Prince William and Kate Middleton rub shoulders with normals. Katie Holmes barks like a dog. Samantha Ronson's mugshot is everything you hoped for. Paris Hilton and Brittny Gastineau have a party-off. Wednesday gossip keeps its toiletries in 3-oz. containers.
Today at Gawker.TV, Rashida Jones is really stoked about Rob Lowe being on Parks & Recreation, Al Roker's weather fail, The Onion's SportsDome premieres, Colbert's indie rocker sell-out-off, and Antoine Dodson kicks off the new season of Tosh.0.
Preppy fetishism: All fun and games till someone seeks damages. Kristen Kennis, the mysterious Benetton type on the cover of rock band Vampire Weekend's Contra, is suing the band, saying she never gave permission to use the 1983 photo. [TMZ]
The latest Vampire Weekend track has quite the cameo list: Joe Jonas, RZA, and Lil Jon. "Giving Up the Gun" is so catchy that it will surely infect pop music for the next year. Don't say we didn't warn you.
• As rumored, the New York Times plans to begin charging readers to access stories on the NYT website. It will be a metered system (so only "frequent readers" will be affected), and it doesn't start until 2011. And faithful subscribers to the print edition won't be forced to pay anything extra. [NYT]
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A found-everywhere band of the last two years, Brooklyn-bred Vampire Weekend's back with a new album, and new press lines to go with it: they've transitioned from their "prep-chic" Ivy League linage image into ostensibly different "California"-style brand identification.
Remember Bob Geldof's 1984 superstar-stacked "Do They Know It's Christmas?" track released to benefit Live Aid Ethiopia? Everyone was on it. U2, Queen, Phil Collins, Sting, etc. Well, the epic indie rock version is here. And it kicks the original's ass.
Oh you fucking hipsters. Talib Kweli—a black dude who white dudes aren't scared of—will be giving a free concert with fruity/dumb Vampire Weekend on Columbia's library steps in one hour. Grab your keffiyah!
