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First Look: Tim Burton’s Big Eyes

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Go ahead and tell me Tim Burton doesn’t have the best casts! I could go through the list, but you KNOW what I mean. To prove my point, here’s a look at his upcoming film, Big Eyes. (Sad face… it won’t be out until Christmas Day.) It tells the true story of Margaret Keane (Amy Adams), whose striking portraits of children with BIG EYES became a mass-produced sensation in the Fifties and Sixties. But the BIG twist is her husband, Walter Keane (Christoph Waltz), took ALL the credit for her work! The cast also includes Danny Huston, Jason Schwartzman, Krysten Ritter and Terence Stamp. It’s SUCH a good story and cast, how can he go wrong? Well, who cares? – even his worst films (Planet of the Apes) are still entertaining and always a visual treat. Merry Christmas!

(via Rolling Stone)

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RIP Polly Bergen

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singer Robert Mitchum RIP Kisses for My President Gregory Peck Follies Emmy award winning Cape Fear beauty company actress

Emmy-winning actress and singer Polly Bergen had a 60-year career and died today of natural causes in her home in Southbury, Connecticut. She was 84. Bergen was a household name from the beginning of her career. She made albums and played leading roles in films, stage musicals and TV dramas. She also hosted her own variety series, was a popular game show panelist, and founded a beauty company, that made her millions. In more recent years, she played Felicity Huffman’s mother on Desperate Housewives and the past mistress of Tony Soprano’s late father on The Sopranos. She won an Emmy in 1958 portraying the singer Helen Morgan on Playhouse 90 and during the 1950s, she became a regular on To Tell the Truth.

Along with Robert Mitchum she in starred Cape Fear, with Gregory Peck. (It was remade in 1991 by Martin Scorsese.) In 1964′s Kisses for My President, Bergen was cast as the first female U.S. president, with Fred MacMurray as First Gentleman. (The President ends up quitting when she gets pregnant.) When Geena Davis played the first woman president in Commander in Chief, in 2005, Bergen was cast as her mother. She had a sort of a revival again, playing a prim rich lady in John Waters’ 1990 musical “Cry-Baby.”

She was refused an audition for the 2001 Broadway revival of Follies and contacted the show’s composer Stephen Sondheim. He gave her an audition and then the role of a faded star who sings of her show biz ups and downs. The show-stopping “I’m Still Here,” was a lot like Bergen’s own story, and she was nominated for a Tony award for the role.

“I was fanatically ambitious. All I ever wanted to be was a star. I didn’t want to be a singer. I didn’t want to be an actress. I wanted to be a star.”

And she was for a long time, God bless her.

singer Robert Mitchum RIP Kisses for My President Gregory Peck Follies Emmy award winning Cape Fear beauty company actress

With Robert Mitchum in Cape Fear

(via LA Times)

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Watch: Purple Crush “Shock and Awe” feat. Raja (RuPaul’s Drag Race) & Josh Peace

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Hetero-queer dance duo Purple Crush get graphic in latest black and white video for single Shock and Awe, off current album Iconoclassic. This time around, the married couple brought in Season 3 winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race icon Raja, doing double time on vocals and directorial duties. If you want a glimpse into the underground dance scene, PC is the portal for a truly artisanal and gaggable experience. 

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It’s Birthday, Bitch

Flashback: Beyoncé Dances With A Gym Full of Surprised NYC Kids

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This is a few years old, but I never saw it before – eight and a half million people on YouTube have, so maybe you did too. In 2011, Beyoncé surprised students at PS/MS 161 who were dancing to the Official Lets Move! Flash Workout. Say what you want about Bey, but she looks like she’s still a little kid at heart (she comes in about 1:35) Watch.

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#Color4Peace: Happy World Peace Day

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World Peace Day The Coloring Book for the Super Intelligent Brett Bender #color4peace

Each year the International Day of Peace, an annual day of non-violence and cease-fire, is observed around the world today, September 21. The first Peace Day was observed over 30 years ago, in 1982. Artist Brett Bender, who created “The Coloring Book for the Super Intelligent”, has taken a page from his own book, Color4Peace, to get folks creating. He asked me to participate, so I’m including my take here (with added numbers and color instructions). Others have embellished, embroidered, puzzled, and “redrawn” it in wire;

“…no one sees the image the same. Even the same people go back and color the page differently – celebrate the difference and approach from different perspectives and solve them creatively. All good. No bad. Inspired because most coloring books keep everyone playing inside the lines. My hope is to get everyone stretching and outside the lines.”

You can color your own and contact Brett via Facebook, here. Peace.

