by | Oct 18, 2012 | Culture Music Art
from E! Online Sylvia Kristel, Star of Emmanuelle, Dead at 60 by Alexis L. Loinaz AFP/GettyImages In a cinematic era marked by burgeoning sexual frankness and a more fluid acceptance of movie eroticism, Sylvia Kristel was at the forefront of a cresting wave. The Dutch...
by | Oct 17, 2012 | Culture Music Art, Mirth
from GalleristNY Jeff Koons Press Release Has Best Sentence in Any Press Release Ever By GalleristNY Jeff Koons is having his first exhibition in Brussels in 20 years; it open[ed] Oct. 6 at Almine Rech gallery. And that is news! But far more impressive than that news...
by | Oct 15, 2012 | Culture Music Art
from BBC Twists and turns in history of hair By John Laurenson Dyed and curled, slicked-back or straightened, tied in tight little buns or floating out in the breeze like a windsock, human beings have been cutting and styling their hair for an extraordinarily long...
by | Oct 11, 2012 | Culture Music Art
from TED How a contortionist plays music We are thoroughly impressed with contortionist Anudari, who performed last week at TEDxUlaanbaatar in Mongolia. She has been studying contortion since she was 6-years-old. But it’s not just her outrageous flexibility and...
by | Oct 8, 2012 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
from Red Herring California Officially Legalizes the Robot Car by MATT GALLAGHER, Red Herring California became the third state to legalize self driving cars, thanks to a special visit to Google’s Mountainview headquarters by Governor Jerry Brown, who signed the...
by | Oct 4, 2012 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
from Japan Today Japan’s first ‘cuddle cafe’ lets you sleep with a stranger for Y6,000 an hour By Steven Simonitch TOKYO — Sometimes, after a long, stressful day, there’s nothing more comforting than crawling into bed with your significant other and...