In August, Russian-language art website published two satirical ebooks spoofing Russia's new anti-gay propaganda" laws, Homosexuality for Kids and Lesbianism for Kids. Now, they along with their entire blogging platform, is apparently banned in Russia.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, one of the two Pussy Riot members still in a Russian prison for the crime of "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred," is on hunger strike starting today in order to protest her living conditions. In a lengthy open letter to the Guardian explaining her strike, Tolokonnikova claims that the first year in her two-year sentence has been hellish, beginning with the head administrator of her penal colony telling her upon arrival: "You should know that when it comes to politics, I am a Stalinist."

Grand Theft Auto V—the year's most anticipated, and most controversial, video game—is such a huge hit it "could be a nontrivial contributor to the U.S. gross domestic product." But it's a huge hit in part because parents are buying it for kids too young to understand—as one video-game clerk explains.

As we do periodically, we will now remind you that you will probably never save enough money to retire successfully. What makes us so sure of ourselves? Well, try this simple quiz: are you an American?

Oprah Winfrey, a minor deity whose whole schtick is that you are a frantic, unwashed mess and she's going to give you a pair of really comfy bedroom slippers until you feel better, has confirmed rumors that she nearly had a nervous breakdown last year.

Pennsylvania's "premier haunted scream park" will open this week with a brand new attraction that's guaranteed to scare the pants off its bravest patrons: "The Naked and Scared Challenge."

"The cult of Putin in America," Marin Cogan writes at National Journal, "probably has its strongest hold on the readers of ostensibly apolitical humor sites that target young men, such as Cracked and theChive." If you want a picture of the future, imagine a theChive t-shirt stamping on a human face—forever.

When the four-star British-style Texas pub Ten Bells Tavern suddenly received a strikingly nasty one-star review on Yelp, owner Meri Dahlke thought something didn't quite smell right.

On Monday, an Egyptian court issued a ruling that banned the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. The Cairo Court for Urgent Matters applied the ruling to the Islamist group's non-governmental group, its recently formed political party, and any groups affiliated with or receiving financial support from the organization.

Women who perform live sex shows for money on the internet have certainly done a lot of kinky things. But we've never heard of a more bizarre offer than this.

Ever wanted to live on a "floating city" surrounded by hundreds of tech-nerd millionaires experimenting with S&M and God knows what else? Your dream just came a little closer to reality.

Andrew Ross Sorkin, the founder of "Dealbook With Founder Andrew Ross Sorkin" at the web site of the New York Times, would like you to know that his name was uttered on a television program last night.

It seems all Jennifer Hudsons look alike to the paps.

Texas Senator Ted Cruz, the Princeton graduate, Obamacare-hater, and self-fashioned class warrior, apparently refused to study with students who graduated from the “minor Ivies”—Brown, Penn, Columbia and so forth—when attending Harvard Law School in the nineties. We’re assuming Cruz simply spat upon Williams alumni.

Is it possible that there is a parenting activity in New York City more egregiously scoff-worthy than Crossfit for toddlers? Maybe... DJ school for babies? Possibly?

Last week Page Six spotted former New York Governor and failed candidate for City comptroller Eliot Spitzer at Avicii’s September 17 album release party at Lavo on East 58th Street. Now, courtesy of an intrepid tipster, we have a photo of what ol’ Spitzy was doing there. Making friends, obviously!

"One day while driving east on I-290" begins this Penthouse Forum-esque footage of a Chicago couple unabashedly "smashing" in the driver's seat while cruising along the Eisenhower expressway.

The tragic tale of “Hiccup Girl,” a Florida woman famous for hiccuping, has ended predictably enough: with a first degree murder conviction.

It's long been an established fact that cats, as one MeFite put it, exist solely "to inconvenience humanity."