World Peace Day The Coloring Book for the Super Intelligent Brett Bender #color4peace

World Peace Day The Coloring Book for the Super Intelligent Brett Bender #color4peace

World Peace Day The Coloring Book for the Super Intelligent Brett Bender #color4peace

World Peace Day The Coloring Book for the Super Intelligent Brett Bender #color4peace

World Peace Day The Coloring Book for the Super Intelligent Brett Bender #color4peace

World Peace Day The Coloring Book for the Super Intelligent Brett Bender #color4peace

World Peace Day The Coloring Book for the Super Intelligent Brett Bender #color4peace

World Peace Day The Coloring Book for the Super Intelligent Brett Bender #color4peace

World Peace Day The Coloring Book for the Super Intelligent Brett Bender #color4peace

World Peace Day The Coloring Book for the Super Intelligent Brett Bender #color4peace

World Peace Day The Coloring Book for the Super Intelligent Brett Bender #color4peace

World Peace Day The Coloring Book for the Super Intelligent Brett Bender #color4peace

World Peace Day The Coloring Book for the Super Intelligent Brett Bender #color4peace

World Peace Day The Coloring Book for the Super Intelligent Brett Bender #color4peace

World Peace Day The Coloring Book for the Super Intelligent Brett Bender #color4peace

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Jonny McGovern on Ring My Bell

It’s the WOW Report Longer Reads Section!

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Welcome to our Sunday morning Longer Reads section. It’s your chance to catch up on some of the more interesting and obscure news items you might have missed. This week: Messy drag queens, homophobic dogs, and why it’s not OK to “go lesbian” for a year.

 

Longer Reads in the news blog love

 

The Daily Beast takes us, kicking and screaming, Inside Napa’s State Hospital for the Criminally Insane.

No, “going lesbian for a year” is not an acceptable hobby, says The New Statesman.

Buzzword, graph, celebrity example: Generic trend piece in highbrow magazine is funny because it’s true.

Simon Doonan on the death of his homophobic, emotionally withholding dog, Liberace.

Friday was International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Slate explains why they actually talk like that. The answer will surprise you.

From Salon: An interview with an actual asexual!

What happens when we all live to 100, in The Atlantic.

Also in The Atlantic: What internet vernacular reveals about the evolution of language.

Michael Musto spends time with the decidedly unpolished drag queens of Brooklyn’s Bushwig festival.

An interview with Brigitte Bardot on the occasion of her 80th birthday in The Guardian.

The New York Post: Julian Casablancas left New York because of brunch.

Also in The Guardian: “The English are unrestrained wild beasts and totally out of control,” says Portugese writer João Magueijo. “British homes are less clean than my grandmother’s poultry cage. Their diet is deplorable and fish and chips is a dish that makes you want to wash it with detergent before eating. The north is hideous, the class system the source of reciprocal fear and hate. And then there’s the drinking, and the shagging, illustrated through a number of eye-popping anecdotes involving projectile vomit and casual blowjobs. I never met such a group of animals.” HA! It’s funny because it’s true!

 

 

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Fuckin’ Facebook, man. Why Facebook is cracking down on the drag community, in Slate.

It’s Facebook vs Drag Queens in the Wallstreet Journal.

Read more about the uproar in The Guardian, Salon, Business Insider, DeathandTaxes, Towleroad, and The Edmonton Journal, among others.

Pink News reports openly gay San Francisco supervisor David Campos has now called on Facebook – which is based near his district – to meet with the drag community. He said: “I have reached out to Facebook and am working to schedule a meeting at City Hall between Facebook officials and local drag queens as soon as possible.” We’ll see how far that gets.

What can you do? Sign this petition at Change.org and spread the word. Remember: First they came for the drag queens….

Ironically, here’s an article about “the tiresome culture of outrage” in The LA Times.

In Salon, two authors travel across the country visiting independent bookstores, and report that BOOKSTORES LIVE!

The surprising theory why so many Disney characters are motherless, in YahooCelebrity.

Adulthood is dead, cries The New York Times. Vulture agrees, and adds that Seth Rogen is now more serious than Woody Allen.

In the Daily Beast: Why porn is leading the fight for net neutrality.

From celebrity nudes to Ray Rice’s domestic abuse to the ISIS beheadings, The Atlantic has an unresolved debate about what pics should be published, what pics should be taken, and what pics should be shared.

 

 

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Let’s just do this: How Joan changed the face of fashion forever in the Daily Mail.

Joan’s 50 best jokes in Vulture.

