For today's roundup of Kim Kardashian-related happenings, we have some good news, some bad news, and some very metrosexual news. Let's begin! more ›

When life your children hand you shedded snakeskin, give yourself a snakeskin manicure! That's what happened to 40-year-old nail technician Terri Silacci who "was dying to figure out a way to match her nails with the tote." And a new manicure craze was born, according to the NY Post. She told the paper, "It wasn’t until my kids brought [the shedded skin of a 4-foot python] home that I thought, ‘That’s it. I’m going to do it with real snakeskin.'" more ›

In a scene that sounds like it belongs more on the Jersey Shore than Park Slope, the parents of a teenager getting her nails did at H&L Nail Spa freaked the hell out in an ugly, racially-charged, chair-throwing debacle. Read this firsthand account of what went down from customer MacKenzie Fegan, who sent her story to FiPS. more ›

After a disastrous Q and A with the Times in which former Tennessee Congressman Harold Ford Jr. revealed he officially moved to New York last year, gets chauffeured to work, and has only visited Staten Island by helicopter, the likely Senate candidate tried to prove he's a real New Yorker in an interview with the Daily News. "I love New York, I love the smell of New York. ... I love the subway," said Ford, who listed his hobbies as walking down Fifth Avenue at sunrise with a cup of coffee, strolling in Central Park, and jogging along the Hudson River. (Gawker has drafted a handy map so you can track Ford's appearances around the city). more ›

It's a fad that seems tailor-made for jokes about stupid city-slickers: sophisticated ladies are paying good money to put their feet in a water tank and let fish suck off their dead skin. It's long been popular in Asia, and now the process is catching on in New York, where beauty parlors like Ritz Nails in Astoria have charged customers $50 for the privilege of feeding carp with their feet. It seems like a win-win for everyone involved, but Senator Jeff Klein wants to ban the practice! That's too bad, because as this video shows, Post reporter Jennifer Fermino has a lot of dead skin and could feed thousands of hungry fish. (We called Ritz Nails and the owner told us that since the Post story broke, he's no longer doing the carp pedicure, because, "I don't want to be famous.") more ›