Call it the Great Grocery-Store Giveaway of 2016. In Austin, Texas, Randalls slashed prices for boneless beef ribs by 40 percent, to $3.99 a pound. Not to be outdone, the H-E-B grocer down the street charged $1 a pound less. Not long ago, Albertsons advertised a deal you dont normally…

A collective of India-based engineers, scientists, and designers known as Graviky Labs have developed a pen thatuses ink made out of recycled air pollution. They developed a system thatis able to capture the particulate matter of car exhaust fumes. It consists of a sensor-activated unit that attaches to the car…

From a rocky wonderland with views of Las Vegas to the green ridges of the Appalachians, our readers share their tips for great walks Winning tip: Angels of Utah This five-mile round-trip hike within Zion national park takes you from the Virgin river to the top of Angels Landing (nearly…

Laurie Bell became one of the most expensive 12-year-olds in British football history when Manchester City signed him from Stockport County, but he had to wait a decade and move 4,000 miles away to make his professional debut In the dressing room of a baseball stadium in the American South,…

We don’t usually get to find out what happened to our favorite fictional characters after their stories wrapped up. For all we know, the Breakfast Club gang formed an actual gang, beat the principal to death, and now they’re all in jail. Checking in on the heroes of your youth…

When you order food in a restaurant, you have certain expectations. There’s probably an image you have in your head when you ask the server for a “coffee with cream” or a “taco with sour cream on the side.” So did these people. What they got was a little more…literal….

I could always watch Kate McKinnon and Larry David play Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, respectively. These two are already independent comic geniuses, and when you put them together, you get comedic gold. The “Saturday Night Live” political skit takes place in a bar where Hillary and, as you quickly…

Every March, you’ll hear the praises of Irish whiskey, Baileys, and Guinness sung in the run-up to St. Patrick’s Day, our annual bacchanal of corned beef and cabbage, green beer, green rivers, step-dancing and drunken singing. But it’s different this year. New Irish distilleries are popping up, and the large…

Ever since New Year’s Eve, I’ve felt a bit off. No, it’s not a cold. I am definitely developing a mild case of cabin fever. Maybe it’s the post-holiday letdown or the cold temperatures, but I find myself increasingly fantasizing about going to warm, exotic locals. Havana, Cuba, is one…

I thought, if they can cope with the trauma they have experienced, then Ive got to find the strength myself I took my first overdose at 11, my second at 18 and my third just after my 21st birthday. It was a cry for help. I had lovely parents, but I…

ST. LOUIS—Just before daybreak, sitting at the edge of her bed in an upper bedroom, she clutched her pale blue housecoat and listened tearfully to the transistor radio on the nightstand. At the top of the hour, a familiar, melodic voice confirmed what she already knew: Her husband was dead….

This piece was written by the people who run the Cracked Store to tell you about products that are being sold there. There’s something magical about devices with extremely niche uses. Sure, you can scratch your back with a fork, but isn’t it so much more satisfying (and sanitary) to…

Photograph via Pirate_Redbeard on reddit Let’s start with “Dan’s Food Store – Specialty Beer and Wine” in Dallas, Texas. Technically it’s not a liquor store since they only sell beer and wine and not hard liquor, but a quick look inside and it certainly checks a lot of boxes.. Inside…

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — There are a lot of reasons why Donald Trump is expected to triumph in Tuesday’s Florida primary, where the GOP presidential front-runner enjoys a commanding lead of more than 20 points in the polls. But there’s a very crucial one that shouldn’t be overlooked: Trump is…

Manchester, N.H. (CNN)We landed in Nashua before dawn, a conquering political army arriving in New Hampshire to negotiate the terms of surrender. Hours earlier, Barack Obama had won a stunning victory in the 2008 Iowa caucuses and the putative nominee, Hillary Clinton, had placed a disappointing third. Now we had…

Maybe your dream ride on public transit includes an ice cream bar. Beer on tap. Leather seats. Outlets and WiFi, so you can edit decks on the move. But a new report from research group TransitCenter says shiny bus amenities arent worth the public funding buckeroos. People dont really care…

