Saturday Shorts: Heavy Metal Parking Lot

Daniel Barnum-Swett · 04/10/10 02:00PM

Tailgating before a Judas Priest concert, a motley crew of mostly shirtless mid-Atlantic metalheads unites to drink, and yell, and throw the sign of the horns—worshiping the devil music; achieving ecstasy just hanging out.

Carlsberg Workers Strike for the Right to Drink on the Job

Ravi Somaiya · 04/10/10 12:58PM

Workers at the Carlsberg beer factory in Denmark were allowed to drink as much as they wanted. Management tried to limit them to three pints at lunch. They slurred out their displeasure in no unshertain... unshert... uncertain terms.

Insurrection! Total Employee Walk-Out Shuts Down Park Slope Coffee Mecca

Maureen O'Connor · 04/10/10 12:47PM

Gorilla Coffee—Park Slope coffee house and bean supplier to indie Brooklyn dripperies—appears to have suffered a total employee walk-out last night. What kind of sweatshop was their "oppressive hipster-in-chief" (a local blog's designation) running?

Funny or Die: James Franco's Gucci Commercial

Matt Leary · 04/10/10 12:30PM

James Franco's a classy, handsome man with some serious acting chops. It's a good thing he still knows how to act like a jackass and poke fun at himself by making great videos like this. Rock on Franco, rock on.

Ravi Somaiya · 04/10/10 11:18AM

The woman who returned her adopted son to Moscow, with a note, may face charges.

The Secret World of Oprah Winfrey

Ravi Somaiya · 04/10/10 09:33AM

Kitty Kelley has turned her unauthorized-biography attentions to Oprah. And found a secretive and controlling figure who will not give her own mother her phone number.

Sonic the Hedgehog: Heads or Tails

Anderson Evans · 04/10/10 09:30AM

They say he's the fastest thing alive, and this premiere episode may have been cranked out faster than any other quality ABC cartoon. Watch this classic interpretation of SEGA's money making mascot, and find out why it almost never was.

Bill Cosby on Movies, Monsters, and Cowboys

Etan Berkowitz · 04/09/10 08:00PM

As this video proves, Cosby has always been Cosby. His tirades are funny and simultaneously incredibly pure and innocent. Check him out as he talks about the movies, monsters and cowboys.

LIVE: Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution

Christa Palmer · 04/09/10 07:00PM

Jamie makes a bet that he can teach 1,000 people to cook in one week. Will he win or lose? Will they be willing to cook what he wants to teach them?