Jeremy Taylor

For the past couple of weeks, fried chicken has dominated the culture wars. It all started when Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy harshly criticized gay marriage, drawing the ire of cause’s supporters. The eatery has further stirred controversy by donating millions of dollars to groups that don’t support gay marriage.

A redditor who goes by the handle of Freebass was staying at the W in Minneapolis Wednesday when he noticed a familiar face in the hotel’s otherwise empty bar. It was none other than Dave Chappelle, and Freebass started chatting with the comic legend around midnight. The conversation just kept flowing and when last call was came at 2 AM Chappelle suggested that he, Freebass and a couple other rand

While the real Santa is a jolly old elf, some of his impostors who begin to pop up all around the non-frozen parts of the planet come Christmas time are a tad rough around the edges. In fact, some of these mall jockeys and liquored-up revelers are downright sketchy. We’ve compiled a list of ten of these questionable Santas featured on the excellent Sketchy Santas blog so that folks with common dec

Over the past decade or so, there has been some debate as to whether the government, public schools and retailers should use the word “Christmas,” or if they should use something more inclusive, like “the holidays.”

Marvel Studios released a full-length trailer for ‘The Avengers’ Tuesday, giving fans their first look at Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans and the rest of the all-star superhero team battling evil.

LeBron James looked like a man who’d bit off more than he could chew after he climbed to the top of the (medium) high dive at a pool in Barcelona, Spain.

Nickolas Ashford, who along with his wife Valerie Simpson made up the Motown songwriting team Ashford & Simpson, succumbed to throat cancer Monday at age 70. The duo penned such classic hits as ‘Ain’t No Mountain High Enough,’ ‘Ain’t Nothing Like The Real Thing’ and ‘I’m Every Woman,’ and had their music recorded by Diana Ross, Ray Charles, Whitney Houston, Smokey Robinson and Marvin Gaye, amo

Barack Obama became the most high-profile member of Foursquare when he joined the location-based social network on Monday.

Attractive people are less likely to cooperate with others, and more likely to focus on their own interest, according to a new study Spanish researchers had volunteers participate in “Prisoner’s Dilemma“-type games and found that those with the most symmetrical facial features generally took the selfish option, whereas less symmetrically-faced folks tended to cooperate for the greater good. Read

Okay, I'm just a little ol'DJ on the radio, but If I was a baller I would definitely be on the Forbes Hip Hop List. Just take a look at the way these artist are moving up and down the chain. When it comes to making money in the hip-hop game, everybody is staring up at Jay-Z’s throne.

Designer Stuart Hughes, who specializes in bringing bling to everything from beds to yachts to liquor bottles, is now offering a gold- and diamond-encrusted iPad 2 for the princely sum of $8.1 million called the Gold History Edition.

‘Single Ladies (Put A Ring On it),’ Beyonce’s slickly-produced single about female empowerment, spent four weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100 chart and was named Rolling Stone’s best song of 2008. Turns out the tune also holds up surprisingly well when sung by a male ukulele player. Check out the bizarre, but enthusiastic, cover below.