Gawker: Salt

Salt: Not So Bad After All?

Hamilton Nolan — Wed, 04 May 2011 11:17:32 EDT

For years, so-called "health experts" on the teevee have been saying "blah, blah, blah." That's really all we hear. We block that stuff out. But when we go back and watch the TiVo, they were saying "Stop eating so much salt, salt will kill you and give you a heart attack, just cut it with the salt, what are you a deer at a salt lick?" More »

Lots of Other Things Will Kill You Before the Radiation Does

Hamilton Nolan — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 17:22:21 EDT

HIV testing! Fish eyes! Menthol guidelines! Dukan diet! Smoke cancer! Radiation risks! Fat marathon! Fecal stories! And wanton overconsumption of the devil salt! It's your Friday Health Watch, where we watch your health—leaving you no choice in the matter! More »

New AIDS Pill Is Like, 'Goodbye, AIDS'

Hamilton Nolan — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:11:38 EST

Baby radiation! Benadryl doom! AIDS pill! Boomer sex! Large 'n lovely! Birth defects! Attitude gratitude! Youth strength! Salt intake! It's your Tuesday Health Watch, where we watch your health—with unrestrained glee, and that's not a teevee show! More »

It's Official: Men Defeat Women in Gender War

Richard Lawson — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 11:19:13 EDT

Yeah, it was finally determined this weekend when a bunch of virile, grunting men pummeled not only some chick on a road trip but also her little wimpy sissyboy friend, who wasn't really a man to begin with. More »

Angelina Jolie Flattens Nicolas Cage in Weekend Dream Melee

Richard Lawson — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:52:32 EDT

While your dreams still won out, Angelina and her band of merry guns came in a close second. Let's take a look at this most recent non-holiday summer weekend. More »

Health Food of the Future: Less Salty Wieners

Hamilton Nolan — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:48:02 EDT

Oooo, it's almost time for a brand new Government Food Pyramid! A panel of nutrition experts issued new Dietary Guidelines yesterday for Americans to ignore. The only ones paying attention: Kraft Foods Inc., your friendly corporate diet overlord. More »

Salt Is the New Sugar/Fat/Corn Syrup/Carbs/Gluten

Adrian Chen — Sun, 30 May 2010 16:11:44 EDT

You know what? Fuck all ingredients. They're nothing but trouble. Take salt: Everyone hates salt now that the war on carbs and fat and sugar have been won. When will someone come up with an ingredient-less food product!? [NYT] More »

The Gawker Guide to Summer Movies

Richard Lawson — Thu, 27 May 2010 16:57:44 EDT

Sure, Iron Man 2 and other big-ticket adventures have already opened, but we here at Gawker are traditionalists. For us, summer begins on Memorial Day. So put on those white shoes (finally!) and let's look at this season's popcorn flicks. More »

Salt, Starring Angelina Jolie and Arthur Kade

Hamilton Nolan — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 11:53:15 EDT

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At last, the trailer for the upcoming Angelina Jolie thriller Salt is out. Excitement for the movie is mostly based on the fact that it also features Philly fameball Arthur Kade, who didn't think Angelina was all that, btw. More »

Pepsi Scientists Solve Health Care Crisis With Potato Chips

Hamilton Nolan — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 09:52:21 EDT

Health food manufacturer and exponentially dimensionalized fulcrum of universal gravity PepsiCo is investing hundreds of millions of dollars in an effort to make America healthier, with things like "designer" salt crystals for Lay's potato chips. What else could they do? More »

Damn It America, You're Dying Over Cheetos

Hamilton Nolan — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:12:32 EST

If Americans cut their salt intake by one teaspoon a day, it could prevent "32,000 strokes and 54,000 heart attacks a year." Just one tiny god damn teaspoon. Jesus, just do it. For Chrissake. Just put down the Cheeto. The nerve of you people. [ABC] More »

James McAvoy Is Fleming, Ian Fleming

Adrian Chen — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:26:28 EST

The baby-faced Scottish actor James McAvoy ("Atonement," "Chronicles of Narnia") will be starring in an upcoming biopic about the life of Ian Fleming, the man who created James Bond. Pajiba.com notes this puts him out of the running for Bond. More »

'Actually, I Think I Will Call PETA'

Brian Moylan — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:58:19 EST

[Angelina Jolie rats out a crew member for daring to eat KFC on the set of her upcoming movie Salt, which filmed on the Hudson River today. Image via Bauer-Griffin] More »

Angelina Jolie's Face Spurs Massive Internet Dialogue

Richard Rushfield — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:31:36 EST

Sometimes in the movie business you have to work hard for your publicity and sometimes you can just let the world know the buffet is open and start serving. More »

Now Theft-Worthy: Salt

Hamilton Nolan — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:47:06 EDT

The Way We Live Now: Broke as a joke from coast to coast. They're selling heroin in Maine. They've sent everyone on furlough in California. And in the Midwest, you can't even leave salt outside without enterprising Americans swiping it. More »

Angelina Jolie: East 2nd Street & 1st Avenue

Valerie Flame — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:20:43 EDT

[Submit your own Gawker Stalker sightings to stalker@gawker.com] April 23 @ 6:30am I could've sworn I saw Angelina Jolie. Isn't she filming that upcoming movie Salt? Cemetery scene perhaps? More »

'No Impact Man' Is Amazingly Still Married

Joshua Stein — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:10:13 EDT

Remember Colin Beavan, the 40-something Brooklyn writer who forswore toilet paper and showers in pursuit of a book deal about being green? To us it seemed that his wife, a kindly Business Week editor by the name of Michelle Conlin, was only hanging on by a thread. We're surprised to find that, months later, it seems she's still hanging on by that very same thread. Who knew organic shade-grown raffia was so sturdy? More »