Clouds of thick black smoke and jets of fire began pouring from a chemical plant south of Dallas on Monday. The flames prompted area evacuations, including students attending classes at both a nearby elementary school and a college.
A new children’s book, written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak, the author of Where the Wild Things Are, is about an occasionally demented-looking (but fun-loving!) pig’s blowout birthday bash. It seems to have a few parents grumbling.
It’s an initially nerve-wracking but ultimately moving YouTube video that deserves to go viral: a U.S. soldier captures himself calling his father to tell him he’s gay as ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ is officially repealed.
Say hello to the new Godzilla-sized, to-heck-with-your-diet Wendy’s burger.
“People never notice anything,” says Holden Caulfield in J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye. We’re betting they’ll notice this.
Some 230 dogs and puppies held in temporary foster care should go to the Hawaiian Humane Society, a judged has ruled, in a case against breeders accused of running a filthy puppy mill in violation of animal cruelty laws.
You’re looking for a place to eat in the Bay Area, perhaps something Tex Mex, or better still, Mexican. You drop the words “Mexican Food” into your browser, which perhaps summons this strange McSweeney’s-esque review of the …
Move over Robert Redford. Here comes Leo DiCaprio, and this time he’s not playing a poetic lovelorn punk.
Happy 75th birthday, Buddy Holly. We sure do miss you.
It’s razed hundreds of homes, blackened tens of thousands of acres, and forced some 5,000 people to evacuate. And with all that, it’s now officially the worst single wildfire in Texas state history.
Three words you don’t often encounter in a sentence? “Famous Australian outlaw.”
Don’t look now, but Katia—that’s pronounced KA-tee-uh—just tipped from intensely simmering over to boiling in the middle of the Atlantic, becoming the second named hurricane of the season.