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In an effort to boost sales big retailers are opening today (maybe to mitigate the danger of Black Friday tramplings ). Does this mean that next year they'll open yesterday? Is this gray Thursday ? Anyway, people are tired of being broke so they're buying stuff. Reuters report that: While ...
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It inevitably happens every year, someone gets trampled trying to get a DVD player for $15.99 at Walmart at 5am on Black Friday . This year, don't let tragedy strike! We have some strategies that will keep you safe while spending. The day after Thanksgiving is the most popular shopping day of ...
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Some people. Just because Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi reportedly fawned over a teenage lingerie model his wife wants a divorce, $300,000 a month and tens of millions up front. Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera reports today, via the BBC , that the money has already changed ...
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Misery loves company, so write your Turkey Day terror tales in the original post 's comments section. It's like liveblogging torture. For those of you without internet access, we've extended the contest deadline to Monday so you can share your pain.
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Recipe websites get a huge spike on Thanksgiving day. The New York Times , which loves a trend, analyzes them all. Cheese balls in the Midwest! Sweet potatoes in North Carolina! Something called the Broccoli Casserole belt! According to the Times , sites like Allrecipes and Epicurious and ...
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You are probably at this very moment attempting to communicate with family members you have almost nothing in common with. What do you do if it turns out Aunt Edwina is a birther? First of all, this is not a list of "counter-arguments," or methods by which you can convince a conservative ...
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Dubai—home to the future world's tallest building , artificial islands shaped like a palm tree, and a misplaced faith in the power of wealth—is broke. The government has asked its many creditors for a six-month reprieve from debt payments. Writes the Times : The terse statement ...
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If you're not already at the airport trying to smash your way to the front of a ticket line, you're probably not visiting relatives this Thanksgiving. You need an excuse besides "they are annoying." The AP has a bunch! Those AP reporters must hate their relatives, since every other article ...
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Wikileaks.org has released 573,000 text messages from 9/11—they range from "The only thoughts I have are of Nicholas, Ian and you I am terrified," to "YOUR DOG WILL BE OVER AT MOTHER'S HOUSE BY TOMORROW MORNING." [ CNN ]
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Did you hear about this DC couple that crashed Obama's first state dinner last night? Michaele and Tareq Salahi—aspiring reality show stars, bedeviled vintners, polo enthusiasts and lawsuit magnets: You inspire and sadden us in almost equal parts. The Washington Post 's Reliable Source ...
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That's it: we're in holiday mode: the dayside writers are taking Thursday and Friday off, but the night crew — Adrian, Azaria and Ravi — will be posting sporadically. Also, we're launching an always-open chat page. Since Gawker Media embraced the anarchic tag page system, we've had ...
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[ If you're going to JFK International Airport today, you will see nothing like the pristine modernism from the TWA Terminal in 1962. It will be a complete mess jammed with lines and screaming travelers. Good luck!. Image via AP ]
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Hey, everyone. This is Bryn Poulos . She wants you all to know that she didn't talk to fictional reporter Betsey Morgenstern for our The City recap . She thinks you're all too stupid to not know that it's a fake. We never used Bryn's real last name in the recap because we didn't know it and ...
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This year, Oprah's canceling her 'Favorite Things' episode and will give us the gift of Barack Obama instead. As if he's going to make 200 women fly into simultaneous orgasms . We demand to be lavished with exuberant materialism! This isn't the first time Winfrey's shanked her holiday ...
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Peter Jackson 's long-awaited adaptation of beloved book The Lovely Bones has been one of the few remaining question marks in the Oscar race. It finally faced critics yesterday and the results are all over the place. Although at first glance it seems to be divided down national lines with ...
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Thanks to our sexy sister Jezebel, we were shown the most ridiculous sidebar doodad to ever run in a gossip glossy in their Midweek Madness magazine roundup. Life&Style; is now judging how stars look based on their courtroom drawings. The celebrity well has run so dry that we are now stuck ...
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Are you willing to do absolutely anything and go through three weeks of "PR Hell" to land a basement-level gig at a PR firm in god damn Cincinnati? Sure, because you have no other choice, economically! PR: Classy, always. [ Adfreak]
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Today at Gawker.TV, Sesame Street slanders Fox News, Anthony Bourdain ruins your Thanksgiving, a gang of Turkeys steal a little boy's bike, Dancing With the Stars has technical difficulties, and we discovered that the "flash mob" viral-sensation is played out. One Gigantic Moment of WTF on ...
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Following our story about two of Colonel Gaddafi's sons treating America as their playground a magazine reports that Saif has been shooting up parts of Europe recently too, along with some intriguing playmates. British magazine The Spectator is set to report tomorrow that Saif went on a ...
