Rush Limbaugh's personal attacks on Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke's character may have taken the nation aback, but Fluke says she wasn't shocked by much of what the talk show host had to say about her.

"Perhaps I am a cynic, because [Limbaugh's] attacks were not that surprising to me,"...

The brownstone was unassuming, to say the least: dim-lit from the outside, it gave no indication of the party gearing up inside. But a second glance at the invitation confirmed this was, indeed, the address for NY Bite Club's latest underground supper event.

Inside, the scene was more...

Friends and family of Jessica Ronhock have had one question on their minds since the 21-year-old college student vanished from Upstate New York in early January: Where is she?

Tragically, it appears they now have an answer. According to authorities, Ronhock's body was found Saturday in an SUV...

For Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown University law student who unwittingly stepped into the national spotlight when she argued the case for contraception coverage in front of Congress and was called a "slut" by Rush Limbaugh for her effort, the talk show host's slur wasn't only an insult. It...

We all have our own ways of coping with bad days, I guess.

Some might phone a friend or family member to let off steam. Others might head to the bar to tipple away their workday worries, or splurge on dinner out at a favorite sushi joint.

You can find...

We've seen plenty of weird crime mugshots and heard plenty of bizarre stories. But when it comes to criminal names, this one is ... a mouthful.

Beezow Doo-Doo Zopittybop-Bop-Bop, 30, was arrested Thursday afternoon on charges of carrying a concealed weapon, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession...

Here in New York, revelers kicking off 2012 with a raging hangover have plenty of options when it comes time to nurse that morning-after pain. So throw off those bedsheets, don your most ridiculously oversized sunglasses, pop two aspirin and call us after you've had your fill.

Have we...

Mere hours after Apple announced word of his passing, artists, illustrators and animators have already started to express their grief in the way they know best -- through their work instead of their words. Passed along through Twitter, Tumblr and Digg, these images -- often rendered on devices Jobs himself...

Today, Apple announced the death of its co-founder and CEO, Steve Jobs. Jobs resigned from his position at the company in late August, but rumors of the much-loved tech visionary's illness have been circulating for years. Here, a look at Jobs' declining health in the years leading up...

Stories that start at 3:45 in the morning rarely end well.

Late Saturday night, I found myself on a busy street corner in Brooklyn attempting to catch a cab home -- and failing miserably.

My Manhattan-bound friend grabbed a taxi without a problem -- at that time of night, every...

Typical walk-around wine tastings aren't for the faint of heart. They're serious affairs, complete with hundreds of unpronounceable varietals and appellations (and vintners who might act shocked if you don't know what those words mean).

Set foot inside the doors of one of these white-gloved, silver-plattered events, and it's...

It was 2006. Ree Drummond was home alone -- her husband, Ladd, had taken the kids to work that day -- and she was bored. She sat down at her computer and opened her first Blogger account.

Ree used it, at first, to share photos with family and friends. "I...

Oh, kids these days.

Forget the blush-worthy step of moving in together before marriage. The "new" trend among college-educated 20-somethings is a "stayover relationship," where couples spend several nights a week together (shock!) while holding on to their own apartments (gasp!).

The study behind this finding --...

It's rule number one for any woman heading to the bar: Don't leave your drink unattended, no matter what.

But that guideline may soon prove less necessary, if two Israeli scientists aren't overstating their claims.

Professor Fernando Patolsky and Doctor Michael Ioffe of Tel Aviv University's School of...

New Yorkers often say that nothing surprises them. But we're willing to bet that even the most hardened city dwellers were downright amazed by this impromptu performance by an MTA construction worker who's a dead ringer for Frank Sinatra -- all the way down to his crinkled blue eyes.

"Forget...

A national atheist group has filed a lawsuit to block the inclusion of the famous '9/11 cross' from a memorial at the World Trade Center site.

The cross, a fused steel t-joint which served to gird the towers before they fell, was unearthed from the rubble following...

Emeril Lagasse was the honoree at this year's Chefs and Champagne, an annual James Beard Foundation-sponsored event at the Wolffer Estate Vineyards in Sagaponack, N.Y., but that didn't stop the celebrity chef from joining 42 culinary superstars to serve small bites of his best food to more than...

Lady Gaga's never been one to shy away from making controversial statements. But it's her stance on sex that been making headlines in recent days.

Appearing on Howard Stern Monday morning, Gaga told the shock jock, "I've got a lot of young fans ... Honestly, you should...

For most childless couples, in vitro fertilization is an effective but prohibitively expensive road to motherhood that dangles tantalizingly out of reach.

Not so in Israel, the New York Times reports. As the "world capital" of in vitro fertilization, the country provides free IVF procedures for up...

Oprah Winfrey is tied to evil - that is, according to Mike Bickle, head of the International House of Prayer (IHOP). After a video of Bickle suggesting that Oprah is a forerunner to the "Antichrist" uncovered by the People for the American Way's Right Wing Watch surfaced earlier this week,...