie announced that, if elected president, he would ask the CEO of FedEx, Frederick W. Smith, to devise a tracking system to combat...
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The Case of the MH370 Wing Segment Keeps Getting Weirder
When a wing section of a Boeing 777 washed up on the Indian Ocean island of La Réunion last month, the Malaysian government quickly ascribed the part to missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370. But an...
View ArticleSomebody keeps stealing Hamptonite Andy Sabin’s “Hillary for Prison 2016”...
Somebody keeps stealing Hamptonite Andy Sabin’s “Hillary for Prison 2016” signs. “Living in a town with a lot of left-wing wackos, that’s what happens,” he said. So he put up new ones, atop of a...
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UT-Austin Removes Statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis
A statue of Confederate president Jefferson Davis, recently the target of vandalism and criticism that it is a symbol and celebration of racism, has been removed from the campus of the University of...
View ArticleWatch This Wiener Dog Escape His People and Run Forever and Ever and Ever
This is pure exhilaration. This is pure life. This, if Taylor Swift were writing about it, would just have the words “squad goals” written over and over again with a few emoji and hashtags thrown in....
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Three Children Hospitalized After Austrian Police Stop Van Full of Refugees
Less than a day after a truck containing 71 decomposing bodies was found outside Vienna, police stopped a small van carrying 26 refugees in northern Austria, including three small children who were...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dimitry Medvedev toast...
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dimitry Medvedev toast each other after a brisk workout at the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia.Photo via AP. Contact the author of this post:...
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Are Attractive Women Really More Likely to be Straight?
Chris Rock once joked that men are only as faithful as their options, and new research suggests that women may only be as heterosexual as their options—with more attractive women more likely to...
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Obama Flexes, Renames Mount McKinley
President Barack Obama announced on Sunday that he is changing the name of Mount McKinley, the tallest mountain in North America, to Denali. (Can he do that? So he can.)Alaskans have referred to the...
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Police: Mother Lived With Daughter's Dead Body for Months After Killing Her
A woman in Upstate New York was charged on Saturday with her infant child’s murder, the Associated Press reports. Prosecutors said the woman, Christina Colantonio, lived with her dead daughter’s body...
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Director And Parents at Elite Preschool Battle Via Yelp And Facebook
Last week parents from a ritzy Los Angeles preschool, Camelot Kids, were shocked by an aggressive email sent by the school’s director, chastising them for inviting recently fired school employees to a...
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Jay Z Appears to Have Joined and Quit Instagram Over the Weekend
On Saturday, it seemed like Jay Z had finally—finally!—joined Instagram. He even (apparently) posted a photo. Two, actually! (Maybe?) But, the New York Daily News reports, by Sunday morning, the...
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Darren Rovell Says Racism Is Okay If The Market Approves; ESPNers Flee
Darren Rovell, a commemorative gift plate from the American Enterprise Institute that somehow talks and writes and uses social media, went there just now on Twitter, and it’s a sight to behold—a...
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Amber Rose and Blac Chyna Turn the VMA Red Carpet Into a Slutwalk
Blac Chyna and Amber Rose walk the red carpet at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards this evening. The pair are rumored to be starring in an upcoming reality show together, and Amber Rose’s Slutwalk is...
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Welcome to Gawker's 2015 MTV VMAs Miley Cyrus Moonman Liveblog
Welcome to the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards: the awards that videos win—for music. Our host this year is Miley Cyrus and our Moonman this year is colorful. Take a seat and relax, my friend. It’s...
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Wes Craven, Master of Horror, Dies at 76
Director Wes Craven, creator of such horror classics as Scream and Nightmare on Elm Street, has died, according to the Hollywood Reporter. He was 76.Variety reports the director died of brain...
View ArticleJustin Bieber Made Himself Cry
After his performance of a medley of his two recent singles, “Where Are Ü Now” and “What Do You Mean,” at this year’s MTV VMAs, Justin Bieber thanked the crowed with his hands clenched together. And...
View ArticleKanye West: "I Have Decided in 2020 To Run for President"
After a long and winding acceptance speech at the VMAs about bros, trophies, the importance of ideas, the hazards of brands, and MTV’s profiting off his unhinged behavior, Kanye West signed off by...
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Miley Cyrus Managed To Get Her Nipple on MTV, At Least
Well here is one thing Miley Cyrus managed to accomplish as she floundered through her hosting duties during this year’s MTV Video Music Awards. NSFW version and video clip after the jump.“What’s...
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