NYC Developer Accused in DWI Death Counted Cash in Court to Kill Time
Brendan O'Connor · 09/05/15 01:55PMLetters to My Brother (or: How to Live in a Country That Requires Your Destruction)
Brian Alsup · 09/05/15 01:10PM
The following correspondence between Brian Alsup and Kiese Laymon took place during the week of August 31, 2015. As John Callahan once wrote of the decades-long exchange between Albert Murray and Ralph Ellison in Trading Twelves: The Selected Letters, it is “the bounty of a rare and spontaneous friendship in which each taps into the deepest experience of each other.” Together, Alsup and Laymon reckon with black love, liberation, and shouldering the weight of white terror in America.
Brendan O'Connor · 09/05/15 12:30PM
Man Sentenced After Skinning and Eating Ex-Girlfriend's Bunny Rabbit
Brendan O'Connor · 09/05/15 11:55AM
Today in men handling rejection poorly: Dimitri Diatchenko skinned, cooked, and ate his ex-girlfriend’s pet rabbit, California prosecutors said, after she suggested that they stop living together. He also sent her pictures. The Associated Press reports that Diatchenko plead guilty on Friday to animal cruelty.
Oakland Whole Foods Security Guard Fired After Allegedly Assaulting Customer
Brendan O'Connor · 09/05/15 10:40AMMayor Who Tried to Prosecute Parody Twitter Account Settles in Free Speech Lawsuit
Brendan O'Connor · 09/05/15 09:35AM
Last year, Peoria resident Jon Daniel, 29, started a Twitter account satirizing (loosely) his city’s mayor, Jim Ardis, portraying the mayor as a hard-partying strip club patron. Ardis did not take kindly to this caricature, ordering a police raid on Daniel’s house; Daniel sued in federal court claiming civil rights violations. This week, the city of Peoria announced that it had agreed to settle the case out of court, paying Daniel and his lawyers $125,000.
24 West Point Cadets Concussed in Annual Plebe Pillow Fight
Brendan O'Connor · 09/05/15 08:50AMKim Davis Won't Resign, Plans to Appeal Contempt Ruling
Jay Hathaway · 09/04/15 03:05PM
Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who refuses to grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples, will appeal the contempt of court ruling that put her in jail, her attorney said Friday. Davis has been locked up since Thursday, and her deputies have been granting long-awaited licenses to gay couples in her absence.
Rich Juzwiak · 09/04/15 12:28PM
Disgraced Nevada Beauty Queen Caught in Second Meth Arrest This Year
Jay Hathaway · 09/04/15 12:17PM
Katie Rees, the former Miss Nevada 2007 who had her crown (and her shot at the Miss USA title) taken away in a naughty photo scandal, is having an eventful 2015. After being arrested in July for allegedly selling meth in Las Vegas, she was picked up again Tuesday on drug charges including meth possession.
Kevin Spacey's Brother Is a Limo-Driving Rod Stewart Impersonator in Boise
Ashley Feinberg · 09/04/15 11:40AMSix of the Biggest Box Office Bombs in Movie History
Gawker Staff · 09/04/15 11:09AMZac Efron’s EDM drama We Are Your Friends became instantly legendary when it opened with some of the worst numbers ever for a wide release last weekend (it did just $1.8 million in 2,333 theaters). It joins an elite group of movies best known for their ability to repel audiences. Six more box-office disasters are explored in the video above.
11-Year-Old Shoots 16-Year-Old "Home Invader," But Neighbors Say There Was No Break-In
Jay Hathaway · 09/04/15 10:48AMFour Charged With Pulling McDonald's Worker out of Drive-Thru Window and Beating Her
Jay Hathaway · 09/04/15 09:05AMA video that spread online earlier this week, showing a teenage McDonald’s employee being pulled through a drive-thru window and into a car, seemed too crazy to be real. But the attack wasn’t staged, and charges have been filed against the woman who allegedly grabbed the worker, plus three others in the car with her.
Gay Couple Receives Marriage License as Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis Remains Jailed
Taylor Berman · 09/04/15 07:48AMSupposedly Miserable Man Frolics With His Supposed 19-Inch Penis
Rich Juzwiak · 09/04/15 07:30AM
If ever there were a time that I wanted to see the receipts, it is now. I say that a lot, but this time I mean it. A 52-year-old Mexican man, Roberto Esquivel Cabrera, went viral recently for claiming he has a 19-inch penis. While that might make him the owner of the world’s biggest dick (who can ever be sure, though?), he is supposedly miserable. The Huffington Post reported on Saturday: