Stalker email, five minutes ago: "In case anyone cares...Whitney Port is at Tenjune right now." Is she drunk? Ha ha. Hard to tell. She is bumbling around, staring blankly into space, and looks as if it is taking all of her brain power to not fall over. But heck she looks like that when she is sober....

The hero of the Hudson Plane Ditch was seen today as just a passenger on a plane. But NOT on his employer's airline, US Airways. No, the villain was flying Virgin America!: Spotted: Capt Sully on Virgin America Flight 11 from JFK to SFO this morning. Was sitting in seat 13F until he got bumped to fi...

This is one in an occasional series on MediaShift where I discuss issues in-depth with thought leaders in online media. The format has changed to give you a profile of the person, as well as more of our dialogue -- including audio clips. If you have suggestions for future Q&A s or want to partic...

I don’t know why I am posting this outside of the fact I love seeing what people make for their jobs.  There are a surprising number of non profit heads and directors who make way north of $250,000, and now it is interesting to see what Nina Link of  Magazine Publishers of America makes for a li...

Perhaps you saw the trashing of Scott Monty on Jalopnik by Ray Wert (full disclosure, I did some work for Ford last summer under the Social Media Group masthead). The issue seems to be the factual questioning of Monty’s superhero status as reported in a F@st Company blog (image: tension by DCJ...

  Just in time for Valentine's Day: a new "study" we'll all agree to hate, saying foreplay is completely unnecessary, validating horndogs everywhere... The findings appear in this week's issue of the Journal of Sexual Medicine. (Wait, there's a Journal of Sexual Medici...

[Submit your own Gawker Stalker sightings to stalker@gawker.com] Feb. 7 @ 8:30pm Barbara Bush, Henry & Jenna, table of dudes and six waiters did a shot to Obama at Gradisca. What was the toast? "Obama, L'Chayim." The wine was flowing liberally. None of them needed that shot. Can't make this shit up....

  Mickey Rourke doesn't care if he wins an Oscar or not... he just wants more of this incredible display of wintry boobs... Mickey is in France, probably trying to work out a deal with Louis Safer (i.e. director Roman Polanski, who has a rumored film in the works), and the groupies are foll...

David Denby recently appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #261. David Denby is most recently the author of Snark. Please also see our lengthy essay, in response to Adam Sternbergh’s review. This conversation represents an effort to get Denby to answer questions raised by both pieces. Condition of ...

New book Six Degrees of Paris Hilton profiles Darnell Riley, a shady criminal and pseudo-celebrity hanger-on who knows many wicked Hollywood-sleaze secrets. The tome spins many damning stories about the hood-lidded socialite's sordid existence. The book, out next month, is by Mark Ebner and he delve...