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]

George Zimmer, known to even the least discerning men's suit shopper as the man behind Men's Warhouse's ubiquitous "you're going to like the way you look, I guarantee it" ad spots, has just been fired from the company he founded exactly 40 years ago this year.

The US Postal Service is preparing to announce its decision to stop delivering first-class mail on Saturdays in a last-ditch effort to save itself from total ruin.

For the first time since it was introduced to penny candy customers in 1953, Bazooka bubblegum will have its packaging overhauled to do away with the familiar red, white and blue color scheme.

A Madison-based cancer support group named after legendary Saturday Night Live player Gilda Radner has announced that it will be changing its name to accommodate younger patients unfamiliar with the iconic comic, who passed away of ovarian cancer in 1989.

In the end, all the Twitter jokes in the world couldn't keep Hostess from shuttering as the company announced today that it will move ahead with plans to ask a federal bankruptcy court for permission to liquidate its assets and fire some 18,500 employees.

While the entire world that cares about this stuff had its attention trained on a Daily Telegraph report that The Guardian was in "serious" discussions about ending its print edition (a report the Guardian denies), Newsweek's editor-in-chief Tina Brown was busy penning an announcement that her publication was past the…

Happy Friday! There's one less annoying music act in the world.

The upcoming sixth season of MTV's flagship reality series Jersey Shore will (mercifully) be its last.

During a conference call with reporters this afternoon, The Office executive producer Greg Daniels dropped a bombshell announcement: The upcoming ninth season will be the show's last.

In the late '90s and early '00s, Limp Bizkit was a force to be reckoned with in the nu-metal arena.

An era ended over the weekend, but very few likely noticed.

Less than a day after filmmaker Dean Peterson's short doc about the mischievous subway stair at the 36th Street station gained viral status, the MTA has put an end to the voyeuristic schadenfreude by bringing in a repair crew.

Simpsons/Futurama creator Matt Groening has decided to end his long-running comic strip Life in Hell after over thirty years in print.

NPR announced today that Tom and Ray Magliozzi, better known as Click and Clack the Tappet Brothers, will be retiring as hosts of the popular weekly call-in show Car Talk.

A&E has decided not to renew its signature docu-reality series Dog the Bounty Hunter, canceling the show after eight seasons on the air.

Speaking with reporters at Cannes where he is premiering his latest film, actor Jackie Chan said he was through doing action movies.

The Space Shuttle Discovery, piggybacking aboard a Boeing 747, touched down at Dulles International Airport a short while ago, capping a leisurely ride up to Washington D.C. from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Software company LimeWire shut down its file sharing services on the order of a federal judge after being found liable for "a substantial amount of copyright infringement" in case brought against the company by the RIAA. RIP, peer-to-peer.