The executive director of Miami-Dade's Crime Stoppers defended the identity of his clients in court yesterday when, instead of turning over an anonymous tip to Judge Victoria Brennan, he began tearing up the paper and eating it.

A new IHOP pancake depot is soon to open in Manhattan's East Village, the downtown epicenter of NYU kids and other tight-jeaned menaces. Management is expecting such a deluge of late-night customers streaming in from the bar-heavy neighborhood that they've hired security.

Mark Zuckerberg lured a talented chef from Google by offering him the respect he'd been denied. Yet look at the frat-house fare the Facebook CEO has him cooking.

An inventor has come up with a method for deep-frying beer for a competition at—what else?—the Texas state fair. Three cheers for America! So how do you deep-fry beer? Here's the quick-and-dirty recipe:

A tourist who recently dined at the Bull and Bear restaurant inside the Waldorf-Astoria claims that he found something foreign inside of his steak, something so vile and revolting that we can't even bring ourselves to say what it is.

A gang of Microsofties is trekking the Redmond campus, recording a visit to each cafeteria in a blog that's part Anthony Bourdain, part MSN Spaces.