• Remainders

    Remainders: In New Twist, Blonde Girl Has Teary Breakdown on Reality Show

    • Waiting at the edge of your seat for tonight's Miss Seventeen? Of course a gossipy queen — no, not that one; that one, either — has scored a delightfully pathetic preview clip. [Jossip]
    • Camels and sheep and more camels, oh boy: It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas at Radio City. [Notebook: New York]
    • Sometime around 3:30 in the morning Saturday night, when we managed to get lost wandering between Dark Room and Tenement and Motor City Bar — which are all within two blocks on Ludlow — it occurred to us that, yes, perhaps there are too many bars on the Lower East Side. Then we realized the problem was just that we were drinking in too many of them. Some people, apparently, feel otherwise, but those are not our type of people. [Too Many Bars]
    • Funny, we were going to dress up as Roosevelt Island, too. Now that would have been embarrassing. [Curbed]
    • Either Sandra Bernhard has no idea what a blog is, or MoDo's doing some crazy shit behind that TimesSelect wall we're entirely unaware of. [Queerty]
    • We always kind of liked "New Jehrsey and You, Pehrfect Together." The current Jersey governor, Richard Codey, and our favorite ranting copywriter both feel otherwise. [Copyranter]
    • If you haven't done so already, take Simon Dumenco's latest Media Studies pop quiz. He won't say so, but we're pretty sure the answers are all D. [Advertising Age]

    5:55 PM on Mon Oct 31 2005
    By Jesse
    158 views, 1 comment

    Latest by jimmysmitty: I'm watching Monday Night Football, and John Madden just said "He bounced it out to the a-hole." What does more »

  • New York Times Book Review

    Reading About Reading: Dark and Melancholy Edition

    You'll have to forgive Intern Alexis if she seems a bit sluggish today — it's just that this week's edition of the Times Book Review is the most depressing thing she's read since Dicey's Song. It's amazing that, between the reviews of Iraq-related literature, Joan Didion's self-pity, and some nasty tales of child molestation, poor Alexis didn't kill herself. But our girl is nothing if not brave and so, after the jump, she looks depression in the eye and does her damnedest to skewer whatever she can. More »

    5:15 PM on Mon Oct 31 2005
    By Jessica
    454 views, Comment

  • Blogorrhea

    Blogorrhea NYC: Dog Days of Halloween

    • So long as allegedly "loving" dog owners are dressing their pets up in Halloween costumes, we think maybe PETA should start worrying about something other than Anna Wintour for a few days. [Cityrag]
    • Speaking of Anna, a big difference between her and Meryl Streep, who's playing her in Devil Wears Prada? Meryl Streep didn't have this photographer killed. [The Malcontent]
    • There's something worse than MBA i-bankers: MBA i-bankers in drag. [Opinionistas]
    • The Bouncer has, it seems, found love. And brought her to Queens. [Clublife]

    5:12 PM on Mon Oct 31 2005
    By Jesse
    101 views, Comment

  • 20051031judylogonew.jpg Judith Miller

    Today in Judy: 'Relentless and Totally Out of Control'

    • R.W. Apple Jr., the Times political reporter-turned- professional gourmand and a guy who knows a thing or two about bigfooting through the newsroom, spoke yesterday at the Texas Book Festival. He was there to read from a new book on food, reports the Austin American-Statesman, but also ended up taking questions on politicis. "Apple, who had flattering things to say about Miller's doggedness as a reporter, nonetheless called her 'relentless and totally out of control,'" said the paper. More »

    4:41 PM on Mon Oct 31 2005
    By Jesse
    56 views, Comment

  • Party Crash

    Team Party Crash: Warriors Halloween Party

    It's the special Milk Bar gang! More »
  • To-Do

    To Do: Hallow Weenies

    • At Scenic s "I Am an Evil Halloween Party" bash: a live freak show, human flesh-hook tug-o-war, go-go girls, and the opportunity to inflict bodily harm on yourself for a nominal prize. No time like Halloween to admit you re into weird, freaky shit. [Paper]
    • It's officially Gay Christmas when the village's annual Halloween parade gets rolling. If you want to participate, get wasted and be on 6th Avenue between Spring and Broome by 6pm. [About.com]
    • Hate the costumed festivities? Tony Kushner, novelist Maureen Howard, slap-happy cultural critic Stanley Crouch, and Herman Melville scholar Andrew Delbanco take part in a Moby Dick-themed intellectual circle jerk at the 92nd Street Y tonight. We didn t read it in college, and we re not reading it now. [TONY]

