The war between the anti-vaccine people and the people who understand science and the people who blog…
I love it when gays go crazy. And now they have, over not enough attention to the passing of Bea Arthur.
This is some crazy gay action:
People Magazine’s annual…
The biggest question before television executives and ad buyers is: Should we be afraid of tween girls? (Obvs, YES.) In an thorough examination of voting bloc power, “American Idol” obsessive Richard Rushfield castigates the demo for the damage their…
Yeah, listen up, you sloppy things!
[Vogue style director Alexandra Kotur] attributed her look to her mentor, [Jo] Levin, who upon her arrival at British GQ told her to throw out everything and invest in one beautiful cashmere…
Kickstarter has launched; it is a new micro-funding scheme for artists and makers of things in which anyone may “pledge” money towards a concept-you only pay your pledge if the proposer meets his or her fundraising goal. I am maybe going to go give…
There’s something very Zen about this correction: “An article on April 14 about John Grunsfeld, an astronaut who is scheduled to lead the final servicing mission for the Hubble Space Telescope, referred incorrectly to the capacity of the indoor…
Well, here is the definitive end-of-Portfolio-magazine story:
At first we were all high-end, we were thought leaders,” said a staffer. “Early on, our stories were about the biggest house, the biggest hedge-fund member, or if you can only own…
Okay, here’s something: This story about a Westchester senior citizen whose decision to participate in his local “Big Brother” program resulted in a relationship which has lasted more than thirty years is genuinely touching, and I don’t care if that makes me emo or whatever. [Via, not surprisingly, Gothamist]
Here’s some local color from the gritty streets of Manhattan: I just got panhandled by a guy who was waiting for a bus. Remember that one the next time you hear someone say Americans lack gumption.
A scientist promises: “In the next few years we should be able to pinpoint exactly at…
Awl Business Manager David Cho feels like we should be skewing younger, particularly in regards to pop culture items, so he will be displeased to find that I am linking to the first video from the forthcoming Eels record Hombre Lobo, but whatever, I like Eels, and werewolves, and nobody sent me the new Rick Ross jam. So there.
In honor of Barack Obama’s first hundred days-have you heard anything about that?-I put together a gallery of images inspired from the swine flu pandemic which might just show that Tupac Shakur is still alive, but in light of the news that the GDP dropped 6.1%, I decided it…
There’s a recurring Republican talking point-although I’ve seen ostensibly unbiased pollsters use it too-that Democratic policies are actually less popular than they appear to be because we allow black people to have opinions now. The…
I went to see “Tyson,” the documentary about aging supermodel and VH1’s 1995 man of the year Tyson Beckford-oh wait, no, it was about the boxer Mike Tyson-because you and A. O. Scott told me to. This is a terrible movie, and I hate you and A. O. Scott.
It’s bad enough that our college cafeteria trays are disappearing but now it looks like there’s trouble in the beer coaster industry as well. George Orwell’s vision of a grim, semi-industrialized future where every table is stained with ring-shaped…
The pandemic is on! I’m not a religious man, so I’ll probably just spend the Final Days raping and looting, but for those…
Seriously, I’m having one of those days where everything I look at makes me go “What?” Anyway: “US pop star Beyonce has angered a high-brow art museum in Vienna by sending a look-a-like to her own special personal tour of the…
A thought on the Specter switch: If you’re Norm Coleman, wouldn’t you be begging Susan Collins or Olympia Snowe to follow Arlen into the Democratic caucus right now? I mean, you want to run for Minnesota governor but you look like a jackass for…
Look! The next pandemic starts here!
What should we call the swine flu? The Mexicans don’t want to claim it, the Jews don’t want to say the word “swine,” the Asians are hoping everyone remains focused on Mexico and doesn’t start looking east, and Ag Sec Tom Vilsack is concerned that the “swine” aspect of the moniker might…
