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May 25, 2012
Serendipity 3 Serving World's Most Expensive Burger
What's in the world's most expensive burger? Apparently Japanese Waygu beef, 10-herb white truffle butter, Salish Alderwood smoked Pacific sea salt, cheddar cheese, hand-made and cave-aged for 18 months by famed cheesemaker James Montgomery of Somerset, England. Plus shaved black truffles, a fried ... More >>
Art
May 2, 2012
London's Big-Deal Art Fair Hits New York, Occupy Hits Back
Seize the frieze
Blogs
February 17, 2012
Trinidad Moruga Scorpion Crowned World's Hottest Pepper
Lauri Rantala/FlickrThe Bhut Jolokia, whose status as the king of hot peppers has just been challengedThe Trinidad Moruga Scorpion has been named the hottest pepper on the planet by New Mexico State University's Chile Pepper Institute, according to the Associated Press.
Voice Choices
December 7, 2011
WE CAN DO IT!
Help make history happen
Blogs
September 15, 2011
Double-Dutch Dogs Jump in Unison, Break World Records
It is what it looks like. The woman in the video, one Uchida Geinousha, is the owner of the Super Wan Wan Circus in Tsukuba City, Japan. She's also the new Guinness World Record holder for "handler of the most dogs skipping on a rope."
Blogs
June 12, 2011
Tim Pawlenty Invents Charming Portmanteau; Filipino 18-Year-Old is World's Shortest Man
Crazy person and Republican presidential hopeful Tim Pawlenty has come up with a totally inventive term for our current health care laws: "Obamneycare." Get it? Like Obama Romney. It's supposed to recall how Mitt Romney shamefully tried to help uninsured people with health problems as the gover ... More >>
Theater
May 25, 2011
Knickerbocker--Eat, Drink, Man, Daddy
Jonathan Marc Sherman's new play serves up a meager dramatic meal
Columns
May 25, 2011
Free Will Astrology: May 25-31, 2011
Jonathan Marc Sherman's new play serves up a meager dramatic meal
Columns
May 11, 2011
Free Will Astrology: May 11-May 17, 2011
Jonathan Marc Sherman's new play serves up a meager dramatic meal
Blogs
March 21, 2011
400-Pound Sumo Wrestler Finishes Marathon, Breaks World Record
viaGood news! Kelly Gneiting, a former U.S. sumo champion from Arizona who weighs 400 pounds, finished the Los Angeles Marathon in 9 hours, 48 minutes, and 42 seconds on Sunday, winning himself the much-coveted Guinness World Record of "Heaviest Person to Complete a Marathon." He jogged the f ... More >>
Blogs
March 7, 2011
Apply to Be Charlie Sheen's Intern in 75 Characters or Less
Just as we urged our readers to un-follow Charlie Sheen on Twitter, we came across this gold mine. Internships.com has posted a listing for an 8 week, full-time, paid internship with none other than TeamSheen. "Do you have #TigerBlood? Are you all about #Winning?" the listing asks, going on t ... More >>
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March 4, 2011
Charlie Sheen, Wife Beater, Is Now in the Guinness Book of World Records
This photo was Sheen's first tweet.Did you hear? Charlie Sheen has made it into the Guinness Book of World Records for the fastest accrual of 1 million Twitter followers EVER. Congratulate him, and you! Because you're following him, right? We all helped make this happen. Oh, about that Charli ... More >>
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March 1, 2011
Fetus Called to Testify in Court
Janet Folger Porter, president of anti-abortion group Faith2Action, has called a 9-week-old fetus to testify before Ohio's House Health Committee in favor of legislation that would outlaw abortions after the first heartbeat can be medically detected. We have many questions about this.
Voice Choices
February 2, 2011
MAMMA MIA!
