Today's Song: Satin Jackets 'Aaliyah's Boat'

Rich Juzwiak · 09/13/12 04:35PM

What we have here is a current Balearic remix of Aalyiah's already breezy 2001 hit "Rock the Boat," nothing more nothing less. It took me a second to hear past the slight cheese — this is actually quite lovely.

The Hilariously Morbid 9/11 Art of Texas' Fourth Graders

Max Read · 09/13/12 03:16PM

What happens when you ask a bunch of eight-year-old kids to draw pictures of a horrific, scarring disaster that they not only lack the processing tools to understand but also happened three years before they were even born? You get drawings of stick figures jumping out of buildings with the caption "One-Way Ticket to Heaven."

There Will Be Dud: The Master

Rich Juzwiak · 09/13/12 03:15PM

If you ever wanted to watch Joaquin Phoenix fling himself from one side of a room to touch a wall and fling himself back to touch a window, describing how both feel in alternately concrete and abstract terms, over and over and over again, Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master is the movie for you.

The New USA Today Will Somehow Be Even Less Newsier Than The Old USA Today

Drew Magary · 09/13/12 03:15PM

Good news for those of you who travel a lot and look forward to throwing away your hotel's complimentary USA Today every morning: USA Today is getting a massive redesign. How's it look? Well, I think we at Gawker know a thing or two about horrific redesigns, so let's evaluate!

There's a Simple Solution to the Public Schools Crisis

John Cook · 09/13/12 02:00PM

The ongoing (but maybe soon to end?) teachers' strike in Chicago is being viewed by many as an early skirmish in a coming war over the crisis in public education—stagnant or declining graduation rates, substandard educations, dilapidated schools, angry teachers, underserved students. There is one simple step that would go a long way toward resolving many of those issues: Make all schools public schools.

Donald Trump Replaces Sarah Palin As Your Top GOP Webtroll

Drew Magary · 09/13/12 01:15PM

The reviews of Mitt Romney's reaction to the Libya crisis this week were uniformly damning. But Donald Trump, little orange scamp that he is, knows solid trolling material when he sees it. Which is why he just offered up the above tweet, which accuses the President of being friends with terrorists. Because at this point, why not? Your man Romney is getting his ass kicked in the polls, so why not lay all your cards out on the table and accuse the President of virtually everything possible? Terrorism. Murder. Incest. Once you've crossed the line into blatant slander, you may as well go all the way.

Goodbye to Sex House, the Best Show of the Summer

Max Read · 09/13/12 12:34PM

Here's the final episode of Sex House, the Onion-produced series of YouTube shorts documenting the adventures of "six sexy singles" who "move into America's hottest mansion meticulously designed for only one thing: sex." (If you haven't watched the rest of the series, you can catch it all on YouTube; start here.) It's a reunion show, of course — bizarrely, jarringly chipper after the dark, J.G. Ballard-rewrites-No Exit feel of the first "season" quickly took after the premiere.

Is The Mysterious Man Behind Muslim Innocence a Convicted Fraudster Named Nakoula Basseley Nakoula?

Adrian Chen · 09/13/12 12:30PM

Sam Bacile, the filmmaker who took credit for the explosive anti-Islam film Muslim Innocence, told the media he was an Israeli, who made the movie with $5 million from 100 Jewish donors. But as we've learned from the actors themselves, nothing about the film is what it seems. All evidence suggests "Sam Bacile" is in fact an Egytian Coptic Christian and convicted fraudster living in California.