Category: News

Cablevision is said to have finally abandoned its acquisition of city-blog shop Gothamist. Entertainingly enough, Gothamist founder Jake Dobkin can reportedly blame a few tweets for scotching the deal.

While you may not recognize Vanessa Branch’s name, you almost certainly know her face and voice. Anyone who’s turned on a TV in the past eight years has seen the actress as the blond, perky Orbit gum spokeswoman with gleaming teeth that are the color of pearls.

Somewhere between a 1970s flight attendant and Glinda the Good Witch, Vanessa’s character possesses the amazing ability to make us believe that peppermint gum could actually be part of a healthy dental regime.

The next time you snag a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken, you might want to give a thought to just where the bucket came from. According to the forest activists in the Dogwood Alliance, a sizable percentage of the Colonel’s U.S.-market red-and-white tubs were sourced from trees in the environmentally pristine Green Swamp in far southeastern North Carolina.

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Facebook dispute resolution 101: Ram the offending person’s car off the road into a dump truck and kill them.

A 23-year-old Pontiac woman is expected to be arraigned Friday in a fatal car crash that stemmed from a dispute on the social networking site Facebook, police said Thursday.

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The shopping channel QVC polled over 2,000 men and woman on, among other perceptions, the optimal age for feminine beauty.

Bankers & Wall Street have been getting away with cheating so long they don’t even think it’s cheating anymore.