"Rush Hour" is the work of director Fernando Livschitz, who manipulated footage to make a "traffic ballet" of cars, trucks, bikes, and pedestrians. For guys and gals on the go, this is a Utopian vision.

Belgium's authorities have agreed to euthanize Frank Van Den Bleeken, a prisoner serving a life sentence for rape and murder. Even though the country doesn't have the death penalty, authorities have let prisoners with terminal illnesses be put to death since 2002. Van Den Bleeken's illness, however, is psychiatric—he says his desire to be sexually violent will never go away.

Three black women claim that a security guard at New York's Standard Hotel accused them of solicitation last month when they were drinking at the hotel's bar. Weeks after the incident, the women were reportedly contacted by a hotel representative and offered a bottle of champagne and a $400 dinner at the hotel's restaurant.

An unruly mob of Ukrainian protesters took matters into their own hands today when marching outside of parliament. Instead of holding signs and telling the man how they felt in a polite discussion, they took Vitaly Zhuravsky and tossed him into a dumpster, adding on old tires and spraying water for good measure.

Much of the discussion about cutting the carbon emissions that are slowly destroying our planet centers on the supposed cost of all these new forms of clean energy. A new report suggests: what costs?

The straight-shootin' blues-rock band JD and The Straight Shot made a rare television appearance on Good Day New York today, and wow—you can really see why these guys got picked to play Madison Square Garden last weekend. (Because Jim Dolan, their singer, owns it.)

Police in Charlottesville are searching for first-year University of Virginia student Hannah Elizabeth Graham, who has been missing since last Saturday, when she texted friends that she gotten lost walking home from a party.

Amid the police terror that has swept the nation these last few months, there has been a missing facet from the conversation: the fact that women are brutalized by cops just as severely as men. For every John Crawford and Ezell Ford there is an Ersula Ore or a Marlene Pinnock (you can view the footage of Pinnock's beating by a California Highway Patrol officer here).

Leonardo DiCaprio: handsome man, great actor, boyfriend of models, and newly appointed official Messenger of Peace for the UN. What can't this guy do? One heat-sealed envelope of peace, delivered straight to the world's doorstop, signed (with love), Leonardo DiCaprio.

Yesterday, Urban Outfitters pulled a bloody Kent State sweatshirt from its website. What other products would they have put forward if no one had noticed? Sarah Miller imagines a made-up memo from headquarters.

Former Gawker colleague Maureen O'Connor informs us today that some men enjoy having oral sex with women who are menstruating. You say potato, I say po-tah-toe, but at the end of the day we can all agree that there's only one truly essential ingredient in lovemaking: love itself. [New York. Photo: FB]

Today The Advocate ranked The 50 Most Influential LGBT People in Media. Be sure to note the magazine’s disclaimer: “Only those media figures who are publicly out are included.”

A new campaign launched by the hotel chain Marriott—a company that reported $13 billion in revenue last year—encourages customers to leave a tip for the maids who clean hotel rooms. What could possibly be objectionable about that?

After a year-plus of mystery, it appears that the story of Tim Dog—the '90s rapper who was reported dead last February, then thought to have faked his death and disappeared in order to escape debt after running elaborate scams on a number of women—has reached a conclusion, and it was the one we thought all along.

Communications giant Clear Channel, the largest owner of radio stations in the U.S., announced this week it will change its decades-old name to something a little more suited to the evolving tastes of the discerning contemporary millenial.

A new study finds that "to a small but significant degree, people prefer the body odor of those who vote as they do." Cause Republicans. Are. STANK.

Chelsea Manning, the U.S. soldier currently serving a 35-year prison sentence for leaking government documents to WikiLeaks, wrote a column for The Guardian criticizing Obama's approach to ISIS. "Based on my experience as an all-source analyst in Iraq during the organization's relative infancy, ISIS cannot be defeated by bombs and bullets," she writes.

Language has been called "mankind's greatest invention," tied for first place alongside Chicken Fries, which are back. The bronze, then, must surely go to writing: a system by which the fleeting echoes of speech are captured and made visible, so that the ephemeral may be recreated with absolute accuracy by strangers across oceans and lifetimes. "There is no greater agony," said Maya Angelou, "than bearing an untold story inside you." This is The Emoji Tatler.

CALPERS is America's largest pension fund, with $300 billion in assets. It just announced that it is pulling all of its money out of hedge funds. Why? Because everyone knows that hedge funds are a ripoff.