Japanese artist Tatzu Nishi unveiled his latest art installation Discovering Columbus 75 feet above Columbus Circle in New York yesterday, and everyone celebrated by looking up the statue's skirt and not hugging it.

Though her reign of vehicular terror recently concluded with her BMW being impounded, Amanda Bynes' trail of batshittery is not over by a mile.

Dirty old man Oliver Stone apparently couldn't keep his randy mitts to himself at last night's London premiere of The Savages, reaching out to help himself to handful of Salma Hayek's busting bosom.

World-beating crap purveyor Wal-Mart turns 50 years old this year. They can celebrate because they're the world's biggest retailer and destroyer of the American dream; we can celebrate because the store has abandoned its plans to build a store in NYC, for the moment. And everyone can celebrate with this nice, furious rant sent to us by a former Wal-Mart employee.

The law finally caught up with scofflaw Amanda Bynes yesterday when she was pulled over by police in Burbank, California, and cited for driving with a suspended license.

We've had our share of amusement over the last few months making fun of former child star Amanda Bynes' predilection for endangering the lives of her fellow drivers, but it seems she's now crossed a threshold.

Prefix magazine, a New York-based music and film publication, is hiring news writers for its website. But they can't just be any lame bloggers off the street, of course. Aware that this is a buyer's market when it comes to hiring writing talent, Prefix demands top candidates, noting in a Craigslist job posting that all writing applicants must have "an encyclopedic knowledge of music or film."

That back-to-school chill is in the air, except in Chicago, where 26,000 public school teachers and support staff are on strike and more than 350,000 students are just fucking off all day instead of learning. Even though Chicago is a dull provincial city of little national import, everybody is talking about the strike because Rahm Emanuel is mayor and Obama used to live there. What's the story?

Actress Alison Pill, best remembered from Scott Pilgrim vs. The World and her recent stint on Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom, has taken a more direct approach to nude celebrity photo leaks by posting her own topless photo to Twitter herself.

Though Prince William and Kate still have a week left on their quest to chart a northwest passage to Asia, facilitating the trade of gold and spices is the last thing on anyone's mind; looks like this gal might be pregnant.

Speaking with The Wrap after the Toronto Film Festival premiere of his latest film, The Notebook director Nick Cassavetes said Yellow — which tells the story of a romance between a woman and her brother — forced him to examine his own feelings on incest.

Or is that in mammary of her late Gran Gran? (Sorry, couldn't resist.)

When Kim Kardashian and Kanye West started dating a few months ago, people scoured the universe for signs that could have foretold the event.

If you picked up a priceless Andy Warhol painting at a yard sale recently, congrats; that painting is about to become worthless.

It seems like someone is a little jealous at all the attention Paul Ryan has been getting. Former vice presidential candidate and forever moron Sarah Palin took issue with John Kerry's speech tonight, particularly the part where he made a joke about Palin being able to see Russia from Alaska.

I'm sure you did the responsible, adult thing and watched the DNC all night, but while you were doing that the MTV Video Music Awards were on and I watched them because that is my life. They were so stupid. MTV literally let Taylor Swift finish and she did some weird musical theater number to accompany "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together." Rihanna and Katy Perry sat next to each other and muttered shit-talk in each other's ears all night. Chris Brown won an award. Nicki Minaj asked someone, "Want gum?" and dressed like La Toya Jackson dressed like a clown.

Amy Poehler and Will Arnett, the couple you just know you could be best friends with if only they'd stop for dinner in your town one night, have announced they are separating after nine years of marriage.

Every orgy has that one lazy guy who wants to enjoy all the boobs in his mouth, all the d's in his a, all the mmhmm's on his whatnow?'s but then, when it comes time to reciprocate, suddenly has to go get a glass of water or call his daughter or whatever.

For as long as Man has possessed the infinite gift of language, he has used his tool to wonder aloud: Are Beyoncé and Kim Kardashian friends?

Tom Brokaw was such a nice kid, and then someone put his name in lights and turned him into a lush. On Thursday morning, he took the pink pills.