Yesterday Michigan insurance executive Christine Drabicki flew to New York City for a press conference announcing her lawsuit against the Waldorf-Astoria, seeking unspecified damages for the bedbugs she allegedly brought back home with her after a stay at the hotel. Here's the story about the bloodsucking parasites' love affair with the insurance saleswoman: more ›

Let's start this Friday right with the latest opus from Taiwan's Next Media Animation. This time bedbugs get the CGI treatment, with [SPOILER!] a special cameo from Fox News President Roger Ailes blowing away the parasites with a machine gun in the Wall Street Journal offices. And speaking of the Journal, today the paper reports that a Long Island woman is suing the Waldorf-Astoria, accusing the posh hotel of giving her bedbugs to take home to Levittown. more ›

Lots of talk this week about where the tyrants are staying. Ever wonder where the American presidents stay? All of them since Truman have stayed at the Waldorf Astoria, on 50th and Park. Huffpost embeds two video tours, one by a woman who got randomly upgraded to the presidential suite when checking in to the hotel. Glitzy! more ›

Life imitates Gossip Girl tonight as the teens from six of the city's most elite private schools join together for a prom in the Waldorf's Starlight Roof (the Waldorf ballroom is where public high school Stuyvesant's prom will be this Friday -- ground floor for the plebes!). more ›