Letters 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.

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.

Mayor 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.

Rich Juzwiak · 09/04/15 12:28PM

None of the 600 San Francisco men on PrEP contracted HIV during one study’s two-and-a-half-year duration. Not one! About half of them did contract an STD, though.

Six of the Biggest Box Office Bombs in Movie History

Gawker Staff · 09/04/15 11:09AM

Zac 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.