Now that it’s November, it’s fair to say that we’re officially in the season of fuzzy sweaters, novelty candy canes, and people coughing and sneezing in your general direction anytime you step into a public space. The holiday season brings people together! That’s wonderful. But hey, it brings their germs together, too.

My first taste of black licorice was as recent as 2012, when a friend offered me a Twizzler Bite as we sat watching the re-release of Titanic. I’d been pleasantly surprised by how much I still enjoyed the movie, so I figured I might be pleasantly surprised by the taste of this oft-maligned candy as well.

Jason Segel has been collecting admirers since he was a teenager playing a teenager on one-season, cult favorite TV show Freaks And Geeks. He went on to star in the long-running sitcom How I Met Your Mother and popular movies that some people might know by heart (guilty) like Forgetting Sarah Marshall and The Muppets.…

I wasn’t yet born when Live Aid took place, so in my mind it’s a sepia-toned example of music and idealism and the type of cultural unity we’ll never enjoy ever again (see also: Woodstock). But I did go see Bohemian Rhapsody last night—a record third movie in five days for me—and its portrayal of Queen’s performance…

A D.C. man fell onto the Metro tracks in June 2017 after a particularly boisterous dinner at a nearby Maggiano’s Little Italy restaurant. He sustained considerable injuries including “multiple facial fractures and severe head trauma.” He is now suing the chain for $2 million, claiming that he was overserved.

It has been 15 years since Buddy The Elf smiled and twirled and sang his way to becoming a modern Christmas classic. In honor of Elf’s anniversary, a Chicago restaurant has put its saccharine train wreck—the syrup- and candy-topped spaghetti breakfast Buddy created in the movie—on the menu.

Two Florida residents recently sued McDonald’s over the chain’s Quarter Pounder With Cheese, stating they were charged full-price for the sandwich even when they requested it without cheese. They argued that because the McDonald’s app shows that some locations charge 30 cents less for a Quarter Pounder sans cheese, a…

Thanksgiving is as early as it can possibly be this year (November 22!), so many holiday cooks are already searching for recipes for the year’s biggest dinner. But what are they searching for? We received the following map from a company called Satellite Internet, an internet service provider. It’s not a known polling…

Sometimes one comes across a weird story and there’s an underlying layer of sadness that renders any curiosity about the weirdness kind of gross—a person does a strange thing in a Target, say, and it becomes obvious that the person in question is seriously troubled, so gawking about it is pretty shitty. But every now…

Need a job? You might be able to get some free Nacho Fries out of it—or put another way, if you need some Nacho Fries, they could potentially come with a piping-hot side of bright yellow, slightly gelatinous employment.

In today’s edition of Incompetent Criminals, a wannabe burglar crashed through the ceiling of a Waffle House in Tuscumbia, Alabama. According to the Times Daily of Florence, Alabama, he was headed toward the office of the Waffle House restaurant after climbing through the ceiling of the bathroom, where he damaged the…

Today, America is home to more breweries than at any other time in its history. Brewers Association, the trade group for small and independent breweries, just announced that the country has surpassed the 7,000 breweries milestone (7,082, to be exact)—with 2,000 more breweries in planning stages. Whenever the brewery…

Endless Shrimp at Red Lobster should be considered a national holiday. If you’ve never been to this glorious celebration of crustacean gluttony, you better run over to one right now. It’s $15.99 for all you can eat. No strings attached. One or 100. It’ll be over on November 18, so you don’t have too much time left.…