Tip Your Editors:
tips@gawker.com
Managing Editor:
Nick Denton | Email
Day Editor:
Alex Pareene | Email
Night Editor:
Ryan Tate | Email
Reporters:
Sheila McClear | Email
Hamilton Nolan | Email
Richard Lawson | Email
Nick Douglas | Email
It wasn't made up! Tinsley Mortimer does talk in weird, nonsensical sentences about strange things, like I imagine her to. New York magazine caught up with the socialite at the Takashi Murakami celebration at the Brooklyn Museum last night, and...
Remember those old, seemingly ubiquitous ads for the Hair Club for Men with the guy who wasn't just the president, he was also a client? Of course you do, they were everywhere. Then, they just kind of disappeared. The anti-balding industry had...
If you feel like killing someone, make sure you do it in Jersey—starting today all you'll get for it is a roof over your head and three square meals a day for the rest of your life. (Also: the inability to walk more than 6 steps in one...
The majority of New York's timeless manhole covers are made by shoeless workers earning dollars a day in an anachronistic West Bengal, India foundry. The workers, pouring 2,500 degree molten metal into those classic ConEd molds, are usually...
We recently received an email with the subject line "Tyra Banks did not pay ConEd." It recounts the hellish ordeal one viewer endured as an audience member during the taping of "The Tyra Banks Show." Taut, gripping, and tragic, it almost reads...
What sort of person reads the New York Times? The comments section from a post about this morning's commuting issues on the paper's City Room blog might provide a clue. Since the Times doesn't seem to do it, we've gone ahead and picked out Gold...
The personal essay is just like people: full of too much information, inherently dull, and a staple fascination of weekend media. The men and women of American letters just really love to get personal on their days off. We reward those who go too...
With your help, we've ID'd 14 of the potentially worst bosses in New York. We'll be parading them in front of you daily, and when we're done, we'll all decide together who's the worst. Feel free to shout out your suggestions if any of these tales...
What could be better than free cone day or free coffee day? Why, it's Free Paul Krugman Week at the New York Times. The Philips Electronics consortium is sponsoring a week of free TimesSelect access for the huddled masses, today through November...
Sightings are sent in by readers and posted to our Gawker Stalker Map. This is our occasional, old-school compilation. Send yours to tips@gawker.com.
Sightings are sent in by readers and posted to our Gawker Stalker Map. This is our occasional, old-school compilation. Send your sightings to tips@gawker.com.
Sightings are sent in by readers and posted to our Gawker Stalker Map. This is our occasional, old-school compilation of said hotness. Send your stalking fun to tips@gawker.com.
Always dedicated to important, breaking news, this morning the Today show explored the dangers of drunk driving (for the record, MADD was founded in 1980). In order to show how risky it is to drive after chugging a handle of Five O'Clock, they...
Sightings are sent in by readers and posted to our Gawker Stalker Map; this is our occasional, old-school compilation. Send your sightings to tips@gawker.com.
More than a few versions of the following e-mail have made their way to our inbox:
If you're on the East Side between 14th and 30th Streets, there's a chance that you might not be reading this right now. According to a bulletin from ConEd, "Four of 24 feeders are out of service in the Madison Square network, which serves...
Sightings are sent in by readers and posted to our Gawker Stalker Map; this is our occasional, old-school compilation. Send your starfucking encounters to tips@gawker.com.
As powerless Queens alternately descends into Stone Age darkness or emerges to the withering gaze of the sun-god, them manholes continue to explode. Enjoy this WNBC morning news footage of a not-on-fire ConEd worker lethargically rolling across...
Today at Gawker, we choose to finally acknowledge the borough of Queens, which now enters the second week of an apocalyptic blackout that has even the oldest Greek grannies using AK-47s to get their rationed ice chips. So while you may have spent...
Just received over the tipline:Carnegie deli just exploded 15 mins ago yeah in the basementWABC is on the scene, claiming the explosion was actually "near" the famous pastrami emporium, and says no injuries have been reported. Developing.
• Katie Couric's inevitable reign of evening news terror will not be limited to the television; CBS will be broadcasting on the radio and web, as well. You can't hide; her legs are gonna be spread all over the place. [NYT] • Carmen...
Sightings are sent in by readers and posted constantly to our Gawker Stalker Map. This is our occasional, retro compilation.
There's an AP report out yesterday afternoon revealing that the city's huge construction boom is also creating a huge city noise boom:
Sightings are sent in by readers and posted daily to our Gawker Stalker Map. This is our occasional, old-school compilation of some of our favorites.
Sightings are sent in by readers and posted to our Gawker Stalker Map. This is our occasional, text-based compilation of some of our favorites. Send your glimpses of the questionably famous to tips@gawker.com.
• You know what would make a trip to Rite Aid even more pleasant? Crushing guilt from the cashier, of course. [Forksplit] • Nothing is ever free. Not even on Ben and Jerry's Free Cone Day. [BlaggBlogg] • How far would you go for...
• It's 2 a.m. on Saturday morning. You may be drunk, but there's no way you hallucinated those white, middle-aged ConEd employees busting a move to DMX on the corner outside your apartment. [Logged Hours] • If you live in an "artsy"...
Sightings are sent in by readers and then posted to Gawker Stalker Maps. This is our occasional, old-school compilation of some of our favorites. Send your sightings to tips@gawker.com. This week, stalking has been brought to you by Vh1's So...
Hey, remember the Huffington Post? Maxim UK EIC Greg Gutfeld is continuing to wipe his hilarious drool all over the high-minded blog, and his latest post outlines his "new line of environmentally friendly sex aids." Some examples:
Gawker
