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Picasso’s “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon,” turns 100 this year, and the art world is celebrating the painting’s influence… Henri Matisse laughed when Pablo Picasso showed him the angular women staring out from the canvas of “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon.” Matisse thought the painting was a joke. The art dealer Ambrose Vollard couldn’t understand it either. The painter […]
Continue ReadingIt’s a bird! It’s a plane! No, it’s people calling themselves real-life superheroes, dressing up, fighting for justice and keeping secret identities… It started out as a normal night. That is, until the bad guy started dancing like the devil in the pale moonlight. Chris was minding his own business on the streets of Staten […]
Continue ReadingGadget-laden toilets and replica thrones are now within the reach of middle-class consumers… Since the dawn of time, or at least the dawn of toilets, men and women have fought over how best to deal with the seat. Men leave it up. Women want it down. Today, modern technology has provided a solution: It is […]
Continue ReadingThough Jewish and Muslim foods are different, they are similar enough to appeal to consumers who share interests in food, if not in politics… Determining the exact contents of a meal at a restaurant can be stressful for Jews and Muslims who choose to follow their faiths’ dietary restrictions. A dinner at a friend’s house […]
Continue ReadingLandscaping the garden, filling a tooth or designing a wedding dress, students are offering top-notch services for a fraction of the cost… Melanie Hunt wanted someone special to decorate the nursery before her daughter, Ava, arrived. The 28-year-old homemaker from San Diego had checked shelter magazines for possible designs, and decided she wanted a professional […]
Continue ReadingTraditional Japanese split-toe socks and shoes are slowly gaining a foothold in North America… People often chuckle when they look at Rhonda Sherrer-Daley’s feet. On chilly Washington evenings, she often wears brightly beaded flip-flop sandals, and, for warmth, Japanese-style split-toe socks, called tabi, which hold the big toe in a pouch, separated from the rest […]
Continue ReadingA neuroscientist believes a little-known cranial nerve may be the secret to lust, and evidence suggests it may be the conduit for sex pheromones… Ted James and Lysa Grant hit it off immediately when they met at a study group for a psychology class. The two students at New York University knew something was special, […]
Continue ReadingA homemade experiment demonstrates the damage soft drinks can do to teeth… It was a simple idea. Take five teeth, five soft drinks, four weeks and one hypothesis borrowed from junior high science class: A tooth left in a cup of sweet liquid will quickly decay into a gruesome lump. But does the hypothesis measure […]
Continue ReadingAs death less taboo, many people are exploring their post-death options, and making some very unusual requests… Before he died in 1994 a man from Springfield, Ore., included in his will the provision that his skin be tanned like leather and used to bind a book of self-penned poetry. A California woman who died in […]
Continue ReadingChurches are booking comedians to attract new members, and opening up opportunities for budding comics… When the Rev. Jay Laffoon began organizing Christian marriage conferences 10 years ago, he worried that many couples would arrive expecting cautionary tales about sin and hell and a long list of don’ts and few dos. Believing that Christian marriage […]
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