Did you know that Oreo is not the original American sandwich cookie? And that in fact the ACTUAL original American sandwich cookie has major beef with the brand, to the point of filing a complaint to the FTC alleging Oreo’s parent company is making stores hide their competitor’s wares? Meet Hydrox!
Aretha Franklin was not the Queen of Soul music.
Gothamist reports that a couple wearing handcrafted “Abolish ICE” t-shirts were denied entry to the Statue of Liberty in July, a move that the National Park Service now says “never should’ve happened.” Yeah, no shit.
By far, the weirdest movie I saw during my absolutely fun and not exhausting Sundance jaunt in Utah (during the throes of winter) was An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn, a movie starring Aubrey Plaza in a weird role, Jemaine Clement in a strange role, and Craig Robinson in an even stranger role.
Omarosa Manigault Newman continues to be on one: days after releasing audio about Donald Trump reportedly using the N-word, she has released another secret recording of what she says is Trump daughter-in-law Lara Trump trying to “buy my silence.”
Neutrogena’s Hydro Boost water gel sunscreen is a pretty good facsimile of Biore’s cult favorite (and personally life changing) Watery Essence sunscreen, with one notable difference: It’s actually sold in the U.S.
A rousing, almost philosophical debate broke out in a recent email thread forwarded to Jezebel from the dads section of the Park Slope [Brooklyn] Parents listserv, when one father posed a significant ethical dilemma to the other dads: Is it okay to see Pearl Jam for the 19th time just four weeks out from when your…
After a recent trip to her local dispensary, my mom recalled how, when she was young, black-market cannabis was really only available by the “lid”—usually, a sandwich bag partly filled with ground-up plant, the official size of which tended to vary. Today, she can choose rich, cleverly named buds by the gram or…
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We’ll miss her kindness. We’ll miss her food metaphors. We’ll miss her splash mask. Join us as we say goodbye (for now) to the single most disgusting series in the history of basic cable, Dr. Pimple Popper.
An actor who reportedly asked to leave The Affair may have been written off the show over pay issues.
Patagonia’s Web Specials section is always full of amazing discounts on gear you’ll actually want to use. For their huge Winter Sale, they’re taking to 50% off those Web Specials and past season products. If you were waiting to pick up winter gear until it was discounted, now is your chance.
The undisputed Queen of Soul has died, but Aretha Franklin’s music and the iconic hat she wore at President Obama’s inauguration in 2009 will live on forever in our hearts and in our memes. Towering head wraps and massive church hats were Franklin’s bread and butter for decades, but it was this simple gray felt cap…
Is there something on Pearl’s face? Yes. And it’s called additional context.
It was January when Ashleigh lost her job at the grocery store, and March when she first started driving without a license. The chain of events felt like dominos coming down one by one, but there was nothing she could do to stop them. “My work permit expired, so my job put me on leave,” she says. “The DMV gave me a…
When my coworker Ashley Reese dropped this tweet into our work Slack, complete with an accompanying “smudge it” (a common cry for content we’d prefer to un-see), Senior Writer Kelly Faircloth responded, “Get her name out of your goddamn mouth.”
Unite the Right organizer and adult man who definitely lives with his parents Jason Kessler was caught on livestream getting yelled at by his dad, and I cannot stop laughing.
Discounted bras and bralettes from Urban Outfitters, a huge Patagonia sale, tea and tea accessories, and more lead Thursday’s best lifestyle deals.
Congratulations to Amazon kingpin Jeff Bezos for amassing a personal wealth of $154 billion dollars, more than the GDP of Guatemala! According to a new report by the Economic Policy Institute, he is among the 350 CEOs who earned, on average, 312 times more than their employees last year.
