daveblume / flickr John Stemberger, head of the conservative evangelical Florida Family Policy Council, told this morning's New York Times, "Allowing openly gay scouts will mean the blunt injection of ...
aspidoscelis / flickr During the past two weeks, much outrage has arisen over former Heritage Foundation staffer Jason Richwine's Harvard doctoral dissertation, which speculated that IQ differences between "Hispanic" and ...
dinnerseries / flickr PROBLEM: Kidney stones cause the sort of pain that people rate as highly as childbirth. They also cost the U.S. about $2 billion per year, caring for ...
Fried cicadas (Getty Images)
"Spice Up Your Spring Soiree With a Timely, Tasty Treat." Scotch on the rocks? Why not Scotch on the cicadas? And so on.
Over the next ...
moonwaves / flickr PROBLEM: Sometimes a word is on the tip of your tongue, and it's so close a slight breeze would blow it out. But it doesn't come ...
For the fourth time since 1956, Portlanders have rejected a plan to fluoridate the city's water. It's the only city among the nation's 30 most populous that ...
The lightning-fast son of Magneto is in high demand in Hollywood nowadays! Not only has Joss Whedon confirmed Marvel's speedster will appear in the Avengers sequel, director Bryan Singer ...
We were all a little terrified when MGM announced they would be remaking Poltergeist. However, we took some solace in the hiring of Monster House director Director Director Gil Kenan ...
For the first time ever, planetary scientists have created a topographical map of Titan, the largest of Saturn's many moons, and the second-largest in the entire solar system. The ...
'We were kinda like two of the same... just trying to get somewhere better,' Cap 1 tells Mixtape Daily of his beginnings with 2 Chainz.
By Rob Markman, with reporting ...
'We got a lot of good music coming up,' Aino Jawo tells MTV News of upcoming debut album.
By Christina Garibaldi, with additional reporting by James Lacsina
'The only person I paid was Max B,' French tells 'RapFix Live' of his debut album, Excuse My French.
By Rob Markman, with reporting by Sway Calloway
Morals vs Money
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“Palisades Park,” the new novel by Alan Brennert, belongs to a genre we might call “nostalgia fiction.” Unlike historical fiction, nostalgia fiction gets its retrospective fabric on the cheap, purchasing ...
The subtitle of the “The Fix — How Addiction Is Taking Over Your World” — sounds like lively hyperbole until you crack the cover of this fleet-footed, frighteningly up-to-date tome on all ...
You may have first encountered Hawkeye in last year’s “Avengers” movie, although the team’s dry-witted archer and sharpshooter has been a supporting character in various comic books for ...
In 2009, as the Great Recession was still dragging on, a young man from Baltimore published his first novel, a devastating story about the human costs of industrial ruin. The ...
Nuance is rare on the bestseller list. In most cases, ambiguity is stripped away to appeal to the greatest number and lowest common denominator. So it always renews my faith ...
The last time I met up with “C”, the CEO of Bang with Friends, it was for a boozy night of bar-hopping that ended up on a Brooklyn rooftop. He ...
Law enforcement officials in Florida believe they know who was behind the May 5th shooting death of a Lauderhill man — because the mastermind accidentally butt-dialed 911 and practically confessed to ...
According to Twitter, a video of a "woman squeezing a balloon out of her vagina" has been infiltrating Facebook newsfeeds. Have you seen this video? If so, I have a ...
Welcome to Thatz Not Okay, a regular column in which I school inquiring readers on what is and is not okay. Please send your questions to caity.weaver@gawker.com ...
During New York Design Week, I curated an exhibition and popup shop at Bobby Berk Home full of West Coast designer, makers and artists. Entitled East, Meet West!, the idea ...
In recent years, patios have morphed into outdoor rooms, used as essential square footage for living, playing, and entertaining. This is especially true on the West Coast, to the dismay ...
INTRO NY was a side show from the designjunction team featuring a handful of international designs in an all-white space on the edge of Soho.
Resident is a NZ-based company ...
We collaborated with MSN to profile four artists and designers we love who we think embody the same design, content and functional philosophies as the new MSN.com: design with ...
