We sent Rod Townsend and videographer Nick McGlynn out on Saturday night/Sunday morning to find out what really happens at the Black Party, the enormous annual S&M-themed gay circuit party that rocks the gays of our fine city at the end of every winter. The answers may be totally Not Safe For Work. Video cut by the estimable Richard Blakeley.

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While ABC 7's shocking news footage of yesterday's arrest depicts Hollywood Blvd.'s own Angry Batman as a hero consumed by picketer-taunting, cop-resisting rage, the Whip It Out Comedy blog remembers a time when a certain Chinese Theatre-haunting caped crusader was a more laid-back type, given to taking breaks from keeping his section of the Walk of Fame safe from fake villians by dipping into the stash in his utility belt and chilling out with some of his superfriends.

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The fitfully peaceful, tourist-clogged badlands in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre were once again plunged into a state of superhero-induced lawlessness yesterday, when a frustrated Batman, momentarily abandoning his longtime mission of the avenging the downtrodden, angrily whipped off his cape, raised his bewinged gauntlets, and threatened to enact his trademark brand of vigilante justice upon the nefarious picketers who would deny him a long, satisfying BatDump. Reports ABC 7 (there's incredible video on their website as well) on the caped crusader's shocking arrest:

We've spent the last few weeks sharing your stories of unpleasant employers. But what of the man and woman on the street? Surely they have equally tragic tales to share. We sent The Assimilated Negro and Richard Blakeley onto the streets of New York to find out.

Oh, look! It's '90s icon and Morrissey enthusiast Chloe Sevigny talking with '90s icon Gavin McInnes about some random girl's too-big glasses, in some sort of Vice Do's and Don'ts mind-fuck. We assume the whole time Gavin's thinking about how he can screw the crap out of her after the segment's over, but she'd have to put on the halter top she wore in Kids first.

Newsbot Katie Couric appeared on "The Colbert Report" and it didn't take long before the host was challenging America's third-favorite network news anchor to flash her gams for the camera. Katie demurred; clearly, she's still stung by those bitchy comments from Alessandra Stanley.

In the post-post Brokeback mash-up era, setting the trailer for a movie in which nearly every frame is filled with the CGI-enhanced six-packs of three-quarters-naked, glistening Greeks to "It's Raining Men" might be a little too easy. But in truth, a flick whose pivotal scene involves a proud King refusing an initiation to kneel down in supplication before a freshly waxed, liberally pierced god-warrior draped in spangly chains (who, it should be noted, travels the countryside in a mobile Vegas hotel shuttled to and fro by strong-backed rentboys) by defiantly shrugging off a seductive shoulder rub and reciting the lyrics to "I Will Survive" is kind of asking for it.

· The Screengrab blog compiles a two-part top ten list of the worst accents in movie history, including Keanu Reeves' hilarious effort in Bram Stoker's Dracula, which produced a result so bizarre that his dialect coach was executed following its premiere.
·The Office's Jenna Fischer finds a way to increase her already impressive nerd fanbase.
· Winona Ryder's rack is poised to make a big-time comeback.
· Still no bids on Gwen Stefani's petrified wedding donuts.

By now you have undoubtedly watched the now-infamous footage of Lily Tomlin and David O. Russell's love-in on the set of I Heart Huckabees dozens and dozens of times (if not, hey, there's a video hovering right above these words! Convenient!), delighting anew at every bird flipped in frustration and each heartfelt, profane accusation of directorial incest. The clips' rapid proliferation via the YouTubes prompted the Miami New Times to ask Tomlin what she thinks about having the three-year-old laundry run out on the interweb clothesline for a fresh airing:

This week, the Gawker bowling team took on Maxim, BBC America, and the day-spa-sponsored smug jerks at Time Out New York, who smell and are bastard children. Gawker video thug Richard Blakeley has the highlight reel as usual.

American Idol's newest breakout star, tear-drenched 13-year-old superfan Ashley Ferl, has embarked on the first leg of her worldwide publicity tour, appearing on this morning's Today Show to chat with Meredith Vieira about fulfilling her dream of hugging feather-haired, music-destroying karaoke demon Sanjaya Malakar, a brief embrace that will nonetheless permanently arrest her emotional development. Her eyes spinning like pinwheels powered by the hellwinds rising from whatever chamber of Hades Malakar calls home in his Idol downtime, Ferl explained how she handles the blasphemies of those who would speak out against her warbling master, who was vindicated by last night's baptism into the Top Ten : "I just like, say they're wrong or just ignore them."

The Nigella Lawson episode of the Food Network's Chefography series was a joy from start to finish. Did you know that Saatchi-wife Nigella basically only pals around with hilarious homos? Here, soon to be ex-Star editor in chief Joe Dolce (identified only as 'Nigella's friend') talks about the long words that Nigella has taught people, and gets in a dig at Martha Stewart.

Our (stolen) video tour of the new Times headquarters building concludes with a look at employee workstations. Good-at-pretending-to-be-friendly NYT CIO David Thurm guides us around a sample cube. No space is wasted in these state-of-the-art reporter cages; there are plenty of nooks and crannies in which to hide your coke, and a shiny roll-out surface on which to snort it! Architect Renzo Piano has thought of everything.

Part-This Old House part-Walkabout and part Crash, the series follows David Basche and wife Alysia Reiner as they gut, renovate and gentrify a house at 126th Street or so.

Last night, Larry King (fresh out of the hospital!) had a very special guest on his show: one-legged Heather Mills, recently committed to a season of Dancing With the Stars. Of course, Larry couldn't resist pulling out the clip from his 2002 interview with Heather, in which she very kindly removed her leg (the fake one!) for him to stroke. Fortunately, he's well aware of the cultural impact of this "historic moment."

Gawker videographer Richard Blakeley recorded the AM New York vs. The Onion competitive eating showdown, in which eaters had to make their way through an entire vending machine full of goodies. Watch it if you like to see people puke, or if you're intrigued by the prospect of catching a glimpse of an utterly random celebrity in the background. Hint: he has lived life bass ackwards.

Let's take another stroll through the new New York Times headquarters! In this installment, the always affable Times CIO David Thurm introduces us to the stunning new (non-high school style!) cafeteria. It sounds like the food is going to be so good that Alex Kuczynski will need to get lipo again.

If last week's Ford-sponsored bastardization of Modest Mouse's "Float On" delivered a point-blank gut-shot to popular music vulnerable belly, then Sanjaya Malakar's (whom we previously believed to be just a harmless, tone-deaf—yet alarmingly well-coiffed!—kid, but now realize is the earthbound emissary of some vengeful god sent to destroy us all) Tuesday night Idol performance of The Kinks' "You Really Got Me" stood astride its body as it lay bleeding in the gutter, rolled it over so that it could bite the curb, and then delivered the swift kick to the back of its head that finally ended its suffering. The strong of stomach can relive the harrowing ordeal through the clip presented above, in which an adorable little girl's salty tears stood in for those streaming down the collective cheeks of America on the night of music's grisly televised execution.