French director Alexandre Moors has a strong cast and excels at creating mood. Alas, his big reveal cannot dispel the fog of the Iraq war Terrence Malicks The Thin Red Line proved that you could make a beautiful movie about war. The Yellow Birds, a Sundance premiere from French director…

Alma Har’el attends “LoveTrue” 2016 Tribeca Film Festival.Image: FILMMAGIC ADELA LOCONTE/FILMMAGIC LOS ANGELES While the media closely monitors the percentage of women directing hundreds of movies and TV shows, the advertising industry where many directors get their start quietly churns out commercials by the thousands. Though a huge swath of…

HARLINGEN, Texas –  A South Texas woman who says she gave up beer for Lent won a case of Budweiser delivered to her home by a team of Clydesdales. The Valley Morning Star reports Leandra Ruiz received the beer Thursday in a special drop-off, via the huge horses, at her…

Elegantly witty foreign correspondent whose work was proof of the enduring magic of real reporting Rupert Cornwell, who has died aged 71, was the most gifted of reporters on the foreign scene from Moscow to Washington and many places in between of the past 45 years. Writing for Reuters, the…

Web-hosting firm GoDaddy is beefing up its services after it acquired WP Curve, a bootstrapped startup offering services and support for WordPress websites. The deal is undisclosed, but it will see NYSE-listed GoDaddy pick up WP Curves customer base, assets and a few dozen of its 39-person team, the firm…

I liked Ben, I really did. I mean, he was a nice guy. We had some fun times together in college, messing around the dorm, going to parties, all the dumb shit that college guys do. He was cool and all, but he was a little pretentious. Well, I guess…

 (Reuters) Donald Trump wont be inaugurated until January, but news of his presidential election victory has already shaken up the Mexican beer industry with the New York businessman’s proposal to build a southern border wall looming closer. Shares of Constellation Brands, Coronas parent company, dropped eight percent on Wednesday as…

When it comes to marital arguments, couples will go to extreme lengths to prove that they are right. One man, who goes by the name Spinach Dippa on the internet, did not appreciate his wife’s jokes about his rapping skills one evening. So he bet her and the couple’s friends…

We think sandwiches have been a little underrated recently. The sandwich is a work of art: two pieces of bread, and whatever you want right in-between. And don’t even get us started on grilled cheese (JK, too late). They are absolutely beautiful and sure to take any day from a…

First comes high school, then comes college and then comes… unemployment? Unfortunately, in today’s age of “We want an innovative thinkerin his or her 20s with 30 years of experience,” post-college unemployment and a hasty return back to the parental nestseems to be a popular trend. Recent collegegrads lose the…

This Tuesday marks the most American holiday of the year, which also means that it marks the most bro holiday of the year. Its the anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence by the homie TJ (thats Thomas Jefferson, you idiot) and his frat bros, which ultimately just…

Poverty is a well-worn subject here at Cracked. John Cheese has talked about it a lot, C. Coville discussed legal loopholes that can screw the poor, and we’ve also covered myths the media perpetrates. And now it’s my turn to moderately wealthsplain the subject. Unlike John and others, I grew…

Chiles Los Flamencos reserve is the countrys first to be co-managed by the state and indigenous people. Yet the Lickan Antays existence is still a battle Global development is supported by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Welcome to Calama, the city of sun and copper, proclaims the banner at the…

The crowd was smaller, and there was no bald eagle swooping down to the field this time, but 15 years after its professional debut, the US womens league is going to places its never been before 14 April 2001. A crowd of 34,148 sees the first professional womens soccer league…

Math ruins everything. Take Batman, for example. Watching Christian Bale angrily demand the location of the drugs, Rachel, and the trigger is great, but if the police ever actually caught him, he’d be screwed to the tune of 1,003 years behind bars, plus 29 life sentences for his contributions to…

Ten miles south of downtown Atlanta, in an anonymous business center overlooking the airport, sits the headquarters of what, on paper, is a hedge-fund powerhouse. The numbers coming out of the part-time office at One Hartsfield Centre are remarkable: annual returns of 13 percent, 24 percent, even 91 percent since…

