Baltimore Landslide Suddenly Swallows At Least 10 Cars
Jay Hathaway · 05/01/14 04:48PMA landslide sent at least 10 parked cars tumbling over a 30-foot drop on Baltimore's E. 26th Street Wednesday, and residents of the neighborhood say they saw it coming.
Sarah Hedgecock · 05/01/14 04:31PM
Enterprising Hooker Mom Turns Tricks While Her Kids Are at School
Rich Juzwiak · 05/01/14 04:15PMEarlier this week, the U.K.'s Channel 4 started airing Love for Sale with Rupert Everett, a new series in which the actor explores the U.K.'s sex industry by talking to its workers and consumers. The premiere's opening narration laid out its mission statement: "From the high class Mayfair escort, to the crack addict streetwalker, can there ever be such a creature as the happy hooker?"
Obstacle Racers Are Getting Sick After Literally Eating Shit
Jay Hathaway · 05/01/14 04:06PM
Under the brilliant headline "The latest obstacle in obstacle racing is bloody diarrhea," the Washington Post reports that the growing trend of competitive obstacle course running—now practiced by 1.5 million people—comes with a growing trend of falling in the mud and catching a mouthful of animal feces.
Hamilton Nolan · 05/01/14 03:57PM
We Have Seen the Oklahoma Capitol Satanic Monument, and It Is Awesome
Adam Weinstein · 05/01/14 03:50PMHow the Flaming Lips Lost a Drummer Over Native American Appropriation
Jordan Sargent · 05/01/14 03:27PM
If you've been to a music festival in the last few years, you've probably noticed young, white people parading around in traditional Native American headdresses. It is a gross bit of cultural appropriation. Because the drummer for the Flaming Lips thought so, he was kicked out of the band after 12 years, in a controversy that involves the daughter of Oklahoma governor Mary Fallin.
Brian Williams Wanted to Rap "Rollout," and He Got His Wish
Jay Hathaway · 05/01/14 03:02PMNewsman and loyal Gawker customer Brian Williams recently appeared on The Tonight Show to thank Jimmy Fallon for upping his credibility in the rap game with a series of remixes of Williams performing hip-hop classics like "Gin and Juice" and "Rapper's Delight." But Williams lamented that he doesn't get to pick his own songs.
Glen Coco Didn't Get Paid for Mean Girls, Unless You Count Candy Canes
Jay Hathaway · 05/01/14 02:40PM10 years after the release of Mean Girls, "You go, Glen Coco!" endures as one of the movie's best catchphrases. But the man, the myth, the legend, the guy with four candy-cane-grams, Glen Coco, wasn't actually hired or paid to be in the film. Actor David Reale told Dazed how he ended up there anyway.
Adam Weinstein · 05/01/14 02:21PM
Inside Amazon's Bizarre Corporate Culture
Hamilton Nolan · 05/01/14 02:18PMSinn Fein Leader Gerry Adams Arrested for Murder of Jean McConville
Taylor Berman · 05/01/14 01:45PMSarah Hedgecock · 05/01/14 01:21PM

Cars are submerged in the Schuylkill River's flood waters along Main St. on Thursday in Philadelphia. During a nine-hour period that ended early Thursday, Chester County got 6.6 inches of rain, Delaware and Montgomery counties got 5.5 inches or more and Philadelphia almost 5 inches. Image via Matt Rourke)/AP.






