Lady Gaga's New Song Is About Burqas and Dancing (Of Course)
Lady Gaga likens the wearing of the veil to the state of being an enigmatic popstar in her newly leaked track "Aura" (or maybe it's "Burqa," word's still out on its official title). The first leaked...
View ArticleElijah Wood Is Starring In Rodarte's New Sci-Fi Fantasy-Inspired Fashion Film
Leave it to the Mulleavy sisters to make a fashion film featuring models, A-list actors and...Dungeons and Dragons? In "This Must Be the Only Fantasy," their new film directed by Todd Cole, the Rodarte...
View ArticleFred Willard Stars In Yo La Tengo's "Is That Enough" Video
We finally found the answer to the age-old question, "what is Yo La Tengo?" Apparently that answer can be found by solving a pseudo-mathematical equation involving lots and lots of word association...
View ArticleThis Vine of A Woman Dancing to "Blurred Lines" Is the Best
ICYMI: this Vine, taken by this woman's neighbor as she gets her groove on to "Blurred Lines," is the best. [via Gawker]If you need us, we'll be watching this clip of Hugh Laurie and Stephen Colbert...
View ArticlePedro Almodóvar On His Latest Film, Gayness in Spain and Royal Scandal
Pedro Almodovar has gone from being the enfant terrible of European cinema to being its elder statesman. His recent film I'm So Excited is a return to the wacky and wild comedies of his early years in...
View ArticleLebanese Jewelry Designers Tell Us About the Coolest Places to Go Out In Beirut
[L-R: Tatiana Fayad and Joanne Hayek]Each week in our new column, "No Sleep Til...," we'll be talking to cool kids around the globe, asking them to fill us in about the bands, DJs, music venues and...
View ArticleMarina Abramović Will Hug Everyone Who Donates to Her Kickstarter
Have you hugged a performance art legend today? Marina Abramović -- whose work has been seen everywhere from the Museum of Modern Art to Jay Z's latest video -- has announced that she will host two...
View ArticleSpike Jonze's Her Trailer: ScarJo Is a Computer, Joaquin Pheonix Is Lonely
Joaquin Phoenix is in love with a computer in the trailer for Spike Jonze's upcoming movie, Her. Pheonix plays a lonely dude named Theodore who tries to get over his ex (Rooney Mara) by using a highly...
View ArticleAn Antwerp-By-Way-of-Bali Jewelry Designer Makes Gorgeous Baubles Inspired By...
Fittingly for Antwerp-by-way-of-Bali jewelry designer, Heaven Tanudiredja, his creations are just as fascinating and complex as his multinational background. With previous experience designing for...
View ArticleQuasimoto's "Catchin' the Vibe" Video: If A Tribe Called Quest Were Creepy
We're getting a distinctly '90s-era A Tribe Called Quest vibes from Quasimoto's "Catchin' the Vibe" video. Quas -- who's actually rapper Madlib's animated alter-ego -- originally wanted "Catchin' the...
View ArticleThursday Is Brought to You By a Bear Riding a Sea-Doo
All this bear on a Sea-Doo needs is Kris Jenner in a wig riding behind him. [Alaska Dispatch via Gawker] The Colbert Report Get More: Colbert Report Full Episodes,Video Archive ICYMI: Daft Punk had to...
View ArticleComedian Kurt Braunohler Shares Three Absurd Things You Can Do to Improve the...
To me, Kurt Braunohler will always be the guy who, along with his partner/bestie Kristen Schaal, brought weekly doses of next-level comedy to Gowanus via the variety show Hot Tub with Kurt and Kristen....
View ArticleLady Gaga Shows Off the Abramović Method By Walking Naked Through a Forest...
In today's Marina Abramović news, there's a new video on the site for the artist's institute showing Lady Gaga practicing "the Abramović method" and serving up some full-frontal nudity. In theory,...
View ArticleCelebrities! How Similar to Us They Are
Welcome to our new series "Celebrities! How Similar to Us They Are," a surrealist send-up of celebrity weekly's' "Stars Are Just Like Us!" features. Each installment is written by Eli Yudin and Carey...
View ArticleToast & Marmalade at Atrium DUMBO
As a child, Payman Bahmani would sit down to breakfast with his grandfather, who enjoyed beginning the mornings with a simple meal of black tea and marmalade-smeared pumpernickel toast. That fond...
View ArticleLadies and Gentlemen, the CBGB Trailer Is Here
Since we first heard they were filming the CBGB movie in Savannah and had tapped Alan Rickman, Ashley Greene, Malin Ackermann and Rupert Grint, among others, to star, we've been nervously...
View ArticleLittle Kids Direct and Star in the New So So Glos' Music Video
The So So Glos' new video for "Dizzy" will make you want children of your own -- or at least make you want to be a grade-school teacher for a day. The Brooklyn-based punk group (who have documented...
View ArticleThere's a Jet-Set James Franco Doll Taking Over the Internet
Watch your back, Travelocity gnome. There's a new jet-set inanimate object. Recently, a James Franco doll (it's actually a doll of Franco in character as Oz) has been popping up all over the place....
View ArticleFor Clueless Straight Women Who Want Gay Friends, Here's a Guide
YouTube user Davey Wavey is back for more. This time, instead of having gay men say what they really think about vaginas or lesbians react to "lesbian" porn and whatnot, he made a straightforward list...
View ArticleMr. Mickey's Twenty-Seven Minute Walking Tour of Paris
If you're a culture vulture with an unquenchable thirst for museums, monuments and other fancy fixtures, it can be overwhelming to try and see all that a cultural capital like Paris, France has to...
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