Lucas Cruikshank, the incredibly popular Internet comedian who parlayed the fame of his YouTube character Fred Figglehorn into Nickelodeon superstardom, has officially come out.

Spike Lee, a very accomplished New York film director and NYU professor, has spent a substantial part of this summer promoting a Kickstarter campaign he'd launched to crowdsource a $1,250,000 budget for his vaguely defined next movie. (On Friday, his $1.25-million goal was met.) One of the ways he'd drummed up publicity for the project was by releasing the academic list of essential movies he considers "the greatest films ever made," a slugsheet of cinematic titles he'd routinely hand out on the first day of class, which we published here.

The three Oklahoma teens accused of murdering college student and up-and-coming baseball player Christopher Lane have been identified.

Fox News executive and Roger Ailes acolyte Brian Lewis was fired and escorted out of the cable news station’s Manhattan headquarters earlier this month, marking an unprecedented departure from the channel’s tightly-knit leadership. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Lewis was let go amidst unspecified “financial issues” and “complaints about complacency.” Whether that implies something boring (Lewis’s salary) or interesting (actual malfeasance), Fox’s notoriously cruel PR team is—for now, at least—in the hands of its most notorious flack: Irena Briganti.

The medical examiner's report in the death of muckraking journalist Michael Hastings has been released and, conspiracy theories aside, the coroner has determined his death on June 18th was an accident, and that he had traces drugs in his system at the time he died.

I grew up in a tourist-laden town in sunny Florida. Its main downtown tourist street was full of fudge shops. I recently traveled to a popular small town in wintry Canada. Its main downtown tourist street was littered with fudge shops. What is it with tourism and fudge?

Before he was basically the biggest rapper in the country, with back-to-back No. 1s on the Billboard Hot 100 ("Thrift Shop" and "Can't Hold Us"), and another Top 20 track (the treacly gay-equality anthem "Same Love"), rapper Ben "Macklemore" Haggerty wrote a song called "White Privilege." (Sample lyrics: "Where's my place in a music that's been taken by my race / Culturally appropriated by the white face.")

Nicola Peate is still recovering from a dislocated jaw she sustained while attempting to bite into a triple-patty burger that pokes fun at fat American youths.

"He looked like an uninteresting Hunter Thompson, and then he chastised my friend Matt for not having a business card." A look at the cool, romantic people you can meet through IvyConnect.com.

It was a classic American romance. A rich guy, a gorgeous woman, and the nagging persistence of condoms.

London tweens camping out for the premiere of One Direction: This Is Us.

This week, the New Yorker published a long elegy of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s 12-year legacy. It’s brutal. Media critic Ken Auletta paints Bloomberg as a jackbooted, power-hungry bruiser: “the biggest plutocrat in a plutocratic capital, a creature of Wall Street who, flagrantly and legally, tapped his limitless bank account to become, and remain, mayor.” Asked about it by reporters—specifically about the part where Auletta describes his secret efforts to line up police commissioner Ray Kelly as a candidate to succeed him as mayor—Bloomberg refused to acknowledge the existence of the piece.

Yesterday we wondered what the next bubble will be, and when it will pop, thereby destroying us all. We intend to keep an eye on all possible bubbles from now until the next crash, so that we may claim to have "predicted" it. Today's candidate: flimsy homes in desert wastelands.

One little girl is in big, big trouble after she interrupted her anchorwoman mom's live broadcast in order to hand her back her cellphone.

A couple weeks ago, Kate Middleton's father, Michael Middleton, gathered up his daughter, son-in-law, grandson, and a couple dogs he knew, and bade them come out into the harsh August sunlight for an informal photo session in his garden. The resulting pictures were great by family photo standards: no one was sneezing; most people's eyes were open; there was nary a bunny ear to be seen.

Which famous economist are you most similar to?

The secret to keeping a marriage healthy, it seems, is to pretend to die every once in a while.

Crime and western writer Elmore Leonard, who died today, wrote more than 40 books (not to mention scores of short stories)—dozens of which have been made into movies and TV shows. What's your favorite? Which would you recommend? Which adaptation got Leonard best? Let's chat about our favorite Elmore Leonard book, movie, or adapted work.

Liz Pendleton was casually browsing Craigslist last Saturday when she came across a dog adoption ad that terrified her.

Andrew Ross Sorkin, the whiz kid-ish New York Times Dealbook reporter, sometimes gets unfairly characterized as a bootlicking Wall Street suckup who wants only to ingratiate himself with the powerful. Other times—like today—that characterization is completely fair.