In a scene nearly as dramatic as the time Aviva confronted Sonja about skipping a charity spin class to spend time with her dog, a New Jersey judge sentenced Real Housewives of New Jersey stars Teresa and Giuseppe "Joe" Giudice to 15 and 41 months in prison, respectively, for bankruptcy, mail, and wire fraud.
The Fung Wah bus, a rolling sardine can that once carried passengers from Boston's South Station to the foot of the Manhattan Bridge and back for a mere $15 each way, failed its latest attempt to get back on the road. Depending on your outlook, this is either very good or very bad news.
The Liberian government will prosecute Thomas Eric Duncan, the U.S. Ebola patient in Texas, for lying on a questionnaire when he left Liberia for the States. He reportedly answered "no" when asked if "he had cared for an Ebola patient or touched the body of anyone who had died in an Ebola-affected area."
The first one that arrived was for Kevin, a teenage boy from Port Arthur, Texas:
Grammy-winning New Zealand singer Lorde's rise to fame is especially remarkable because she's just 17 years old. Or that's what she wants you to think. Despite the release of the singer's birth certificate—or an easily-forged printout of it, anyway—earlier this year, some still believe Lorde is older than she claims.
On Monday night, NYPD officers shot and killed two men, Francisco Carvajal and Rafael Laureano, in a Brooklyn apartment. Carvajal had broken into his ex-girlfriend's home and was threatening her and her children with a knife; Laureano was attempting to intervene and was accidentally hit with a police bullet.
On Sept. 23, 63-year-old Gail Simpson was arrested for robbing a Wells Fargo branch in southwest Miami. But that Simpson is a prolific elderly bank robber—she's currently on probation stemming from a June conviction for felony attempted armed robbery—is not the most interesting thing about her. No, it's that she appears to be the mother of legendary rapper Big Pun.
Nick Bilton, enterprising cultural commentator and flaneur of the digital set, sits down with horsey old scribe Walter Isaacson for his Times column today to celebrate the release of the latter's new book, "The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution." Just thrilling.
The long-awaited day of reckoning has finally arrived: Round One of America's Ugliest Accent comes to a triumphant close in. We are one step closer to democratically determining whom among us speaks with the most disgusting accent.
At most media organizations, there's a "Chinese wall" between editorial and advertising operations—each department operating independently of one another. At Vice Media—marketing shop first, editorial brand second—that's not quite how it works, according to a series of emails published to Twitter by recently departed editor Charles Davis.
Jesse Leroy Matthew, Jr.'s history of sexual assault accusations continue to be pieced together as the search for missing University of Virginia student Hannah Graham extends into its third week. Matthew was accused of sexual assault during his time as a student and football player at Christopher Newport University in 2003—that's in addition to a sexual assault accusation filed against him when he was a student and football player at Liberty University in 2002.
Generational stereotypes are grotesquely dumb and unfair, which makes it entertaining when someone genuinely lives up to one. Obviously people in their 20s are not the complacent, self-esteem-bloated solipsists that the popular culture supposes them to be.
According to an internal Air Canada memo leaked to CBC, officials at the airline had to implore its pilots—again—that they shouldn't be bringing their porn into the cockpit with them. "I am disappointed to have to raise this issue once again but unfortunately we have some people that have yet to understand the message," Rod Graham, Air Canada's chief pilot and director of fleet operations and training, writes in the memo.
