We’ve always felt that the sums of money being spent on professional sports – and the attendant industries of endorsements and entertainment – were a little obscene, and the good folks at Forbes recently confirmed that suspicion with a listicle of the most valuable franchises in the world.
So try not to think of the number [...]

Steve Jobs explains mysterious weight loss.
What is the deal with the death of John Travolta’s son?
Katie Holmes spent $14 million in New York in six months.
“Craigslist Penis Photographer,” starring Bob Odenkirk [via The Daily What]
No Son of Mine Plays Oregon Trail Like That [via BuzzFeed]
Should You Be Facebook Friends with Your Mother?
Ew, ew, ew: Ladies [...]

With streets, neighborhoods and entire cities increasingly surveilled around the clock by cops, cameras and private security forces, street art has never been so vital. Not surprisingly, it’s also practically impossible in wealthy neighborhoods, so the areas with the richest street culture tend to be the poorest and most officially neglected, a kind of sweet [...]

MTV airs the fourth season finale of cautionary Los Angeles tale The Hills this evening. The show’s reality quotient has shifted as the quartet of stars and their hangers-on (Brody Jenner, Heidi Montag’s new chin) have seen their fame rise. So naturally, they’ve become more aware, more camera-savvy. To balance this out, the producers [...]

Those mainstream mediators at TIME have released their annual list of lists, and among the most fascinating is their hierarchy of time-capsule buzzwords. Their Top 10 Buzzwords listicle goes like so:

1. Change: The all-pervasive shorthand for Barack Obama’s campaign, uses of “change” in 2008 automatically assumed a time of hardship and a vague, knee-jerk optimism, [...]

Now that the Spitzergate hysteria has died down, New York’s sex scandal du jour is the affair betwixt Queens teacher Gina Salamino and teen model Joshua Walter. The incident is ripe for a Lifetime Original Movie, especially with Walters’s line from his interrogation: “I’m tapping that ass and there’s nothing you can do about [...]

With an astute bit of trend-spotting, New York magazine’s Daily Intel blog chronicles the mustache’s recent crossover from fashionable facial hair faux-pas to mainstream viability and official acceptance (via a ground-testing period in hipster ugly-coolness).
Admittedly, Brad Pitt’s recent ’stache reveal (number three on Daily Intel’s slideshow) was predicted by Orlando Bloom’s (pictured at right), spotted [...]

In the pace-quickening leading up to the Oscar-eligibility deadline (December 31), slots at city cinemas available for reviving classics are going to be in short supply for the next month. With that in mind, several cinemas will be clearing their screens of re-releases over the next seven days.
5: While Werner Herzog’s latest, Encounters at the [...]

From our friends at Yourlocal:
For New Yorkers who can’t afford to head home for Mom’s pumpkin pie or are too lazy to assemble a Turducken, get your annual stuffing and cranberry sauce rations at one of these city restaurants:
-Have Chat ‘n Chew’s famed Thanksgiving on a Roll ($10) on the day it was meant to [...]