    3:40 PM on Mon Oct 31 2005
    By Jessica
    72 views, Comment

  • 20051031mug.jpg Anna Wintour

    Drinking With Anna

    When we first saw a Cool Hunter item headlined "The Anna Wintour Mug," we got terribly excited, expecting one of those ceramic Royal Doulton souvenir things, a vessel shaped like a caricature of some famous person's head, from which you may then glibly drink the beverage of your choice. More »

    3:26 PM on Mon Oct 31 2005
    By Jesse
    100 views, Comment

  • Iraq

    Media Bubble: 2,000 Americans Are Dead in Iraq, and Media Notice

    • Despite Pentagon plea, newspapers realize that 2,000th Iraq death really is new. [NYT]
    • Sean McManus, president of CBS Sports, is still the new president of CBS News. He's Jim McKay's son, and one day last week he thought that Harriet Miers was a bigger news story than the White Sox. [NYT]
    • Meanwhile, in a CBS men's room, Mike Wallace and Dan Rather engage in a pissing match. [Radar]
    • Tim Russert is a pivotal witness in Libby case while also being, well, Tim Russert. [NYT]
    • New Teen People is already Majewski-fied, although the former Us Weekly resdesign doesn't technically hit till February.
    • Biz magazines are in trou-ble. [Mediabweek]
    • Martha Stewart wants a job at Martha Stewart. [NYP]
    • Newsweek's Tom Masland obituary: "Then Tom stepped off that curb, and was hit by the offside mirror on a passing SUV; a freak collision on a rainy night that propelled him to the ground and caused massive brain damage. ... Thomas Wootton Masland died in intensive care at St. Luke's Hospital three days later, on Oct. 27, with his sons, Richard, Robert and James, his mother, brother and two sisters by his side, as Gina [his wife, a jazz singer] sang 'When the Saints Go Marching In.'" [Newsweek]

    2:44 PM on Mon Oct 31 2005
    By Jesse
    136 views, Comment

  • GAWKER STALKER

    Latest Gawker Stalker Sightings

    Submit your Sightings: stalker@gawker.com

    • Al Sharpton

      59 Grand St
      At lucky strike's in manhattan tonight at a party for sunshine and sachs!

    • Nouriel Roubini

      1 E 60th St
      At the metroplitan club at the foreign policy assoc corp dinner, dr. doom just greeted maria barteromo(got some junk in dat trunk) dimunitive in person

    • Harry Connick Jr.

      42 E 58th St
      I just returned from Tao on 58th and Harry Connick Jr and family where there. He was right behind us as we waited to seat. His gorgeous wife, Jill, was there as well as some other people and their kids.

    • Haley Joel Osment

      5th Ave
      Just saw Haley Joel Osment (who saw dead people as a little kid in The Sixth Sense). He was studying in the main reading room of the public library on 42nd street.

    More »

  • Stalker

    Gawker Stalker: Jared Leto: Actor, Musician, Weirdo

    Sightings are sent in by readers; send yours to tips@gawker.com. More »
  • lukerussertnew.jpg Education

    The Children of the Media Elite, Reactionary Edition


    Shortly after we happily revealed Luke Russert — son of Meet the Press host Tim — to enjoy renting jacuzzis by the hour with several classy young women, shy Luke went and changed his Facebook picture. More »

    12:54 PM on Mon Oct 31 2005
    By Jessica
    11,584 views, 3 comments

  • 20051031modo.jpg Maureen Down

    Translating Dowd: Help Us Help You

    Speaking of Maureen Dowd, a reader was perplexed by a line in yesterday's 5,000-word Magazine excerpt from her new book. (Yes, between New York, the Times Mag, and — oh yeah — her column Saturday, you could read 12,000 words of Dowdiana over the last three days.) He writes: More »

    12:35 PM on Mon Oct 31 2005
    By Jesse
    179 views, 27 comments

    Latest by night train: Eh, not a catfight, exactly. More like the last laugh(s). No crisis in feminism, because she's always been able to get more »

  • 20051031cnnheds.jpg Cnn

    CNN Finally Averts Its Gaze

    You know it's a bad day at CNN.com when six are dead in three random incidents. And you know it's an even worse day when there's not a "watch now" among them. More »

