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President Obama Eats Traditional Christmas Baby [Barack Obama]
President Obama took part this weekend in one of the most ancient and eagerly-anticipated presidential traditions: the annual Christmas Baby Eating, a…
The Exploding Churro Scandal of Chile [Explosions]
The Chilean Supreme Court has ordered daily newspaper La Tercera to pay $125,000 to 13 people injured while using a recipe for…
The Worst Angry Christmas Tweets In the World [Christmas]
It’s easy to turn into an asshole during the holidays. Alcohol, sugar, caffeine, bad weather, enforced cheer, cramped quarters filled with god…
John Legend Is Engaged To Chrissy Teigen
Erin Carlson The singer proposed to his model girlfriend on vacation in the Maldives.read more…
Watch Zach Braff and Donald Faison’s Reunion Duet
Zach Braff and Donald Faison, a.k.a. Scrubs’ JD and Turk, are apparently also friends in real life/beyond syndication. Here they are by…
Heavy D’s Cause of Death Revealed: Pulmonary Embolism
Michael O’Connell Contrary to initial reports of pneumonia, the Los Angeles coroner’s office says the 44-year-old rapper died of a blood clot…
‘Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’: Why It Didn’t Dominate
Experts explain to MTV News why the best-selling book didn’t translate to a box-office #1. By Eric Ditzian Rooney Mara in “Girl…
It’s Official: AMC Renews ‘Hell on Wheels’
Lesley Goldberg The network touts the Western drama as its second-highest-rated drama series in announcing a second season.read more…
Massive Shopping Brawl Puts Mall of America on ‘Lockdown’ [Video]
Minnesota’s giant shrine to the gods of mass retail, the Mall of America, erupted into a 200-person melee last night. Thirty police…
Newt Gingrich Is Rapidly Losing Interest in Campaigning [On The Trail]
Just last week, as Iowans were re-suspecting that he was only in this thing to hawk his dumb Ronald DVDs and alternate…
Danny Gokey Engaged
Three years after his first wife died unexpectedly, the singer will wed girlfriend Leyicet Peralta…
‘Mission Impossible’ Wins Holiday Box Office, ‘Dragon Tattoo’ Disappoints
Say what you will about the guy, but it looks like nothing is “impossible” for Tom Cruise. The actor’s latest entry to…
Former ‘Saturday Night Live’ Writer Found Dead in Apparent Suicide (Report)
Erin Carlson The body of Joe Bodalai, who co-wrote the script for the first “Wayne’s World” movie, was discovered at a Los…
Helen Frankenthaler, Awesome Painter, Dead at 83 [And Now She’s Dead]
Helen Frankenthaler, the great abstract painter (and legendary party-thrower) died today “after a long illness.” She was 83. Frankenthaler’s big abstract paintings—made…
The Most Heroic Gawker Characters of 2011 [Video]
We loathe a lot of people here at Gawker, mostly because we recognize that humanity is irreversibly doomed and the future holds…
Sorry, Taylor Lautner Did Not Come Out on the Cover of People [The Gays]
Everyone has been passing around a fake cover of People magazine that has Twilight hunklet Taylor Lautner on the cover saying he’s…
‘Buffy’ Reboot Scrapped Over Disappointing Script
Remember that “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” reboot that’s been kicking around Hollywood? Consider it staked — for now, at least. The Los…