1. This is too much: the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Paris offers this (expensive by human standards) menu just for dogs. [via Hotel Chatter]2. Azealia Banks released a new video for her Angel Haze diss track, "No Problems," and it doesn't contain any sort of lashing out at Haze on Banks' part. Instead it's full of superimposed footage from Ultra Music Festival. You can see Banks performing and hanging out with Diplo and Steve Aoki and generally being cool while fireworks and lazers flash in the foreground.
3. Oh god, we forgot True Blood is coming back this summer. What is going on with Joe Manganiello's face in this clip? [via Towleroad]
4. The state hospital where One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was filmed is now going to be the Museum of Mental Health, a museum which the people who stayed there over the years. [via NYT]
5. New research suggests that Shakespeare was prosecuted for evading taxes and for hoarding grain to sell at inflated prices during a famine. He sounds like a real fustilarian. [via NPR]
6. Style blogger Hart Hagerty found took pictures of a mother in Shanghai lighting a cigarette and letting her young child smoke it until he fell on the ground and felt sick. We would have had a complete and utter panic meltdown if we saw this as it was happening. [via Gawker]
7. On the same day that we featured two of Louis Vuitton ads in our weird celebrity fashion ad roundup, Louis Vuitton announced that it's planning to significantly cut back on star-filled ads. [via The Cut]
Even though Easter is old news, these Hanksy eggs are "party time, eggcellent." [via 
Legends of the Hidden Temple -- "it's three fucking pieces!" [via 
The epitome of happiness is this photo of a dog eating a chicken McNugget. [via 
Ryan Gosling mini stud winking. [via 
This print of Stefon from an SNL-themed art show at Gallery 1988 is the best. [via 
We're getting major 1970s-era 
House of Toms. [via 
Jingle Bell Rock, y'all! Based on these images, it looks like the Mad Men premiere will take place around Christmas. [via 
What happens when she gets up? [via 
"Now what's a nice girl like you wanna be a gorilla for?" The conversation between pop star Cyndi Lauper and Broadway legend Harvey Fierstein has turned to doomed jobs and unemployment -- two themes that pop up in the odd couple's new stage adaptation of the 2005 film Kinky Boots, debuting on Broadway this month. Lauper is talking about the time she got turned down for the Gorilla Girl job at the Great Adventure theme park. Fierstein, as it turns out, was lousy at selling encyclopedias door-to-door: "That lasted two days."
Kinky Boots' years-long road to Broadway hasn't diminished Fierstein's excitement for the production process. Halfway through our interview, he grabs us by the hand and drags us from the lobby into the theater for a sneak peek. The number we saw was a big, brassy foot-stomper -- think Gilbert and Sullivan meets campy Studio 54 disco glitz. If you believe the film version of Kinky Boots, the best way to fix a crumbling manufacturing infrastructure is by adding a dash of drag fabulousness. And if you believe Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein, the best way to turn a small indie film into Broadway gold is to add even more.
Raleigh, North Carolina's rough-and-tumble, all-lady and all-out punk band Barren Girls are releasing their debut EP Hell Hymns today. We spoke to lead singer and guitarist Carla Wolff about inking a deal with Merge Records, cemeteries and the stupidity of mosh pits.
Dolly Parton has been pretty under the radar as of late -- she announced that she was making a musical about her life but hasn't spoken about it in over a year and her last movie, Joyful Noise, was a flop -- but now she's back with a 
Thank you, thank you.
"I'm Begging Of You Please Don't Take My Man Jolene."
Vintage lewks: 
3. Alanis Morissette is writing a book. A recent WSJ article 
4. The Notorious B.I.G.'s childhood apartment was put on sale yesterday with an asking price of $725,000. While Biggie talked about growing up in a "one room shack" in Bed Stuy, the building has been renovated and its neighborhood is now considered part Clinton Hill. [via 
Now we know why Bradley Cooper was 
This would explain so much about the state of the world today. [via 
After telling Rolling Stone that he wears panties 24/7 and is sick of people talking about his ever-present bulge, Jon Hamm's 
Whoever made this, marry us. [via 
Great buns! [via 
Like looking in a mirror. [via 
Name?
2. It was bound to happen: Dunkin' Donuts is debuting a new "Glazed Donut Breakfast Sandwich" (bacon and egg in a glazed doughnut) in select stores in Massachusetts. [via 
5. Oh no, Tom Hardy with a boy dressed as Bane! Too much cuteness for a Wednesday afternoon. [via 
6. Parker's Box in Williamsburg is closing after its 100th show. Alun Williams, the gallery's director, explained the decision in an email: "As Williamsburg becomes clothing boutique-land by day and party-land by night, it's feeling less and less appropriate to be trying to survive here as any kind of gallery, and at the same time, we've become increasingly disillusioned by what ultimately is a conventional commercial gallery formula." [via 
Medea and Oprah in character as Sofia from The Color Purple just kicking it together. Cute couple alert! [Thanks Rashard!]
Fun and festive Yom Kippur balloons. [via 
Obviously. [via 
We could stare at this GIF of Marlon Brando putting on his shirt all day, every day. [via 
Artist Jason Mercier created this portrait of Lindsay Lohan. 10 points for whoever can correctly identify all of the junk objects he used. [via 
Just a goose and her goslings. [via 
It's official: Jimmy Fallon is replacing Jay Leno as host of The Tonight Show. [via 
In other official news, Arrested Development has a premiere date: May 26 at 12:01 am. [via