Etta Mae Lopez was ready. She was ready to finally quit smoking. But she knew it wouldn't be easy. No, it was going to be a Herculean effort. Ms. Lopez considered her options — perhaps a few months in rehab? Brilliant. No one would ever smoke in rehab. But her smokers' insurance probably wasn't going to cover that. So she picked the next best place to be when you want to stop smoking for free: jail. Because nothing stops those cravings like the thought of having to shank someone for a $30 "loosie."

Sometime in April 2010, my father, Victor, a veteran who spent most of his life as an engineer, hanged himself in a garage in Blackwood, New Jersey. He and my mother, Marguerite, had a thing in the late 1970’s. That thing bore me.

Leave it to Canada to do something nice with drones.

With Marxist doctrine fading among many of the Chinese, superstition has become increasingly common with party officials looking to achieve a promotion or better workforce cohesion.

Buried in the midst of WWD's fawning profile of Jennifer Aniston's hair care line, hidden like the Where's Waldo of interesting 90's facts, is stylist Chris McMillan's assertation that he was totally, totally high when he created the Rachel.

Mars One, the Dutch company that is looking for a few individuals with the "right stuff" (the "right stuff" being wanting to leave Earth and never, ever return), reports that more than 78,000 people have applied to be chosen for a trip to the red planet.

A tribunal in Guatemala has found former dictator Efrain Rios Montt guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity. It's the first time a former Latin American leader has been convicted of such a charge.

Kanye West walked into a pole in Beverly Hills this afternoon and TMZ captured the moment on video, sort of (their cameraman had already rounded a corner by the time forehead-on-pole contact occurred, though he did rush over to film Kanye and girlfriend Kim Kardashian nursing the wound). This moment represents a low point for all of us: the cameraman for failing to capture the moment of collision, then running back excitedly after it had passed; Kim Kardashian for waking up this morning and dressing herself like a pregnant Morticia Addams; all of us, who came here because we thought it might be funny to see Kanye West run into a pole (final verdict: not as funny as I thought it would be, though it's hard to say how funny it might have been in the hands of a skilled videographer); Kanye West for running into a pole.

"No Takedowns. Ever." That was the defiant message that Cody Wilson delivered in a YouTube video promoting Defense Distributed, an organization he founded dedicated to designing and distributing plans for weapons that anyone can make using a 3D printer at home. But after Defense Distributed was targeted by the U.S State Department, Wilson and his colleagues have taken the plans down, for now.

Oakland is a world-class city with world-class terrible crime and a forever scandalized police force that often does more harm than good. Meet new OPD Chief Anthony Toribio and then say good-bye, because he's out after two days on the job.

The last piece of the spire at One World Trade Center was hoisted into place over a temperate Manhattan today. The building now stands at a symbolic 1,776 feet—or does it?

Welcome to Annotate This, where we concisely gather reviews, trailers, and annotate the posters for movies heading to your local cineplex or art house theater this week. Click on the image above to add your comments to the mix.

You'd think that, after the kids behind the universally reviled "gallon smashing" fad nearly went to jail over it, teens would stop trying to imitate the wasteful, inconsiderate, and downright dangerous prank.

Your uncle has been posting on Facebook about "Benghazi" or whatever for months now, and you have no clue what the fuck he's talking about because, really, you don't have time for this shit. It's OK. We do. Here's your guide.

Jason Richwine, whose immigration-policy analysis for the Heritage Foundation was informed by his earlier writings on the congenital intellectual weakness of Hispanic immigrants, has resigned. Noted race scholars Charles Murray and Michelle Malkin are outraged by the betrayal.

Citing only "undesirable activities," Pakistan has ordered the expulsion of the New York Times' Islamabad bureau chief, Declan Walsh. Surely this has nothing to do with the nation's impending elections.

How about David Lynch? Or mumblecore pioneer Joe Swanberg? Or self-made-weirdo-slash-spoon-aficionado Tommy Wiseau?

Yesterday, as we reported earlier, Jimmy Kimmel hosted the fourth round of his feature "Celebrities Read Mean Tweets," in which real, live celebrities read negative Twitter messages about themselves aloud.

Annnnd, layoffs at the Columbia Journalism Review cap a remarkably awful layoff-filled week for New York print journalists. Stay safe out there, everyone.

Looks like America's children will continue dressing like derelicts and frumpalumps for the foreseeable future; Suri Cruise, the fashion goddess who could have made Sex and the City chic accessible for toddlers, is not designing an eponymous clothing line, despite several reports Friday to the contrary.