New York Magazine Put Up For Sale
Ken Layne · 05/31/13 12:36PMMaggie Lange · 05/31/13 12:18PM
After Earth Is Just a Shitty Movie, Not Scientology Propaganda
Rich Juzwiak · 05/31/13 12:15PM
The tagline of the new Will/Jaden Smith movie, After Earth, is: “Danger is real. Fear is a choice.” The movie, which was directed by the inexplicably still-working hack M. Night Shyamalan and based on a story devised by the elder Smith, hinges on the ability of its young protagonist Kitai (Jaden) to rid himself of fear so that he can defeat a giant, blind monster mole that hunts humans by detecting their anxiety.
The 100 Most Controversial Articles on Wikipedia Around the World
Max Read · 05/31/13 12:03PM
You can probably guess off the top of your head the most controversial English-language Wikipedia articles—those topics that inspire extensive re-editing and deleting. (I guarantee you can't guess the fourth-most controversial.) But what about the most controversial articles in other languages? What are Francophones and Chinese speakers arguing about Wikipedia?
Fast Food Chain Lets Beautiful Women Eat for Free
Neetzan Zimmerman · 05/31/13 11:43AMThis Plane Crashed Into An Apartment Full of Sleeping People
Ken Layne · 05/31/13 11:20AMBaby Vegetarian Floors Mom with Precocious Opposition to Eating Animals
Neetzan Zimmerman · 05/31/13 11:03AMLuiz Antonio only recently entered this world, but he's already made up his mind about eating the planet's animals: He wants nothing to do with it.
Rihanna's Lipstick Allegedly Gave a Woman Sexy Bad Girl Herpes
Caity Weaver · 05/31/13 10:35AM
A 28-year-old woman who walked away from a May 7 Rihanna concert with a face full of herpes is suing MAC Cosmetics, alleging that she contracted the virus from a shade of special Rihanna-themed lipstick she sampled at a MAC popup shop she visited while attending the singer's performance at the Barclays Center.
Florida Man Who Fatally Shot Wife's Lover Found Not Guilty of Murder
Neetzan Zimmerman · 05/31/13 10:26AMPolice Gas Peaceful Protesters Trying to Save City Park
Max Read · 05/31/13 10:15AMWhich City Would Win 'Hunger Games': A Ranking of Fitness in the U.S.
Maggie Lange · 05/31/13 09:24AMWoman Beats Amazing Odds to Win $1 Million on Wheel of Fortune
Neetzan Zimmerman · 05/31/13 08:45AMA California woman beat increasingly impressive odds to take home an actual fortune on last night's episode of Wheel of Fortune.
Dog Saved from Doom After Leash Gets Caught in Elevator Doors
Neetzan Zimmerman · 05/31/13 08:14AMAn impromptu Russian reenactment of Louis Malle's 1958 film noir classic Elevator to the Gallows was thankfully interrupted by one extra's scene-stealing heroism.
The Spelling Faces of the Scripps National Spelling Bee
Max Read · 05/31/13 07:46AM
Last night, Queens' own Arvind Mahankali, 13, won the Scripps National Spelling Bee by correctly spelling "knaidel," a Yiddish word for a kind of dumpling. (Mahankali had twice lost in the finals on Germanic words.) But Mahankali wasn't the only star—nearly every kid on the stage had presence. And good "concentration" faces.
Michigan Woman Fighting for Rebels Killed by Syrian Government Forces
Taylor Berman · 05/30/13 10:33PMTaylor Berman · 05/30/13 09:39PM
2 US Diplomats May Have Shot Each Other at a Venezuelan Strip Club
Taylor Berman · 05/30/13 09:01PMMan Sentenced to 50 Years in Jail for Stealing Rack of Ribs in Texas
Taylor Berman · 05/30/13 08:10PMCheerios Ad Starring Interracial Family Predictably Summons Bigot Wave
Cord Jefferson · 05/30/13 07:39PMA nice Cheerios advertisement whose only discernible difference from other Cheerios commercials is that it depicts an interracial family was forced to disable its YouTube comments section today after it became inundated with virulent racism.





