It's Channing Tatum! It's Bon Iver! It's two dudes who couldn't be further opposite one another on the Hipster-Bro spectrum! Which means, we hope, that there's a little something for everyone tonight. So grab your popcorn and your Glüwhein (mhmm), and pray for the best. What's the over-under on a Super Bowl sketch being the cold open? Or, if you prefer, what's the over-under on a Shirtless Channing sketch? More »

And that's a wrap! Settle on in and hang out here for the night, by all means — the door's open. I'll leave you with my favorite getting-ready-to-go-out-pump-up song. Incidentally, it's also my favorite stay-in-and-get-pumped-up song. Enjoy! More »

Have you heard that video is a big thing over at Gawker Media? It's true, we watch and post a lot of videos each week. Here are some of the best videos of week, culled from an array of Gawker Media sites.
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Courtney Love's official Twitter account, @courtney, is almost as infamous as the rocker herself. Last year, after calling fashion designer Dawn Simorangkir a "prostitute," "drug-dealer," and "thief" via the microsharing site, Love agreed to pay Simorangkir $430,000 in the first ever Twitter defamation settlement. Since then, she's maintained a relatively peaceful Internet presence, with last week's "wheres that fucking groundhog.." being the nastiest she's gotten in a while. But, lest you think Love was getting all zen on us, it turns out she just had a password-protected outlet for her angst: a private Twitter account called @cbabymichelle, which only has 524 approved followers. In his new ebook, Courtney Comes Clean: The High Life and Dark Depths of Music's Most Controversial Icon, former Radar magazine editor Maer Roshan divulged that @courtney is written by the star's assistant and that @cbabymichelle is where she really lets loose. He explains that, although Love publicly quit Twitter after the Simorangkir debacle, "total abstinence was apparently too much to bear for the singer, who went on to maintain two separate Twitter accounts, which her pals dubbed ‘Good Sister' and ‘Bad Sister', after the title of one of her songs." More »

There's a new Saturday Night Live tonight. NBC. Channing Tatum. Bon Iver. You. This website. 11:15 pm. Game on. More »

Remember Antoine Dodson, he of the "Hide Yo Kids, Hide Yo Wife" viral video fame? Well, he's back, with a very serious slow jam called "Lovesick Lullaby," and a low-budget music video featuring someone named Brent Morgan. The whole thing feels very...Ginuwine, but YouTube commenters (internationally-recognized tastemakers that they are) seem to be into it: "Dang dude, I thought this was going to be meh, but you're AMAZING!!!!" one wrote. We wish Dodson the best of luck in his new non-sexual-assault-related endeavors. More »

A controversial new report claims that roughly 16 million Chinese women are married to gay men due to cultural pressure—that means that 9 out of every 10 gay men tie the knot with a woman. "Their wives are struggling to cope and their plight should be recognized," the professor behind the study told China Daily. His platform bothers some Chinese gay rights activists, who think the study oversimplifies the issue and perhaps even makes it worse. "To put gays' wives under the spotlight might cause more public misunderstanding or even hatred toward the gay population, which does not help defuse existing social discrimination against them," said Xiao Dong, a gay civil rights organizer. He added that the estimation is unsubstantiated and that he feels "it's pointless to research the issue." More »

Look, I love dogs and cats as much as the next guy — probably more, unless he also spends a good chunk of his day watching videos of Corgis on YouTube. But I have to marvel at the inflammatory tone of CNN's report on the U.S. pet obesity epidemic. (Be advised: this story contains sad references to pets dying young and adorable photos of Garfield-sized kitties.) The lede alone is journalistic perfection. More »

At this point, it's less than shocking that the Komen Foundation secretly hired an ultra-conservative, former George W. Bush White House press secretary to handle the Planned Parenthood debacle. We're just surprised Ari Fleischer — who was once briefly employed by Tiger Woods to help him reenter the PGA Tour — didn't do a better job. More »

American Studies professor Jo B. Paoletti has announced the publication of her book, Pink and Blue: Telling the Boys from the Girls in America. I've been eagerly anticipating getting my hands on a copy. It was from Paoletti that I learned that the idea that pink was a feminine and blue a masculine color was a relatively new invention in American history (one that even now does not necessarily extend to other countries). See, for example, this pink 1920s birthday card for a man (with a pre-Nazi swastika too). More »

Paris, February 4: Alberto Sgarbi of Italy is deliciously tackled by a gentleman who we believe is France's Aurelien Rougerie (correct us if we're wrong) during the RBS 6 Nations match at Stade de France. Oui, sì. More »

You may have noticed that something terrible happened in Syria last night. More »

Queens: they're just like us! The monarch's loyal subjects have been dying for a peek into 85-year-old Queen Elizabeth's classic Launer handbag for decades. But according to royal biographer Bedell Smith, the Queen's purse holds everyday items such as lipstick, a mirror, and a £5 note "to donate to the church collection on Sundays." (Sometimes she splurges as much as £10, if she's feeling really extravagant.) Smith says the purse also contains glasses, mint lozenges and a fountain pen, and that her ladies-in-waiting are responsible for other basics: extra gloves, needs and thread, etc. Seriously? There's not even a trashy romance novel or OK! Magazine stashed in there? More »

After over six hours of testimony on Thursday, the New Jersey state Assembly approved legislation that would allow for same-sex marriage (don't worry, Governor Chris Christie has already promised to veto this nonsense). During the course of the day, 15-year-old Madison Galluccio testified before the Assembly, making an emotional case for her fathers' right to be married: More »

