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Pic Of The Day

Happy 4th

A photo editor at the New York Times—forced to work on a public holiday—has decided to make mischief. From a gallery of pictures of the day on the newspaper's website, here's a revealing shot of dancers preparing for the start of the Independence Day parade in Washington, DC.

8:06 PM on Fri Jul 4 2008
By Nick Denton
5,469 views, 113 comments

Latest by Captain Bringdown: What a Happy 4th it was, thanks for the pic! :D more »

and now he's dead

Jesse Helms

One is told not to speak ill of the dead, and even the obit writers of this ill-mannered site usually find some praiseworthy note—Hitler was kind to animals!—in even the shabbiest of lives. But it would be dishonest to pretend that Jesse Helms was anything other than a caricature of a Southern bigot. More »

12:54 PM on Fri Jul 4 2008
By Nick Denton
8,410 views, 271 comments

Latest by MikeL: A fitting memorial. more »

Week in Review

The Week We Broke the Budget

5:30 PM on Thu Jul 3 2008
By Pareene
6,084 views, 1097 comments

Latest by The Doctor: @CodePink: Sorry about the date. I hope sangria makes for a good companion this evening. more »

The Internets

How to Shut Down an Internet Argument

Just post this video, each and every time, when things appear to be getting out of hand in a comments thread or whatever. Makes everyone involved feel stupid. [via Cajun Boy]

5:02 PM on Thu Jul 3 2008
By Sheila
3,860 views, 49 comments

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4:55 PM on Thu Jul 3 2008

Pretend You're Talking To Someone Now Make a YouTube video—any video—and show your stupid Sprint phone in it, and Sprint will pay you $20. The promotion is appropriately called "Sell Out." Or, don't do this, and enjoy a satisfaction that $20 could never buy. Unless you bought crack. [via PostAdvertisingAge]

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journalismism

Who Says Newspapers Are Dead?

The L.A. Times is cutting 250 jobs, the Tampa-Tribune is cutting 21, the New York Times is now available only on Kindle during a lunar eclipse, but all is well in dead-tree medialand — in Korea. An anti-Communist group in Seoul plans to distribute 100,000 free copies of its newspaper to North Korean readers via balloons. The so-called Free North Korea Shinmun "will expose and condemn human rights violations in the communist country with articles written by North Korean defectors living in the South." The good news? The paper's made of plastic, so less atmospheric wear and tear. The bad? There's no food supplement made of real food to actually be use to North Koreans. More »

4:30 PM on Thu Jul 3 2008
By Michael Weiss
887 views, 29 comments

Latest by mishapontheloop: you don't really need news from the outside world when you have this delectable goldmine of information. that's the dprk's official site, btdubs. more »

Lorenzo's Royal Seeing as it's apparently Cute Boy Day on Gawker, we'll throw another fella into the mix. Our friends at Guanabee think that Lorenzo Betancourt, son of the recently-released hostage and one-time Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid, is a hottie. And we don't disagree. Though, erm, he's nineteen.

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GAWKER STALKER

Latest Gawker Stalker Sightings

Submit your Sightings: stalker@gawker.com

  • Trey Anastasio

    225 W 83rd St
    I spotted the fabulous Trey Anastasio last night around 7:30 pm on the UWS - 83rd St between Amsterdam and Broadway to be exact. He was happily shuffling along and entered an apatrtment building near Cafe Lalo.

  • Robert Downey Jr.

    10 Columbus Cir
    Robert downey Jr at blue ribbon sushi in Columbus circle with a blonde female. He was wearing a fedora and she was wearing a gray cardigan. Management had to keep fans away. Not sure if it was his wife but they were making out. They made separate exits.. Relapse?

  • Puff Daddy

    Broadway & 56th St
    Around 10 a.m. this morning on 56th and Broadway crossing the street and talking on his phone. He had two bulky-looking guys trailing him.

  • Agyness Deyn

    10 Columbus Cir
    Saw Agyness Deyn and Fab Whateveretti at Whole Foods, actually making out the in bread aisle, and hanging on each other at all times. But not in a gross way. It was sweet.

More »

pot psychology

"Is It Normal For Straight Girls To Only Like Girl-On-Girl Porn?"