A world-famous tenor makes his Met Opera solo debut
Film
January 12, 2011
Breaking and Entering: On Guinness Winners and Random Achievement
A world-famous tenor makes his Met Opera solo debut
Blogs
January 5, 2011
Oldest Cat in the World Wants Her Due
via Daily Mail/Wales News ServiceThings that may surprise you: There is no Guinness Book of Records entry for the world's oldest cat. Even so, the human handler-servants of Lucy, a Welsh tabby who's allegedly been torturing mice since 1972, would like it to be noted that she is the oldest in ... More >>
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December 9, 2010
Snooki-in-a-Ball to Drop on Times Square on New Year's Eve
Here is a ball, sans Snooki.Today in things making our brains hurt a/k/a WHY GOD, WHY? We have this: Everybody's favorite shortest Jersey Shore star/novelist/beer-bong aficionado, our dear sweet eensy Snooki, will be put in a ball and "lowered into New York's Times Square to help ring in 2011 ... More >>
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December 1, 2010
GOING FOR GELT
Spin to win a year’s supply of chocolate
Blogs
November 29, 2010
Yeshiva University Students Try to "Top" Dreidel-Spinning Record at Dreidel-Palooza
Dreidels pictured here not "made out of clay"Yeshiva University students are aiming to set the record for "most dreidels spun at one time" at an event they're calling Dreidel-palooza, to take place tomorrow at 6:30 p.m. at the Max Stern Athletic Center on YU's campus. According to organizers, ... More >>
Blogs
October 13, 2010
Update: The Last Miner Is on His Way Up! And Other Chilean Miner News
Hey, what's going on with the Chilean miners right now? Because you know this is all you're going to be talking about at that cocktail party/dinner at home/after-work drinks sesh with your buds. Be the one with the info that matters!
Blogs
October 3, 2010
Bin Laden Book Club: Terrorist's Recordings Recommend More Than Killing Americans
Sunday's New York Times includes a somewhat original, overlooked take on the most infamous terrorist in the world, the still-not-caught Osama bin Laden, who released two new audio recordings over the weekend. The article, instead of the standard "Where's Waldo?", focuses on bin Laden's "wide- ... More >>
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August 9, 2010
21 Times! Harlem Guy Possible Record-Breaker for...Being Shot.
We New Yorkers are an exceptionally talented bunch, and 23 year-old Angel Alvarez of Harlem yet again proves the old adage true: If you can get shot here, you can get shot -- *BAM BAM* -- anywhere!
Blogs
July 23, 2010
The U.S. Government Could Not Get a Mortgage If Their Life Depended on It
This is a trillion elves.New estimates from the White House say the budget deficit is now predicted to reach $1.47 trillion dollars this year. Holy shit. A trillion. You know they tell us this shit on Friday so we forget about it over the weekend.
Blogs
May 13, 2010
Video: World's Biggest Dodgeball Game in New York City Last Night, Shaming War Strategists and Veterens Everywhere
Via NBC New York, here's footage of what was apparently the world's largest dodgeball game ever, which took place last night at the 69th Armory. You remember the beginning of Saving Private Ryan, when they invade Normandy?
Blogs
March 16, 2010
Dead: World's Shortest Man, He Pingping, 21
Last night, the world's shortest man died. He Pingping of Wulanchabu, China, at 29 inches tall the Guinness Book of World Records' shortest man on earth, died at the conspicuous age of 21 last night of heart complications in Rome. He was supposed to appear on an Italian children's show the ne ... More >>
Voice Choices
February 2, 2010
Chilly Gonzales
Last night, the world's shortest man died. He Pingping of Wulanchabu, China, at 29 inches tall the Guinness Book of World Records' shortest man on earth, died at the conspicuous age of 21 last night of heart complications in Rome. He was supposed to appear on an Italian children's show the ne ... More >>
Film
November 17, 2009
James DeMonaco's Debut, Staten Island
Featuring Ethan Hawke, looking nothing like a septic-tank cleaner
Blogs
September 1, 2009
Chanel, World's Oldest Dog, 22, Dies on Long Island
New York holds many titles, such as Worst Road Rage and Marijuana Arrest Capital of the World, and until Friday we had the world's oldest dog, too. The 21-year-old wirehaired dachsund Chanel, honored by the Guinness Book of World Records for her longevity, has passed in Port Jefferson Station ... More >>
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September 1, 2009
Booze News: Custom Ice Abounds; Booze Hounds Healthier Mentally & Physically
