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A Grub Street Announcement
It’s with regret that Grub Street announces the closure of our local blogs outside of New York, in Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Philadelphia, and Boston. We thank Hadley Tomicki, Michael Gebert, Jay Barmann, Collin Keefe, and Kara Baskin for the excellent work they’ve done over the last few years. Later this...
nymag.com (7 minutes ago)
Hospital Hit by Oklahoma Tornado 'Lucky'
Directly in the tornado's path, Moore Medical Center patients, staff unharmed.
abcnews.com (8 minutes ago)
Sharp rise in number Afghan women in prison for "moral crimes"
KABUL (Reuters) - About 600 Afghan women and girls are behind bars for so-called moral crimes, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Tuesday, the highest number since the Taliban were toppled almost...
reuters.com (9 minutes ago)
First Look: Shop Versace From the Eighties and Nineties
Starting this Wednesday, the vintage experts from Resurrection will be flooding 1stdibs.com (and their own boutiques in New York and Los Angeles) with clothing and accessories from Gianni Versace's designs from the eighties and nineties. The sale, aptly titled "SuperModa!," will include silhouettes and themes from...
nymag.com (10 minutes ago)
Hotel Offers 24-Carat Gold iPads
A hotel that bills itself as the world’s most luxurious is giving guests the ultimate in over-the-top amenities: A 24-carat gold iPad at check in. Dubai’s Burj Al Arab hotel claims to be the first in the world to offer the iPads to guests. No, the iPad...
abcnews.com (13 minutes ago)
R.I.P. Ray Manzarek, the Doors keyboardist who got the big picture
"We were in love with being alive and wanted to spread that love around the planet and make peace, love and harmony prevail upon earth, while getting stoned, dancing madly and having as much sex as you could possibly have."
washingtonpost.com (14 minutes ago)
Justin Bieber's monkey officially claimed by Germany
"The monkey belongs to Germany now." -- Judith Brettmeister, spokeswoman for the animal shelter that for two months has cared for "Mally," the pet capuchin monkey confiscated from Justin Bieber when he flew into Munich without the proper monkey-having papers, reports Reuters. Bieber failed to make efforts to...
washingtonpost.com (14 minutes ago)
Like artist, Reisha Perlmutter large scale portraits reveal vulnerability (Photos)
Emergence: Illuminating the Human Experience Through Portraiture opens tonight at 6 p.m. at Crayton Cove's Arsenault Gallery. Featuring new work by Naples artist Reisha Perlmutter, the show focuses on human frailty and vulnerability.Perlmutter...
examiner.com (14 minutes ago)
Schoolmates of suicide victims at higher risk
foxnews.com (15 minutes ago)
7 Sure Fire Ways To Ruin An Outfit
This is becoming a common tale: You see an item of clothing from across the store, and you're elated because it seems absolutely perfect. But once you get a closer look, you realize that that gorgeous garment has been ruined by an unnecessary embellishment. It seems as though big box stores are falling prey to...
huffingtonpost.com (25 minutes ago)
Is This What GoPro Cameras Were Made For?
This is the only way pancakes should be made from now on. See one flip from a utensil's point of view in the video above, created by attaching a GoPro... Read more: Pancake Flip, Extreme Pancake Flip, Funny Videos, Epic Pancake Flip, Cooking-Video, Gopro Camera Videos, Youtube-Cooking-Videos, Gopro Pancake Flip,...
huffingtonpost.com (27 minutes ago)
Talking to Your Kids About Tornadoes
How to talk to your children about tornadoes and other natural disasters.
abcnews.com (31 minutes ago)
Album Stream: Imaginary Cities - Fall of Romance
Fall of Romance is set for release on May 28 via Votiv.
pastemagazine.com (32 minutes ago)
Moscow, St Petersburg vie in Impressionist tug-of-war
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's cultural elite is at loggerheads over whether to rebuild a museum closed by the late Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, with the fate of masterpieces by Monet, Renoir and...
