What "Sellouts" Were
Once upon a time not so long ago, there was an idea: that some things in this world should be able to exist free from the influence of money—that these things should be done because of their own intrinsic value. You would be forgiven for scoffing at the notion that this idea was ever taken seriously at all.
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Louisiana Town Bans Saggy Pants
You can now get a fine for sagging your pants in a Louisiana town after the town council voted 8-to-1 in favor of an ordinance Wednesday night that makes sagging illegal.
The Secret to Eternal Youth: Injecting Young Blood Into Your Bloodstream. Also: Dancing Like Nobody's Watching.
Researchers from Stanford University have finally discovered a use for all that young blood you've got lying around (just as it was about to turn, thank God): inject it into your bloodstream to become young and beautiful again. Or, anyway, slightly better at memory tasks.
Literal Babies Will Be Reporting on 2012 Campaign
Now that the American journalism establishment has been almost completely replaced by the Twitter account @depressionbook, how will the twenty or so Americans who care about politics receive their news about the presidential campaign? The answer: Babies.
Study Proves Young People Have No Clue About Their Own Relationships
Young people! Are you in an exclusive relationship with your boyfriend or girlfriend or "droog" or whatever? Ha, well, actually, you're probably not: According to a new study, 40 percent of young couples have differing opinions about their exclusivity.
Bush Twins: 126 W. 13th St.
[Submit your own Gawker Stalker sightings to stalker@gawker.com] Feb. 7 @ 8:30pm Barbara Bush, Henry & Jenna, table of dudes and six waiters did a shot to Obama at Gradisca. What was the toast?
The Dark Knight is Too Violent for Wussy Brit Youths
Our American kids love violence, especially when it comes in movie form. And the awesome violence of the PG-13 rated mega-super-ultra-blockbuster The Dark Knight is maybe the best movie violence ever! Loving, American parents appreciate that. But a wicked plot to deprive the little lads and lasses of funny little…
Fourteen Year Old Made to Look Like Old Groupie
"Acting is all about a kind of self-expression. When you take on different roles and become different characters, you have to draw upon your own experiences ... On Gossip Girl, Jenny is just coming into her own. She's the sweet, nice, shy kid. In Paranoid Park, Jennifer is the popular girl... It was such a change for…
For Discussion: The Guilty Pleasures of Misspent Youth
Welcome to the Gawker Locker Room: where maturity goes to die! Here your host and toastmaster Furious George will present a topic of discussion for open commentary, vigorous debate, and potential masturbatory purposes. Our topics will be diverse, random, juvenile, and vitally important. Either Melissa Joan Hart on …
Censorship for the Sake of the Children
After a complaint by just one viewer in Britain, Turner Broadcasting is now going through 1,500 Hanna-Barbera cartoons in order to remove scenes that glamorize smoking. That's all it takes! One huffy complaint and you too could have little pieces of history destroyed (paging Mel Gibson!). Apparently, when Fred…
Ashanti Reaches Out to Every Little Ho
From the latest Publisher's Lunch:
Textbook Plagiarism Devastates 2% of Student Population
In the continuing theme of Fake Writer Day, this one's a stretch: certain passages in Daniel J. Boorstein's high school history textbook A History of the United States are identical to those in another textbook, America: Pathways to the Present, which was written by multiple authors. The catch is, the big names on the…
Tribeca: Your Gruppy Shangri-La
The best way to destroy a neighborhood's low-key appeal is to trumpet said appeal in a newspaper, and such is the case with Tribeca and the New York Sun (though, to be fair, it's not as if Tribeca is undiscovered, nor is the Sun really capable of trumpeting much of anything to an effect). Nevertheless, the paper…
Katharine Close Is Smarter Than Us All; Chris Connelly, Not So Much
The guts, the glory, the silent consonants: nothing compares to the bloodthirsty competition of a spelling bee. Last night the Scripps National Spelling Bee had its first primetime, live airing on ABC, and New Jersey's 13-year-old Katharine Close took home the dorkily awesome crown. Her winning word was "ursprache,"…
Endless Summer With the 'Teen Vogue' It Girls
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