True crime aficionados should read Evan Hughes' The Trials of White Boy Rick at The Atavist. It's about a drug dealer who claimed that all through his criminal career he'd actually been working for the FBI. Hughes spent a year reporting the nutty story. You can buy it for a mere $3.99 here.

Rich: We're kicking off Gawker's Christmas 2014 coverage with a trip to Macy's! Where shiny red balls hang from the ceiling gently suggesting that you should start buying because Christmas is just around the corner! It's Christmas time in the city, Caity, and all I want is some fried food.

Spiders falling from the ceiling. Spiders behind every mini blind. Spiders in the fireplace. Spiders "bleeding out of the walls." A family in Missouri finally had enough of this nightmare and vacated the home they were sharing with 6,000 brown recluse spiders—but will the spiders ever leave?

It's not as bad as dying shortly after your exoneration, but being shot 15 minutes after being released from serving 15 years in prison is still pretty bad.

Until recently, you might have lived a life blissfully unaware of the online #Gamergate movement. But last week, computing giant Intel pulled its ads from an independent game-development site thanks to the gaming lobby. Now that major companies are taking sides, it's time to figure it out. Let us be your guides.

This is funny: Some joker confirmed exclusively to Page Six that Katy Perry will be playing the Super Bowl XLIX half-time show. Haha. Good joke! "A deal is being hammered out for Katy to play the Super Bowl," a source tells Page Six. Hahaha, but really, who's playing the Super Bowl and what time is it?

Malala Yousafzai, the 17-year-old Pakistani education activist who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban for her work, became the youngest-ever recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. She'll share the award with India's Kailash Satyarthi, 60, a child rights activist and founder of Save the Childhood Movement.

Gwyneth Paltrow threw a casual party Thursday night in Los Angeles for Obama and several hundred of her closest friends, noting in a speech to her guests that the president is progressive, and also hot.

LaGuardia Airport employees responsible for cleaning airplanes and bathrooms staged a walkout this week, saying they're not being adequately protected against the Ebola virus.

The police report from that drunken Palin family brawl last month is finally out, and Bristol is reportedly claiming a neighbor called her insulting names, then knocked her down and dragged her around a lawn.

A University of Southern Mississippi student is facing criminal charges after a poorly-conceived fraternity prank killed a female flamingo and her mate.

Role-playing, on some level, is about escapism. Ordinary life is boring; Dungeons and Dragons lets you get away. Have some fun! Be a wizard, a knight, an intergalatic mercenary. Or, in the case of the 2,000-plus members of the "Generic Office Roleplay" Facebook group, an IT guy.

The Secret Service hooker scandal, featuring a Yale graduate named Jonathan “Jonny” Dach, was apparently exposed in a bizarre, anonymous poem posted on the website of Yale Rumpus in May 2013.

Actress Jan Hooks, best known for her five years as a cast member on Saturday Night Live, died Thursday morning in New York City from a "serious illness," TMZ reports. She was 57.

"History has dubbed you 'the Millennials,'" writes President Barack Obama, the latest celebrated writer to bring his work to the elegant platform at Medium. He is telling the younger segment of his public something about jobs.

The Greek community at Texas Tech is getting into all kinds of trouble lately. Today, Phi Delta Theta's national headquarters kicked out 29 members of Tech's Phi Delt chapter after the bros hung a "No Means Yes, Yes Means Anal" banner up at a party last month. They also displayed a "vagina sprinkler."

Danny Gold's Vice story about Ebola in Liberia is terrifying, and not just for the lack of protective gear in evidence.

A US Airways flight from Philadelphia to Punta Cana, in the Dominican Republic, was held upon landing yesterday after a sneezing passenger joked about having been to Africa.

If there is any institution that perfectly embodies the vacuous, superficial, money-centric nature of America's ill-concealed oligarchy, it is our national political conventions. They are useless pieces of shit. Now, it will be slightly easier for moneyed interests to buy them.

A marijuana-laced soda sold legally in Washington State has turned out to be extremely dangerous. Not because of the totally reasonable 10mg of THC in each bottle, but because the sodas have been randomly exploding on store shelves.