    12:15 PM on Mon Oct 31 2005
    By Jesse
    403 views, 2 comments

  • vespasm.jpg Advertising

    Riding a Scooter Just as Gay as Ever

    The image at right (click to enlarge) is not, as you may suspect, the backpage porn typical of our city's free weeklies — despite being from the New York Blade. It's really a simple advertisement for a Vespa store in Queens. More »

    12:07 PM on Mon Oct 31 2005
    By Jessica
    371 views, Comment

  • bitbit.jpg Britney Spears

    Gossip Roundup: The Federletus Will Tear Them Apart

    • The blissful union of Britney Spears and Kevin Federline continues to crumble, as the rules of the universe dictate Federline's inability to remain devoted after procreating. [Page Six]
    • Meanwhile, has Beyoncé Knowles been talking about carrying Jay-Z's baby? We hope so — a baby Hova would be so gangsta! [Gatecrasher]
    • Departed Roc-a-feller Damon Dash still knows how to show his dominance: Instead of drive-bys, he'll just roll up in his luxury sedan and yell at you. It's a whole new level of street cred. [R&M (2nd item)]
    • Martha Stewart is putting Turkey Hill, her Westport, CT home, on the market, meaning that Bedford Gray is now all she'll ever need. [Page Six]
    • Apple CEO Steve Jobs doesn't like being half-Syrian. But who does, really? [Lowdown]
    • Sharon Osbourne speaks of poor old twats other than her husband. [Scoop]
    • Will Paris Hilton leave America? PLEASE?!? [Radar]

    11:40 AM on Mon Oct 31 2005
    By Jessica
    289 views, 2 comments

    Latest by ReallySmallTalk.com: It's three A.M, I've just read about Sharon Osbourne talking about how celebrities look. And by the time you read more »

  • Judith Miller

    Today in Judy: You Gotta Be In It to Win It

    20051031judylogonew.jpgWe're still accepting entries in the Millerpalooza Sweepstakes. Have a guess on when Judy finally puts on her Panama hat and leaves 43rd Street for the last time? Then play along. Read the rules here, and then send your guess to us here: tips@gawker.com. Here's the new wrinkle, though: The entry period will end at midnight tonight. So get your guesses in soon, or you may never get to taste the delicious, delicious yellowcake. More »

    11:29 AM on Mon Oct 31 2005
    By Jesse
    47 views, Comment

  • 20051031janice.jpg Janice Min

    Janice: The Early Years

    Us Weekly editor Janice Min, a Colorado native, was profiled in yesterday's Denver Post. We'll spare you all the boring, usual stuff that Coloradans apparently don't know but you New Yorkers, naturally, do — Janice is tiny, she wears Prada, she's often barefoot around the office, her staff loves her, media people have lunch at Michael's — and instead put the spotlight on her kvelling mother: More »

    10:30 AM on Mon Oct 31 2005
    By Jesse
    306 views, Comment

  • lukerussert.jpg Education

    The Children of the Media Elite: Luke Russert


    Luke, son of respected political journalist and Meet the Press host Tim Russert, enjoys Golden Tee, Xbox, and someday hopes to share a plate of buffalo wings with a hot bitch. More »

    10:15 AM on Mon Oct 31 2005
    By Jessica
    94,241 views, 7 comments

  • 20051031pumpmain.jpg New York Times

    Introducing the 'Moustache of Understanding' Jack-o-Latern

    We have no idea who Justin Patrick Schwinghamer is, or even if that's his real name, but after receiving these photos of his Tom Friedman-inspired Jack-0-Latern, we can surmise at least one thing: This is the face of TimesSelect. More »

    10:01 AM on Mon Oct 31 2005
    By Jesse
    1,142 views, 5 comments

  • dowdred.jpg Maureen Dowd

    Maureen Dowd Also Bathes Herself in Champagne

    We were slowly reading New York mag's lengthy loveletter to Times columnist Maureen Dowd, but we got stuck on one item in particular, regarding her new book: More »

    9:37 AM on Mon Oct 31 2005
    By Jessica
    883 views, 7 comments

  • 20051031judgehed.jpg New York Times

    Also, Bear Continues Shitting in Woods


    In fairness, we imagine "Bush Picks Not-Unqualified Judge," or, "Bush Picks Penis'd Judge" — which are the two actually newsworthy parts of this nomination — don't quite pass the Al Siegal test. More »

