Michael Monje

Gordon Ramsay Wakes Up From Kitchen Nightmares Just In Time To Check Into Hotel Hell

Gordon Ramsay announced on Monday that he was ending Kitchen Nightmares after a decade of production. The move to end the show has provoked strong reactions from fans, many of whom have been commenting via Twitter. Inquisitr reported on Ramsay’s initial announcement yesterday, quoting the chef’s blog as saying: “I’m currently filming 4 new episodes, […]

9y ago

colorado|Crime|News

Red Rocks Amphitheater Shooting Leads To Venue Lockdown

A shooting at the Red Rocks outdoor amphitheater Thursday night put the entire venue on lockdown. The public shooting resulted in three wounded but no deaths. It happened at the end of the “Feed the Rocks” concert featuring Nas, Schoolboy Q, and Flying Lotus. The Huffington Post reports that the victims’ wounds were not life-threatening. […]

9y ago

Arizona|colorado|News|olympics

Injured Olympian Amy Van Dyken: Life Threatening Accident ‘Almost Like A Rebirth’

Olympic swimmer Amy Van Dyken flew to Craig Hospital Wednesday to start rehabilitation therapy for her severed spine. She was in high spirits when she arrived at the hospital, where she made her first public appearance since the June 6 accident and spoke with excitement about the “challenge” of rehabilitation. The hospital’s Local ABC affiliate […]

9y ago

Should LeBron Go? It Depends On What The Miami Heat Does Next

LeBron James has the ability to opt out of the final two years of his contract, and the internet sports community is sharply divided over whether or not he should do that. Most sources are quick to note that the Heat needs to retool its roster and that a commitment from the management to do […]

9y ago

Baseball|Bud Selig|gambling|mlb

Pete Rose’s Baseball Comeback: One Time Stunt Or Sign Of Things To Come?

Pete Rose returned to baseball last night, managing the Bridgeport Bluefish, an independent Atlantic League team. Rose, whose lifetime ban from baseball came about because of a gambling scandal, made jokes about Donald Sterling’s recent ban from the NBA. He also talked about the possibility of Bud Selig pardoning him before his retirement in January. […]

9y ago

chelsea manning|iraq|middle east|stock market|syria

Chelsea Manning Breaks Her Silence To Speak Up About Iraq, The Media, And The Military

After almost a year of silence, Chelsea Manning is back in the media. This time, she’s writing her own coverage from prison. In a New York Times op-ed published yesterday, Manning explains the process by which she came to question our military’s involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan. The former military analyst, now serving a 35-year […]

10y ago

netflix|Orange is the New Black|prison|reviews|tv

Orange Is The New Black Review Roundup: Empathy, Intensity, Delivery, And A Host Of Other Compliments

In the nine days since Orange is the New Black‘s second season premiered on Netflix, the reviews have been coming hard and fast. Some critics are choosing to mainline the show in one sitting in order to give us their impressions of the season as a whole, and others are pacing themselves, writing episode recaps […]

10y ago

crimea|russia|ukraine

Russian Tanks Enter Ukraine, Officials Claim

CNN is reporting that the Ukrainian Interior Minister, Arsen Avakov, has issued a statement accusing the Russian government of ordering tanks to enter Ukraine through a border checkpoint controlled by pro-Russian separatists. According to CNN, Avakov’s statement described two columns of armored vehicles entering Ukraine and claimed that two tanks split off from the main […]

10y ago

Amtrak Proposes Faster WiFi Speeds Along Northeast Corridor

Amtrak has announced plans to upgrade their existing WiFi service with a call for bids that is ambitious in some ways, but moderate in others. The ambitious part is the nature of the network that Amtrak is hoping to build. As PCmag.com reports, Amtrak’s call for proposals seeks to build a “wireless trackside network along […]

10y ago

Marco Rubio|Politics|Ted Cruz

Wendy Davis Milks The Republican Outrage Cow

It seems like Wendy Davis, the Texas gubernatorial candidate whose political star was launched by a flamboyant filibuster last year, just can not get enough mileage out of Republican outrage. That must be it. Why else would Senator Davis speak up at an event by and for a group that Republican lawmakers have been accused […]

