Tom Gabel, lead singer of the punk rock group Against Me!, has decided to accept her gender identity and begin living life as a woman named Laura Jane Grace.

OutKast frontman André 3000 (né Benjamin) has now been officially confirmed to portray Jimi Hendrix in a feature film about the late rocker's life that will either be really, intimidatingly cool or, oh my gosh, so embarrassing and awful.

The shady ways that Super PACs influence elections with large anonymous donations have become a sticking point for Stephen Colbert and he revisited the issue on tonight's Colbert Report. Tonight he examined the even shadier 501(c)4 loophole where the organization never has to disclose donor information because they are technically "social welfare organizations" which is high comedy to say the least.

A TSA officer examining a child's carry-on bag via X-ray discovered pieces of a handgun hidden inside three of his toys at a Rhode Island airport on Monday.

On tonight's Daily Show, Jon Stewart delved into the concept of cognitive dissonance specifically in relation to the right and their inability to give President Obama credit for anything, even ordering the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound. Sure they agree with the result, but it's the bragging and the ease of the decision that keep them criticizing Obama.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a projection earlier this week warning that 42% of Americans may be obese by 2030, USA Today reports.

It's a big day for the world's most eccentric billionaires: Disney has announced plans to open up membership to its super secret exclusive restaurant/probable sex thing Club 33 for the first time in ten years.

Harvard psychologists have found that people are so desperate to share random bits of information about themselves (their habits, their likes and dislikes, what, all bullshit aside, they really think of Girls), they are willing to give up ACTUAL FREE MONEY to do it.

A sad yet not entirely unexpected development in the case of the openly gay teen who used a stun gun to chase away his bullies: Darnell "Dynasty" Young has been expelled from Arsenal Tech High School until January of next year.

In the age of Twitter, how much control do you have over your own words? Authorities are trying to use an Occupy protester's tweets against him in court, but Twitter's fighting back in a case that raises big questions about online privacy.

Here is how I said goodbye to one of my cats last week:

180 Church's Director of Creative Arts Ahnmin Lee pays tribute to the late Adam Yauch with a spectacular supercut chronicling all his opening lines from every single Beastie Boys song he rapped in.

In the wake of the New York County District Attorney's decision last month to launch a criminal investigation into Joe Muto, a.k.a. the Fox Mole, for the alleged theft of videos from his former employer Fox News, we thought it would be worthwhile to find out what we could about what relationship, if any, exists between the DA's office and Roger Ailes' operation. So we used New York's Freedom of Information Law to ask for correspondence and emails between Fox News employees and staffers in the DA's office. Today they refused our request.

Bay Area "film recycler" Bryan Boyce unleashes upon an invariably unprepared world his "re-imagineering" of Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver that tracks a "Mickey Mouse-obsessed Travis Bickle as he looks for love in a rapidly transforming New York City."

The real creative fireworks at Creative Week came at the end of this morning's "Creative Renegades" panel when Colleen Decourcy, a creative, said that she didn't really love creatives.

Radar is reporting that a second masseur has come forward to claim he was sexually assaulted by actor John Travolta, one day after a similar allegation was made by a masseur in California.

The fourth album of Detroit's Jimmy Edgar, Majenta, is out today, and it's one of the most easily enjoyable dance releases of the year so far. Its production is clean and sparse, its references are broad, identifiable and respectful as they pump away ("Sex Drive" owes a debt to Frankie Knuckles and Jamie Principle's Chicago classic "Baby Wants to Ride," while "Let Yrself Be" is pure Inner City homage). But my favorite of its tributes are those paid to slow jams. The track above, "In Deep," is the album's concluding opus, which tips its hat to both Timbaland and Teddy Riley by way of Roger Troutman (it's kind of like an alternate scenario as to what it would sound like if Timbaland and Riley followed up their collaboration on the remix of Janet Jackson's "I Get Lonely"). It unfurls in a musky haze for a few minutes and then come some bass-music shuffles and a breakbeat. And then the real magic: "In Deep" breaks into a section riffing on the Art of Noise's "Moments in Love," maybe the definitive quiet-storm radio jam. (I almost was tempted to label that a spoiler alert because it feels like such a revelation.) "Moments" is a song that for years has say easily next to Phyllis Hyman and Freddie Jackson and Meli'sa Morgan and Teddy P., and Marvin, despite being created by a bunch of white people who had otherwise little to do with soul music. Nonetheless, it crossed over to the canon. Edgar's aspiration to do the same is palpable, and in a perfect world, he would.

Adapted from a Wired article and based on the true story of a highly classified hostage rescue mission undertaken during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, Argo is Ben Affleck's third directorial effort, and the second of those to star him in the lead role.

A young man from Nebraska strolled into York County District Court yesterday morning with one name, and strolled back out with another: Tyrannosaurus Rex.

A CNN investigation has found that a charity called the Disabled Veterans National Foundation suffered from gross mismanagement problems including, among other things, the fact that instead of giving money to veterans, it spent all of its money with a direct marketing firm called Quadriga, "which owns two direct-mail fundraising companies hired by the DVNF to help garner donations."