culture
Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley Lead Celebrity Charge Against Brexit
Total of 282 actors, writers and creatives signed a letter urging Brits not to vote to leave E.U. Nearly 300 British musicians, actors and artists signed an open letter Friday backing the campaign against the United Kingdom leaving the E.U. The letter with 282 signatories — including stars such as Benedict Cumberbatch,...
‘I hope he’s roasting in hell’: Deadliest school massacre remembered 89 years later
The passing of nearly nine decades hasn’t diminished a 104-year-old man’s view of Andrew Kehoe, the evil mastermind of the May 18, 1927, Bath School Disaster, a bombing that took the lives of 38 children as they attended class. George Baird, 104, now lives in an assisted living facility in Bath...
Boris Johnson wins offensive poetry competition with prose on Turkey’s Erdogan and a GOAT
FORMER London Mayor and chief campaigner for Brexit Boris Johnson has won an offensive poetry competition with a limerick about a goat and the Turkish president. The competition was launched after Recep Tayyip Erdogan implemented new blasphemy laws in a bid to prevent himself from criticism in Turkey. Many critics in the...
BRAD PITT AND ANGELINA JOLIE TO DIVORCE AFTER ALLEGED MARION COTILLARD AFFAIR, LIZZY CAPLAN KISS?
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are facing rumors of a possible divorce after an alleged affair with Marion Cotillard and an o-nset kiss with Lizzy Caplan. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have reportedly been seen together recently, according to a report by the International Business Times on May 12, but according to other reports,...
Remember Alexa Vega, the little girl from Spy Kids? Well she’s all grown up now and looks a little like this
If you were one of those youngsters who grew up watching the Spy Kids series, then you will of course remember Alexa Vega as gutsy pre-teen crimefighter Carmen. The original 2001 movie – about two siblings who learn the truth about their parents’ spying past after they are kidnapped – was a smash hit, spawning...
Jamala showed her boyfriend (+ PHOTOS)
Ukrainian singer Jamala finally revealed the secret of her boyfriend, with whom she has a long romantic relationship. Mass media wrote that in 2011, she met with a foreigner. But under the photo had a very two-valued inscription: "How do you like my guy from London?" But in 2012, in one of the...
The eerie grave of 200,000 monks
Adam H Graham takes a spiritual retreat to one of Koya-san’s 54 shukubo: inns where guests are encouraged to meditate, commune and eat vegetarian cuisine with the monks or nuns. It was dusk when we entered the cemetery. A stone path, faintly lit with lanterns, snaked under the towering hemlock and umbrella pine trees. We...
Young Minds Solve a City’s Old Problems
Every city has its problems, and hopefully is always looking for unique ways to solve them. One eastern U.S. city is hoping the creativity and outside the box thinking of young people can come to the rescue. An oyster habitat, abandoned houses converted to gardens, a cart that turns into a homeless shelter, a...
Segregation in US Schools Persists 62 Years After Court Ruling
The words are some of the most iconic to ever come out of the U.S. Supreme Court: "We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote that in his 1954 opinion in the...
Dr. Luke nixes approval for Kesha performance at Billboard awards
Kesha and Dr. Luke's bitter legal and professional quarrel careens on. In the latest conflict, Kesha lost a gig — she was to perform at Sunday's Billboard Music Awards — because Dr. Luke's record label, Kemosabe Records (to which she is still tied), nixed its approval. Why? It might have something to do...
Yikes! The Cast of Baywatch Then and Now
BAYWATCH babes once ruled the waves. Gorgeous, glamorous and golden brown, the stars of the hit TV show — based around a lifeguard stand — were male fantasy made flesh. Sporting the highest-cut red swimsuits in history, the girls jiggled in slow motion along the white sands of California. They even saved the odd...
Crackdown could allow Facebook and Google to open universities
UNIVERSITIES will have to publish the amount of class and lecture time students receive in a Government crackdown on sub-standard courses. They will also be forced to list the jobs graduates get and how much they earn under proposals in a White Paper announced today. Plans to open up higher education to competition by allowing...