Park Slope Kids Salon: Stop Calling Your Wifi "LuLu's Anal Bleaching"

Rich Juzwiak · 03/28/14 10:27AM

CITIZEN'S ARREST! A person who controls a wifi near the "combination hair salon and toy store on the increasingly stylish Fifth Avenue strip of Park Slope" called LuLu's has given his or her network a positively vulgar name. It is a name that threatens to sully the posh and sophisticated reputation of a shop that charges $26 to give your child a new lease on life via his or her tresses ($10 for just a bangs job). It is a name that is not good for kids.

J.K. Trotter · 03/28/14 10:14AM

ABC News has hired former New York City police commissioner Ray Kelly as a consultant. “It is an honor and privilege to have him on our team,” writes ABC News President Ben Sherwood.

No One Cared Who BaneCat Was, Until He Put On The Mask

Jay Hathaway · 03/28/14 10:07AM

Take the typical cat—self-centered, hungry, bent on tearing down the world and remaking it in its own image—and give it a gritty Christopher Nolan reboot. Boom. You've got BaneCat. And you have his permission to die (right after you feed him.)

University of Iowa to Girls: Go Away

Hamilton Nolan · 03/28/14 08:49AM

HBO's Girls, a show in which the children of famous people play the children of non-famous people, ended its season this week with the lead character being accepted into the University of Iowa's Writer's Workshop. The University of Iowa has responded with: Do not come here.

Taylor Berman · 03/28/14 08:13AM

Seven-term Republican Rep. Mike Rogers announced on Friday that he won't seek reelection. Instead, the House Intelligence Committee chairman and longtime-defender of the NSA will host a national radio program.

Gabrielle Bluestone · 03/27/14 07:29PM

Latest in the in-depth coverage of the wide-reaching effects of a drunk secret service agent: the citizens of Amsterdam, "taking advantage of a lovely spring day to partake of the city's pleasures, which famously include coffee along the canals and marijuana in the coffee shops," don't care at all.

Can Someone Please "Disrupt" Real Estate Agents?

Hamilton Nolan · 03/27/14 04:28PM

We live in a marvelous, annoying era in which startup geniuses constantly getting rich by "disrupting" mundane industries. Hotels? Disrupted. Taxis? Disrupted. On behalf of the beleaguered apartment hunters of New York City, I humbly request that someone disrupt real estate agents out of existence.