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Girls Recap: Is Adam the Most Mature Character On the Show?

Girls Recap: Is Adam the Most Mature Character On the Show?
In "I Get Ideas," this season's second episode of Girls, Lena Dunham presents each character through the lens of immaturity, showing that it's their lack of experience and footing that gets in the way of the kinds of lives they...… Read Full Story

Style Scraps: The Story Behind That Sleeping Bag Thing On Girls

For her first public appearance on Inauguration Day, Michelle Obama wore a custom navy jacquard coat and dress by Thom Browne! Browne told Eric Wilson that "it's one of those moments when I just can't believe that happened." We're... Read Full Story

Crystal Castles' "Sad Eyes" Is Our Music Video of the Day

The Ethan Kath half of Toronto's Crystal Castles -- Alice Glass is the other half -- directed this clip for "Sad Eyes."  It's another  track from the duo's third album and comes while they're still out on a massive... Read Full Story

Watch James Franco Read His Obama Inauguration Poem In Bed

Yahoo commissioned a bunch of poets and James Franco to write poems for Inauguration Day. Watch Franco read his poem, "Obama in Asheville," in the video above (who knew he was a Sprite guy??). Below, a sample from his... Read Full Story

Morning Funnies: Lance Armstrong's Books Are Now Fiction

A library in Australia has moved Lance Armstrong's books to the fiction section. [Reddit]Petting charts for cats and dogs. [TastefullyOffensive]Jan Brady Te'oing. [DailyWhat]This flu season is really freaking us out. Everyone should wear oven mitts and a surgical mask on... Read Full Story

American Idol, Golden Globes, and more in GIFs

Welcome to our Friday GIF roundup, featuring a collection of this week's most important, amusing and/or newsy GIFs and GIF sets by Mike Hayes of Buzzfeed and Gifhound.Jodie Foster came out at the Golden Globes. She did. That's what happened.... Read Full Story

The Week In Superlatives

The Best, Worst and Weirdest of the Week.Cockiest Douche of the Week: Lance Armstrong appearing on Oprah -- Mr. MickeyBest Tweet of the Week: Kelly Cutrone (@peoplesrev) who tweeted, "This Lance Armstrong scandal feels longer than Jessica Simpson's first pregnancy."... Read Full Story

Eight Items or Less: Confetti System's New P.S. 1 Environment

1. New York art and design firm CONFETTISYSTEM created an "immersive environment" called "100 Arrangements" for MoMA PS1 (22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City). The company has worked on numerous events with PAPER/ExtraExtra including the 10th-anniversary party for Opening Ceremony.... Read Full Story

The Inaugural Steez Hip-Hop Playlist

In this weekly column, MC/DJ Hesta Prynn pairs pop culture stories with an original playlist.In hip-hop when we talk about "presidents," nine times out of ten we're talking about the dead kind. That, of course, was before Barack Obama took... Read Full Story

Scenes From Milan Fashion Week

New York Fashion Week might be a few weeks away, but in Milan, fashion has already turned to the Fall 2013 collections. PAPERMAG photographers Pierguido Grassano and Anzhelika Ardasheva bring you some of the beautiful faces on the runways in... Read Full Story