Texas Monthly editor Jake Silverstein is the new editor-in-chief of The New York Times Magazine. According to Politico, Silvertein started out as “a reporter for the Big Bend Sentinel, a weekly newspaper in Marfa, Texas.”

The rainbow flag flies over a building next to Nelson's Column monument in Trafalgar Square in central London on Friday. It marks the start of same-sex weddings in the UK, which will begin at midnight on Saturday. Image via Lefteris Pitarakis/AP.

David Samson, the 74-year-old chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, has resigned.

How can the National Park Service "reintroduce the national parks … to a new generation of Americans"? It can start by making sure its workforce looks more like America: "The staffing at the Park Service has remained perpetually and overbearingly white throughout its century-long history."

If a toad sits in the sun, why does he do it? "To be warm," you might say. But have you asked the toad? It's possible that you have, but not probable.

Last year, IBT Media acquired Newsweek from IAC, hoping to use the magazine’s name to redeem the company’s reputation as a soulless content farm controlled, in part, by right-wing Moonie leader David Jang. In a lengthy profile of IBT founder Johnathan Davis, Guardian reporter Jon Swaine reveals that the 31-year-old entrepreneur believes in redeeming gay people, too:

It took two days of digging for police to find the body of a hoarder who died at home under the mountain of trash he had collected. The 67-year-old Dallas man was reported missing Tuesday.

Man-made climate change happens. Man-made climate change kills a lot of people. It's going to kill a lot more. We have laws on the books to punish anyone whose lies contribute to people's deaths. It's time to punish the climate-change liars.

Those of you looking for wild mood swings on your evening commute might enjoy listening to audio of Tuesday's Supreme Court hearings on the contraception mandate in the Hobby Lobby case. We remind you not to rage and drive.

"I have nightmares about me seeing my naked body on the Internet," Maricopa's vice mayor said, by way of explaining why he'd posted "We need more Fred Phelps in this world... May you rest in peace sir" on his Facebook wall.

Banksy's official verified Facebook page, with 2.4 million likes, has been unverified because it is a fake.

Peak Frozen continued last week when firefighters in Reading, Mass. sang "Let It Go" to keep a little girl from freaking out while they rescued her from a stuck elevator.

Those waiting to learn the fate of the Bitcoins they stored with the troubled Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox will have to wait a little longer. The investigator appointed by the Japanese bankruptcy court, who was due to report findings today, was given until May 9 to figure out what the hell happened.

Jennifer Kent's Australian thriller The Babadook is of the big success stories from this year's Sundance Film Festival. The story seems standard enough: A boogieman character named the Babadook terrorizes a single mother, Amelia (Essie Davis) and her son Samuel (Noah Wiseman), who's so poorly behaved, he's a bit of a monster himself. But the film has surprising depth.

In a month that has seen the exoneration of both the world's and our nation's longest-serving death row inmates, it is worth asking: where the hell does all the support for the death penalty come from? The answer may not surprise you.

Who really believes an entire country has the same haircut? Or that you're going to suddenly be able to float for five minutes next week? Because it doesn't and you're not. Mix up a fresh wineshake. Let's look at the bullshit on the internet this week.

No, soccer legend Pele is not dead. But if he did die later today, someone might want to ask CNN where they were.

Academic conferences. They're scary. You put yourself and your research out there to be shredded by "colleagues" and hiring committees. But one top-flight humanities conference wants to put you at ease. With live-action role play and prizes. Yes, it's time for a sparklepony quest!

A Craigslist ad is seeking someone to follow Toronto mayor and comedy goldmine Rob Ford around for an entire day while playing a tuba, and it looks like it may actually happen.

Four search and rescue workers wade through water covering Washington Highway 530 on Thursday. They worked on the eastern edge of the massive mudslide that struck Saturday near Darrington, Wash. Image via Ted S. Warren, Pool/AP.