Improv Everywhere Transform a Subway Car Into a Late Night Talk Show
For their latest stunt, Improv Everywhere (they of the 'No Pants Subway Ride' and the boardroom meeting inside the Staples office chair department) hopped on a New York subway car at Court Street and...
View ArticlePicture Day Director Kate Melville on High School and Awful Yearbook Photos
Picture Day, a refreshing new film by writer-director Kate Melville, debunks the typical clichés of high school movies: that high school is a make-it-or-break-it teenage experience and a four-year...
View ArticleIs This the Worst Rendition of the National Anthem of All Time?
This will make you real squirmy: a Canadian singer was asked to sing America's National Anthem before a hockey game and she botched it. Big time. Where's Roseanne when you need her? [via Hyper...
View ArticleBalthazar Getty On the 10 Music Acts That Have Influenced Him Most
Balthazar Getty has been acting since he was 13 (starting with a lead role in Lord of the Flies, he's gone on to produce ) but, perhaps more remarkably, he was making music since even before that. Over...
View ArticleLe1f Gets Steamy In New Video, "Spa Day"
Beautiful Person 2013 Le1f has a new video for "Spa Day" and, appropriately enough, it takes place during a raucous Night Spa party at Bed Stuy's Body By Brooklyn. For those uninitiated, the spa...
View ArticleNote From Kim: Going Back to the Land -- and Posting About It
It fascinates me to no end as I watch the newest generation of digital native super-hipsters embracing what many are calling today's "new industrial revolution" -- an age filled with futuristic...
View ArticleJohanna Fateman on the Riot Grrrl Movement + Images from "The Riot Grrrl...
Next month, The Feminist Press at CUNY will publish "The Riot Grrrl Collection," a new book of selected zines, posters, flyers, journals and letters housed in NYU's Fales Library Riot Grrrl Collection....
View ArticleWe've Been Listening to Beyoncé's New Track "Grown Woman" All Day
...Or at least I've been listening to it (and on repeat). After being teased in a Pepsi commercial (which spawned the Beyoncé GIF of all Beyoncé GIFs), having its official release be delayed, and being...
View ArticleMr. Mickey's Top 10 Reasons to Love Paula Deen
Mr. Mickey just returned from Savannah where he attended the SCAD senior fashion show and, while he was there, he fell in love with Paula Deen all over again. Below, he shares ten reasons to love the...
View ArticleThe Idiosyncratic Fashionistas Talk Hot Pants and Booties In New Clip
Our friends over at Bib + Tuck, a new site that lets its members sell ("bib") and buy ("tuck") each other's clothes and accessories using virtual currency, spent an afternoon vintage browsing with the...
View ArticleAll of Arrested Development's Running Gags
A super-cut of all the recurring jokes on Arrested Development. Gene Parmesan better pop up in the new episodes. Ahhh! [PleatedJeans] Merry Christmas, Michele Bachmann is the inspiration behind the...
View ArticleWatch Charli XCX Cover the Backstreet Boys'"I Want It That Way"
British songstress and master hair-flipper proved that she's just as obsessed with the Backstreet Boys' classic "I Want It That Way" as we are (and everyone else on the planet is) by performing her...
View ArticleA Jordanian Writer Tells Us About Amman's Music and Nightlife Scenes
Name? Roba Al-Assi Age? 27 Where do you live? Amman What do you do there? Designer/writer/webbie. What Jordanian bands or DJs are you obsessed with that you think we should know about? El Morabba3 are...
View ArticleEvery Runway Look Worn by RuPaul In Less Than 3 Minutes
If you've never watched an episode of RuPaul's Drag Race, here's your chance to catch up on RuPaul's fabulous lewks. Our friends over at World of Wonder have strung together every single one of Ru's...
View ArticleThe Lonely Island's Top Ten Funny People to Follow on Twitter
After appearing on our cover (and while rolling out hilarious new music every week from their upcoming record, The Wack Album) the Lonely Island guys -- a.k.a. Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma...
View ArticleThe Lonely Island and Solange Made a Song About Semicolons
The Lonely Island have had a busy day: not only did they tell us who makes them laugh out loud on Twitter, they released a song with Solange about our favorite punctuation mark: the semicolon. The...
View ArticleConan O'Brien Made an Awesome Video Response to Taylor Swift's Video "22"
Conan made a video response to Taylor Swift's music video "22" in which he boards the Straight Talk Express and tells viewers what being 22 is really like. (Or...actually, what it was just like for...
View ArticleJessie Ware and The xx Mash Up Two Classics
Though it's not the most professional recording (or video) ever made, we wish we'd been in Berlin last week for this epic collab between The xx and recent PAPER cover star Jessie Ware. Jessie came...
View ArticleGive These 5 Douche-Bags Another Chance
When I first saw the preview for Mr. Selfridge on PBS' Masterpiece, I was torn. I love me some historical drama on PBS -- nobody whips up an addictive period drama like the British and Selfridges is...
View ArticleGreta Gerwig's Rise as Hollywood's New Indie Queen Is Very, Very Real
To celebrate the opening weekend and amazing critical reception of her movie Frances Ha, we're re-posting our February 2011 cover story on Gerwig, written by Lena Dunham. Read below as the two indie...
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