Dear Body, It’s been four days since my firsttrip to the gym since the start of the new year and considering the aches and soreness I’m somehow reminded of with every letter I type, I feel like I should take the opportunity to say what I should have said a…

It’s summertime and the livin’ is easy. Well, for those of you who don’t spend your summer in hell working while on vacay from partying studying in school…must be nice. Since all you’ve done for two months is roast and black out in broad daylight, it’s easy to lose track…

From Kim Vilforts remarkable show of mental strenth to Francesco Toldos psychological war on penalty takers half a dozen sensational displays 1) Jean-Franois Domergue (France v Portugal, 1984) Despite memorable efforts by Basile Boli and Zinedine Zidane, Manuel Amoros is the perpetrator of the greatest head-butt in the history of…

It was early February 2012, but it felt like mid-f*cking-July. I wasa displaced New Yorker in Florida, where the air felt suffocatingly thick and densely humid. I had just moved to Florida from London for a job. It was supposed to be a temporary, fleeting move, but I had fallen…

The Portuguese mock the supercilious Spanish, the Macedonians pity Greek mens sexual prowess, and everyone has a go at the Belgians Europe is the migrant crisis, the Greek crisis, the euro crisis. It is the CAP, Ecofin and Eurostat. It is Schengen suspended, anti-Europeans on the march, and the imminent…

No matter where the road to the future may lead, you have to live it up with your girlfriends in your 20s. As spectacular as this thing we call life is, itsalso infamous for throwing us curve balls when we least expect them. But, at the end of the day,…

Over the weekend, I, Sgt. Olivia Betchson and my brother, Detective Amarbro (those are our real names), attended our first Governors Ball. These are our stories. *Dun dun* Now, anyone whos ever read my writing (so like, my mom and the festival PR reps who check up on me to…

A beer company has offered to pay for a new sled for the Jamaican womens bobsleigh team after a coach quit and threatened to take the sled with her Winter Olympics 2018 Jamaican bobsleigh team back in business thanks to offer of new sled • Team coach Sandra Kiriasis quit,…

In this exclusive extract from a new book on the legendary Brazil midfielder, team-mates reveal how he lost weight and even gave up his infamous smoking habit before captaining the side at the 1982 World Cup finals in Spain Scrates arrived at Brazils World Cup training camp promising to play…

“We’re making American single malt, not Scotch in America,” said Matt Hofmann, the master distiller at Seattle’s Westland Distillery. “For instance, almost all Scotch is distilled from one barley varietal, done as pale malt, either peated or unpeated.” He paused, then spread his hands to emphasize the question: “Why would…

A group of friends, strangers and acquaintances gather around the bar. After work, in lieu of work. They talk about their families, their jobs, their struggles and their small victories. Mostly, discussion centers on the beer, or the wine. The music, if any plays, is light, barely audible. There’s no…

Weve all been there. You swipe right, he swipes right. You start texting and he doesnt attempt to immediately whip out a photo of his erect penis 3.5 seconds into the conversation. Jesus. He could be The One. But then he suggests an idea for your first date and it…

Dear Head Pro, I read your advice like its my life and you always seem to know what to do. I’ve been seeing this guy for a little over a month and our relationship is exclusive hookup/borderline dating — we’ve been out on one official date and have spent a…

One of the best perks of being a gear reviewer is being able to borrow gadgets and the specialized tools to help test them. I don't get to keep these things I test, but more often than not, that's just fine. Last summer, though, I called in a ThermoWorks Smoke…

U-Haul truck carrying beer kegs heading to the Sigma Phi Epsilon tailgating area killed 30-year-old Nancy Barry in 2011 but now a settlement has been reached A Yale University fraternity and more than 80 of its members have settled lawsuits over a fatal rental truck accident outside the popular Yale-Harvard…

OK, Christ, let’s get one thing clear here: The internet isn’t a bad thing. At no point will the world become a cartoonist’s caricature of some smoldering dumpland surrounding a cow pen of millennials checking their smartphones. I get that no one under the age of 70 wants to hear…