Last week Japanese pop star Minami Minegishi, 20, one of the members of the popular girl group AKB48, shaved her head and filmed a tearful apology video to fans (since made private) after she was caught leaving her boyfriend's house on the morning of January 17th. One of the rules of the supergroup, which features 90…

Two months before the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute show dedicated to Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada opens, the New Yorker's Judith Thurman has a lengthy story about the show. It appears Thurman didn't get to speak to Prada for the piece, but she did interview the curators. And perhaps best of…

When a new singer hits the scene, we often feel we have to choose sides: For or against? Chances are, for every "OMG I looove her," you'll also hear "Ew, I hate her." Such is the case with Lana Del Rey, times 1000.

Tomorrow, Mississippi voters will weigh in on Initiative 26, otherwise known as the Personhood Amendment, otherwise known as the Most Ill Thought Out Piece Of Terrible Legislation Of All Time, 2011 Entrant. Colorado, Ohio, and Florida are also trying their hands at a game of Uterine Roulette with severely…

"The whole process is desperately sexist. But there it is."

Anne Hays noticed that the two most recent issues of the New Yorker featured almost exclusively essays and reporting by male writers. So she's returned those copies to the magazine, accompanied by a blistering open letter to the editors.

Honestly, using Kanye's Tweets as captions is such an amazing idea. Just adding "This is gonna be a dope ass day" to any image vastly improves it. Fact.

The 2008 Republican candidate discussing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in an email message to the New Yorker's Ariel Levy. [New Yorker]

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Call it a policy charm offensive or the fruit of a long-suppressed desire to tell the world how much he resembles Lyle Lovett: Timothy Geithner is talking to Vogue, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic. Let's compare and contrast!