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● Hell hath no fury like Kitson scorned. ...

● South (Park Slope) - Laidback slice of Americana hits SoSlo. ● The Minor Arcana (Prospect Heights) - The cards see drinking in your future. ● The Surrey (Upper East Side) - Seriously lux uptown scene doesn't relinquish its share of New York cool.

• Good morning! People who are responsible with money have purchased some rhinestone-studded glove that Michael Jackson wore once for about $350,000. [BBC] • John Mayer has made the claim that celebrity musicians typically make bad records. Stones and a glass house, honey. [D...

A wretchedly campy thing trending overseas is Jedward. As Americans, we tend to be suspicious of kitschy gimmicks burgeoning abroad. Maybe too many of us still feel burned by past instances of British kistch. Beats me...

"OMG OMG OMG New Moon OMG OMG shatters records! OMG $140 million! OMG Precious?" Yes, that's what much of the blather about the box office this weekend sounds like. It's a film about lunar shifts or large men who turn into ghastly wolf-beasts or something...

• Hello World! Meet Heidi Samuel. She's just like Heidi Klum, but upgraded: She's fierce! She's real! Sometimes, she even has a fugly misstep. But dammit, she sure loves that guy who was Frenched by a flower. [DigitalSpy] • I don't know who Justin Bieber is either! Is...

Back in August 1995, Type O Negative frontman Peter Steele did a Playgirl cover. And man, he did it right. Readers from that dusty era may remember Steele's unflinching verve--and how he saw the NSFW centerfold role for what it was: A smart way to drum up publicity...

As Courtney Alice Shayne once said in Jawbreaker, "Life's a bitch, then you die." Today of all days find that maxim to ring so loud as to dig irreversibly into our ears so that we may never be able to shake the truth of the statement from our heads. Take this horrible juxtaposition of two facts...

Fresh off news of Cheap Monday launching its first optics line, word has the Swedish company setting up its first freestanding shop in Copenhagen. Well, sort of...

Check out this flight simulation of US Airways Flight 1549, the plane that landed safely in New York's Hudson River by by super-cool-under-pressure Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger...

● The end of the world won’t be coming in 2012; it’s happening September 2011, when Oprah goes off the air. [WSJ...

As a nation huddles amongst their families in their living rooms tonight, heads in their anxious hands, waiting for Walter Winchell or Ryan Seacrest’s twitter to notify us of the condition of recently-hospitalized Nicole Richie we take pause to reflect on the sobering fragility of…WAIT, WHAT? EG...