From Cuba, with love
One of the remaining 116 Guantanamo Bay prisoners (a man suspected of having been close to Osama bin Laden) has a dating profile on Match.com captioned “detained but ready to [...]
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Posted September 30, 2015in News of the Weird
Posted September 23, 2015in News of the Weird
Your English teacher was right
In September, Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery concluded that records of an investigation need not be released to the Memphis City Council — because there was no comma. The law [...]
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Posted September 16, 2015in News of the Weird
A paper drone
The Federal Aviation Administration recently granted (likely for the first time ever) an application to fly a paper airplane. Prominent drone advocate Peter Sachs had applied to conduct commercial aerial [...]
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Posted September 09, 2015in News of the Weird
Pope mania
Muslim clerics complain of the commercialization of the holy city of Mecca during the annual hajj pilgrimages, but for Pope Francis’ visits to New York, Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia in [...]
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Posted September 02, 2015in News of the Weird
Barnyard theater
British director Missouri Williams brought an adaptation of Shakespeare’s “King Lear” to the London Courtyard art facility in August for a one-week run, centered on a human actor struggling to [...]
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Posted August 26, 2015in News of the Weird
Cecil speaks
The distress across the Western world in July over the big-game killing of Cecil the lion in Zimbabwe was apparently misdirected, according to veteran “animal communicator” Karen Anderson of Elk, [...]
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Posted August 19, 2015in News of the Weird
Pets of the 1 percent
“The worshipful treatment of pets may be the thing that unites all Americans,” wrote an Atlantic Magazine blogger in July, describing the luxury terminal for animals under construction at New [...]
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Posted August 12, 2015in News of the Weird
The entrepreneurial spirit
Grande Hotel San Calogero, the planned centerpiece of a Sicilian tourist renaissance, is still nowhere close to opening — 61 years after construction began. It took 30 years to build, [...]
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Posted August 05, 2015in News of the Weird
There’s an app for that
Among the health and fitness apps for computers and smartphones are sex-tracking programs to document the variety of acts and positions, degrees of frenzy and lengths of sessions (via an [...]
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Posted July 29, 2015in News of the Weird
The 90-minute day
The whimsical premise of the iconic movie “Groundhog Day” (that someone can wake up every day believing it is the previous day) has largely come to life for a patient [...]
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