New York Times Magazine has the most important year-end round-up of all: a tribute to 2013's fallen cats.
Gawker Heroes: Antoinette Tuff
This past August, Michael Brandon Hill, a 20-year-old with a long mental-illness history, entered a Georgia elementary school with nearly 500 rounds of ammunition, an AK-47, and the stated intention to kill as many people as many as possible. After exchanging fire with the cops, Hill ended up in a drawn-out…
What Kind of Monster Wants to Shoot Up His School?
On Wednesday, December 12 of last year, at lunchtime, Sammie Eaglebear Chavez talked about shooting up his school. The 18-year-old was in the cafeteria of Bartlesville Senior High, 45 miles north of Tulsa, Oklahoma, conversing with classmates he considered friends.
"Girl, I promise this will be painless, painless/ We'll take a trip to planet Uranus": Slate's catalog of R. Kelly's sexual metaphors is a wondrous achievement.
Thanksgiving Songs, Ranked
21. Brianna Haynes, "Thank You"
The 10 Most Horrifying Parts of Rolling Stone's Charles Manson Profile
Perhaps you heard the news that Charles Manson is maybe, possibly engaged to a 25-year-old? Or at least that's what Manson's paramour, Star (left, with her bb on the right), told Rolling Stone's Erik Hedegaard during the arduous process of assembling a lengthy profile on the very famous convicted murderer.…
Boston's new mayor, Marty Walsh, is the same man who tried to make the Modern Lovers' "Roadrunner" the official rock song of Massachusetts earlier this year. We approve.
In this tetchy interaction with GQ, Harrison Ford makes the astoundingly curt Ginger Baker seem kinda sweet.
Banksy's Newest NYC Installation: The Grim Reaper in a Bumper Car
At dusk, Banksy revealed the newest piece in his month-long rampage of New York City's streets: a Grim Reaper in a scythe-powered bumper car, listlessly bobbing to Blue Öyster Cult's "Don't Fear the Reaper." The installation sits at the corner of Houston and Elizabeth Streets and, according to Banksy's site, will…
Is your designer purse too small for your handgun? One woman has the perfect $1500 solution.
"I drink gin, and once, when drinking gin, I made a large man cry." Bill Murray, who only made $9,000 for Rushmore, continues to be amazing.
Soda Company Sending Metallica To Play in Icy, Cool Antarctica
Metallica, three music businessmen and one headbanging scab, just announced they will do something no men who shop at Armani and "accidentally" kick children have done before: They will have a sugarless, low-calorie soda beverage send them to perform on the icy, cool, refreshing land of Antarctica.
Breaking Bad Fans Trampled Real Graves For Fake Funeral
This past Saturday, a group of Breaking Bad rubberneckers turned up for a mock funeral that mourned the AMC series' protagonist, Walter White. Pitched as a fundraiser for the homeless, the ceremony was held at a real cemetery in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where inconsiderate shitbags loitered on grave markers of real…
Drunk Driver Who Confessed on YouTube Sentenced to Six-and-a-Half Years
Today, Matthew Cordle, the drunk driver who released a YouTube video last month confessing that he'd killed 61-year-old Vincent Canzani, was delivered a sentence of six-and-a-half years by an Ohio judge. CNN has a video of the ruling.
This Is What Britney Spears Thinks Volunteerism Looks Like
Britney Spears just put out a call for your "Get to Work (Bitch)" stories on Facebook. Her team would specifically like to hear about your time volunteering at the local soup kitchen, which they've helpfully illustrated with a still from the "Work Bitch" video:
The ludicrous petition to have gore-metal cretins GWAR perform at the 2015 Super Bowl Halftime Show now has 44,000-plus signatures. Only worth endorsing if the MVP is fake-murdered on a giant wheel of knives.
“Look, the point isn’t that we’re whores and we’ll do whatever," Grumpy Cat's lawyer told New York Magazine. "The point is this is a fucking meme. So we’re not too precious. If somebody wants a koozie with Grumpy Cat on it, mazel tov.”
Billboard reports that the Roseland Ballroom, a legendary New York City venue that's history dates back to 1919, will be closing in April 2014. [Image from 2008 via AP]
The Weed Fairy Just Stopped By the Gawker Office
Earlier today, we told you about the Weed Fairy, an anonymous New York City benefactor leaving free marijuana buds around Brooklyn's subway stops. It just so happens that after our post went up, the Weed Fairy magically materialized outside Gawker's Elizabeth Street office, taped a couple of Garden Breath posters on…
Brooklyn Has a Weed Fairy
New York is filled with scamps and scoundrels, perverts and pranksters, so when Brooklyn-via-Denver musician Travis Egedy, also known as Pictureplane, discovered a poster taped to a subway wall with a pinch of weed attached, he had to wonder: Could this gift be for real? And more importantly, should he smoke it?