Taylor Swift Accused of Trampling All Over Critically Endangered Birds' Nests
This Thanksgiving, let’s all be thankful for—and not trample on—birds.
500 Days of Kristin, Day 306: Just DanceÂ
What is Kristin Cavallari doing this Thanksgiving? Playing a video game, if you can believe that.
The Giant Inflatable Balloons Terrorizing New York City, Ranked
Thanksgiving is a day to give thanks for family, friends, and the bounty of food that this good Earth pushes out of its belly each year for us. It’s also a day, for hundreds of thousands in the country’s most populous city, to stand beneath gigantic 450-pound balloons, hoping the wind doesn’t blow the wrong way.
Passengers Report TSA Hell Lines Over a Mile Long in Chicago
On Sunday, Thanksgiving travelers flying out of Chicago's Midway International took to social media to document the airport's Kafkaesque security lanes, which reportedly stretched over a mile long this morning.
Soap Opera Actor Hit by Alleged Drunk Driver, Attacked on Thanksgiving
A TV actor and model was hospitalized with a broken arm after he was hit by a car and attacked by an allegedly drunk driver in a parking lot on Thanksgiving.
Woman Stabbed Boyfriend for Eating Thanksgiving Dinner Early
A woman in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania has been charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, simple assault, reckless endangerment, and making terroristic threats, all because her dumb boyfriend was hungry.
Here Are the Best Black Friday Fight Videos of 2014
It's Black Friday, which means at this very moment hundreds of thousands of shoppers are cramming themselves into malls across this great nation for the annual Walmart Hunger Games, where one person walks away with an HDTV and everyone loses.
What We're Thankful for This Year
Thanksgiving, America's national pre-Black Friday ritual, has its origins as a celebration of harvest bounty and an opportunity to reflect on the things and people for which we're thankful. This is what the staff of Gawker is thankful for. What about you?
Malia and Sasha Obama Are Over the Stupid White House Turkey Pardon
Not even the pomp and ritual of the White House can overcome the most powerful force known to man: TEEN CONTEMPT.
Let's Keep the Friday in Black Friday, Our True Family Holiday
I remember sitting at the table with my parents, my father's parents and his brother, my mother's sister, and a couple of other people whose exact connection to our family I was too young to glean. The only image of Thanksgiving I had at the time, it quickly became the ideal for the holiday, which all others would be…
Writer's $600 Sneakers Render Him Incapable of Relating to Loved Ones
Every November, media types, ourselves included, trot out the trope that spending time with family during Thanksgiving is necessarily a difficult thing. Your sister is hateful, your uncles are racist, your nana's candied yams are a brutal, sunset-hued chore to be endured. Today, we meet the saddest victim of these…
Mac and Cheese: An Appreciation
Patti LaBelle and I share a common bond: We both love macaroni and cheese.
How to Win Fights With Your Family This Thanksgiving: Don't
Tomorrow you'll gather around the Thanksgiving table with your family—those precious few souls that walk this cold Earth draped in the same flesh and blood that coat your weary bones. Invariably, they will say something that makes you want to murder them or, at the very least, ruin dinner in the process of setting…
What's the Worst Thing Your Sweet Grandma Will Make You Eat this Year?
Grandmothers truly are angels among us: cast out of heaven by God for unspecified crimes, forced to be on their best behavior at all times so that when He calls them back to Paradise to reevaluate the terms of their exile, they can be readmitted without issue, and forget all about their difficult lives on earth.…
The expected Thanksgiving snowstorm isn't here yet, but the collapse of everyone's holiday travel plans is already underway, with Delta reporting "57 cancels planned for New York area tomorrow morning." See you in the Lincoln Tunnel!
The Adult's Guide to Finding Drugs When You're Home for the Holidays
If you're old and no longer in touch with your high school buddies, there's one obvious problem with coming home for the holidays: You don't know where to buy drugs anymore. Fear not. We can get through this, together.
The Best Pranks and Elaborate Lies You Can Pull at Thanksgiving Dinner
As is the case with every annual holiday, Thanksgiving is a perfect day to take the piss out of your family as repayment for all the years they've been burning you. We are asked to be kind and patient with our kin all year long, so take advantage of the events where you're all gathered together to show them who is in…
Here is a helpful set of instructions about the best ways to discuss the Bill Cosby allegations over your Thanksgiving dinner, assuming that your relatives are all rape enthusiasts and you are a robot.
Chrissy Teigen Has a Thanksgiving Dinner Manifesto
Supermodel, aspiring magician, and self-proclaimed demotivational speaker Chrissy Teigen would like to remind you of one important truth this Thanksgiving: Turkey is trash.
Why Don't We Eat Cranberry Sauce All Year?
It is almost Thanksgiving time. You know what that means: cranberry sauce on your plate! Soon, Thanksgiving will be over. Then there's no more cranberry sauce on your plate. What's the reason for this treason?
