AP BREAKING TWEET: This Kitty Is a Pirate
Earlier today, the Associated Press’s politics-focused Twitter account tweeted out perhaps the most important piece of news the venerated outlet will ever break—just in time for Halloween.
Unicorns, Rainbows, and Cocaine: The Rise and Fall of Lisa Frank
Lisa Frank is the woman responsible for Trapper Keepers covered with majestic unicorns prancing over rainbows. She’s also responsible for a failed business empire plagued with scandal, greed, and abuse.
Let's Watch Some Fun Target Training Videos
Union-busting soul destroyer Target, the Wal-Mart of the aspirational set, is in a period of existential peril. The company must find a way to defeat Amazon's online retail empire. The company's big plan (really): a training program, just rolled out, to teach its employees how to be AMAZING.
[UPDATE] Bad Brains: Yes, That Is an 18-Year-Old Brooke Shields Smoking Up With Rastafarian '80s Hardcore Icon H.R.
Yesterday a photograph made the rounds on the internet purporting to show Bad Brains frontman H.R. and Brooke Shields sitting together on a couch, with Shields leaning over and lighting what appeared to be a marijuana pipe. Which would be amazing. A spokesperson for Shields quickly denied that it's her. But Bad…
Derivatives, Short Sales, and Mitt Romney's Other Exotic Financial Instruments
This story is part of a package on Mitt Romney's Bain holdings. For the full report, go here.
Equity Swaps, AIVs, and Mitt Romney's Other Tax-Dodging Tricks
This story is part of a package on Mitt Romney's Bain holdings. For the full report, go here.
The Bain Files: The Documents
Gawker has obtained a large cache of confidential internal financial documents from more than 20 secretive hedge funds and other investment vehicles in which Mitt Romney has stashed his considerable wealth. All told, the partnerships and limited liability corporations detailed below accounted for, at minimum,…
How Mitt Romney Puts His Money Where Obama's Mouth Is
This story is part of a package on Mitt Romney's Bain holdings. For the full report, go here.
Mitt Romney's Endless 'Retirement' Package
This story is part of a package on Mitt Romney's Bain holdings. For the full report, go here.
Mitt Romney Is the National Enquirer's Banker
This story is part of a package on Mitt Romney's Bain holdings. For the full report, go here.
Crossfitters Worried That Private Equity Deal Will Destroy Their Precious Crossfit
Super-intense, super-popular fitness fad/ cult/ greatest-thing-ever Crossfit has more than a few injuries and internet jokes: an existential threat that, many Crossfit leaders and gym owners fear, could destroy the happy nationwide fitness utopia they've created.
'It Was Like a War Zone': A Former Nanny for Rupert Murdoch and Wendi Deng Speaks Out
A former household staffer and tutor for Rupert Mudoch and Wendi Deng's children is speaking out for the first time about the relentless nightmare that is working for the Murdochs: Screaming tantrums, nannies discarded by the side of the road on a whim, no benefits, unpaid overtime, young girls body-shamed by their…
A Former Target Team Leader Explains Hiring, Firing, and Staying Union-Free
Last year, we covered the (failed) battle to unionize Target workers, and brought you testimonials from many current and former employees about what life is like inside one of America's biggest retailers. Today—as Target enjoys strong sales gains—we bring you one more.
Inside Facebook's Outsourced Anti-Porn and Gore Brigade, Where 'Camel Toes' are More Offensive Than 'Crushed Heads'
Amine Derkaoui, a 21-year-old Moroccan man, is pissed at Facebook. Last year he spent a few weeks training to screen illicit Facebook content through an outsourcing firm, for which he was paid a measly $1 an hour. He's still fuming over it.
The Time Scarlett Johansson's Boyfriend Sucker-Punched a Guy at a Bar, Then Hid in a Bathroom
Remember Nate Naylor, Scarlett Johansson's boob-obsessed ad exec boyfriend? Two months ago he sucker-punched a romantic rival at a bar, then ran away and hid in a bathroom. But the damsel in question wasn't ScarJo; it was one of Nate's exes.
Video Evidence That James O'Keefe Was a Theater Geek in High School (Complete With Jazz Hands)
We are familiar with the James O'Keefe of today, certainly, what about the O'Keefe of yesterday? Before he was a fugitive, professional ambusher and rabble-rouser, James O'Keefe led the life of a simple teen-aged student, wandering aimlessly through the halls of his high school humming "Life is a Highway."
Among the Junketeers: 90 Hours in Vegas, Selling Out Hard
LAS VEGAS — It only took 24 hours for the Stockholm Syndrome to set in. It was after the huge, boomerang-sized crab legs had been cleared away and the Wagyu beef had been consumed and all the after-dinner whiskeys had been drained and they'd ushered us past the hundreds of ordinary suckers and through the VIP entrance…
Dogwalker Denies Posing: Who Is the 'Smiling' Woman in the Hollywood Hills Decapitation Photo?
Lauren Kornberg, the professional dogwalker who discovered a severed head in the Hollywood Hills this week—the one that a paparazzi agency is shopping photos of with a smiling mystery woman posing next to it—says she never snapped pics of the gruesome find. She does, however, have a theory about who did.
Lady Who Found a Severed Head in Hollywood Hills Posed for a Smiling Trophy Photo: How Much Is It Worth?
On Tuesday afternoon, on a hiking trail in Hollywood Hills, a pair of female dogwalkers stumbled across the severed head of a middle-aged man. Two of their dogs had been playing with a plastic bag, they told the LAPD. Inside was a human head.