FROM JEZEBEL.COM: It's time for another installment of Pot Psychology, the "advice column" in which everyone's problems are solved with an "herbal" remedy. (Remember, kids: Don't do drugs!) More »

4:20 PM on Thu Jul 3 2008
By Slut Machine
28,220 views, 127 comments

microfeuds

Emily Gould Handles Her Own PR, Calls Out Everyone

We will begin by thanking Emily Gould—former Gawker editor, recent NYT Magazine cover story, and recently-sold book-writer—for providing us with content on a slow news day before a holiday weekend. She's chosen the perfect time to publish a long screed on her blog, titled "How Your Emily Gould Gossip Sausage Gets Made." Whoa! Everyone gets called out. We're all crazy from the heat this week! More »

4:10 PM on Thu Jul 3 2008
By Sheila
10,760 views, 124 comments

Hipsters In Space A cartoon starring an East Village DJ in shutter shades, on a space ship. About time. [Current]

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chaunce hayden

Entire New York Gossip Agenda Shaped By One Dude in Jersey

Recently, Steppin' Up editor Chaunce Hayden got himself banned from tipping Page Six because of an inaccurate item he sorta sent them about a sex tape involving the wife of radio morning show host Opie. Does that sentence confuse and upset you? It should, because there's no fucking reason you should've ever heard of Chaunce Hayden, Steppin' Out, or "Opie," as Chaunce Hayden more or less admits in a Radar profile today. The unread free New Jersey magazine is actually just a vehicle for Mr. Hayden to meet famous (or "famous") women and land his name in the columns. More »

3:43 PM on Thu Jul 3 2008
By Pareene
1,504 views, 14 comments

Latest by TomHayden: I'm pretty sure most people know who "Opie" is. You probably had to be living in a cave to have missed the whole St. Patrick's Cathedral sex thing and the ensuing fallout. more »

Movies

Is It Too Soon For The Wackness?

I guess it was inevitable after Interpol's second album tanked that late-80's postpunk recurrence was fated to be as short-lived as Ian Curtis. But how the hell did we reach 1994 in our retro cycle so quickly? The Wackness (trailer after the jump), the indie feature directed by Jonathan Levine, opens this weekend, revisiting the broiling New York City summer that you might not have before realized was so zeitgeisty. The film's being cited as much for its splenetic anti-Giuliani politics as for its remember-when hip hop soundtrack. Our hero Luke Shapiro (think a smarter version of Telly from the Larry Clark film Kids) is a virginal high school drug dealer who runs a mini-cartel of Jamaican weed out of an Italian shaved ice cart. Cosmopolitan! But his skanking around town with Ben Kingsley, a fiending Jewish psychotherapist dressed like Kramer, is about to be interrupted by broken windows law enforcement. Where were you standing when Newt Gingrich took over Congress? More »

3:43 PM on Thu Jul 3 2008
By Michael Weiss
2,687 views, 29 comments

Latest by skahammer: @tablefornone: I enthusiastically promote the racist stereotype of my being highly competent at pursuits requiring mechanical precision -- due to my Bavarian ancestors -- and yet that's clearly fiction. No good? more »

Money

Yet Another Show About The Increasingly Uninteresting World of the Filthy Rich

Oh look. A new show about rich people. It's certainly not a new TV meme, but there's just so much of it these days. What with the Real Housewives and the Gossip Girls and the Super Sweet sixteen-year-olds. One might begin to think there was some sort of canyon-sized poverty gap growing in this country of ours. This newest entry in the genre is about a young writer who takes a job tutoring two spoiled rich heiresses and blah blah blah, people swim in money. The show is slated to be on the CW, where Gossip Girl is housed, this fall. So tune in on your non-flat television set, pour a glass of Fish Eye from a box, and feel terribly, terribly impoverished. It's a good thing poor people just aren't that interesting. A promo clip for the show awaits you after the jump. More »

3:42 PM on Thu Jul 3 2008
By Richard
1,297 views, 23 comments

Latest by krismry: @HiredGoons: a nail salon? like elizabeth arden maybe. Bmw? maybe more maybach. when the rich get richer, the flak catchers get out their mau mau playbooks. more »

Photography

"The empire struck back and laid me off"

A couple months ago we brought you the elegiac newsroom photography of Martin Gee, a designer at the San Jose Mercury News who picked up a camera one day and documented the ghostly quality atmosphere inside a newspaper dessicated by layoffs. Well, guess what: Gee has now been laid off! With no warning. While he was on vacation. Sucks. He's pissed, but he never put down his camera. After the jump, three photos that express his feelings towards his old employer: More »

3:36 PM on Thu Jul 3 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
2,443 views, 21 comments

Latest by clarknhilldale: @sarahgonline: Yeah. I work in editorial at one of those alt-weekly-type thingies. You know there's trouble when a friend from production wanders over on Monday afternoon because there are no ads to do. . . . more »

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Oversharing Is Sometimes Okay, Says Oversharer

Goaded by a commenter, writer Rex Sorgatz wrote a passionate defense of those who share intimate details of their lives online. The media blogger (and recent author of a piece on microfame for New York) had linked to his anonymous Tumblr blog, which documented conversations Rex had about New York and the hookup scene. (The blog was outed even more quickly than Rex expected.) Rex says his pillow-talk conversations weren't oversharing, and fuck you for accusing him of that. So what's his defense, and is there anything still too intimate to blog? More »

