Author Brian Abrams

Grand Theft Auto IV hit stores this week and everyone went apey for it. I was pretty excited about the testosterone-fueled title myself, especially considering that its "Liberty City" setting was supp...

Last week, The Howard Stern Show held an "Ugliest Guy, Hottest Wife" contest in which three couples competed for a $5,000 prize. Connecticut school teacher Marie Jarry (and her worse half) took home t...

It's no longer April, but it's still 420. Or at least it is for 17-year old Austinite Heather McCurry who sold pot brownies to schoolmates this week for just $4 a piece. A shame that the fuzz charged her with a...

Apparently Nick Paumgarten's story in The New Yorker last month about Manhattanite Nicholas White's getting stuck in a Midtown elevator for 41 hours sparked quite a bit of interest from readers. In response, th...

If Dave Chappelle's Black Gallagher is any indication, a new generation of comics is actually paying more attention to Leo Gallagher, who has been on the road for two decades relentlessly popping one-liners and...

The last we checked on Tom Cruise and his Nazi biopic Valkyrie, the real-life son of the film's main character Claus Von Stauffenberg was telling the crazed actor to "go climb a mountain."Since then, ...

If dirty matzoh dressing is not quite dirty enough for you, some fubes back in my Texas hometown celebrated Passover in an even less traditional light--enter the matzoh ball sake bomb. ...

While I'm still reminiscing about the exquisite, Southern-style, Dirty Matzoh Dressing I sampled at Josh's mom's Seder last night, allow me to call your attention to the Kentucky-based zine, Bejeezus, which cov...

This week in Oviedo, Florida, a spitball fight broke out among some girls at Chili's. One 18-year old brat was arrested for chucking a water glass at one of her peers, which struck an innocent bystander's baby ...

Anyone who's a regular listener of The Howard Stern Show on Sirius Satelitte Radio is aware of sidekick Artie Lange's short fuse, but the comedian's combustions in past (like the one last Halloween when he thre...

I can sort of sympathize as I've been getting douchechills over those cornball Mike Huckabee endorsements from Chuck Norris, lately. But the two New Jersey kiddos arrested this week for keeping a hit list that ...

Josh Brolin is set to star as The Idiot. James Cromwell will play his dad. Meanwhile, some historians are miffed at that the script portrays the president as a "foul-mouthed, reformed drunk obsessed with b...