Saudi Arabia lost King Abdullah today, but already a new king has risen in his stead—his half-brother, Salman—one of seven sons born to his father's favorite wife, legend holds. So what's this golden son's deal?
The Vanderbilt University student who was allegedly raped by several football players last year testified Thursday that she didn't believe she had been sexually assaulted until investigators showed her video of the incident.
A pregnant woman I didn't know struck up a conversation with me at a party recently. We chatted amicably about the weather (bad), the Golden Globes (fine) and the food at the party (great) before the conversation turned—inevitably, it felt—towards birth (hers). She told me she was nervous but excited, that she could not stop Googling, and how glad she was to be out of the infamously uncomfortable first trimester. "I know what you mean," I said. "When I was pregnant I was so tired I could barely move." Her eyes brightened. "You've got kids?" "No."
Rick Owens's new Fall/Winter line is all dick and no style. This morning, during his Paris runway show, the famed designer revealed his latest men's collection. Small penises made an appearance.
Bill Clinton took repeated trips on the " Lolita Express"—the private passenger jet owned by billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein—with an actress in softcore porn movies whose name appears in Epstein's address book under an entry for "massages," according to flight logbooks obtained by Gawker and published today for the first time. The logs also show that Clinton shared more than a dozen flights with a woman who federal prosecutors believe procured underage girls to sexually service Epstein and his friends and acted as a "potential co-conspirator" in his crimes.
Brooklyn rapper Joey Bada$$ recently got some free press from Malia Obama, who took a photo wearing the shirt of his Pro Era movement. Pro Era posted the photo on Instagram after getting it from "a mutual friend of Malia and a Pro Era," and the White House reportedly launched an investigation into how it got out.
Prince Andrew took a break from mingling with billionaires at Davos to issue his first public denial of allegations that he repeatedly had sex with an underage girl. "I just wish to reiterate and reaffirm the statements already made on my behalf by Buckingham Palace," he said. "My focus is on my work."
There's a really interesting article over at the New York Times Magazine that looks at the #nightshift and #graveyardshift tags on Instagram, where people who work overnight hours post selfies in solidarity with each other. "Sometimes it's in the form of a gag, a ridiculous pose; sometimes it's in the form of a gaze so steady that it seems to warm the fluorescent panels framing so many of these pictures." Good read.
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Arlene's Grocery is a longstanding Manhattan music venue that hosts a variety of rock and punk acts from around the country. It's also the employer of a "Hawaiian Asian monster," according to this tipster-supplied voicemail from an extremely shitfaced patron with a very important husband.
During halftime at last night's Lakers/Pelicans game in New Orleans, large, childlike adult Will Ferrell attempted a shot from half court and missed horribly, hitting a cheerleader in the head with the ball and knocking her over. While everyone surrounded the injured woman, Ferrell tried to take another shot and airballed it. He was then escorted from the stadium by security, with cameras rolling.
This morning, a group of McDonald's workers in Virginia filed a lawsuit against the company, accusing it of ignoring "rampant racial and sexual harassment" happening in its stores. Ugly details below.