reuters.com (33 minutes ago)
Mr Blobby home prank: Honeymoon couple return to find house painted bright pink
The groom’s brother was behind the paint job in revenge for a similar joke while he was honeymooning six years ago
mirror.co.uk (33 minutes ago)
Cannes: Behind-the-Scenes at Dior’s Beauty Suite
Every year at Cannes, Dior sets up shop at the Majestic - the massive five-star hotel on the Croisette that serves as base camp for film-festival shmoozing. While most of the showbiz crowd runs from event to event like crazed chickens, stars wearing Dior gowns to premieres are whisked up ... More »
nymag.com (34 minutes ago)
ARTINFO: Worcester Art Museum Offers Unusual Promotion For Bob Dylan's 72nd Birthday
On Friday Bob Dylan will celebrate his 72nd birthday, and to mark the occasion the Worcester Art Museum, whose current exhibition "Kennedy to Kent State: Images of a Generation" features images of the beloved rocker (see above), will offer free admission to any and all visitors who arrive dressed as Dylan....
huffingtonpost.com (35 minutes ago)
How They Shot The Graphic Sex In This Movie
Lars von Trier is an agent provocateur when it comes to promoting his movies, and he's doing a bang-up job at that with his latest, "Nymphomaniac." After a sex-fueled promotional photo for the movie was posted last week, producer Louise Vesth revealed a particularly salacious detail to The Hollywood Reporter at the...
huffingtonpost.com (35 minutes ago)
Oklahoma tornado aftermath filled with risks for victims, rescue workers
Oklahoma rescue workers risk being cut or electrocuted while searching for survivors, who may be suffering after being crushed by debris
cbsnews.com (36 minutes ago)
Hey, Here's A Cat Saying 'Al Gore'
Phoenix hates being in the car. The only thing that can console him is repeatedly saying the name of the rightful 43rd President of the United States.
huffingtonpost.com (36 minutes ago)
WATCH: Tornado Victim Finds Dog During CBS Interview
A CBS news segment provided a rare moment of good news stemming from Monday's devastating tornado when a storm victim found her dog during an on-air interview. Barbara Garcia of Moore, Okla.was describing her home's destruction to CBS's Anna Werner when someone off-camera spotted something move in the rubble. It...
huffingtonpost.com (36 minutes ago)
Tornado Death Toll Revised
(SCROLL DOWN FOR LIVE UPDATES) AP reports: The state medical examiner's office has revised the death toll from a tornado in an Oklahoma City suburb to 24 people, including seven children. Spokeswoman Amy Elliot said Tuesday morning that she believes some victims were counted twice in the early chaos of the storm....
huffingtonpost.com (37 minutes ago)
Obama Weighs In On Devastating Tornado Damage
President Barack Obama spoke Tuesday on the damage from a massive tornado that ripped through the town of Moore, Oklahoma, on Monday. "In an instant, neighborhoods were destroyed, dozens of people lost their live," Obama said. "In some cases there will be enormous grief that has to be absorbed, but you will not...
huffingtonpost.com (37 minutes ago)
They Paid HOW MUCH For A Pigeon?
BRUSSELS — Flying high above Europe's economic crisis, a local lightning-fast pigeon called Bolt became the world's most expensive racing bird when his Belgian breeder sold it for 310,000 euros ($400,000) to a Chinese businessman. One-year-old Bolt, named after the Jamaican Olympic superstar sprinter Usain Bolt, and...
huffingtonpost.com (37 minutes ago)
Should You Trust Book Blurbs?
As book blurb whore/not whore Gary Shteyngart will tell you, writing book blurbs is an artform - but it’s also a bit of a farce.
huffingtonpost.com (38 minutes ago)
24 Classic Books' Original Titles
Yesterday, we came across this awesome piece that Book Riot did of 5 classic books with awful original titles (CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT FAULKNER'S THE SOUND AND THE FURY WAS ORIGINALLY NAMED TWILIGHT?! THIS MIGHT BE A VERY DIFFERENT WORLD IF THAT HAD ACTUALLY HAPPENED), and that got us thinking: what other working book...
huffingtonpost.com (38 minutes ago)
WATCH: 'The Best Advice I've Ever Given Is...'
Dr. Maya Angelou's advice and teachings have inspired people all over the world, including Oprah, who often cites one particular piece of Dr. Angelou's advice as one of her own favorites: "When people show you who they are, believe them." Yet this often-quoted mantra isn't what Dr. Angelou considers her own best...
huffingtonpost.com (38 minutes ago)
Unbelievable 18th Century Medical Illustrations
It's hard to believe there was a time when the word "monstrous" was a medical term, but in the 18th century, superstition and medicine were inextricably combined. A 1775 text titled, Les Ecarts de la Nature ou Recueil des Principales Monstruosités (The Deviations of Nature or a Collection of the Main Monstrosities)...
huffingtonpost.com (38 minutes ago)
