Criticized for years for fighting crime in effectively a one-piece swimsuit — often considered either sexist or simply impractical — the DC Comics icon has a new costume as of this week’s Wonder Woman #600, and it’s one considerably less revealing, complete with long pants and a jacket. Signature elements such as the character’s bracelets, tiara and magic [...]
June 21, 2010
In a piece of cutting political commentary, a group of artists have protested about heightened security in the Russian city of St. Petersburg by drawing a giant 220ft-long penis on a drawbridge. The massive penis was created by the radical art collective Voina, or War, who painted the organ on the bridge to highlight the [...]
June 14, 2010
Paul Curtis aka Moose is no regular graffiti artist. In fact, he’s a reverse-graffiti artist. He creates his street art by *cleaning* the dirt and grime off of surfaces! Authorities are baffled: is selective cleaning a crime? The tools are simple: A shoe brush, water and elbow grease, he says. British authorities aren’t sure what [...]
May 31, 2010
NEW YORK — It all started with an octopus and a skin disease. Many addicts eventually admit to having a monkey on their back. Julia Gnuse actually has two chimpanzees. They’re embracing on her left shoulder, just above a vintage rendering of the Three Stooges along with an image of the famous chocolate factory scene [...]
April 30, 2010
SPRINGFIELD, Ore. — Aaron Jamison is dying from colon cancer and not wanting to leave his wife with bills after he’s gone, he sold ad space on his urn. “I’m 400 pounds, so there’s enough ashes to go around,” Aaron joked Wednesday. And joking around is what he knows, since he’s a comedian. His humor [...]
April 1, 2010
We’ve been overeating our way through ever-larger portions over the past 1,000 years, a U.S. study revealed after studying more than 50 paintings of the Biblical Last Supper. The study, by a Cornell University professor and his brother who is a Presbyterian minister and a religious studies professor, showed that the sizes of the portions [...]
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