by | Dec 5, 2018 | Culture Music Art
from The New York Times The $0.006 Object in Your Sushi Container Is Doing an Important Job It separates flavors and comes from a centuries-old Japanese tradition. By Wendy MacNaughton [ click to find out at NYT ]
by | Dec 2, 2018 | Culture Music Art
from The Times of Israel 2,000-year-old ‘Pilate’ ring just might have belonged to notorious Jesus judge Uncovered 50 years ago at the Herodian palace near Bethlehem, a simple copper-alloy ring is now given a good cleaning — and a second look by skeptical scholars By...
by | Nov 30, 2018 | Culture Music Art
from Bloomberg/Quint The Renoir Landscape Was Ready for Auction. Then It Was Gone Boris Groendahl (Bloomberg) — A man and two accomplices walked into a Vienna auction house on Monday and hijacked a Renoir landscape before splitting up and slipping from the...
by | Nov 28, 2018 | Culture Music Art
from The Daily Beast The Feminist Erotic Film Director Making Porn Hot Again: ‘I Want to Show How Sex Feels’ Indie erotic cinema director Erika Lust owns the site XConfessions, where women submit fantasies and she adapts them into beautiful pornographic films. by...
by | Nov 27, 2018 | Culture Music Art
from DEADLINE ‘SpongeBob SquarePants’ Creator Stephen Hillenburg Dead At 57 by Geoff Boucher and Greg Evans Stephen Hillenburg, the creator of Nickelodeon’s signature cartoon series SpongeBob SquarePants, died on Monday. He was 57. The animator and former marine...
by | Nov 26, 2018 | Culture Music Art
from The New York Times Bernardo Bertolucci, Director of ‘Last Tango in Paris,’ Dies at 77 By Dennis Lim Bernardo Bertolucci, the Italian filmmaker whose sensual and visually stylistic movies ranged from intense chamber dramas to panoramic historical epics, died on...