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Those of us who are fans of Emma Thompson but not fans of child rape were disappointed to learn the actress signed Bernard-Henri Lévy's petition to free Roman Polanski. But a Shakesville reader might just have changed Thompson's mind.
Last week, a...
About two weeks ago, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a new law allowing civil lawsuits against media outlets that commission or publish illegally taken photographs. This should be interesting.
Because, you know, what the world needs...
Five suspects are in custody for the gang rape of a 15-year-old girl after her homecoming dance in Richmond, California, and police say more than twenty people may have witnessed the assault. So why didn't anyone help her?
Four teenagers, aged 15, 16,...
Brace yourself for the most stomach-turning story in a long time: on Friday, a 15-year-old girl was brutally gang-raped after a homecoming dance in a suburb of San Francisco, while as many as 15 teenage boys stood around, doing nothing.
The victim was...
The teenager found in New York two weeks ago with no memory of her identity is lucky in one way — her family is coming to get her. Many young runaways have no one looking for them at all.
Ian Urbina writes a poignant story in today's Times about...
Today in Tweet Beat, Shanna Moakler apologizes for calling Khloe Kardashian a donkey on The Wendy Williams Show, Lindsay Lohan says she's "definitely" doing a third album, and Heidi Montag is buying a gun.
A bunch of previously-banned Christmas "pornaments" "featuring reindeer and snowmen in sexual positions" are back. The pastor who got them banned from Jacksonville three years ago "said he is even more disgusted by the items...
The man responsible for promoting Playgirl's Levi Johnston shoot recently said the magazine became irrelevant because "the women working on it weren't keeping up with the times" and didn't cater to its not-so-secret gay audience. One ex-staffer begs to...