A new breed of mixologist is obsessed with ice, using enormous cubes custom made by ice sculpture suppliers, ice balls the size of oranges, and long ice tubes for highballs. Dilution has become a dirty word. [NY Times] With a new Whole Foods in the space formerly occupied by the legendary ja ... More >>
Blogs
July 20, 2009
Oh, America: 100-Pound Cupcake Displayed in Mall, Fed to Hogs
Speaking of cupcakes, Guinness Book of World Records staff was on hand this Saturday at the Mall of America, to check out what might be the biggest cupcake in the world. The 100-pound, 2-feet tall, 3-feet wide behemoth clocks in at 131,000 calories. It's stuffed with fudge and frosted in yellow in h ... More >>
Voice Choices
April 8, 2009
Acid Mothers Temple
Speaking of cupcakes, Guinness Book of World Records staff was on hand this Saturday at the Mall of America, to check out what might be the biggest cupcake in the world. The 100-pound, 2-feet tall, 3-feet wide behemoth clocks in at 131,000 calories. It's stuffed with fudge and frosted in yellow in h ... More >>
Columns
February 11, 2009
Free Will Astrology: February 11 through 17
Speaking of cupcakes, Guinness Book of World Records staff was on hand this Saturday at the Mall of America, to check out what might be the biggest cupcake in the world. The 100-pound, 2-feet tall, 3-feet wide behemoth clocks in at 131,000 calories. It's stuffed with fudge and frosted in yellow in h ... More >>
Blogs
January 28, 2009
World's Worst Bank Robber Goes For Record in Staten Island
Poor Raymond Pagliarulo is, like many of us, just trying to live his dream, which is evidently to become a bank-robber. But he's not very good at it: he'd tried three times to pull bank jobs in Staten Island before today, only to get caught shortly afterwards. One time he even walked out empty-hande ... More >>
Blogs
October 30, 2008
Epic Fail: Times Square Thriller Beat by Texans, Others
Poor Raymond Pagliarulo is, like many of us, just trying to live his dream, which is evidently to become a bank-robber. But he's not very good at it: he'd tried three times to pull bank jobs in Staten Island before today, only to get caught shortly afterwards. One time he even walked out empty-hande ... More >>
Blogs
October 24, 2008
What Could Be Scarier Than Michael Jackson?
Poor Raymond Pagliarulo is, like many of us, just trying to live his dream, which is evidently to become a bank-robber. But he's not very good at it: he'd tried three times to pull bank jobs in Staten Island before today, only to get caught shortly afterwards. One time he even walked out empty-hande ... More >>
Blogs
October 8, 2008
Times Square Movie Marathon Ends in Sarandon
Poor Raymond Pagliarulo is, like many of us, just trying to live his dream, which is evidently to become a bank-robber. But he's not very good at it: he'd tried three times to pull bank jobs in Staten Island before today, only to get caught shortly afterwards. One time he even walked out empty-hande ... More >>
Columns
July 23, 2008
Free Will Astrology: July 23 through 29
Poor Raymond Pagliarulo is, like many of us, just trying to live his dream, which is evidently to become a bank-robber. But he's not very good at it: he'd tried three times to pull bank jobs in Staten Island before today, only to get caught shortly afterwards. One time he even walked out empty-hande ... More >>
Columns
April 15, 2008
Free Will Astrology: April 15 to 21
Poor Raymond Pagliarulo is, like many of us, just trying to live his dream, which is evidently to become a bank-robber. But he's not very good at it: he'd tried three times to pull bank jobs in Staten Island before today, only to get caught shortly afterwards. One time he even walked out empty-hande ... More >>
Screens
March 25, 2008
Guinness Gamer's Edition: Most Oddly Matched Collection of Records in a Book
Guinness writes the book on gaming but doesn’t shatter any records
Film
October 23, 2007
Love and Honor
Guinness writes the book on gaming but doesn’t shatter any records
Columns
April 3, 2007
Horoscope
Guinness writes the book on gaming but doesn’t shatter any records
Columns
May 16, 2006
Horoscope
Guinness writes the book on gaming but doesn’t shatter any records
Music
November 30, 2004
Glo Away
Glo goes South Beach, Mr. C's acid-house bar mitzvah set
Columns
September 14, 2004
Horoscope
Glo goes South Beach, Mr. C's acid-house bar mitzvah set
Music
January 13, 2004
Music
Glo goes South Beach, Mr. C's acid-house bar mitzvah set
NYC Life
November 25, 2003
Biggest Ball in the World
Glo goes South Beach, Mr. C's acid-house bar mitzvah set
Music
August 13, 2002
Alt Is Long
Glo goes South Beach, Mr. C's acid-house bar mitzvah set
Columns
March 19, 2002
Horoscope
Glo goes South Beach, Mr. C's acid-house bar mitzvah set
Screens
August 25, 1998
Different Doldrums
Fox Gets a Mascot, Showtime Gets Smart—Is This August or What?
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