Orange County Register sports columnist Mark Whicker has apologized for the recent piece in which he tried to catch up Jaycee Dugard on all the important sports developments she missed during the 18 years she was held…

Jacob Clifton, Television Without Pity’s most zealous TV recapper, is self-publishing his novel-in draft form, online, in serially. (For serialists!) Like maybe a chapter a day. It is called Mondegreen. It is freaking me out.

Last night, delightful character Fran Lebowitz got cornered at Graydon Carter’s party, and asked about McKinsey, the consultants who are making recommendations on how to overhaul the Conde Nast Magazine Empire of the Sun. Fran! “Why do you need to hire anyone to tell you what to…

How bad do you want to be on TV? Bad enough that maybe you could be tricked into being held captive for two months in a villa outside Istanbul, because there actually was no show? BECAUSE YES, THAT HAPPENED. The nine women weren’t harmed but “were told…

Seven doctors and nurses at the Great Western Hospital in Wiltshire, England, have been suspended and face dismissal for playing “the lying down game” while working. Wait, what?

The Facebook game involves people having their…

While we’re all waiting for those green shoots to fully bloom, there are certain industries in which it is still possible to make a decent living. In Saudi Arabia, for example, there’s big bucks in spells:: “Hardly a day passes without a local…

Leon Wieseltier actually gets to the heart of what bugs me about the New York Times magazine and its artsy sections, writing off the mag’s editor answering questions over at the Times. (An example of his answers: “More…

The trouble with living the life of Gwyneth Paltrow, in which a laywoman takes Gwyneth’s lifestyle plans as gospel: “It is…

In non-news, the National September 11 Memorial & Museum has released what can only be described as Shocking New Videos of Planes Hitting Buildings, because now they have a digital museum thingie. Also, kind of fuck you? Never forget? 9/10, a day…

California Assemblyman Michael Duvall (R-Yorba Linda), caught on a live mic regaling another member about his sexual adventures with female lobbyists, has resigned. But before you get any ideas, he wants to make it…