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Figuring out where to be when the ball drops is a daunting task, even for the most seasoned New Yorkers. You want to be someplace where you’ll be part of the action, but not harangued by masses of clueless tourists who only want to be able to spot themselves behind Ryan Seacrest on the jumbotron. You want a venue that oozes culture, sophistication, class—three qualities that you’ve also committed yourself to cultivating in 2016. And if that location features a great view of the ball too, you wouldn’t be mad! Читать дальше...

Janet Jackson has postponed her worldwide UNBREAKABLE tour for the time being, after doctors told her she required an unspecified surgery. As the queen of pop promised to reconvene the tour when she can, the devastated gasps of Janet stans could be heard echoing across the nation, as they wondered if their efforts to find a friend with a Citibank card willing to wake up early and hit refresh until they got tickets were for naught.

Kenneth from Iowa is the nation’s most dedicated voter. We should all be more like Kenneth.

Early in graduate school, I still believed literature could save us, so I clung to a narrative device that seemed to promise deliverance: focalization. It’s not an especially sexy term; it means that an author writes from the perspective of one character, rather than from narrative omniscience—narrowing the reader’s focus to one person’s purportedly more subjective worldview.

Just one day after an Ohio grand jury declined to bring charges against two officers who fatally shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice, Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and misconduct in the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald.

As if The Big Bang Theory wasn’t sexy enough , things are really amped up over in sitcom land: a new lawsuit accuses the show of stealing the lyrics to the song “Soft Kitty” from a New Hampshire poet.

For every former emo teen, there is an individual emo revival. A long drive, a 1975 track, a screenshot of literally any scene from the OC: it can come out of nowhere, and there’s no predicting what will plunge you back into the days when you loved journals and fingerblasting and nobody ever washed their jeans.

Anybody got the tech to fold the space-time continuum? If so, would you be willing it loan it out, so that I might order some “sassy sweats” from the makers of the diet soda Tab, circa 1986?

Mark Salling, known for his role as Puck on Glee, has been arrested by the LAPD for child pornography. No, this awful year is not over yet.

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I had just finished Christmas dinner with my family when I got the call: “A picture of you is on the front page of r/funny,” my friend told me. I’m not a regular Reddit user, but I know about r/funny—it’s a popular subpage, a place with a lot of cat pictures. Funny? Had I been funny? I traced back through the past week, wondering if I had finally made one of my 119 Twitter followers laugh, but then my stomach clenched as my friend explained my stardom wasn’t because I had been funny. It was because I had gotten fat. Читать дальше...

In an interview Monday night on MSNBC, Melissa Harris-Perry spoke with Senator Bernie Sanders about his appeal to millennials of color. “Hip hop is, like, completely down with you. You appear on WorldStarHipHop more often than the Kardashians,” she joked, causing an giddy, knowing smile to fill Sanders’s face. “What do you think is so interesting about you for the hip hop generation?”

Some things in life are hard to take.

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The nearly always correct Killer Mike has described fuckboys thusly: “You can identify fuckboys…because they are always doing fuck shit. Just the dumbest, weirdest, lamest possible shit ever.”

Even a data breach of epic proportions cannot dissuade romantics in search of illicit love. Or so it seems. Since the hack this summer, extramarital dating site Ashley Madison has reportedly increased its membership from 39 to 43 million cheating hearts.

In 2016, The X-Files’ Fox Mulder and Dana Scully will return to the small screen, delighting many fans—including Gillian Anderson. The actor who inspired innumerable little girls to think about forensic science is grateful to be back in her old F.B.I. suits and sensible pumps.

For over a year, human rights activists and journalists have been documenting the ways in which rape and sexual slavery have become a cornerstone of the “theology” of ISIS. On Tuesday, Reuters reported on a detailed fatwa issued by the group, which makes it clear, once again, how thoroughly rape and sexual slavery are normalized, justified, and woven into their operations.

Enrique Iglesias performed in Sri Lanka last week, and the country’s president, Maithripala Sirisena, is furious about how some of the show’s horniest attendees behaved once their bodies were in close proximity to the perpetually stubbled Spanish artist. BBC reports “local women removed their bras in public, threw their underwear at the pop star, or rushed on stage to hug and kiss him.”

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Affluenza afflictee Ethan Couch has been apprehended with his mother, Tonya, by Mexican officials near the resort town of Puerta Vallarta.

Yes, the video you see before you is indeed one of those devastating ASPCA commercials. And now you’re tempting to press play, aren’t you? I know, I know — I’m cruel.

Samaria Rice has issued a statement responding to the Cuyahoga County grand jury’s failure to indict either of the two police officers involved in the fatal November 2014 shooting of her son, Tamir Rice. Twelve-year-old Rice was shot to death by Tim Loehmann on the playground after Loehmann and fellow officer Frank Garmback saw him playing with a toy weapon.

While Rocco Ritchie—the 15-year-old son of Madonna and Guy Ritchie—returned to New York to spend Christmas with his mother despite his earlier protestations , Madge’s family drama is far from over.

A new federal ruling says that Whole Foods must drop its policy that forbids employees from recording workplace conversations (otherwise known as gathering proof of worker mistreatment).