Jezebel: Easter

Lady Gaga Releases Biblical Dance Track In Time For Easter

Dodai Stewart — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 19:10:00 EDT

"Jesus is my virtue, and Judas is the demon I cling to," Gaga sings in her new track, "Judas." The Madonna enthusiast is in her "Like A Prayer" phase, guys! Although: There are moments when it kind of sounds like she's saying "Jew, ah, ah." So maybe you can play the tune at Seder while looking for the Afikoman. In any case, as you may know, Judas was the dude who betrayed Jesus for cash. And Gaga gets all New Testament on us, hollering: More »

Casey Anthony's Prison Buddies Speak • Teen Sues Mom Over Facebook Slander

Katy Kelleher — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:40:00 EDT

• Casey Anthony's former jail-house friend recently told police that Anthony confessed to "knocking out" her 2-year-old daughter with chloroform so she could go out and party. She also gave several different accounts of Caylee's disappearance, including: More »

Justin Time

Anna Holmes — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 11:10:00 EDT

[Washington, D.C., April 5. Image via Getty]

New York's Finest

Anna Holmes — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 10:15:00 EDT

[New York, April 4. Image via Getty]

Mmm...Marshmallow Sushi

Hortense Smith — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 13:15:00 EDT

Need something to do with those leftover Peeps? Well, perhaps you should consider following this recipe for "Peepshi," or Peeps sushi, designed by the folks at Serious Eats. [SeriousEats] via [Neatorama] More »

3 Reasons To Hate Easter

Anna North — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 17:00:00 EDT

British kids apparently eat over five pounds of candy each over Easter weekend — but mass tooth decay is only a minor reason to hate this disappointing holiday. More »

Taking It To The Streets

Anna Holmes — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 10:10:00 EDT

[Zamora, Spain; April 1. Image via Getty]

Don't Have A Cow

Anna Holmes — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 09:10:00 EDT

[Sydney, April 1. Image via Getty]

Bromantic Elderly Otter Couple Dies Together • Mississippi To Vote On Abortion Ban In 2011

Katy Kelleher — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:20:00 EDT

• Two male otters who spent the last 15 years together, living as best pals in a New Zealand zoo, died recently. Both Daz and Chip suffered from heart attacks, which occurred within several hours of the other. More »

Vision Quest

Anna Holmes — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 09:10:00 EDT

[Malaga, Spain; March 28. Image via Getty]

A B (Flat) In Her Bonnet

Anna Holmes — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:10:00 EDT

[Schleife, Germany; March 21. Image via Getty]

Woman Evicted Over Easter Decorations, Fights For Freedom Of Peeps

Hortense Smith — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:15:00 EDT

Carol Burdick was recently evicted from her apartment because she insisted on leaving her Easter decorations up for two weeks after the holiday. She is currently suing her landlord; her lawyer claims that her decor should have religious protections. [AP] More »

Gwen Stefani: Green Eggs & __________

Anna Holmes — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:15:00 EDT

[Los Angeles, April 12. Image via INF]

I Am Eating All Of These Today

Hortense Smith — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 13:00:00 EDT

[Rostock, Germany, March 24. Image via AP.]

TGIF

Dodai Stewart — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:10:00 EDT

["Damn Sink Is Clogged With Hare Again" via Bunny Spice's Flickr.]

Holy Week

Sadie Stein — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:20:00 EDT

Ladies and germs: it's Peeps Week at Serious Eats. And you deranged but vocal minority who loves sweetened cotton fowl? You can now make your own! [SeriousEats] More »

Peep Shows

Dodai Stewart — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:30:00 EDT

Around this time of the year, the little marshmallow birds know as Peeps suddenly surface. Over on Babble.com, you can watch five funny and disturbing videos starring Peeps: Peeps in a microwave; Peeps replacing humans in the movie Jaws; Office Peeps, loosely based on Office Space; Peeps being blown up and, of course, more Peeps in a microwave. (Click the picture to watch 3 Peeps be gruesomely disfigured in a microwave.) [Babble] More »

Holy Jesus, You All Looked Cute In Those Horrid Easter Ensembles!

