We finally figured out why the Russian ice dancers thought they could get away with their brownface "Aboriginal Dance" routine: This year, everyone did racial drag. Americans in bindi. Germans in grass skirts. French cowboys, kimonos, "Hava Nagila," oh my!

50 Cent continues to earn the "actor" part of his "rapper-actor" moniker. The Hurt Locker wins a bunch of non-Oscar awards. Shutter Island wins the weekend. Betty White might host SNL. The Roundup cares about hockey. Do you?

This week, the racers were headed to Puerto Varas, China Chile. Carol & Brandy and Joe & Heidi formed an alliance-and pissed everyone off when they cheated the line, ensuring they'd be the only teams on the first bus out.

It seems Kathryn Bigelow is the odds-on favorite going into the Academy Awards, as The Hurt Locker won six BAFTA trophies tonight, including Best Film and Best Director. Inside, video of Bigelow's acceptance speeches and a full winner's list.

Love America's beautiful national parks, but hate that you can't bring your gun into them? Starting Monday, you may bring firearms into national parks. Says the founder of opencarry.org: "Now it's a big sea of gun freedom." U-S-A! U-S-A! [LAT]

A new study on the world's gayest armies shows gay soldiers do not "cause disruption"

Russia's Ice Dancing pair took to the Olympic ice tonight with toned down versions of the Aboriginal costumes that drew criticism at last month's European Championship. The skin-darkening makeup? Gone. Their dance was still offensive, though—and it sucked.

We just finished the last quarter (or whatever it's called) of the USA/Canada hockey game. We won! But all anyone could talk about was how pissed they were that the game was shown on MSNBC and not NBC. So what?

Okay, so a few readers seem to think it's my last weekend on this site, and assuming Remy isn't terrified by what he wakes up to tomorrow, they're wrong. I'll be back for one last dance next weekend. With surprises!

Bernadette Bates, like many other great comics, offers a unique perspective in her comedy. Listen as Bernadette describes sneaking into amusement parks with her family and getting caught by security!

In the Things We Want To Unlearn department, we have now heard what the Daily News couldn't print in today's Rush & Molloy item about CNN anchor Jeffrey Toobin's sexual advances towards a "well-known media figure."

The only thing stopping The Grey Lady from getting totally felt up this weekend must've been a particularly adamant copy editor. This weekend, the Times introduced us to a "lactation consultant." Naturally, a few fourth-grade level "har har" moments followed.

Ice-dancing (LIVE). Speedskating! Bobsledding! Men's super G! Got an Olympics hangover? Hair-of-the-dog-that-bit-you: More Olympics. On this lazy Sunday, let's chat and watch the Olympics together while eating a big thing of takeout Pad Thai.

ChatRoulette is, if you don't already know, a simple, supposedly revolutionary outlet for out-and-out internet voyeurism. It's a two-way looking glass allowing users to instantly video chat/see the dicks of complete strangers. And people can't. Stop. Doing it. Addicts!

Instead of having Drake rap about how their lemon-lime soda is the best he's ever had, Sprite opted to freak everyone in America out. Watch as Drake nonchalantly busts into a million sprite hemorrhaging, robotic pieces.

Letters to the Editor: they're fun. But the New York Observer doesn't run many of them online! If they did, people would know how unhappy Mos Def is with the New York Observer. But the voice of the people...

What do we talk about when we talk about snow? Does it matter? Those are some cute dogs, right? [CLICK THEM.] It matters to the NYT's Weddings & Celebrations section, though, and thus, matters to Gawker Weddings Expert Phyllis Nefler.

Today's Page Six had an especially glorious item, pitting the designs of two gossip blog networks against each other, with chatter that someone's totally biting our shit off: the socialite chronicling Guest of a Guest, and Gawker Media. That's us.

The Big Lebowski is the tale of The Dude's odyssey through LA back allies and bowling lanes to rescue the wife of a rich Millionaire who vandalized and destroyed his rug after a case of mistaken identity.

File in the "epic gossip items department." Because, you know what, Boris and Natasha-esque New York Daily News gossips Rush & Molloy? I really don't care much for a gossip item about CNN talking head Jeffrey Toobin, but...