After Hours at Krause gallery.

A large crowd of beautiful beatniks spilled out of Krause Gallery and into Orchard street Friday night as the After Hours event saw it's biggest turnout of the summer. Why had everybody braved the rainstorm and risked weepy...

Redefining the family: transgender couple gives birth to miracle baby

How’s this for unconventional: about twenty odd years ago, Cai was born a girl; Scott born a boy.  Eventually, Cai became the man he is today, Scott became Emily, and the two moved in together as a couple. Then, Cai...

Fashion forward or fashion faux pas on the streets of hipper than thou Williamsburg, Brooklyn?

By now Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY, has achieved the reputation of being the perceived epicenter of cool and fashion forward consciousness in the whole of the US amongst artsy non conformist (so we have been told anyway) 20 something...

Man finds brick of unknown substance, snorts it, dies.

It's time to take a bizarre fishing expedition and see what you can drag out of the ocean. Have you ever gone fishing and hauled in some unique specimens? Par for the course. But what about a brick of what...

Mother arrested five days after she abandoned her child to work in a strip club

Sounds about right. Daily Mail: Micah Ashley Alford, 26, was apprehended on charges of child endangerment and abandonment after police received a tip-off that she would be interviewing for a job at the Ritz Club in southeast Houston on Tuesday. ...

“Hostage situation” in New York’s Flatiron District sets media ablaze

Multiple New York journals reported yesterday afternoon on a possible hostage situation taking place near the Flatiron building, shutting down E. 22nd Street between Park Avenue and Broadway. Relying mostly on Twitter and tipsters, Gothamist initially reported that gunman was...

James Beard Foundation’s Chefs & Champagne

At the 2011 "CHEFS & CHAMPAIGNE" annual event at the Wolffer winery this past weekend just one day after a NYC record 104 Degrees. In the Hamptons- the food was even hotter. RICHARD GERE and Gossip Girls KELLY RUTHERFORD adding...

The Whole Foods Drama. Coming to terms with Corporate Greed part deux.

Let me just be upfront and say I have always been ambivalent about gawker, the domain where the original fuck you resignation letter of a disillusioned Whole Foods employee ended up. Part sensational, part meandering to preconceived expectations and...

Would you pay $25,100 for a Casey Anthony latex rubber mask? The things they’re bidding for EBAY right...

It is either a sign of our deteriorating culture or our fascination for the morbid (sorry Casey), take your pick, but a lifelike mask of the recently acquitted Casey Anthony, who's case caused a furor amongst the American public...

Media outlets said to be bidding up to $1.5 million for Casey Anthony’s story. Kiss goodbye to ethical journalism.

Who ever said crime doesn't pay? Out of the dailymail this morning comes the beguiling story of television networks each trying to outbid each other up to the tunes of $1.5 million for the exclusive rights to the...

“Goodnight my angel, sleep tight.” Family and friends say a final farewell to Amy Winehouse.

And inevitably this is where it all had to end... It must be one of the hardest things in the world to do, attending to the funeral of your child, but that is what Mitch and Janis Winehouse amongst...

Real-estate big shot caught trafficking thousands of dollars of meth in Meow Mix

Robert Lord Morris of Lake County, Florida is a big time real estate agent, BYU grad, philanthropist, father of four, and apparently, big into drugs. Orlando Sentinel: Morris, 48, of Eustis was charged with drug trafficking and resisting arrest Wednesday after...

Google Plus Mysteriously Deleting Users’ Accounts

Google Plus users are growing outraged as several find their accounts—either their G+ profile or all their Google accounts-- frozen or purged, with a message saying they violated Terms of Services. The issue: Google Plus only recognizes names without weird...

It turns out winning a gold medal for World’s Best Beard is a very cut throat one indeed. No...

Few may know that facial hair is subject to international competition, but the youngest winner for the category of ‘full beard with styled moustache’, Burke Kenny, a title he first won 4 years ago is quite happy to keep...

All girls college will now admit men but insists classes must remain segregated.

Welcome to Peace College, North Carolina's attempt to have gender neutrality everywhere except in the classroom... On one level one can argue the school is attempting to placate those camps who are absolutely horrified that men will suddenly be amongst...