In a video and pictures sent in by Gawker tipster Kevin Mazeski, you can watch Banksy's latest work in Queens being defaced tonight.

According to a new survey, 20 percent of adults living in New York City are binge drinkers.

Yesterday afternoon, Sylvester Stallone turned up at New York Comic-Con, partly to promote his upcoming film, Escape Plan, and partly to sell a tiny fragment of his existence for a steep fee. A very steep fee: $395 an autograph, $445 a photo.

The Government factory might be shut down, but Ark Music Factory is up and running and they’ve pumped out another obnoxious and catchy adolescent shitshow in Alison Gold’s single “Chinese Food.”

Why is a chorus of Japanese kindergartners singing the Dayman song from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia? A better question would be, "why aren't all choruses of kindergartners everywhere singing the Dayman song from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia?"

Over the weekend, America’s tailor, Taylor Swift, grabbed her trusty giant pair of scissors and used them to *chop chop chop* her way into Nashville’s brand new Taylor Swift Education Center, located at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. Or maybe they were normal-sized scissors and Taylor is just extremely tiny, her bespoke education center crafted in exquisite miniature. It’s not clear from the photos.

Two Walmart locations in Louisiana were forced to call in police officers on Saturday after a glitch in the Electronic Benefit Transfer system removed spending limits and triggered a run on the stores' food shelves.

“Officials say no one was hurt in the fire,” the news report read. But the words of one customer paint a very different picture:

Authorities in Nashville have arrested 22-year-old David White and charged him with reckless endangerment after a gun he was playing with accidentally discharged, firing a bullet through his floor into the apartment below and striking a sleeping woman.

Reminder: do not write 35-page freelance erotic fiction stories for strangers on Craigslist without getting paid in advance.

Bad news for any Somali pirates hoping to cash in on all this Captain Phillips hype: On Saturday, Belgian authorities arrested an alleged pirate kingpin from Somalia after luring him to Brussels with a job offer on a film that would “mirror his life as a pirate.”

Utah has a perfectly good explanation for why it won't allow same-sex marriage: Gay couples can't make babies.

CR: 1. Abbreviation for "Congressional Republican," a member of an exclusive socialist commune on the Potomac River that provides private gyms, health care, pensions, tennis courts, guaranteed airline seats, reserved airport parking, fine dining, life insurance, a private subway, iPhones, postage stamps, luxury hotels and manservants. Commonly confused with the abbreviation for continuing resolution.

A Twitter sentiment-analysis study last month mistakenly identified Hunter College High School as the saddest place in New York, thanks to one gloomy account nearby. (The real saddest place is wherever four-year-olds take test prep for Hunter kindergarten.)

As House Domino's engages in a brutal war of attrition against House Pizza Hut in the east, the upstart House Little Caesars and House Papa Murphy's vie for control of the wild, untamed west—while in the exotic land of "Deep Dish," House Godfather's consolidates its power. Welcome to Game of Pizza, where you win—or die.

In The New York Times’s study of Bill de Blasio’s upbringing—which culminated, at the age of 18, with his father’s violent suicide—the paper reveals that the parents of the Democratic candidate for New York City mayor came under suspicion of sympathizing with Communists:

Scientists now say that a baby's instinct to open its mouth when food nears "is a skill fetuses teach themselves in the womb." Wow... sounds like your baby is real smart. (Sarcasm.)

Nearly 400 people were arrested in Moscow this weekend during a race riot stemming from a Russian national's murder the mob had pinned on a migrant. Crowds chanted "Russia for Russians" and "white power" as they tore through the city on the hunt for the suspected killer.

Researchers in Germany published a study this month on something near and dear to American hearts: mindless eating in front of glowing screens.

Global warming could cause your tuna fish to fill up with with (even more) mercury.