Allow me to present a hypothesis: Dan Brown is the Anne Hathaway of authors. Hard-working, serious about his craft (even if others aren’t), with lots and lots of money to show for it. People eagerly devour his books, of course, partaking — happily,…
A Dan Brown-worthy mystery (forget about Dante, what about the zoo?) is as follows: Staffers at a zoological conservation center in Greenwich, Conn., are very confused — as are the rest of us — because their female giant anteater, Armani, has…
Christie’s may have set a record for the most art sales in auction history last night, but its bidders didn’t live up to the viral hype around the price for John Currin’s already notorious portrait, Bea Arthur Naked. An anonymous bidder paid a cool…
After gamely donning Google’s face computer on Capitol Hill this morning, Michele Bachmann has now joined the fledgling celebrity ranks of Brandy and Sarah Jessica Parker as early show-off adopters of Google Glass — you know, just like all those…
J.J. Abrams always says he’s never been a Trekkie, but, according to a new report in The Wrap, it was Abrams’ inability to fully control the Star Trek franchise—and wipe out merchandise connected with the original 1960s series—that may have been an…
This coming weekend is a big one for Saturday Night Live. It marks the end of Bill Hader’s tenure on the show and Ben Affleck’s fifth time hosting. But perhaps the most significant reason to tune in is the fact that Kanye West is the musical guest, and he’s making it seem like he really, really doesn’t want to be.
The topic for The Daily Show last night was mocking the media’s eagerness to predict the 2016 presidential race, but what seemed to tickle Jon Stewart the most was catching NBC’s Chuck Todd in an embarrassing gaffe.
Though he isn’t considered a suspect, a former Chechnyan separatist who is now a refugee in the United States has become a key target of information in the Boston Marathon bombing investigation.
Russian security forces have detained an employee at the American embassy in Moscow, accusing him of recruiting spies for the CIA. Whether the charges stick or not, this bizarre incident won’t help relations one bit. Here’s why Ryan Fogle might not…
Lars von Trier’s latest film, Nymphomaniac, isn’t really allowed to be one the many sexy independent films debuting at Cannes this week, but the production company behind the sure-to-be — indeed, already, as of right now — controversial film did release a promotional photo of the cast. And it is at once as awkward, lurid, and almost theological as possible.
Multiple outlets and law enforcement officials are reporting what a horrific…
It’s unclear exactly why, but the Department of Homeland has been operating…
This morning, after a chaotic evening saw his partner in crime (and apparently…
Updated 11:21 p.m.: MIT issued an emergency alert at 10:48 on Thursday night…
A new poll from Public Policy Polling shows that Ron Paul has taken the lead in…
In 2004 George W. Bush’s re-election campaign worked to put anti-gay…
In a bizarre television and spatial anomaly on CNN this morning, the blanket…
“Archaeologists of the History Institute of the DPRK Academy of Social Sciences…
Seattle photographer Joshua Trujillo captured what may become the defining…
As Day Four of the Boston Marathon bombing investigation began, several outlets…
Oh yeah and she’s 32! Carry on.
LOL, Government.
Do you have a 60-year-old pair of jeans lying around? Get that up on eBay, STAT.
