Monaco Royal Family Thinks Nicole Kidman Is No Grace Kelly

Michelle Dean · 05/02/14 11:19AM

In a few days, eternally-sad-seeming Nicole Kidman's new film is to open the Cannes film festival. In Grace of Monaco, she plays the sad-seeming-in-retrospect Grace Kelly, the movie star and eventual princess of Monaco. And the sadness is still contagious, apparently, now extending to the film's backers because it's been denounced by the Monégasque (it's a great word) royal family as a "farce."

You Can Buy Willie Nelson's Swanky Old Tour Bus on Craigslist

Adam Weinstein · 05/02/14 11:00AM

The current bid is $36,000 for this beautiful old Willie Nelson tour bus. It gets 7 miles a gallon. It sleeps 8. It's like a saloon inside, with red velvet and beveled glass. It's got miles of wood paneling. Hell, there may still be a stash in that wood paneling that's worth 36 grand!

Sarah Hedgecock · 05/02/14 10:55AM

A bystander throws a tear gas canister that came back from the al-Azhar University campus after it was shot by the Egyptian security forces towards protesters at the school in Cairo on Friday. Image via Mohammed Abu Zaid/AP.

Lawmaker: "Gay Sex" Involves "One Way Alley for the Garbage Truck"

Adam Weinstein · 05/02/14 10:04AM

A GOP representative and nondenominational minister dismayed over challenges to his state's gay-marriage ban penned a pun-filled letter to his local paper criticizing what he perceives as the health hazards of gay male-on-male sex involving "a one-way alley meant only for the garbage truck to go down."

Arizona Adds Revenge Porn Law to Its Books

Michelle Dean · 05/02/14 09:17AM

This week Arizona's Republican governor, Jan Brewer, signed its anti-revenge-porn law onto the books. The Arizona law makes it a felony to "intentionally disclose, display, distribute, publish, advertise or offer a photograph, videotape, film or digital recording of another person in a state of nudity or engaged in specific sexual activities if the person knows or should have known that the depicted person has not consented to the disclosure."