Imagine James Franco peacocking in black nail polish, eyeliner, and a furry top hat that was never in style per se, but looks this close to coming back in. Imagine him wearing all this, standing in a bar, attempting to facilitate a hook-up for a friend by gently insulting a woman (and her intelligence) in a process…
In the midst of his otherwise terrifying ascent, sloshing styrofoam takeout container filled with three-day-old mac and cheese Donald Trump has a woman problem. While we explore the continuing mystery of why ladies don’t want to vote for him, time for a reality TV flashback!
Alleged psycho killer Robert Durst (who is richer than God and bought his way out of prison twice before) was arrested on Saturday in a New Orleans hotel. Durst has been charged with the 2000 murder of his former spokeswoman, Susan Berman. Now, investigators may be looking into Durst as a possible suspect in the…
Regular denizens of these parts surely remember a recent installment of "Your Evening Cry" that we subtitled "A Life Told Through Twitter"—it was a subtle, lingering gut-punch of a video that chronicled (via a slideshow of her Twitter feed) a woman named Amanda's tragic battle with brain cancer. The story was…
Hey there, Eastern-seaboard beach-goers! Been enjoying your summer of cold beer, casual sex, outdoor music festivals, ice cream dinners, and mysterious dolphin carcasses? Of course you haven’t — who can enjoy ice cream dinners with so many rotting dolphin carcasses lining our beaches, fouling up the air and…
A Chinese TV show is being roundly ridiculed by the savvy people of the internet because they failed to recognize that a "mystery mushroom" they reported on was actually a sex toy. Whoops! The object was discovered in the ground by some rural villagers who were digging a well, and they couldn't identify it. One of…
Plenty of people have called pickup artists creepy, but few have embarked on a full theoretical analysis of their creepitude. Now, a communications researcher does just that. Herewith, her breakdown of how Mystery twists evolutionary psychology to his own coercive ends.
Activists are calling for an investigation into the alleged kidnapping of Syrian blogger Amina Arraf. But others are investigating something else: whether she even exists.
Dylan was a DJ with asymmetrical hair and over-sized glasses. I had the same hair with confetti crosses and rhinestones glued to my face, so it wasn't so weird that our mouths collided in a club. What was weird was learning that this kid I'd made out with a few times was on a reality TV show…about the "art" of picking…
This group of professional pick-up artists must be seen to be believed...and understood. Says one of the dudes (all of whom are congregating in a mall), "Really, I'm a Life Artist."
It's been tried before, but why has female pickup artistry never caught on? Recently, a group of San Francisco women found out.
Nerve's Caitlin MacRae decided to find out what happens when a woman uses the pickup-artistry techniques "pioneered" by guys like Neil Strauss and Mystery. The results: not good.
There's a new Marple in St. Mary Mead. The iconic spinster detective's brogues have been filled by such luminaries as Angela Lansbury and Geraldine McEwen, and now by veteran actress Julia McKenzie, who premieres in A Pocketful of Rye. [BBC]
A few months ago, an infamous want-ad appeared on Craigslist. The request for a "$30/hour" "wingwoman" was just the beginning.
Two previously unknown Hercule Poirot short stories have been found in one of Agatha Christie's homes. They will be included in the upcoming Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks: Fifty Years of Mysteries in the Making. [Guardian]
In a time when we all need comfort, publishers roll out The Complete Miss Marple — and the stealth sage of St. Mary Mead gets her due.
If a man like Mystery can make a living off of telling nerdy men how to score with chicks, why can't a 9-year-old boy write a dating book? Alec Greven recently published a book with HarperCollins called How to Talk to Girls that is full of plain-spoken, common sense tips to help boys with their dating woes. Some of…
Remember Mystery, from VH1's The Pick Up Artist? We got an awesome email from a male reader who was out in LA last night with his two female roommates. He went to go to the bathroom and when he returned, Mystery was hitting on the two girls, and trying to perform magic tricks that reminded our reader more of Gob from …
Our lil' buddy Neel Shah continues on with his pick up artist beat with a piece in Radar about a $3,000 crash course in dating. You're probably familiar with these sorts of things if you caught any part of the VH1 show, The Pick Up Artist, starring a ridiculously eyelinered man named Mystery. Well, Neel observed a…
"I always teach my students that sex comes first. Then you figure out whether the woman is worth marrying later." So says Satoshi Fujita (left), head of Tokyo's Pickup School For Men Who Can't Get Any. Fujita is like the Mystery of Japan: He helps insecure geeks get laid! And, like Mystery, Fujita has all kinds of…