Situation! Apparently many of South Florida’s finer nightclubs, hotels and restaurants are refusing to let MTV film whatever the new, Miami-set season of Jersey Shore is going to be called on their property, because the “location contract” MTV is asking people to sign basically (if...

Here at Forked & Corked we like to think we know a thing or two about men and the foods men like to eat. But today, thanks to the insightful minds at Men with Meat Names, we learned some stuff about both. First, there’s no shortage of guys with meat names. These are not names made of meat,...

The Moment did a great interview this week with Jean-Philippe Delhomme—better known by us as the dude who figures out how the hell to illustrate lockerroom etiquette, unibrow tweezing, and any other dilemma our readers bring to The Style Guy’s advice column—about his blog Unknown Hipster,...

While Noah Baumbach’s Greenberg will undoubtedly be remembered for inspiring 2010′s most memorably batshit film-critical hate-spasm, it’s also one of the best movies we’ve seen this year, thanks to a career-peak performance by Ben Stiller as an acridly unpleasant 40-year-old slacker...

Remember how we mentioned that Abercrombie had been shamed by Corporate Responsibility Magazine at least partially for a lack of corporate transparency? Not sure we’d be so forthcoming about our practices either if we were helmed by CEO Mike Jeffries. Turns out Jeffries racked up $1.1M in charges...

Larry King is filing for his eighth divorce. No word on the cause, but perhaps it’s Utah’s fault? GQ’s Chris Heath sat down with Larry King for the June 2009 issue—less than a year ago. Here’s what the 76-year-old CNN man said then about life out west: “You show me...

Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, a novel about a boy who survives 227 days in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, won the Man Booker Prize in 2002 and was almost universally praised, selling more copies than just about anything else that year. His second novel, Beatrice and Virgil (out this week) is a bit...

Back in March, director Juan Jose Campanella was surprised to find himself at the Oscar podium collecting a best foreign language film trophy from presenters Pedro Almodovar and Quentin Tarantino. (Campanella’s dark thriller, The Secret in Their Eyes, which opens in the U.S. tomorrow, upset the...

Between 1999 and 2009, photographer Mikael Kennedy took some 4,000 Polaroids; in an exhibit called Shoot the Moon (opening today), the Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art Gallery has put up 500 of them. Stop by the gallery in the Chelsea Hotel if you live in New York. Otherwise, take a look (and maybe even...

Each week, Ana Marie Cox, Dan Fierman, Jesse Lee, Alex Pappademas and Kevin “The Monger” Sintumaung gather to email about their favorite show. Make fun of them, and they’ll detonate an a-bomb on your ass. Dan Fierman: I will kick off this week’s Lost Conversation, which I am...