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#thingsweactuallylike
The Jersey Shore Kids Are Now in on the Joke, and That Joke Is Hysterical
The Situation, Snooki, and DJ Paulie Dialogue took time out from Jersey Shore's global domination to make a video. The fiction is just as good as the real thing, but the beast has awoken. Updated. More » -
#conspiracy
The Goldman Sachs Coffee Conspiracy
Workers at Goldman Sachs' buildings across New York and New Jersey are grumbling about a conspiracy. A conspiracy by the company to squeeze profit even from its own staff.
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#counting
The 2010 Census' Existential Crisis
If only it were as simple to count everyone in America as "One, two... three hundred million." Nope. It's still about four months away, but the 2010 Census is already under attack by people wracked with existential angst.
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#polls
Who Is the Hipster of the Decade?
Yea, we know the word "hipster" is played out. That's exactly why we need to pick a Hipster Champ of the past decade. So we can lay the whole damn thing to rest. Your candidates, below. Vote. If you want. -
#shutup
News of First Major Progressive Legislation in 30 Years Enrages Liberals
Ugh. Shut up, bill-killing liberals. You know who has more liberal cred than all of you? Bernie Sanders, who secured $10 billion for community health and then voted for cloture.
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#christmascrash
Give Us Your Best Holiday Travel Horror Stories
There are plenty of stressful things during the holidays—office parties, shopping, family—but there is nothing worse than travel. We want to hear your worst holiday travel stories, and we want them now. All aboard!
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#exclusive
The Actual New Beatrice
Since Beatrice Inn closed last April it feels like hundreds — thousands — of clubs and lounges have tried to claim succession. Today we have big news on the actual new Beatrice — Paul Sevigny's imminent new place. More » -
#friggonomics
Economists Discover Source of New Yorkers' Misery
Research Question: Why are New Yorkers miserable? Hypothesis: Because New York is not a pleasant place to live.
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#questions
Who Is Simon Monjack?
Brittany Murphy's life was cut short at 32 when she passed away this morning. The latest piece of news is that her husband, Simon Monjack, reportedly told Cedars-Sinai staffers that he didn't want there to be an autopsy. Who?
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#altarcations
Scoring Sunday's Nuptials: In Which Will Ferrell Photobombs the NYT's Weddings
Once it hits your lips, Altarcations are so good. Phyllis Nefler will drink the NYT's Weddings & Celebrations milkshake beerbong like it's nobody's business, especially when it's got good guest stars like this week's. Tell 'em what's up, Nef: More » -
#vintagegawker
2005's 123 Reasons to Love New York Right Now
Welcome to the inaugural edition of The Vintage Gawker Collection, where we'll roll out old posts from the vault in full to provide perspective on the present. Tonight: Jessica Coen's 2005 post, 123 Reasons to Love New York Right Now. More » -
#awesomethings
Climate Change's Bad Lieutenants, Barack and Hillary: Bustin' Down Doors
Wow. Talk about burying the lede. Obama and Clinton went BAD. ASS on some sucka climate change opposition. The two've been chipping away at this Copenhagen summit, but it took them busting down a door to get things "handled." Observe: More » -
#justice
Fun with Guns: Vigilante DC Cop Dishes Draconian Martial Law for Snowball Fight
Well, as it turns out, Washington DC residents know exactly how much of a joke 911 is in their own town, after a cop. Pulled a gun. On kids. Throwing snowballs. Yeah, and they're reading this cop the riot act. More » -
#partyreport
The Media Holiday Party Circuit: Drunken Ragers, Danceoffs, and Food at the ______ Party
Everyone got crunk at the IAC/College Humor/Daily Beast X-Mas party. Did you? Did Julia Allison? Know what a "walk off" is? The Elle party apparently does, so suckit, Vogue. VICE/VBS.tv? And what about this here website's shindig? Party roundup time! More »
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#recaps
Jersey Shore: Complicated Courtships
The ultimate goal for all male and female guidos at the Jersey Shore is to hook up and "not fall in love." You would think this would be simple, but you would be very, very wrong. More » -
#the00s
There Will Be Blood Wins the Decade
In its day, Paul Thomas Anderson's oil-drilling epic had to take a back seat to the Coen Brother's nihilist No Country For Old Men. But a few years later, this Blood will not be washed out.
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#flipflops
Sarah Palin on Sarah Palin's Climate Change Flip-Flop
That Palin is a character. First she was totally for responding to climate change, for political expediency. Now she's totally against it, for political expediency. Textbook flip-flop? Of course not! Here's what Palin said about it on Facebook.