10y ago

Miguel Cotto’s Fight Performance: What It Means For Him And For Boxing

Speculation has been flying wild for the last few days as bloggers and sports analysts do their best to make sense of what Miguel Cotto’s total destruction of Sergio Martinez means for the sport of boxing. Inquisitr covered the original fight in detail (read our exclusive fight roundup here), noting that this is the first […]

10y ago

baltimore|Baseball|manny machado|mlb|Oakland A's

Manny Machado’s Bat Throwing: Anger? Or Frustration? [VIDEO]

There has been much speculation about what Manny Machado’s bat throwing incident yesterday might mean, and whether or not to believe his explanation that it was an accidental slip. The Baltimore Sun has a good roundup of the incident, including the blow-by-blow and the backstory, which involves Machado receiving a hard tag at third base […]

10y ago

mick jagger|switzerland

Friends of Singer Say Mick Jagger’s Mystery Woman Was A “Fling”

Mick Jagger seems to be losing no time getting back on his feet again after the death of his recent partner. The 70-year-old Rolling Stones singer was photographed with a mystery woman in Zurich just last weekend. According to The Sun, Mick Jagger picked up the mystery brunette in a nightclub while the Rolling Stones […]

10y ago

‘Flappy Bird’ Knockoffs Proliferate Even As Creator Fights Back

Gears Studio, the company owned by Flappy Bird creator Nguyen Ha Dong, has begun hunting down clones of the game in order to protect the developer’s intellectual property this week, coincidentally beginning their legal battle just as a clone of the game called Feisty Chicken was released to promote Netflix’s hit series Orange is the […]

10y ago

jennifer lawrence|Movies|Twitter

Hunger Games Fever: Script Spoilers, An Exhibit, And Really? A Possible Theme Park?

The Hunger Games franchise is catching fire anew this week, with restless fans pushing for script spoilers and trailer dates and chaos on the set leading to havoc and cast injury. Fox News reports that a source close to the set in Germany told an affiliate station that a number of actors, including Michelle Forbes […]

10y ago

Hollywood|Movies

Evan Rachel Wood Breaks Contract, Gets Sued For $30 Million

Evan Rachel Wood is being sued by the producers of a movie called 10 Things I Hate About Life, in which she was to play a lead part. The suit alleges that Wood refused to come back to work after a production break. It is being widely reported that Evan Rachel Wood’s representatives are characterizing […]

10y ago

china|human rights|United States|White House

Tiananmen Square 25 Years Later: Mourning, Struggle, But Little Progress

The Chinese government tightened security in and around Beijing this week, in anticipation of the 25 year anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protest of June 3-4, 1989. Fox News reports that the government’s tight security affected not only mourners who traveled to the public square, but also the friends and family of many of the […]

10y ago

south dakota

Annette ‘Food Stamp Recipients Are Animals’ Bosworth Arrested, Released Immediately

Annette Bosworth — the former South Dakota candidate for a federal Senate seat who compared food stamp recipients to wild animals who should not be fed —has been arrested and released (presumably after being tagged for research charged). The warrant for her arrest, which was issued shortly before Bosworth turned herself in at the Hughes […]

10y ago

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Janelle Ambrosia Asks For Shovel, Digs Hole With ‘Bipolar’ Excuse.

Yesterday was a bad day for Janelle Ambrosia, and today doesn’t look to be much better. The Inquisitr reported yesterday on her racist tirade (in front of her children) in the parking lot of a Dollar General store in upstate New York. (Video and more at the link.) Since then, the hammer has continued to […]

10y ago

finance|stock market

Dividend-Paying Stocks: The Gift That Keeps On Giving

Dividend-paying stocks might just be the best investment available right now, if you can afford them. This morning, Inquisitr covered the well-above-expectations earnings reports from Michael Kors Holdings, commenting on the range of Wall Street analysis in the matter and on the feasibility of buying a stock that is, by most reliable accounts, nearing its […]

10y ago