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Top Chef
Live Blogging Top Chef, Week 7
Welcome back, fellow Top Chef live-bloggers! In the three weeks since we last gathered, a holiday season has come and gone, and a shiny new year has dawned. More » -
Jimmy Wales
Wikipedia Cofounder's Wiki Bailout Plan
Jimmy Wales, the scandal-prone cofounder of Wikipedia, thinks Barack Obama's first priority should be creating government websites anyone can edit. Translation: A bailout for makers of wikis. More » -
Layoffs
Google's Unkindest Cut: Tech Support
In October, before Google's cost-cutting campaign began in earnest, had more than 10,000 contractors, Google founder Sergey Brin said. In a mid-December SEC filing, it reported only 4,300 temporary workers. More » -
VideUhOh
Oprah Grapples with Gift of Gay
Watch Oprah's expression as a minister tells her, "Being gay is a gift from God." More » -
Lies
John Travolta, Grieving and Deceiving
Has anything the celebrity family of Jett Travolta said about the teenager been the unvarnished truth? If so, we missed it. Even the publicity photos of Jett they sent out after his death are Photoshopped.
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Lists
Obama's Shady Friends List
It's a fun new game and you can play along at home! Just place our president-elect's name in a list of names of shady characters. Then get rich on the teevee! More » -
Crime
Guy Ritchie Superfans Pull Jewelry Heist
Two robbers ripped off Snatch and stole millions in diamonds by disguising themselves as Hasidic Jews. New folk heroes? The next Somali pirates? No, way too derivative, dudes. Recreate Usual Suspects and we'll talk. -
Media Crack
Your Daily Dose of Media Tidbits

We're starting a new, daily media column for all the media news items we can't get to individually. It may also feature pithy remarks and totally exclusive scoops. Read it today, and forevermore: More » -
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Obits
Richard Seaver, Literary Sex Pioneer
Richard Seaver, a lifelong publisher and editor, died yesterday at the age of 82. He helped bring Samuel Beckett and lots and lots of kinky sex writing into the world. More » -
war is hell
War Hits Second Life!
Why doesn't anyone ever write about the real victims of the current war in Gaza? That's right, the losers and freaks of Second Life. More » -
Death
Real Estate Mega-Mogul Commits Suicide
Chicago real estate mogul Steven Good, head of the "largest real estate auction company in the nation," killed himself with a gun yesterday. He did deals with Trump. His motivation is a mystery: More » -
rudderless brooklyn
We Know What's Going to Happen On Tonight's Real World Premiere
Tonight is the premiere of The Real World: Brooklyn. Can you feel the electric tingle in the air? We can't either. So let's try to get some excitement building by making some predictions! More » -
Recessionomics
It's So Awkward Being Rich These Days
Unconspicuous consumption is the hot new thing. That $300 million megayacht? Tacky, what with the layoffs. Private jet? Forget about it, after Detroit's debacle. Even the celebrity goodie-bag business is endangered. More » -
journalismism
Joe The Latest Desperate Attempt at Remaining Relevant
"Joe the Plumber" is going to war! Some website is paying him to go to Israel and talk about things he knows nothing about, specifically everything. We were so close to being rid of him! More » -
Television
New Mad Men Ripoff Lacks Sex Appeal, Cigarettes
Because every excellent, original TV series must have an inferior ripoff on another network: forget Mad Men, the new advertising-centric drama is Trust Me. On TNT! Your new Don Draper: that guy from Ed. More » -
It's just lunch!
Obama Has Lunch With Lonely Old Failures
Barack Obama had to have lunch with a bunch of boring old white guys today. Was it a round-table discussion on the future of the media? No, it was the presidents' lunch. More » -
open caption
"Miss... Um... Madonna If You Nasty."
[A heavily airbrushed Madonna, a fifty year old British woman, in a new campaign for clothier Louis Vuitton (pronounced "Lewis Vootin"); image via Splash] -
Advertising
Atheist war on ChristmasJesus strikes London. Beware. [NYT]
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death of print
Google Boss to Newspapers: No Bailout
Everyone wants a sugar daddy to save them. Wall Street has found one in Washington. But the newspaper industry has been batting its eyes in the direction of Mountain View, Calif., home of Google. Ha! More » -
Fox and Friends
'Two fingers in, you get yourself some jelly, and just moisturize yourself!'
Fox & Friends anchor Brian Kilmeade says a man stuck on a ski lift with his ass hanging out should "get a Vaseline sponsorship," so he can "slide two fingers in." Plus: "Stimulus." More » -
Clips
The Tears of a TSA Agent
If a TSA agent cries after making you take off your shoes or throw away expensive makeup, will you still be mad at him? ABC's Homeland Security USA sought an answer last night. More » -
Celebrity science
Celebrity Vacations of Doom: Bonnie Fuller Explains
Oh hey, former celebrity magazine editor Bonnie Fuller is still writing some of the internet's columns most inexplicable columns, about celebrity issues. Today she answers the secret question: Why do celebs always die on vacation? More » -
what the hell
Roland Burris Will Very Probably Be a Senator
So Roland Burris, the crazy new Illinois Senator-in-waiting, will be seated! According to the Associated Press! But not according to Harry Reid. But... maybe? More » -
lapdance
Chaunce Hayden's Strip Club Movie Revealed!
If you're waiting anxiously for the Tucker Max movie release, you can look forward to this too: Jersey gossip Chaunce Hayden (pictured) has written a movie about stripper palace Scores. He sent us a summary! More » -
Invitations
You Should Go To Luke Russert's Inaug-Eve Partay
Thick-necked celebrity son Luke Russert is having an Inauguration Eve party! For that black guy who won! Would you like to go? Here is the invitation. More » -
Recessionomics
Job Hunting Grows Ever More Cutthroat
As the mobs of newly unemployed people tire of eating squirrel, they determine to do anything necessary to land that next job. Even if it means cheating on the world's easiest "personality test": More » -
Crime
Face-Slashing State Senator to be Seated Today
Cops are leaking details of their investigation into incoming State Senator Hiram Monserrate's little face-slashing incident. More » -
Sonja Kohn
Financier's Life Becomes Crazy Spy Movie
Movie idea: the daughter of Jewish refugees flees Europe for Wall Street, strikes it rich, gains billionaire mobster clients, but is then forced into hiding by a deal gone wrong. Bonus: it's a true story. More »




















