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Michael Moore has released a new film and it’s just like the last film. Well, not exactly. As the New York Times details in an article about his recent Toronto Film Fest appearance coupled with an interview, this time, Moore is going even bigger by addressing the systemic failure of the American dream. Instead of [...]

Anyone who’s been to the Former Eastern Bloc knows that it’s cheap, but few care enough to ask why.  The New York Time’s Berlin Bureau Chief, Nicholas Kulish, describes a destitute picture of the daily life in East German city of Hoyerswerda, after touring with a former resident. Hoyerswerda was once a model for healthy [...]

No one likes to get bad news after well, a lot of bad news, but that’s exactly what the New York Times has been splashing all over its front page. It would have taken a lot to sugar-coat it, so the Times gave it to us straight: after a year-long perfect storm  Wall Street is [...]

As if we needed more proof of the pending fashion world apocalypse (because bargaining on the floor of Saks Fifth Avenue last Christmas wasn’t enough), the self-titled “queen of snark” Maureen Dowd questions the relevancy of one Anna Wintour, Vogue editor-in-chief, deemed The Last Empress in her Sunday column. Dowd uses the new documentary on [...]

All you eager young hopefuls out there better gear up, because the stakes just got a little bit higher. The New York Times reports that, in the last couple of years, intern head hunting agencies have given wealthy students a leg up. In the wake of the financial crisis, and with more and more students [...]

Amidst all the frenzy over cost-cuttings and business-foundering, another industry that has been emblematic of the recent boom takes a hit. And who better to act as its arbiter than one of the most celebrated chefs of the last decade, the over-stretched and overexposed reality-show starring Gordon Ramsay? As reported today in the Wall Street [...]

Exactly one month ago, FICRY published a piece asking one hotly-debated question: Is College Really a Waste of Time or are the Right-Wing Pundits Trying to Make Us Stupid? Now from the BBC comes the shocking story of one woman who sued her college for being a waste of time. According to the article, 27-year-old [...]

When you’re starting a blog people always tell you to “find your niche” and fame and fortune will follow. If you want to make it in the highly fickle and judgmental online world and become a bonafide internet celebrity (which would still only make you a D-list celebrity), you’ve got to do something that’s never [...]

Just in case you were a little bit fuzzy about how the whole debt-shifting, executive-compensating, tax-payer-scamming bailout is working, here comes Gawker with a handy little embellished chart and an explanation of just one of the many ways your tax dollars are being flushed down the gilded toilet.
As Gawker details in the tongue-in-cheek “Your Tax [...]

Those who were unsure of whether or not the financial climate would have a profound effect on the cultural zeitgeist around the world need look no further: straight from the BBC comes a report that 5,000 new words have been officially added to the ever-changing German language, many of them having to do with the [...]