Sushi Grass Explained

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 ]

Pilate’s Ring

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...

Renoir Vanished

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...

Porn For Girls

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...

Stephen Hillenburg Gone

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...

Bertolucci Gone

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...