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Meet Sugar Factory: Meatpacking's new brasserie/explosive dessert spot where 36oz bubbling cocktail chalices full of lollipops and gummi worms land on the table, and hot fudge-drenched, submarine-sized, red velvet sundaes take up the width of your lap. It's the classy, marble-bar-chandelier American brasserie that refuses to grow up. Meatpacking's first and only outrageous dessert palace where the entire dinner kitchen is open until 4am all weekend long.

After famously snubbing Kim Kardashian from the annual Met Ball, rumor has it that Anna Wintour is now giving the reality star the OK to grace the highly-anticipated event with her gossip magazine-worthy ways.

Jonathan Cheban, the beloved cohort in television's blingiest of sagas who moonlights as a PR guru, celeb wrangler, publishing pro, entrepreneur, and Kim K's BFF, is looking for longevity with the newly-opened Miami outpost of Sushi Mikasa at the Shelborne South Beach hotel. Part celebrity hangout (with secret entrance to boot), part culinary hit that’s birthed the Golden Flower Salmon Tomato Roll, the restaurant marks Cheban’s inaugural foray into a possibly lustrous gastronomic career. With plans to launch a burger franchise, we caught up with the fast-talking Kardashian confidant, who is parlaying the art of name-dropping into a budding enterprise.

The blessed news is out, my friends: Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are expecting a baby girl.

I was in high school when my father showed me a Boston Globe article about the Club Kids in NYC. Michael Alig and the rest of his beautiful outcasts were the central focus–this was a couple years before Alig ended up in jail for murdering Angel Melendez.

Kanye West has never shied away from Jesus iconography before. But now he's looping girlfriend — excuse me, his pregnant in heels girlfriend — Kim Kardashian into it.

I ... give up.

When the news broke that Kim Kardashian is expecting Kanye West’s baby, I’m sure I’m not the only one who assumed that a birthing special would find its way on E! at some point. That is where we are as a society: it makes perfect sense that we’d have the opportunity to watch a human come out of Kim Kardashian. (Hell, a lot of us have seen a human go into Kim Kardashian.) But, thankfully, the mom-to-be has announced that the birth will be private, and she’s looking forward to not working for a while. Think about that as you click through the internet, desperate to leave your office and not work for a few hours before returning tomorrow morning! [Jezebel]

Good morning. It's New Year's Eve. Isn't it understood that nothing of great importance should happen today, such as mass murders or political coups or celebrity deaths? Then why, oh why, would today be the day that we learn of that Kanye West and Kim Kardashian are expecting a child?

Tyler Perry knew exactly what he was doing casting Kim Kardashian in a small role in Temptation: Confessions Of A Marriage Counselor. But fortunately, it actually looks like a good film (despite Kim).