Barney Frank married long-time partner Jim Ready last weekend. And, oh, what a glorious, frill-free wedding it was.

Meet Taylor Cotter. I mean, just pretend she's here or something. Taylor is a 22-year-old graduate of Northeastern Journalism School. She has a job, a car, and an apartment. So what is Taylor's big problem? Her big problem is that she's too successful to be living "that 10-cents-a-word life that I always wanted." Crumbs! Can we help this poor young go-getter, somehow?

It was really only a matter of time until someone, somewhere thought it would be a great idea to launch a film festival for Internet cat videos, and that countdown is now officially over.

Last Friday evening Michelle Knutson knocked back a few cold ones—it was the weekend, NBD—and decided to hang out on her porch to enjoy the warm summer air, NBD.

The Music for Pleasure entry in the LateNightTales DJ mix series has been out for about a month now, but it's worth a listen if you've missed it and love lite '70s and '80s cheese. Mixed by Groove Armada's Tom Findlay, this is basically an A-Z of yacht rock. All it's missing is the infomerical full of people drooling over the halcyon days '70s am gold. If it had Boston's "More Than a Feeling," E.L.O.'s "Don't Bring Me Down" and Heart's "Magic Man" were on it, it would have every single non-disco-oriented song from the '70s and by white people that I ever would want to hear.

It is not out of the ordinary for fitness instructors to ask their students to turn off all electronic devices prior to the start of the class. But at least one Facebook employee found the request so intolerable that she had the company's yoga teacher fired over it.

While Oprah Winfrey may seem, like an endless forest or a mighty river, to be something that always has been and always will be, it turns out she actually does have parents. One of them is getting divorced. His second wife says he tried to kill her.

What's it like to be a reader of New York magazine? Let's do a thought exercise. Imagine yourself waking up mid-afternoon in the hermetically-sealed sleeping tube that takes up most of the third floor of your luxurious brownstone. Outside the door of your bedroom, your robot maid is preparing a lunch. But today, you want something different. Today, you want to meet with the common people. "Servant!" you call. "Bring me... New York's 2012 'Cheap Eats' list!"

"Hipster heaven" Electric Garden & Theater — "a brand new all round social space combining bar, restaurant, theatre, gallery & club" — is hoping to set itself apart from the rest of Galway's nightlife by promoting itself as being exactly the same.

Women. Is... is this... is this true?

Pauline Potter of Sacramento, California, told Guinness World Records she laid claim to the title of World's Heaviest Living Woman because she "was tired of being this size," and "wanted to get my story out there so that a doctor or nutritionist could help me."

Last weekend may have witnessed the geopolitical equivalent of the Kanye West-Kim Kardashian Date of the Century, when North Korean leader Kim Jong-un showed up at a couple events with a mystery woman in tow. But was it his wife, his mistress or just his boring sister at his side? And what does it all mean?

We know that Frank Ocean's bold move of publicly admitting that he is a man who has loved another man is a huge thing for R&B—and, to a lesser extent, hip-hop since Ocean sometimes sings with rappers. Here is how Touré put it last week:

"Given the number of robberies and other crimes where the perpetrators wear hoodies, should the garment be banned in the province. Why or Why Not?"

Facemath is a Tumblr blog with a fairly straightforward premise: Take two celebrity faces and math them up to create a third.

There are two equally valid and not incompatible reactions to have towards the WSJ's big investigative story today on political spending by unions. The first is that there is clearly some effort here by the (not particularly pro-union) WSJ on behalf of the right wing and/ or business interests to insinuate that union spending is a counterbalance to corporate Super PAC spending, so everything is fair. The second is that unions need to spend their money on different shit.

Kevin Smith likes movies the way you like Cheeze Puffs — that is to say, a lot. He likes making movies, he likes watching movies, and he likes talking about movies. Basically, if movies were a pretty lady, he'd want to kiss her a million times. In fact, Kevin Smith likes movies so much, that he's hosting Spoilers, a Hulu Original Series all about how awesome movies are.

As anyone who has been online for a minute knows, a meme isn't truly a meme until Sesame Street spoofs it.

Legendary hip hop group Run-D.M.C. will reunite this November to headline the annual Fun Fun Fun Fest in Austin, Texas.

As any etiquette-obsessed caricature of a British person in a children's movie will tell you, British people are very fancy and also do not slurp your soup when you eat it.