Cannabis-derived smoking drug marijuana, once confined to fringe attendees of elderly "hippie" music festivals and 1960s-era "dead heads," has now firmly implanted itself in America's youth culture, as teenagers embrace its "organic" marketing label and retro appeal. But surely this fresh-from-the-plant leafy green fertilizer-intensive drug will confine itself to our nation's rural areas, right? That's where you're wrong, parents—it's already making its way into America's largest city.

George Dennehy, the 18-year-old armless guitarist who reminded us all that we could stand to try harder when he performed a flaw-free cover of the Goo Goo Dolls' "Iris" at the Ashland Strawberry Faire, was recently invited on stage by the Goos' themselves to perform the same song live.

To help him launch his new video series "Hysterical Literature," photographer Clayton Cubitt naturally turned to the thinking man's porn star, Stoya.

Amanda, a German Shepherd mix, pulled her ten-day-old puppies from a burning house in Chile last week, placing them on a fire truck for safekeeping.

Inspired by Kutiman's innovative YouTube video remix project "ThruYou," Wally De Backer — better known to music listeners as Gotye — decided to submit his own contribution to the "mountain of interpretations of" his phenomenally successful hit single "Somebody That I Used to Know" by taking advantage of "the massive remixability that such a large, varied yet connected bundle of source material offered."

While the gossip world waited with bated breath to learn whether Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie would finally make their power consolidation official, rival couple Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux were off making marriage plans of their own.

Every once in a while, Kate Bush makes an appearance in pop culture, mythical creature that she is. Tonight was not an example of one of those appearances. She did, though, needlessly rerecord her only song to go Top 40 in the U.S., "Running Up That Hill," and give it to the Olympics so people could do weird things with their bodies, recreate some of her interpretive dancing from the video and build a literal hill along to a song that's really about gender-fucking. Also, there are montages of athletes, some of them weeping in defeat. In other words, this was a solid Kate moment, despite her predictable absence. (I believe she literally lives in a castle on a hill.)

The don't manufacture pop like they used to. This is as good of a performance from the Spice Girls as we'd ever get. They are on point doing their pointing and gesticulating and shouting and provoking and riding on top of cars.

This performance of Russell Brand acting like Willy Wonka singing "I Am the Walrus" from the Olympic Closing Ceremony is a low point in pop culture. It's Snow White-at-the-Oscars bad. Shame.

Getting caught cheating via paparazzi is all the rage: Kristen Stewart started the trend, and Anderson Cooper's boyfriend Ben Maisani is carrying it on.

The man is coming to shut down your yoga studios — it's up to you to defend your sacred spaces against their tyranny.

A woman in Pennsylvania stabbed her fiance to death during an argument on their wedding day.

You should maybe buy a Powerball ticket: the jackpot is now up to $305 million.

The box-office reign of The Dark Knight Rises is over: Universal's Matt Damon-less The Bourne Legacy has taken the top spot with $40.3 million.

Sure, we could talk about how Paul Ryan is the most ideologically conservative Republican to be picked for the vice-presidential slot since at least 1900. But why not spend some time discussing his rocking bod?

Here are the photos of Kourtney Kardashian's first public outing with her baby, in case you're into that sort of thing.

Flawless goddess Beyoncé has plenty of admirers, but recent high-profile endorsements from her peers are almost disturbingly hyperbolic.

Chimpanzees are not pets.

Everything went according to plan, except when it didn't.

There have been countless reactions to writer and performer David Rakoff's death Thursday night, but few are as poignant as what Ira Glass posted on the This American Life website.