Thanks to late capitalism, our society contains yet another potentially deadly irony: Death Wish Coffee, a brand of caffeinated brew that reeks of destiny.

A new working paper found that the lead-poisoned water the city of Flint, Michigan started drawing from as its public water supply in 2014 caused the local fertility rate to drop dramatically the following year, the Washington Post reported on Thursday.

Very excited about this item: Deadline reported on Thursday that former Daily Show correspondent Jessica Williams is slated to write and executive produce a Showtime series with director Jim Strouse, whom she also works with on the Netflix comedy The Incredible Jessica James.

Former Hills star Audrina Patridge filed for divorce from her husband of 10 months, Corey Bohan on Wednesday in Orange County Superior Court, TMZ reports.

Spoiler alert: in this blog post I will attempt to recreate from memory the plot of the first episode of the first season of “Best. Show. Ever” (New York Magazine’s words, not mine) Gossip Girl, which aired ten years ago to the day on September 19, 2007 on the CW. So if you do not want to know what (might have?)…

New research suggests that searching for Avril Lavigne could be risky, and not for the reason you think (because the real Avril was replaced by a slightly different blonde punk before her second album was produced and unacknowledged celebrity doppelganger conspiracies are always dangerous). No, I’m referring, in fact,…

On Tuesday, the Associated Press reported that Cornell University is investigating the beating of black student as a possible hate crime, citing the university’s pledge to form a task force addressing “bigotry and intolerance.”

Jada Pinkett Smith fired back against claims former Scientology adherent Leah Remini made over the weekend that the actress has “been in Scientology a long time.”

I’m just going to skip the dick jokes that write themselves to tell you that commander-in-sheath Donald Trump acted like the regulation “white plastic gloves” he was supposed to don to pass out food at a Hurricane Irma relief event in Naples, Florida on Thursday wouldn’t fit over his enormous hands, which everyone…

Shouldn’t a camera company be aware that a picture’s worth a thousand words?

As a rule of thumb, studies in which writers, even famous and successful ones, work are usually ramshackle—gross, even—unless they’ve been turned into museums already. I don’t think Danielle Steel’s workspace is an outlier, except that it’s a type of disgusting I can really get behind: it’s tacky as hell.

Lady Gaga announced on Twitter and Instagram on Thursday that she would be unable to perform at the Brazilian music festival Rock in Rio due to health concerns, adding later that she’d been hospitalized for “severe pain.”

Former press secretary Sean Spicer is having a banner day: first, in the morning Harvard University named him one of their new visiting fellows, then, in the evening, he was on Jimmy Kimmel Live! defending so-called “alternative facts” and President Trump.

On Wednesday, The Morning Call reported that Game of Thrones producers plan to shoot multiple endings for season eight, the final season of the series, in an attempt to thwart all possible leaks.

Martin Shkreli is a huge idiot and now he’s in jail for it. (Also, there were a bunch of other things he did that landed him there, but all, I think, generally stemming from the same core issue.)

So far this week, Amber Tamblyn is a goddamn treasure and James Woods has been reduced to a rhetorical pile of rubble with a Twitter account.

The Tennessean reported that a 26-year-old Nashville woman named Katie Layne Quackenbush was charged with attempted murder on Monday for shooting 54-year-old Gerald Melton on August 26, sending him with critical injuries to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where he remains today.

A study published last week in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology reports that a DNA analysis of bones interred in a grave assumed to belong to a Viking warrior found that the human remains, first excavated in the 19th century, were those of a woman. The research strongly suggests that the woman was a not…

Issa Rae is on a roll, obviously. Two days after the second season of her critically-acclaimed HBO show Insecure wrapped, the actress and showrunner announced she had landed a CoverGirl partnership, which includes an ad campaign.

On Monday, Sharon Osbourne gave an interview to The Talk where she backtracked a little on incendiary comments she’d made about Kim Kardashian’s body and brand of feminist politics (or lack thereof) the previous week to the Telegraph.