I am pretty smitten by the Mategot Coatrack by Mathieu Matégot for Gubi. The design reminds me of the Eames dot pattern or mid-century jacks (jax) designs.
The coatrack center ...
Life-changing awakening
Coughs likely to linger about 3 weeks
Now that the busiest part of our year is over (see you next year, trade shows!), I can dive back into Before & Afters! I’ve been swamped with travel and ...
Okay— what I’m about to say might alienate some aunts, uncles, mothers, fathers, and grandparents out there—but y’all need to cool it with the overly sentimental greeting ...
One of the first things I do when I, or any of my friends, move into a new apartment is look for lighting I can swap out. Most NYC apartments ...
This year’s ICFF was a textile-lover’s paradise. There were thick wool blankets in intensely colorful patterns, soft cushions that looked like they’d been splattered with beautiful paint ...
Maybe it’s the fact that I bought a pink coffee table this year, or that I’ve taken to writing only using pink Le Pens, but I’ve been ...
Two and a half decades of speculating about the geographic location of the Simpsons’ hometown will come to rest sometime this summer, when Universal Orlando definitively proves that Springfield can ...
After 13 seasons, 246 interventions, and years of viewer I’m-addicted-to-Intervention Twitter puns, A&E’s Intervention is ending. Five final episodes will air on Thursdays at 9PM ET starting ...
Does Someone Have To Go? debuts tonight on Fox at 9 p.m. Eastern.
Of the many fascinating anecdotes that came out of the 2008 presidential campaign, one of the ...
Once again, the Internet has taken two pop culture behemoths, thrown them in a blender and posted the hilarious, pureed mess on YouTube for our amusement. This time, the folks ...
The man who made The Godfather one of the greatest movie trilogies of our time (if you go really easy on the third one) will return to the director's ...
Washington is John Adams’s home for the rest of May. This week, the celebrated composer is curating a four-concert series of his music at the Library of Congress and ...
Sure, it was a National Symphony Orchestra concert at the Kennedy Center last night, but a typical NSO concert? Not so much: Guitarist Trey Anastasio of Phish let loose with ...
Earlier this week, an employee of U Street Music Hall strolled down 14th Street NW and ducked into Som Records to buy a vinyl copy of the most hyped album ...
Notable recordings from the world of pop music.
Roomrunner
Imagine a Nirvana whose only source of angst came from being constantly compared to Nirvana. There's more fun than fury ...
May 29 marks the 100th anniversary of the wonderfully scandalous premiere of Igor Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring,” when a near-riot broke out in the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. Performances of ...
You didn't think Brangelina & Co. would hole up in just any old shack, did you?
Of course not! Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie—along with kids Maddox, Pax, Zahara ...
Former Miss Alabama USA Katherine Webb has taken to Twitter to deny controversial reports that she subsists on only 1,120 calories a day.
"No way I only eat 1100 ...
Alice Eve may play a scientist in Star Trek Into Darkness, but she's a big believer that we're not alone in the universe.
Appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live ...
Karina Smirnoff's makeup is so wrong that we can't believe she wore it out of the house, let alone for a Good Morning America appearance! The entire look ...
Bromance alert?
Jamie Bell seemed to hint at just that when he tweeted: "Chris Pine kills it. #IntoDarkness"
Then again, perhaps the Billy Elliot star is simply a...
Spotted solo!
Mere days after news broke that Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart split, the actor reappeared out and about by himself in Los Angeles.
The Twilight actor was...
Anne Hathaway knows how to wear haute couture, but homegirl looks good when she's dressed down, too!
Yesterday in NYC, the 30-year-old Oscar winner managed to make blue, tie-dyed...
How did Tony Hale get back into his Buster Bluth character after seven years away from the hooked-handed one? With a little help from mom, of course.
"To get back ...
It's Thursday, so that can only mean one thing.
Time for a little throwback!
Sure enough, Kelly Osbourne did just that when she tweeted this pic from her younger...
Will Arnett and Jason Bateman's relationship can seem complicated at times, but the love between these two is true (at least for one of them).
The Arrested Development costars ...