3:21 PM on Thu Jul 3 2008
By Nick Douglas
1,843 views, 37 comments

Latest by skahammer: @SeaBassTian: I agree with this. The all-purpose "oversharing" criticism strikes me a little bit of a "too many notes"-type comment. more »

In Brief

Dear Anna: I'm Outsourcing Your Job To Vogue India. 8 Pictures That Explain Why…

FROM JEZEBEL.COM: Anna: Trust you're having a merry Fourth. Please don't let what I'm about to say put too much of a damper on it. Listen, you've been impeccable these past 20 years. More »

3:00 PM on Thu Jul 3 2008
By Moe
17,470 views, 94 comments

Snark Break Julia Allison's bestfriend, "handbag designer" Mary Rambin, has lost her dog in the Hamptons. He's escaped! No snark here! Have you seen how cute he is? Update: He's been found! (Wandering near the highway, yikes!) [Guest of a Guest]

43 comments

Media

Washington Post Pwned By Ex-Posties

Two years ago, two of the Washington Post's political reporters urged the paper to start a separate political website. The paper turned them down, and those two guys—John Harris and Jim Vandehei—left the Post and launched Politico.com. Now, the Post has decided it does want to launch a separate political site. But! There was a SLIGHT PROBLEM. More »

2:53 PM on Thu Jul 3 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
3,721 views, 16 comments

2008_rustyknot1.jpg Downtown

Trendiest Dive-Themed Bar Nails a Patron with Meanness

This is exactly the type of shit you won't be missing if you have the blessing of going out of town this weekend: being yelled at by jerks at the trendiest new dive-themed dive bar downtown. This week's culprit: Taavo-Somers designed nautical spot The Rusty Knot, where a tipster went the other night: More »

2:18 PM on Thu Jul 3 2008
By Sheila
6,341 views, 90 comments

gomez.jpeg Television

Fox Biz Helps Newswoman Realize Dream Of Shaking Booty

Rebecca Gomez knew way back in the heady '90s that she wanted to get into the important field of business journalism. So she worked hard, paid her dues, and now her dream has come true! She co-hosts Happy Hour on the Fox Business Network, a show described as "easy to understand for those of us who are not financial gurus." Ha, yes, well Gomez helps bring complicated finance stories down to earth for even us simpletons. Like she does in this clip, by strutting her stuff in a dress made for "girls with well developed booties." Living the dream! [Hispanic Magazine via Talking Biz News]

1:54 PM on Thu Jul 3 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
1,801 views, 18 comments

Latest by GothamTomato: Well this is what you get when the only 'qualification' for the job is agreeing to blow Roger Ailes. more »

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Formerly Sad Actress Just Remembered That She's Rich

[Kirsten Dunst in the West Village yesterday; image via Bauer-Griffin]
Herogram

Pat Kiernan For President

Pat Kiernan is the aw-shucks boyish news anchor on NY1 and everybody loves him. His is the gentle face we all see first thing in the morning, easing us into the day with good cheer and sobriety. He reads from the city's newspapers in a soothing 8-minute segment every morning called "In The Papers," which has captivated thousands and thousands of people. It's really quite impossible to explain to outsiders just why Pat Kiernan is the greatest newsman in New York, except for his jolly, bumbling colleague Roger Clark. Anyhow, Doree (the nice ex-Gawker one) wrote a profile of the man for the Observer, full of interesting Kiernan trivia. Did you know he hosted The World Series Of Pop Culture on VH1? We did, because there's a clip of him reading the lyrics of "My Humps" in his competent, Canadian voice. What are you gon do with all that ass inside them jeans, Pat?: More »

1:05 PM on Thu Jul 3 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
3,178 views, 67 comments

Latest by smitty: Ahh I love Pat Kiernan and Roger Clark. Does anyone else think it's funny that the lead anchor on NY1 is Canadian? more »

Independence Day

The Day I Met Ryan Adams and Didn't Blog About It

Last Sunday, while walking down St. Mark's towards the Holiday Lounge (their awesome old bartender clearly hates all customers and sort of flings your drink from five feet away), I saw this website's favorite scruffy musician/experimental blogger, Ryan Adams—who we've been teasing ever since he sent us a poem intended for his ex-girlfriend Jessica Joffe. So I said hello! We went to have tea and proceeded to talk about heartbreak and believing in love, because, seriously. More »

1:04 PM on Thu Jul 3 2008
By Sheila
6,382 views, 49 comments

Latest by sassypants: @OliverTwist: Uh, are those the only posts of hers that you've read? Holy hell are you missing a bunch...... And to answer your question, no, it's not the same. Not even close. more »

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