Not sure if you've seen these, but uh, Kim Kardashian has some nude photos in Paper magazine this month. And unlike the last time she posed nude for a cover, Kim's actually happy with the result. "It made me feel confident and really good about myself," she said yesterday.
In a perfect world, pets would only indulge in weird pet behavior up until the point it stops being cute and starts being annoying. Of course, we don't live in a perfect world, we live in one that's ruled by passions—those of men and paper-flicking cats alike.
Another one bites the dust. After 63 years in print, Jet magazine is now online-only. This month's issue was its last.
Pentagon-backed scientists have developed a paper-thin robot that can fold itself into any shape, like a plane, or a boat. Probably it will eventually rise up and kill us all, but until then, origami will be much easier. [Wired]
Do you fear that Print Is Dead? Allow America's most venerable human, Dave Eggers, to assure you—via email—that it is not:
Oh no, those rumors about socialclimberite Olivia Palermo's family having fallen on hard times might be true! It seems that Libs has had to turn to blogging for Paper as a source of extra cash. "Hi everyone. Hope you had a great Labor Day weekend. Well it is that time of year — New York Fashion Week. I was very…
Are You feeling overburdened yet? Well, at least Your responsibilities here are pretty minimal: just post a three-minute video of yourself in which You explain why You should be a Paper Beautiful Person on YouTube, then email the link to vip@papermag.com. The winner will be this year's Jessica Joffe, and who doesn't…
As you might have started noticing about four weeks ago, this is the time of year that every media outlet in the universe recaps the year that's passed by ranking the most memorable, important, funny, or otherwise relevant books/movies/celebrity paternity suits, etc. hierarchically. But this week, as all the Best…
Hello, this is your still-hungover friend Alex Blagg, of Blue States Lose and Best Week Ever fame. I don't know how your Wednesday night went, but let me tell you about mine. I wandered into some Times Square one-word-noun nightclub called "Show" for the who cares annual Paper Nightlife Awards, ready to have my…
Speaking of Paper Magazine the May issue includes a brief article in the PM insert titled "Hipster Paradise" (an oxymoron if there ever was one.) In the article, "designer" Waris comments on his limited press policy for his party at the Park: "I just don't want it to be a Page Six item every week." So far, the press…
Gawker Editor, Elizabeth Spiers, in a flash of blinding stupidity and having been completely brainwashed by the Manhattan indie-art scene, spots an interesting-sounding documentary on Paper Magazine's "picks" list and thinks "Cinemax" is an indie film complex somewhere near 42nd street, instead of a cable channel like…
· Fashion week invitations [via ModernAge]
· Sophie Dahl naked again [via ModernAge]
Paper is launching a new downtown nightlife guide called PM. The magazine will take a different celebrity for a night on the town on a monthly basis and print the gory details. Busta Rhymes, slated for the February issue, backed out. According to the co-editor, "Busta wasn't comfortable with a writer watching him…
