Real-life The Matrix extra Julian Assange lost his extradition appeal today, as Britain's highest court ruled that he can be extradited to Sweden to face allegations of rape and sexual assault. For the past year and a half Assange has been under house arrest fighting the European arrest warrant against him because it's "invalid" and also he really, really doesn't want to go to prison.

Eduard Khil, better known to viral video watchers everywhere as The Trololo Man, is said to have suffered a stroke resulting in irreversible brain damage.

From Working Title and Universal comes the first official teaser for costume drama virtuoso Tom Hooper's big-screen adaptation of Claude-Michel Schönberg's stage adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic novel Les Misérables.

Police in Grove City, Ohio, a town located about 20 minutes outside of Columbus, Ohio and about 9 hours and 30 minutes outside of New York City and about 36 hours outside of Los Angeles, are on the hunt for a recently escaped 650-pound Black Angus bull calf who made a bid for freedom through a broken fence Monday night.

Arthel "Doc" Watson, the legendary (and blind) American folk guitarist and songwriter, died in a hospital in Winston-Salem, N.C., on Tuesday. He was 89 years old.

Thirteen people, living and dead, were awarded the nation's highest civilian honor (after Universal Royalty Ultimate Grand Supreme, 4-8-Year-Old Division) on Tuesday. One of those people was Bob Dylan and the other twelve weren't Bob Dylan.

Donald Trump and his birther crusade just won't go away. On tonight's Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert examined the latest in Trump's ridiculousness and explained what it means for Mitt Romney.

Socialism has become an often used epithet by Fox News types when needing to bash Obama. As Jon Stewart points out on tonight's Daily Show, there's just a wee bit of hypocrisy in these attacks as many people on the right, Mitt Romney especially, have espoused socialist views, just about different things.

The Associated Press profile of future President of the Milky Way Galaxy Lori Anne Madison who, at 6 years old, is the youngest person ever to gain entrance into the Scripps National Spelling Bee, is charming in that it finds her bounding around a nature preserve in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. searching for snails, slugs, tadpoles, and the like.

It's been days since one of Beyoncé's back-up dancers tweeted a picture of herself posing with Kim Kardashian backstage at Beyoncé's triumphant return to the spotlight in glitzy Atlantic City, and the world is still no closer to knowing whether Beyoncé and Kim Kardashian are friends or enemies or frenemies or indifferent or one of them thinks they're friends and the other one is like "I don't know that person" or what.

You know how sometimes you get a package in the mail but you don't remember ordering anything and then you open up the box and it's, like, adorable vintage salt and pepper shakers from Etsy and then you post on Facebook "I guess that bottle of pinot grigio decided to take me on a shopping spree last week LOL" and all your friends are like "Haha <3"?

Anthony Bourdain announced on Twitter this morning that he was joining CNN, but he didn't say anything about the fate of his two current shows on the Travel Channel, No Reservations and The Layover. I was hoping Bourdain might be a cable bigamist, but the Hollywood Reporter is saying that won't be the case. Bourdain's ditching the Travel Channel for good in favor of a network that has shown an almost superhuman ability to vacuum out any last trace of personality from its on-air talent.

By now we've all seen the awful, awful story about the Florida man who was shot to death by police for refusing to stop chewing on another man's face.

The appropriate response to Girls, a television show about a Cuban nightclub entertainer, his hapless wife, and the wacky couple downstairs, is to set yourself on fire outside of Leon Panetta's office. But any attempt to blunt the raw plenary power of the executive to kill with abandon is ultimately futile, and yesterday was the 30th anniversary of the U.S. release of Combat Rock, so here's a recap.

How stupid is tinted meatball Donald Trump? So stupid that Wolf Blitzer — Wolf Blitzer! — made him look like a fool on CNN. A partial transcript:

Swaggy Doo can stop releasing this intoxicating ear candy and go back to releasing the crappy ear candy that he used to any time now. Why's it gotta be a Take 5, Justin? Why couldn't you just stick to those hard sugar dots glued to a streamer that yielded as much paper as candy for consumption? WHY?

Man-of-many-hats André Benjamin (stage name: André 3000) is donning a wig this time to portray iconic guitarist Jimi Hendrix in an upcoming biopic penned by Red Tails screenwriter John Ridley.

On Sunday, MSNBC host Chris Hayes said the following, in a discussion about war, soldiers, and death: "It is, I think, very difficult to talk about the war dead, the fallen, without invoking valor, without invoking the word 'heroes'... I feel uncomfortable about the word 'hero' because it seems to me it is so rhetorically proximate to justification for more war... it seems to me that we marshal this word in a way that is problematic."

If you find yourself heading down to the Lower East Side to soak up some that ghost-of-CBGBs/Arlene's Grocery/Motor City, um, essence, and happen to also be in the market for a gorgeous custom-fitted suit, stop by SEW on Mott Street. Inside, you'll find proprietor Scott Evan Wasserberger, the bespoke tailor to the stars (and regular people). Scott, a lifelong New Yorker (well, Long-Islander) and tailor, will measure, hand-stitch, and personalize a suit for you.