Music producer Steven Ellison, also known as Flying Lotus, has the kind of career that contemporary artists dream of. He's respected, acclaimed, constantly working, and seems to be having a great time. His wild fifth studio album, You're Dead!, explores the titular concept through boisterous jazz, leftfield hip-hop, blaxploitation throwback sounds, and smooth slow jams. Released this week, Ellison says it is "probably the most accessible record" yet.

BRANSON, MO—Among the things that I dislike most in this world are patriotism, religion, tourist traps, country music, and the Walmart corporation. So I traveled to the one area of this nation that captures them all. It did not go as planned.

Fresh off her latest DUI charge and apparent relapse into... something, Amanda Bynes spent an ill-advised day with an InTouch Weekly reporter this week. The resulting interview ranges from sad to alarming: Bynes told InTouch there's a microchip in her brain, and said "I want a dollar a day from every person who [is] reading my mind."

The quarterfinals of Gawker's America's Ugliest Accent tournament continue today, right here. Who's worse: Scranton or Tallahassee? Which is uglier, New York or Providence? Vote here!

"I'm going to forget about the fact that I should be a millionaire now," Ted Williams told the Columbus Dispatch this week.

Thomas Eric Duncan, the man diagnosed with Ebola in Dallas last week, has died, according to officials at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital.

A 20-year-old Delta Upsilon brother at UC-Berkeley was charged with rape by use of drugs this week following a horrific weekend during which three separate sexual assaults were reported at fraternities. No one has been charged in connection to the other two assaults.

Applications to the Peace Corps are up by 70% this year, the highest total in a generation. Why the new volunteer spirit, Americans?

Jason Jones took over last night's Daily Show in place of Jon Stewart, who's out sick with the bubons. While Jones was busy making (pretty good) jokes as his own expense, "Senior My Wife Correspondent" Sam Bee handled the actual reporting, delivering a piece on the complete lack of any national statistics on police killings of civilians.

Two female Saudi Arabian soccer fans attending a match last week between their beloved home team and the United Arab Emirates' Al Ain FC in the UAE were captured on video celebrating, then mourning their team's loss at a public stadium. The video has resulted in a heinous backlash from men online who believe the women should have been at home instead.

The Port Authority Bus Terminal is the grubbiest, least hospitable public space in Manhattan, and its bathrooms are the worst of the worst—if you can ignore the ominous patch of grime on the ceiling and focus on the task at hand for long enough to squeeze out a few drops, you should consider yourself lucky. So cops: Let's afford these bus station pissers some dignity, shall we?

Chin-stroking idea muppet Thomas Friedman has written and published a nationally-distributed newspaper column again today. Has he told you his door handle story? I think you will find it very instructive.

The fallout of yesterday's leaked audio recording of 7th Heaven star Stephen Collins allegedly admitting to having sexually abused multiple underage girls continues. The latest, TMZ reports, is an accusation by Collins' wife Faye Grant, who claims the actor expressed relief in 1989 that their soon-to-be-born daughter wasn't a boy, because he wouldn't be able to resist putting his penis in his mouth.

Following a three-week onslaught that has driven more than 180,000 from the Syrian border town of Kobani, ISIS forces are on the verge of capturing the area, even as the U.S. ramped up airstrikes in the region this week.

According to TMZ, the LAPD is "revisiting" its 2012 molestation investigation into 7th Heaven actor Stephen Collins, whose tape-recorded admissions were released Tuesday.

The U.S. plans to start screening airline passengers flying into the country for Ebola symptoms, both President Obama and the director of the Centers for Disease Control announced this week.

The headmaster of an expensive Bay Area private school is facing criminal charges after police busted him last week in a Sacramento hotel with a large drug stash and an unconscious woman.

Gawker has not written about Lizzie Grubman, the infamous PR flack who injured 16 people after plowing into them with her Mercedes outside a Hamptons club 13 years ago, since 2010. She has laid low since a stint on reality TV mid-decade and her power has waned, but today she sent us an email promoting the new album from R&B singer Keyshia Cole.

Does BuzzFeed secretly have it out for Lena Dunham, or did they just discover some really shitty photoshop filters?

Another firetruck has caught fire in the course of fighting fires, this time en route to a blaze in in Silver Spring, Maryland. "Damage to the building was estimated at $150,000," the Washington Post reports, "and truck damage was put at $200,000."