by Abe Sauer
“Down in Route 36’s main room, the scene is chilled. A half-hearted disco ball sporadically bathes the room in red and green light. Each table has candles and a stash of bottled water, plus whatever mixers one cares to add to your drink. In the corner, a pile of board games…
How did I miss this yesterday? (Oh right, I was moonlighting and also it was really hot.) So apparently now any gathering of 10 or more people in America is just Astroturfing. Fake, fake rallies on every corner. In particular, my question is: Do the employees of oil companies…
Live from, uh, MTV Germany: the new video for Jay-Z’s “Run This Town.” Despite the natural excitement accompanying molotov cocktails and a torch-bearing mob, the whole Mad Max thing-well, we’ve seen all that before. California was partying like that back 1995.
Shiny Obama mouthpiece Robert Gibbs uses the word “denote” all the time. And it does not mean what he thinks it means! ABC News Senior White House Correspondent Jake Tapper blows the lid off the scandal that is rocking Washington to its core.
Something about the combination of Ted Kennedy being concerned about the forthcoming vacancy of his Senate seat (because of, perhaps, his own forthcoming vacancy) and the big palliative care article in the Times was, unsurprisingly, totally gloom-inducing! For instance…
Here ya go, kids: It’s a new trailer for James Cameron’s Avatar, which some people are calling “the movie that could change film-making for ever. It has the power to alter your mind…
Rudely spurned by customs, refused entry to the United States, a divorced gem-dealer and his insanely wealthy divorced memoirist lady-friend are forced to hop about a small portion of the globe, taking in Bali, Indonesia, Laos and a few other attractive neighboring countries…
Are you ready for the next round of Taibbi? The Goldman Sachs vampire squid arguments stretched out for well over a month around his last piece, which is something like 9 years in Internet time. Now he has been interviewing doctors with horror stories…
Oh boy. None of the above?
Given the apparently endless fascination so many of you have with the contextual ads that appear on…
“Former New York Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress pleaded guilty Thursday to a weapon charge, stemming from the incident last year in which he accidentally shot himself in the leg at a New York nightclub, and agreed to a two-year prison sentence.” Burress is expected to do…
Employees of a French trucking company facing possible closure “have threatened to dump a toxic substance into the River Seine if their demands for extra compensation are not met, union…
It’s movie trailer day at The Awl! Here’s a look at The Wolfman, which stars Academy Award winner Benicio Del Toro. All the standard elements of the story are there (silver bullets, full moons, etc.), but where’s the stuff we’ve come to expect in reboots of the classics? Where’e the…
So last night I was meeting a couple of friends for drinks in Brooklyn, which is always a dicey situation because I have no idea where the hell anything is in that borough and am reliant on cab drivers or bad directions from the subway to get to my destination. (Those of you…
This probably does not even need to be mentioned, but, you know, sic: “An article on Tuesday about DreamWorks Studios’ completion of a round of financing its and announcement of some film projects included an incorrect title for one of the movies. It will be called ‘Dinner For ********,’ a Yiddish…
