An "eccentric" Michigan State University math professor had what appears to be a nervous breakdown during class this afternoon, removing all his clothes and screaming obscenities at students.
Threats of grievous bodily harm have been the Real Housewives of New Jersey's bread and butter since way back in season one, when all the ladies took turns cracking their necks and implying super vaguely that their families were in the mafia. On last night's season four reunion show, though, things got real scary, real fast.
For the next few weeks, we'll be evaluating many of the new fall shows as they air. These shows do not include Elementary, The Neighbors or the hilariously overrated navy soap Last Resort (in which brass stands in for organ, but the melodrama is at perfect daytime pitch) because their blandness reminded us just how tedious it is to spend time thinking about a bunch of new series that are just going to be off the air soon anyway. This one's kind of fun, though.
After British reports of upcoming bacon shortages last month led people whose whole identity is defined by the fact that they enjoy bacon and even sometimes consume it in unexpected ways -like chopped into tiny pieces and inserted into a chocolate bar- to begin selling off choice plots in the family cemetery lot in exchange for packages of frozen hog hash, American agricultural economists have stepped forward to soothe us all.
It's no secret that the Washington Post Company, home to one of America's most important and revered newspapers, is floundering. The company's once booming education business, Kaplan, has cooled significantly in recent quarters, and ad revenues in both print and online are also down. Fighting to keep its head above water, the Post Co. has now done what many dying people do: turned to hospice care.
Spending time at work looking at photos of cute animals might actually be good for business if a new Japanese study holds up to scrutiny.
Our introduction to Homeland's C.I.A. officer protagonist Carrie Mathison was raw, almost punk: less than five minutes into the show's series premiere, we saw her wipe her crotch while scrambling to prepare for a meeting. With that moment, Homeland presented a portrait of Carrie's womanhood and sexuality that was nearly as unapologetic as the character itself.
Patrons of the Red Flower Chinese Restaurant in Williamsburg, Kentucky, thought they were imagining things when they saw what appeared to be the bloody carcass of a freshly squashed deer being wheeled into the kitchen by employees.
Like its boring old relative, cable news, there is nothing that gets social media more excited than an imperiled white teenage girl. On Sunday night at around 6:15 p.m., New Jersey 16-year-old Kara Alongi tweeted "There is someone in my hour ecall 911." (sic.) The apparently panic-garbled tweet went viral over night, as millions of Twitter users urged followers to help find the kidnapped girl by tweeting hashtags and liking Facebook pages. There couldn't have been a bigger internet freakout if Joseph Kony himself had spirited Kara away.
British intellectual Eric Hobsbawm, the pre-eminent historian of his generation, died Monday morning in a hospital in London, where he was being treated for pneumonia. He was 95.
An American Airlines flight bound for Miami was forced to conduct an emergency landing Saturday after a row of seats succumbed to the salsa rhythms of its heart and started slip-slidin' around the interior of the aircraft to a throbbing Latin beat.
Sweden's trade minster issued a formal rebuke of the country's iconic furniture retailer Ikea for airbrushing women out of the Saudi Arabian version of its familiar ready-to-assemble furniture catalog.
