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As Arby's begins a big marketing push for its new menu of Angus roast-beef sandwiches, the chain might want to avoid the sort of language emplolyed by Brian Kolodziej, its vice president for product development and integration, at a recent media tasting.... MORE >
In a booth on the third floor of the Javits Center, Janet and Kathy Lennon, the youngest two of the singing Lennon Sisters, the wholesome, bouffant-wearing quartet of Lawrence Welk Show fame (still periodically spoofed on Saturday Night Live), were recalling the shooting death of their father at the hands of a delusional stalker. "It was like a movie that you live through," said Janet, her hair pulled up and back in a platinum ponytail.... MORE >
Mildly disgraced New Zealand television "presenter" Paul Henry, who resigned from his seven-year gig hosting the morning news show Breakfast last year after a racially insensitive—albeit amusing—riff about the surname of an Indian government minister, is getting a second chance in America. A few days ago, production company Ish Entertainment quietly posted a "sizzle reel" online. Meanwhile, Ish founder Michael Hirschorn has been squiring Mr. Henry to meetings with agents and network brass in hopes... MORE >
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. After a long day in which thousands of Egyptians took to the streets to demand a new government, President Hosni Mubarak just appeared on television and promised to give it to them...sort of. Speaking on Al Jazeera, the long-serving president—who looks remarkably young for 82—said he would immediately dissolve the government (which he appointed) and have a whole new one up and running... MORE >
President Obama held a YouTube Q&A session today—one of the administration's creative, tech-savvy strategies for reaching voters without holding too many of those pesky press... MORE >
Actress Michelle Williams, in a sensitive interview that may have been edited down with the goal of attacting readers, told the Daily Beast's Kevin Sessums she was upset by the way Cynthia McFadden and the "Nightline" team edited down their recent conversation to "sell the... MORE >
Neil Egan is a designer for Harry N. Abrams books. Like many New Yorkers, he was highly inconvenienced by the blizzard of 2010. On Sunday, he and his partner made the 400-mile drive from Cleveland to Brooklyn. They were driving a midsize rental from Hertz. Snow was falling. Cars were getting stuck everywhere. But Neil persisted. He'd come too far to give up—not when he was so close to home. What happened next is detailed on... MORE >
Those terrifying and squirm-inducing anti-smoking signs showing decayed teeth and whatnot may become collectors items (I mean, right? Hanging ironically over your sofa?) now that a federal judge has struck down a city law that required stores to post... MORE >
Jews and Arabs and the occasional Roman have held competing claims to Jerusalem's Temple Mount, otherwise known as the Noble Sanctuary, for several millennia. The hill is thought to be the spot where Abraham bound his son Isaac, where the First and Second Temples stood and where Mohammed began his ascent to heaven. The Wailing Wall is on the Western side; the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock sit atop the platform. In... MORE >
This morning, President Obama signed the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010, ridding us of one of the most egregious and backwards-thinking laws on the books. (It's still a shocker that the Congress pushed the thing through last week, somehow redeeming lame ducks the world over.) What it all means is that following a brief adjustment period for the various military branches, gays and lesbians will be allowed to serve openly in... MORE >
How long can Kevin Antoine Dodson's "bed intruder rant" maintain it's hold on our collective attention? It's already spawned the most watched viral video of the year, the Gregory Brothers' "Bed Intruder Song," and earned the Alabama anti-home invasion crusader a gig as spokesperson for a sex-offender tracking smartphone app. Naturally, the meme is now being used to spread the... MORE >
To paraphrase a well-worn koan: If a pair of dirty hipster sex blogs get NSFW on the internet and nobody links to them or knows they exist, can they bring in any revenue?... MORE >
The recently announced partnership between Walmart and the Department of Homeland Security—under which the discount retailer agrees to pepper customers with the cheerful holiday greeting, "If You See Something, Say Something"—has set off a rebellion among the conspiracy-theory crowd listeners of radio host Alex Jones, a number of whom are among the store's core... MORE >
Club Envy, we don't envy you a bit. The Jacksonville, Florida, step dance troupe caused a major terror scare the other day when they ditched their van in traffic and began sprinting through the Lincoln Tunnel to make it to a talent show on BET's "106 & Park," which is—shhh!—actually filmed on West 57th. It didn't help that they were wearing... MORE >
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