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  • Have you heard of the Momo challenge thingamajig? Don't worry, it's not trying to kill your kids.
  • Check out this house covered in ice near the edge of Lake Ontario in Pulaski, NY.
  • Bryce Harper agreed to a 13-year, $330 million contract with the Philadelphia Phillies, making it the richest deal in major league history.
  • Meanwhile, the Mets' Brandon Nimmo got food poisoning from undercooked chicken he made.
  • Cult favorite Chinatown karaoke bar Winnie's has found a new space.
  • Check out the trailer for the second half of what is (almost certainly) the final season of Arrested Development.
  • Read Wesley Morris' piece about the agonizing Michael Jackson doc premiering this weekend: "For so long, so much about Michael Jackson won our awe, our pity, our bewilderment, our identification, our belief that he was a metaphor, an allegory, a beacon, a caveat — for, of, about America. You need to do a lot of looking at him to feel this way. You also need to do a lot of looking the other way."
  • A German woman's dog was seized and sold on eBay after she failed to pay the... "dog tax"????
  • Here's a lede that sure to drive sane people mad: "New efforts by President Trump and his staff to question or undermine the established science of climate change have created a widening rift between the White House on one side, and scientific facts, government agencies, and some leading figures in the president’s own party on the other."
  • Solange has a brand new album, titled When I Get Home, that is reportedly being released tonight at midnight.
  • A Long Island City businessman who owns John Brown Smokehouse flew to Seattle to try to salvage the Amazon deal.
  • Police sources told the NY Post that a man who was fatally struck by a subway in Harlem was looking at his cell phone when he fell off the platform.
  • Check out the full list of Record Store Day 2019 releases.
  • If you spend 20 minutes a day in a park, you'll feel a lot better about this troubled world.
  • i09 geeked out about the upcoming Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge Disneyland theme park addition.
  • And finally, ABORT ABORT ABORT: