The increasingly important festival is in scramble mode after a customer at the main venue for their 9/9-9/19 movie party complained about bedbug bites. How'd they get there? Well, the Degrassi kids were just in New York. Filthy teens.

Lindsay Lohan breaks her silence—and denies getting $10,000 to pose for the paparazzi. Bar Rafaeli laments "extremely skinny models." Michael Jackson's kids start school. Samantha Ronson's dog ate another dog. Tuesday gossip can't stop howling.

Fed up with her co-worker Will moping and parrying her every romantic advance, Maggie takes matters into her own hands and seduces a friendly Scrabble player from her foreign language class. Don't worry, awkward dude... this gal's a sure thing.

Caroline Giuliani, Harvard student and daughter of Rudy, will have her charges for shoplifting cosmetics from Sephora dismissed in exchange for a single day of community service. That's reportedly the normal outcome for first-time petty shoplifting charges, okay? [Pic: AP]

Washington Post sports columnist Mike Wise pulled a clever stunt yesterday: he put up some fake news on Twitter, to "prove that 'anybody will print anything.'" Actually, he proved it's dumb to assume Mike Wise is a smart, trustworthy journalist.

On Sunday, Phillip Tisson scored the winning goal for St. Lucia's soccer team in its game against St. Kitts-Nevis in the Digicell Caribbean Cup tournament being held in Brooklyn. Hours later, he was shot dead.

So how did Gawker.TV do this week in social media? We're up to 4136 Facebook Fans (up 9.27%), 4920 Twitter Followers (up 2.63%) and 1597 Tumblr Followers (up 0.50%).

Can you guess what movie this image comes from? Check back for the answer at 4pm today.

It's 2010 and ecstasy is still huge on Ibiza, thanks to a bunch of enterprising young Britons.

Ultra-conservative Christian mega business ministry Focus on the Family wants all these gay people to stop talking about child bullying, because they're pushing a secret agenda to turn America's kids into homosexuals, and that is not what Jesus intended.

The makers of Head & Shoulders anti-dandruff shampoo have taken out a $1 million insurance policy on Pittsburgh Steelers safety (and shampoo spokesman) Troy Polamalu's flowing locks to "protect his iconic mane for the entire NFL season." Only in America.

The U.S. government again is trying to clamp down on North Korea through sanctions aimed at the country's top leaders and, more specifically, the notorious Office 39, which is widely seen as an "investment bank" for North Korea's elite.

Two Iowa farms behind the massive salmonella egg recall have been investigated by federal officials, and what they found is pretty gross: Eight-foot tall piles of manure as well as rodents, maggots, and wild animals mingling with hens. And more!

[A costumed reveller performs in the Notting Hill Carnival in London, the largest festival of its kind in Europe. Pic via AP.]

On Monday, this graphic video of an unknown girl throwing puppies into a river appeared online, much to the consternation of internet-using animal-lovers everywhere. But don't fret: The weirdos and agitators of 4chan's /b/ are hot on the trail.

While we are left missing the theme song, Nancy and the newly-named "Newmans" are left missing their lives of comfort in Mexico.

Two hikers trekking through Canada's Jasper National Park stumbled across the body of a mountaineer, William Holland. Who died in 1989, and whose corpse was preserved by the ice. And that, my friends, is why you should never go hiking.

This got ugly immediately—the girls let some skeletons out of the closet, let loose some hulk-like rage, and cleared up a few of the many rumors surrounding the Real Housewives of New Jersey. Video highlights inside.

Republicans took a record-setting 10-point lead in Gallup's weekly generic ballot poll, putting them in prime position to retake the House of Representatives and enact all of the great ideas they've had. Republicans also have the advantage in voter enthusiasm:

[That's Hurricane Earl—now a Category 4 hurricane expected to drench the East Coast in rain—near the bottom of this NASA photo and former Hurricane Danielle—now a tropical storm—at the top. Click to enlarge. Via Bad Astronomy.]