Moe — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:00:00 EDT

"Why is today called 'Good Friday?'" Anna IM-ed me wanting to know. Because Jesus was crucified on the cross duh! I replied. But what, she wanted to know, is so good about that? "Because we're Catholics and we LOVE SUFFERING / GUILT / SELF-FLAGELLATION / ETC," I replied, and she dropped the subject. In truth, I think it's good because he died to save us from the original sin committed in the Garden of Eden, and in this very special instance, 2 wrongs did actually turn out to = a right! Anna wasn't persuaded. I thought some more. Perhaps Good Friday was good because being nailed to a cross and dying before you have the chance to get old and wrinkly and senile and get your entire legacy of good corrupted when the world finds out you like to fuck whores is a pretty good way to go. Whatever. At any rate, this was an unusually good Friday because I got to look through some of your most cherished Easter Photos, thanks to some dedicated Flickr gallery drudgery on the part of Maria, and remember a time when red tights and saddle shoes and lace stockings and pairing different shades of pink and showing off my ruffly underwear seemed like a good idea, and I had parents on hand to ask questions like "why is it called 'Good Friday?" Please tour the gallery if only to see feminazi bonerkiller supreme SarahMC like you've never imagined. Oh, and lots of bunny ears. All of it after the jump. More »

Reminders

Anna Holmes — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:20:00 EDT

Ladies (and Gents!): This Friday, we'll be publishing our gallery of readers' Easter outfits for our second installment of Past Fashion. You have until Thursday evening to send in your submissions! Please forward to us at photos@jezebel.com with 1) the phrase "Past Fashion - Easter Outfits" in the header, and 2) a description of when and where the photo was taken in the message itself. (If you do not want your name mentioned, please let us know.) More »

Send Us Your Easter Pictures And All Is Forgiven!

Moe — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:00:00 EDT

Easter is when Jesus rose from the dead three days after dying on the cross to save us from our original sins. Original sins are the ones we didn't even commit, that we just had because we were born human, which used to mean "in God's image" but then became flawed because of Eve and that darn apple, and isn't it weird, in the season known for the Bunny bearing gifts of speckled Whopper eggs and Cadbury creme thingys, to think of an apple being a sinful thing to consume? I'm sure they were tastier back before the dawn of modern agribusiness, but still. Anyway Easter is interesting because you never know when it's going to happen, unless your parents happen to be the sort of Catholics who give up drinking for Lent in which case you know exactly when it's going to happen, but anyway it happens the Sunday before the Paschal Full Moon, which — duh — this year is March 23. That means this weekend is Palm Sunday, so you have only ONE WEEK to dredge out your cutest and/or most embarrassing Easter pictures and pay the mailroom guy to scan them and send them to us in the name of Past Fashion, the Jezebel feature that celebrates how we looked before we committed so many sins. More »

Harry, David, Dean & Deluca: Chocolate Pagan Easter Symbols And $6,000 Caviar

Dodai Stewart — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 14:00:00 EST

So: There was an ancient pagan goddess of spring named Eostre who was celebrated during the Vernal (spring) equinox. Hares (and rabbits) were symbols of the fertility of the season; the saying "mad as a March hare" came from the fact that the critters had so much sex during that time of the year. Eggs were also ancient symbols of fertility because, duh, life hatches from them. And back in the day, people would see hares hopping around in meadows and find nests of plover eggs, then mistakenly think that the fuzzy bunnies were laying them. Then arrival of Christianity confused everything and now some people celebrate Jesus with chocolate egg-laying bunnies. Insane? Sure! But there's candy involved, so it's okay. Easter foodstuffs from Harry & David as well as Dean & Deluca, after the jump. More »