    9:16 AM on Mon Oct 31 2005
    By Jesse
    215 views, 1 comment

  • nytpencil.jpg Judith Miller

    Every Scandal Deserves a Keepsake Ornament


    For those of you inexplicably itching to get a jump start on your holiday shopping, a few of the holiday shops at Bryant Park have opened up early, presumably for the cracktards who happen to be ice skating in 70-degree weather at the new pond. Lucky for us, one of those early-bird shops is the New York Times Store, which carries a wealth of options for the Sulzberger lover in your life. More »

    9:01 AM on Mon Oct 31 2005
    By Jessica
    148 views, 1 comment

    Latest by Paunch Sulzberger: Hey get your tchotches here-red hot tchotches more »

  • Drugs

    NYC Lifts Kate Moss Back Up Where She Belongs

    Our wish has been granted: Kate Moss, the supermodel whose rail-blowing image graced the cover of the UK's Daily Mirror, has reportedly decided to move to the United States. Just released from an Arizona rehab clinic last week, Moss is looking for a new home in New York, naturally (might we suggest a property in the Tribeca River Lofts? We hear alien model-types like the joint). More »

    8:32 AM on Mon Oct 31 2005
    By Jessica
    158 views, 2 comments

    Latest by unutterable: Now that Ms. Moss might be moving here Paris Hilton might leave us for London. Coincidence? http://www.radaronline.com/fresh-intelligence/index.php#re... more »

  • blogfear.jpg Top

    Blogs: Weapons of Mass Corporate Destruction

    The cover story in this week's edition of Forbes is an ever-so pertinent examination of the innate evil and danger of blogs, especially when they attack your business (far be it from Condé to do such a cover). But, before the evil blogosphere destroys that crisp pile of millions upon which you're resting your gilded bum, be sure to protect your brand with the following easy steps: More »

    7:53 AM on Mon Oct 31 2005
    By Jessica
    25 views, 2 comments

    Latest by Nick Douglas: How do you humiliate a social class that highlights its masturbatory habits daily? more »

  • Week in Review

    Gawker's Week in Review: Alas Poor Krucoff

    • Conde Nast fires Andrew Krucoff for forwarding us a memo; the world keeps turning, if barely.
    • FishbowlNY, in a fit of jealousy, gets a source fired, too.
    • We welcome Blue States Lose to Gawker, continuing our effort to provide one-stop shopping for all your hipster-mocking needs.
    • New York listings pubs: The Magician is dead! Long live the Magician!
    • The Observer's Jessica Joffe steals Ryan Adams from Parker Posey. At Stanford, apparently.
    • As Gawker No. 1's Mediabistro career winds to close, we help Laurel Touby shop for a successor. You suggest Krucoff, apparently thinking he hasn't suffered enough this week.
    • New York and Time agree: You'll never retire.
    • When will Judy Miller leave the Times? Enter our Millerpalooza Sweepstakes and win!
    • Radar throws a party, and we attend, uneventfully.
    • Newsweek's Tom Masland, who survived Haiti, the Mideast, and the first Gulf war, is killed on the Upper West Side.

    3:38 PM on Sat Oct 29 2005
    By Jesse
    74 views, Comment

  • annadog.jpg Peta

    Remainders: Anna Nicole Feeds Her Dogs Herbalife

    • In more PETA news, the organization has kidnapped Anna Nicole Smith's dogs and forced them to protest Iams pet food. Anna Nicole, however, thinks Iams tastes great. [AP/Yahoo]
    • Details has a major scoop: Colin Farrell drinks beer! And next month, Details water as being really wet. [Hollywood Machine]
    • Best name for a college sex column: Cornellingus. [The Atlantic (subscription req'd)]
    • Men don't read. They also can't listen, don't understand you, and never take you anywhere nice. [BusinessWeek]
    • Voice gossipette Michael Musto cannot be blamed for Gawker's sins. [NY Blade]
    • Has anyone yet figured out why Manhattan smells like pancakes? Is it terror sugar? [AP/ABC]
    • Project Runway reject Austin Scarlett thinks blackface is always in style. [PMc]
    • Shame on Daily News staffer Bill Hutchinson for failing to note that jailed rapper Lil' Kim's lyrics channel the genius of Biggie Smalls. [NYDN]
    • Depeche Mode tickets can be yours for just a little breast grope. Okay, not really a little grope — it's got to be at least 10 minutes' worth of heavy petting. [Craigslist]

    6:55 PM on Fri Oct 28 2005
    By Jessica
    383 views, Comment