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Best in Show: 'Ghosts in the Machine' at the New Museum

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SCIENTOLOGY CRUMBLING: An Entire Church Mission Defects as David Miscavige Faces Leadership Crisis

For several years, we've been reporting about a crisis in Scientology as key members of the church -- including some of its highest-ranking former executives -- have left the organization and spoken out about its abuses. One by one, longtime, loyal Scientologists have announced that they are fed up ... More >>

Scotland's New Nutritionally Sound Pizzas

[See More Quote Unquote: Reviewing the Doritos Locos Taco | Marcus Samuelsson Tells Ex-Convicts 'Texture Is Very Key' | Four Questions With Susan Austin, Owner of the Urban Lobster Shack] Appalled by the amount of salt and saturated fat found in supermarket prepared foods, Mike Lean of Glasgow Univ ... More >>

3 Good Things: Mackerel, Confetti, Crumbs

[ See More 3 Good Things: 3 Good Things: Vodka, Bacon, Lunch | 3 Good Things: The Future of Food | 3 Good Things: City Island, Fish Sauce, Fino ] 1 A Belfast-based design company goes mackerel fishing together off the coast of Northern Ireland. They fish, gut, cook, and finally eat together. [Ace ... More >>

Riots Erupt in Greece Over Austerity

Flames spread around Athens as demonstrators protested a vote in parliament on an austerity measures, which have been ordered upon the country in exchange for €130 billion from the International Monetary Fund and other European countries. The New York Times reports that demonstrators were throwing ... More >>

The Voice Talks to the BBC About Stop-And-Frisk, Powerless New Yorkers, Philip Glass and the Super Bowl [AUDIO]

​The Voice was invited to join WWRL's Mark Riley on the BBC's Up All Night this past weekend, to chat with host Dotun Adebayo from across the pond. Every Saturday night, BBC 5 broadcasts live overnight, while checking in with correspondents from around the globe and spending an hour with two N ... More >>

Meet Nick Greene, Runnin' Scared's New Weekend Blogger

Pizza enthusiast and humanitarian, Nick Greene​We are happy to announce that you'll be in new hands over the weekend, as, you've probably noticed, Rosie Gray has joined us on the weekday circuit over here. Welcome Nick Greene, who interned with us in the spring and has made various appearances ... More >>

Navy Tests Laser Gun, Laser Gun Works [Video]

The U.S. Navy fired a high-energy laser from a warship off of California to ignite a small boat on fire, the BBC reports. Laser technology has been tested for decades, but strikes over water have always been difficult due to dense ocean air reducing the beam's power. As the above video proves, sea a ... More >>

Athina Rachel Tsangari Studies the Species in Attenberg

Banksy Bails Out Russian Artists, Is Becoming Modern-Day Folk Hero

​Mysterious British street artist Banksy just bailed out of jail two members of a Russian art collective called Voina, which means "war." Leonid Nikolayev and Oleg Vorotnikov awaited trial in a bed bug-infested St. Petersburg prison for four months until Banksy swooped in and paid their bail. ... More >>

Science: Cell Phones Do Something to Your Brain

​According to a new study, radiation from your cell phone does something to your brain. Or, more specifically, "cell-phone radiation waves increase activity in certain parts of the brain." But is this bad? Good? Can it lead to brain cancer? Should we talk less? No one is willing to go out on a ... More >>

How Often Does the Oldest Person in the World Die?

Eunice Sanborn, R.I.P.​The oldest person in the world when today started was Eunice Sanborn at 114 years and 195 days, but BBC News is reporting, via the Daily Progress newspaper in Jacksonville, Texas, that she passed away this morning, yielding her title to Besse Cooper of Georgia, age 114 y ... More >>

The Voice Is Now Taking Over the British Airwaves

Following his recent radio appearance on the BBC, our own Foster Kamer was on the BBC's Culture Show this week to discuss the fine state of media in America, and boy, are we proud. Watch him here! In light of the BBC's current work, Runnin' Scared is now mounting a rally to "restore shaving" to Fos ... More >>

New Colombian VP Angelino Garzon Suffers Heart Attack Two Days into Office

Angelino Garzon​Brand new Colombian Vice President Angelino Garzon, 63, who was sworn in on Saturday as VP to new President Juan Manuel Santos, has had a heart attack and was hospitalized in Bogota early Monday, according to reports. No official statements have been made as to his condition, b ... More >>

Barack Obama Was Really, Really Happy to Meet Pharrell Williams

God bless America. All photos via BBC.​And the award for best life this week goes to N.E.R.D's Pharrell Williams, who spent Monday night inducing Anna Wintour and Oprah to dance at the Met Gala after party, only to then head south on Wednesday to take part in the White House's Cinco De Mayo ce ... More >>

Proof That Anna Wintour Actually Danced During Diddy and Pharrell's Performance at the Met Gala After Party?

Second from the left, no? Credit: BBC​It's not quite Katie Couric busting the world's most unseemly move, but the above photo would seem to be evidence of Vogue editrix Anna Wintour's ability to clap her hands in a somewhat demonstrative and possibly even rhythmic way. Or is it just a lookalik ... More >>

Gwyneth Paltrow as Dietrich?

​What next--Valerie Harper as Tallulah Bankhead? I am so kidding. I just wrote about Harper's appeal, which some queens who've seen her as Tallu are kvelling about. And I do think Gwynnie Paltrow was astonishing in Shakespeare in Love and deserves a shot at a juicy role like pants-wearing, N ... More >>

Merry Pranksters in The Yes Men Fix the World, Plus (the Not-So-Merry) Bronson

Britney Saves Lives!

 It turns out it's not Madonna who has healing powers, despite having given birth to Lourdes. It's Britney, bitch! Proof of that is a BBC documentary called Britney Spears Saved My Life, and you'll simply have to believe me on that since I haven't lied to you that often before. According to th ... More >>

Affleck, Crowe Pump Adrenaline into a Dying Industry in State of Play

Shelved in fiction: 'Henry Paulson and the Toxic Assets'

Daily Flog: Deregulate. Spread fear. Deregulate. Spread fear.

Daily Flog: Settling for violence in Israel, settling for Palin over here

Daily Flog: Carnage knowledge -- CSI teams descend on Wall Street

Daily Flog: Frantic banks make a run on us; automakers drive up to Treasury's ATM

Daily Flog II: Hedge funds to the rescue; kitten-burgers in Peru

Daily Flog: Holy hell on Wall Street; crap-out on Capitol Hill

Daily Flog: Bailing out the planet's investors; a swift boot to Olbermann

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Cartoonists storm the city

The Cold War's Most Sociopolitically Vital Film

Heavy Grifting

Nothing spells job satisfaction like a good heist in two new crime series

What's Up, Docs: MOMA's Sixth Annual Nonfiction Festival

Why He Fights

Tracing the history of the military industrial complex

Morning Report 12/9/05
Seizers' Palace: Rigging the Game of Hold 'Em

U.S. War Profiteers Forced to Cool Their Jets

George Makes Sense

Music

Morning Report 3/7/05
Civil Liberties Alert! The Brits Are Coming!

Brave Boys

Onward and upward with New York's official Next Big Thing

Morning Report 12/9/04
Stunning News

Morning Report 12/3/04
Kerik: A Security Guard for the Nation

Poetry in Motion

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The Freethinker: A Protean Rebel Returns to the Present Tense

A Q&A with Robert Newman

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Inside Al-Jazeera

Winter Solstice Tributes

Free Speech for Everyone

So Much Difference

The Adorableness of Asian Alphabet Pop