A woman claiming to be Drake's ex-girlfriend and writing partner is suing the rapper for allegedly ripping her off (and for pretending they never dated, although that's not technically a criminal offense). In a lawsuit filed yesterday, Ericka Lee claimed that she and Drake agreed to write the song "Marvin's Room" together and split the cash. Lee recorded the hook, and says that Drake was thankful for her contribution: according to her, he sent her texts like, "U basically made that song" and "it's shit without you" while they were working together. Aw, how sweet. But Lee says she never got paid, even though the song was the first single off Take Care and scored No.7 on the Billboard R&B/Hip Hop Chart and 21 on the Hot 100. That was the end of the cute texts as well. According to the lawsuit, when Lee asked for more money, Drake called her and said, "What the fuck is your problem?" before trying to settling out of court for $50,000. More »

At the stroke of 10 p.m. Nevada caucus sites officially closed and CNN projected that Mitt Romney had won by double-digits. About four minutes later, the New York Times did the same. In the cable-news-era tradition of projecting election victories off entrance/exit polls and incomplete vote results, only about 8 percent of precincts were reporting at the time, according to the Nevada GOP. Right now, we're up to 14.3 percent of precincts reporting with Romney leading second-place Newt Gingrich 37-29. Which is, however, less than Romney's margin of victory in Florida.

At the time of writing this post, Ron Paul and Rick Santorum are trailing with 19 and 15 percent, respectively. In a few hours these numbers could be very different (see here for up-to-date results), but Romney has already kicked off his anti-Obama-heavy victory speech.  As for Gingrich, he won't be holding a "45 States to Go" rally tonight. Rather, a press conference where he is expected to lay out a new delegate strategy, likely one that involves him nibbling away enough of them to cost Romney the required 1,144.

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Rick Santorum may be a non-entity in today's Nevada caucuses, but he is the only Republican candidate actually besting President Obama in a match-up (45-44), according to Rasmussen's latest presidential tracking poll. Mitt Romney, on the other hand, would lose (47-43). [Rasmussen]

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Only about 6 percent of precincts are reporting right now and, sure, Newt Gingrich is trailing Mitt Romney 40-20 (with Ron Paul at a strong 26), but the night is still young, folks. So even though the former Speaker is expected to lose handily tonight, it did seem a little premature of the Times's Trip Gabriel to be repeating rumors of a possible Gingrich withdrawal, based almost solely on the fact that he scheduled a press conference rather than a more-traditional rally for tonight, and because of his "light schedule of public appearances in Nevada." When reached by the Washington Times this afternoon, Gingrich rejected the notion and even added (not terribly convincingly) that "Super Tuesday and beyond look good." R.C. Hammond, Gingrich's spokesperson, was also having none of it, tweeting: "NYT showing once again why they are unfit for print. Gingrich to campaign in CO, MN & OH this week. CPAC on Friday."

In Gabriel's defense, he himself lists Gingrich's upcoming schedule before closing with the line: "It doesn’t sound like a candidate preparing to drop out."

Still, there are at least two high-profile Nevadans who've made news today, either for clamoring for a Gingrich exit or simply for alluding to a post-Gingrich race. The first, Representative Joe Heck, a Romney surrogate, told a press gathering earlier today that "It's time for [Gingrich] to withdraw gracefully." The second figure, surprisingly, is Sheldon Adelson. Adelson is now perhaps best known as the deep-pocketed Vegas casino magnate who, along with his wife, largely bankrolled Gingrich's rise to victory in South Carolina two weeks ago. But he is getting nervous that no other one percenters have joined him in supporting the former Speaker and even spoke on the phone with Mitt Romney recently, reports the Times in a separate story today. The lede of that article asserts that Adelson has "relayed assurances to Mitt Romney that he will provide even more generous support to his candidacy if he becomes the Republican nominee."

One of Adelson's friends insists that he's still "committed to keeping [Gingrich] in the race as long as he wants to stay in," but if your staunchest and most financially significant backer is casting around for another horse to bet on, you can be damn well sure it's because he spotted that slight (or not so slight) limp that could well trip you up far before the finish line even comes into view.

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"I found that very endearing. Very sweet to have a wife do that for her husband and give that positive energy. I think we all need that in the world. To listen to the news broadcasters ... be negative towards that, I think it is really (bad)." —That's Kellan Lutz, who plays one of the quieter vampires in the Twilight saga, reacting to critics of an e-mail Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen sent asking friends and family to pray for a Super Bowl win for husband Tom Brady of the New England Patriots. Why "Page Six" thought Lutz's opinion was missing from whatever non-debate has been raging we'll never know, so let's just chalk it up to whatever mysterious force compels Post editors to make any number of hard-to-fathom editorial decisions, like using no less than seven feline descriptors in a story about the Catwoman burglar.

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A quarter of the voters in today's caucuses in Nevada were Mormons, according to entrance polls conducted by Edison Research, which is pretty much the minimum proportion of votes Mitt Romney can expect to get since 98 percent of Mormon caucusgoers went for him in 2008. While his total in the gambling-prostitution-and-everything-goes state is likely to be at least as high as his 51 percent win four years ago, we'll have to wait about an hour and a half before watching that particular bit of political theater play out. That's when Google's election page and the Nevada GOP's Twitter feed start releasing final results. As for all you political junkies and those with nothing better to do on a Saturday evening, get ready to crack open a Red Bull and start feverishly refreshing your browsers every ten seconds. You definitely don't want to miss the moment when that one infinitesimally small precinct nudges your favorite candidate's vote tally just that little bit higher.

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