Caity: The twin reflecting pools at the National September 11th Memorial are just what memorials should be: vast, and arresting, and humbling, and sad. The museum is very expensive.
This year, the American fraternity Delta Kappa Epsilon chartered its first "colony" in the U.K. at Edinburgh University. The American frat bros brought much across the pond to their Scottish brothers: "dignity," "honor," stories about famed DKE George W. Bush, and rape jokes.
Two new reports today about Walmart, the world's top provider of crap. One points out that Walmart is a tax dodger; the other points out that Walmart worsens our national hunger crisis. A banner day for Walmart!
Springfield, Ore. police arrested a couple last Sunday having sex in their car, conveniently parked (and rocking) outside the jailhouse.
Last week, multibillion-dollar media megashark Vice announced that it has "teamed up with concert giant Live Nation" to create a new music site, launching next year. You may be interested to learn that an editor at Vice's other music site absolutely hates Live Nation, his company's new business partner.
Beans from Even Stevens is in a new music video from the band Dear Blanca. Want to watch?
After Jacqueline Woodson accepted the National Book Award in young people's literature for her memoir Brown Girl Dreaming last night, host Daniel Handler shared a "joke" about her with the audience: she's allergic to watermelon. Get it? Because she's black. You can feel the tension in the room through your screen.
I am a robotic avatar who writes for the internet so I won't be cuddling you, but maybe you're in desperate need of a bit of human touch and can't find it anywhere for free. It is winter, after all, and if you haven't found your cuffing partner, times are tough. Might I suggest paying this woman $60 to cuddle you?
Bros, I'm totally stoked on this sick skateboarding bloop—you gotta peep it with your socket rockets. Check out where the board lands—hint: this poser's dome!!—right after the dude bails!
On November 6, the Associated Press interviewed Bill Cosby and his wife Camille about an art exhibit in D.C. When the reporter asked Cosby about the multiple rape accusations against him (brought up onstage by comedian Hannibal Buress), Cosby issued a "no comment" and tried to bully the reporter into "scuttling" the footage.
I never thought I would end up this way.
As the New Republic celebrates its 100th birthday, how are we best to understand the magazine's century of ostentatious chin-stroking? As an attempt to declare by fiat a consensus politics for a nation of divided interests and purposes? An expression of the fundamental conservatism that underlies liberalism? A performance of whiteness?
If you haven't been listening to Serial you've surely been hearing about it, so I won't summarize the whole story other than to say that there are three critical characters here. There's Hae Min Lee, who was brutally strangled 15 years ago, Adnan, her ex-boyfriend who's currently in jail for life for her murder, and Jay, their mutual friend who claims Adnan admitted to killing Hae and showed him her body. One of three things is happening—Adnan's lying, Jay's lying, or they both are.
The butts of two almost-the-same-age performers, Jennifer Lopez and Iggy Azalea, are haunting the dreams of the ABC executives responsible for the live broadcast of the American Music Awards this Sunday. Not in a sexy way, in a scary way!