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#rumormonger
It Gets Worse: Meg Whitman's Sons' Racism and Entitlement Were Stuff of Legend
Meg Whitman's sons, Griff and Will Harsh, have been kicked out of prep schools, an eating club, dormitories, and Princeton's class of 2008, say people who know them. One incident involving the n-word is already internet famous.
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#fieldguide
Lola Karimov: The Surprisingly Glamorous Daughter of a Brutal Uzbek Dictator
One of the lessons of the downturn has been that repression is a recession-proof industry. Galas and fashion shows don't throw themselves, you know? Let's meet Lola Karimova, social circuit sensation and daughter of the brutal Uzbek dictaor Islam Karmiov. More » -
#horriblethings
Tiger Woods Girl + Ronn [sic] Torossian = This (Updated)
Fine, here: Jamie Jungers, the most desperate of the Tiger Woods love interests, is being repped by incompetent superflack (and Douche candidate) Ronn [sic] Torossian's 5WPR. We're told this was filmed right in the 5W office. Seems right. CLARIFICATION: More » -
#shutuptwitter
How a Fake Twitter Death Report Tragically Came True
Last night on Twitter, someone impersonating a newspaper writer falsely reported the death of football player Chris Henry. Henry died about 12 hours later, according to news reports, finally making one of Twitter's many fake stories come true.
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#fieldguides
The Beatrice Inn Diaspora
In April the Beatrice Inn was cruelly shuttered, casting hundreds of refugees into Manhattan at 2am with just the ironic T-shirts on their backs. As rumors of Paul Sevigny's new place build, we look at where those outcasts are now. More » -
#jerseyshore
Snooki on Leno: So Dumb She Must Be Acting
We are not buying for a second that a living human can be as dumb as Snooki was on Leno tonight. Granted, the other two Jersey Shore cast members were dumb, too. But Snooki won the stupid day. More » -
#yourprivacyisanillusion
The Facebook Privacy Settings You've Lost Forever
While covering Facebook's systematic elimination of privacy, we've been deluged with questions from readers asking how to restore certain Facebook privacy protections. Sadly, many such settings appear to be lost forever. Here are the most glaring examples.
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#polls
Douche of the Decade, Round Two: Real Douches Only
Yesterday we offered you 15 exquisite choices in our quest to find who, pray tell, is the douchiest douchebag of the past decade. Today: Some are removed; one is honorarily honored; a Kade-style addition; and crucial second-round voting. Yes, crucial!
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#ourdumbdecade
The Decade Reality Evolved into a Beautiful Beast
Sure, reality TV has been around longer, but starting in 2000, it really hit the big time. Everyone professes to hate it, but this cheap, tawdry programming has become an easy staple, and it's changing every minute.
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#crime
Alisher Usmanov: The Scary Russian Oligarch Seducing Silicon Valley
Alisher Usmanov is nicknamed "the hard man of Russia," but he's good at seducing the softies in California's tech community: An investment firm he backs lead a $180 million investment in Zynga, the gaming company that trafficked in scammy ads.
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#banksters
Goldman Agonistes
The New York Times has identified the source of Goldman Sach's image troubles—it used to be a hip bank, one that really cared about the banking, you know? Now all they care about is money. Sellouts.
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#scandals
The Diminishing Returns of the Tiger Woods Story
To no one's surprise, it appears that Tiger Woods' wife is planning to divorce him. Sorry, golf fans momentarily distracted from your sedate sport by a wild sex scandal: this story is coming to its end.
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#wegetletters
Who's Crazier: Palin-ites or Scientologists?
The two topics that have garnered us the most spittle-flecked emails lately have been Sarah Palin and Scientology. We've picked a selection of the finest, juiciest nuts so you can judge for yourself which group is more rabid. More » -
#childstars
9-Year-Old Noah Cyrus Performing 'Smack That' Is Disturbing on Seven Different Levels
Last time we saw Miley Cyrus' little sister, the tyke was posing with stripper poles and wearing patent-leather thigh-high boots. And now: Noah performs an exuberant ass-slapping version of Akon's "Smack That," while Miley and friends cheer her on. More » -
#gatecrashergate2
The Time an Adorable Couple from Georgia Crashed the White House
Two weeks before the Salahis crashed their way into America's consciousness, a couple of Georgian tourists unwittingly bumbled into an invite-only lunch at the White House. Their story, as reported today by the AP, is adorable.
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#polls
Who's the Douche of the Decade?
This has been the Decade of the Douchebag. There's no denying it. Though we've retired the term, we're bringing it back to identify the douche who was the douchiest. You get the chance to pick our winner. More »
