Let's Celebrate Sensational Tabloid Journalist Nellie Bly
Michelle Dean · 05/16/14 03:05PMSympathy for the Lizard: Godzilla
Rich Juzwiak · 05/16/14 02:40PM
I saw Godzilla earlier this week and have thought about it on my own precisely zero times since then. Gareth Edwards' take on the classic is as great-looking as it is dumb. It conveys enormity extremely well, as well should a movie that stars monsters who dwarf skyscrapers. For all of his twitching, nostril-flaring, and saliva-string-producing, Godzilla has never looked more life-like (or zaftig—check out that thick neck, bro). His nemeses, a pair of giant cockroaches called MUTOs, looked real enough to mildly nauseate me.
Adam Weinstein · 05/16/14 02:39PM
Columbia Announces It Will "Deal With the Issues of Sexual Assault"
Adam Weinstein · 05/16/14 02:28PM
Columbia University plans to create a second rape-crisis center on campus and add staff positions to help it "deal with the issues of sexual assault and related misconduct," the school's president, Lee Bollinger, announced yesterday. The university also intends to add Title IX investigators on campus and to create a new position of executive vice president for student affairs, with responsibility for overseeing sexual-assault claims.
Discrimination Against Hillbillies Is Rampant in Higher Education
Adam Weinstein · 05/16/14 02:00PMMissing Woman Found Dead After Being Buried Alive by Landscaper: Cops
Taylor Berman · 05/16/14 01:45PMBeagles Experience Sunshine, Grass For First Time
Jordan Sargent · 05/16/14 01:33PMOne might imagine the inescapable joy, but also terror, of experiencing sunshine and grass for the first time. One might also imagine that joy multiplying many times over if you happen to be a beagle.
Rich Juzwiak · 05/16/14 01:20PM
Mariah Carey debuted disco throwback song "You Don't Know What To Do" (from Me. I Am Mariah...The Elusive Chanteuse) earlier on Today. This is exactly the kind of stuff she should be making. If this is a single, it could be the song of the summer (or at a personal summer jam favorite). You've been warned.
Sarah Hedgecock · 05/16/14 01:15PM

A woman is evacuated from her home in Obrenovac, a town 18 miles southwest of Belgrade, Serbia, on Friday. Serbian authorities are considering full evacuation of Obrenovac, inhabited by roughly 25,000 people, as the local rivers have flooded most of the town's residential areas. Image via Marko Drobnjakovic/AP.
Jimmy Kimmel and Iggy Azalea Translate "Fancy" Lyrics for Old People
Rich Juzwiak · 05/16/14 01:05PMBefore performing her Top 5 hit "Fancy" on last night's Jimmy Kimmel Live, Australian rapper/drag queen Iggy Azalea helped prep the squares in Kimmel's audience by rephrasing the lyrics of the song's first verse and hook. Her in-between accent as she recites (but doesn't quite rap) her lyrics is utterly bizarre, and Kimmel's translations are for the most part hilarious.
Zen Koans Explained: "Teaching the Ultimate"
Hamilton Nolan · 05/16/14 01:02PMJudge Grants Mom an Emergency Order to Protect 3-Year-Old's Foreskin
Jay Hathaway · 05/16/14 12:55PMCall For Tips: What The Fuck Is Going On at The New York Times?
J.K. Trotter · 05/16/14 12:34PMOperation American Spring, the Right's Crazy Copy of Occupy, Explained
Adam Weinstein · 05/16/14 12:24PM"GODZILLA ATTACK!" Reads Hacked San Francisco Road Sign
Jordan Sargent · 05/16/14 12:15PMFemale Titans of Broadcast Journalism Say Goodbye to Barbara Walters
Rich Juzwiak · 05/16/14 11:45AMAfter 53 years on television, Barbara Walters is retiring today (or something). For the 84-year-old's final appearance on the show she helped create and will continue to executive produce, The View, about two dozen women in broadcast journalism joined her onstage to honor the woman who helped pave their way in broadcast journalism, and tell Walters, "Goodnight, Moon!" one last time in front of cameras (maybe). Oprah was there! So was Gayle (of course). Kathie Lee and Hoda seemed sober. Elisabeth Hasselbeck wept.









