Willow Smith, the human result of a trip to the most advanced Build a Bear Workshop in all the land by platonic friends Will Smith and Jada Koren Pinkett Smith, was 10 years old when she released the cute, infectious ditty about brain damage and ejaculating hair extensions, "Whip My Hair." Now she is 12, apparently listening to Radiohead (or someone is listening to the band for her) and, most importantly, she is pissy, as evidenced by her new song "Sugar and Spice." Over a beat that excerpts and loops Radiohead's "Codex" so that it sounds as Coldplayish as possible, Willow whines, "I tried to be sugar and spice, but I'm melancholy and can't do anything right." To which I say: You're 12. It gets worse.

If Michael Apted's Up series of documentaries plays like the older, more relaxed brother of reality TV, it's because that's basically what it is. Launched in 1964 as a one-off special of interviews with 7-year-olds in Seven Up by director Paul Almond, the film surveyed 14 kids of various economic backgrounds to explore England's class system (it was based on the repeatedly invoked Jesuit motto "Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man"). Apted, who helped cast that film, then took over and has returned to its subjects every seven years to document their lives over time. Though the films are still inherently political, what emerged was less of an economic survey and more one of humanity. Reality TV is often referred to as a sociological experiment, but the Up series is as bona fide of a longitudinal study as pop culture has ever offered.

Six dozen Iraqis who were imprisoned by Americans at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere during the Iraq War sued a private U.S. contractor that provided employees to the prison. According to the NYT, "The plaintiffs complained of 'heinous acts' and torture at the hands of military and contractor personnel, including rape and sexual assault, beatings, forced nudity, humiliation and isolation." Not to worry, though—they are being fairly compensated for their discomfort.

In honor of the close of Newsweek's print edition last month a former intern looks back on one summer, 13 years ago.

Matthew Fort, The Guardian's longtime Food and Drink editor, is very excited about the launch of his paper's new food section.

On the Internet, drive-thru prank videos are a bitcoin a dozen. That's why when a really good one comes along, it's easy to miss.

When police in Norfolk, Virginia, received a call yesterday morning alerting them to the presence of a lion cub wandering the city streets, they immediately phoned the Virginia Zoo to ensure no kings of the jungle had gotten loose overnight.

The scary untreatable kind of gonorrhea is now cheerfully marching through North America. Hey, girl.

Every year, the Golden Raspberry Awards asks movie viewers to pause for a moment and reflect on what the fuck they are doing with their lives. Are you proud of the fact you sat through an hour and a half of Battleship? Are you embarrassed? Did it boost your understanding of tactical naval strategy? What color best represents how you feel?

With the ground burning around his home in Dunalley, Tasmania, resident Tim Holmes knew he and his family had only one place to hide: In the water.

This nation of ours, America, was built upon the backs of hardworking slaves, the key word being "hardworking." Careful readers will notice what we did not say that this great nation was built upon: drugs and "getting high" on illegal drugs.

Just because he's on at 11:35 now doesn't mean Jimmy Kimmel has any intention of being nicer.

As many as 50 people were injured, including at least one critically, after a commuter ferry crashed into Pier 11 just south of Wall Street during rush hour this morning.

GQ couldn't keep Beyoncé covered for long: The wrapper of the magazine's next issue, which runs down the "100 sexiest women of the 21st century," was leaked online ahead of its official release.

The NYPD's "stop and frisk" program would more accurately be called the "minority guy harassment program"—the police indiscriminately search black and Latino males, and a tiny percentage are found to be doing something illegal. As far as white people are concerned, the system works! But a judge disagrees.

Two men sentenced to five years in prison for "looking gay" were ordered released by a court of appeals in Cameroon after serving over a year behind bars.

In new footage of the now-infamous hog-tying of an inebriated Icelandair passenger, passengers can be seen covering the man's mouth with several layers of duct tape, to no avail.

This story of a Pennsylvania man is in its own a perfect metaphor for the Sisyphean exercise that is working. The unnamed man in Canonsburg — which is about 15 miles south of Pittsburgh — tried to kill himself twice on Tuesday on his way to work, but ended up there nonetheless. His first attempt at ending his life was to jump out of a moving vehicle, but he was unsuccessful. He then stepped over a guard rail and into the path of a tractor-trailer, which knocked him out of his shoes, but didn't kill him.

There's caring about politics, and there's... that: a guy — obviously, a guy — refusing to tip a server at a restaurant because of tax policy. The photo comes via author Michael Kindt from California — and probably L.A., because, I mean, c'mon — as evidenced by the mention of Proposition 30, which was a bill passed this past Nov. that raised sales taxes and taxes on the rich in California.

Murder is routine in the city of Chicago, which experienced over 500 homicides last year (the number ranges from 506 to 516, depending on your source). It's so routine that the city became a sort of far-off black cloud lingering in the background of the year's massacres in Aurora and Newtown, a reminder — if you remembered — that gun violence takes lives in grotesque numbers every single day.