Remembering Joan’s iconic style in The Cut (I was partial to her ’80s big-hair-and-ballgown phase when she thought she was Nan Kempner) .

A fascinating remembrance “”Joan Rivers Always Knew She Was Funny” in New York

This is interesting: Read a previously unpublished chapter from Charlie & the Chocolate Factory in The Guardian.

Also in The Guardian: A brief history of psychedelic psychiatry.

Because it needs to be said: Vanity Fair‘s 7 Tips for Surving Fashion Week.

In “Mullets I Have Loved” David Keeps and Suzan Colón reminisce about working at Star Hits magazine in its ’80s heyday.

15 movies everybody will be talking about after the Toronto Film Festival.

ENOUGH, ALREADY! According to Salon: Hipster bashing has become a stand-in for anti-intellectualism, middle class resentment, and subtle homophobia. So STOP IT!

The Most Overrated Albums of the ’90s. Yeah, we’re looking at YOU, OK Computer.

Bestiality is on the rise in Europe. Vice has the investigation and gripping mini-doc.

In Slate: How Saved By the Bell invented the tween, and other reasons you shouldn’t have been so quick to dismiss that SBTB biopic on Lifetime.

And finally, dealing with digital cruelty, in The New York Times.

 

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It was revealed this week that Hello Kitty is not a cat. She’s a teenage girl. And if that wasn’t shocking enough, The New Yorker wants you to know the truth about these OTHER cartoon characters.

Porn Again: The Spectator takes a look at the middle-aged men and women warped by internet porn.

Of course, nothing really matters because  government researchers think we’re all just living in a 2D hologram. Read about it in VICE.

Hilary’s gay rights evolution is chronicled in The New York Times.

In Slate: Taylor Swift’s Machiavellian move from country to pop, and how the horrid “Shake It Off” debuted at number one.

Why there should never, ever, ever be a Full House reboot.

And why The Simpsons can never get its mojo back.

Is the facekini the future of beachwear? The Daily Beast thinks so.

And finally: Why THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT STORY YOU WILL EVER READ and how Facebook plans to cut down on click-bait.

 

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Slate exposes the sad and disturbing world of Koko the gorilla.

The US Copyright Office has weighed in the case of the monkey selfie, and decided that “works produced by nature, animals, and plants” do not belong to the animals or plants that produce them (sorry Groot), they belong in the public domain, and furthermore, so do “works purportedly created by divine or supernatural beings.” Ok…. but does that law also apply to ROBOTS?

If you’re worried about the coming robot revolution as much as I am, I beseech you to watch “Humans Need Not Apply”  – the mini-doc on how robots are going to take away your earning power.

Not so fast, says The New York Times. Robots aren’t going to take your jobs because they lack common sense! (FOR NOW).

A prominent law professor addresses addresses why Officer Darren Wilson of Ferguson hasn’t been arrested yet.

Salon catches up with our old friend Jonah Falcon, the guy with the world’s largest penis. SPOILER ALERT: His massive schlong has not brought him happiness and prosperity.

Check this out, bro: The origin and history of the word “bro” and why overuse suggests the word might be on the way out.

GQ has a profile of the legendary North Pond Hermit, who lived alone in the woods of Central Maine for nearly 30 years, and survived on what he could steal from the local townspeople in the dead of the night.

From Oddity Central: Professional Poo Diver Loves his Stinky Job!

Michael Musto lists the 10 Best Bad Movies of All Time.

And The Atlantic explores the psychology behind the word “the” in a band’s name.

 

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The Onion nails it: Tips for Being An Unarmed Black Teen.

From VICE: How to avoid being an exploding corpse after you die.

This will make you sad: Mental Floss has 11 smells that are disappearing from our world.

Robin William’s death, and how we mourn on social media in The New York Times.

In case you missed it: Lauren Bacall’s obituary in The New York Times.

Boy Culture has an incredibly comprehensive list of the last Golden Age stars left standing.

Vanity Fair revives the old Spy magazine Nightlife Decathlon.

The LA Times has a wrist-slittingly accurate game: So You Want to Be a Writer?

Last month, a North Carolina mother was arrested for letting her 9-year-old daughter play at the park, unattended. Which is RIDICULOUS. When I was nine, I drove a truck from Florida to Kentucky! BY MYSELF! And lived in a cave with a hibernating bear! I tell you, kids today are wussies. Slate tracks kid’s freedoms through the last seventy years.

A HuffPo reporter tries group masturbation! Wheeeeee!

The Daily Dot explains the problem with James Franco’s queerbaiting. And here’s a remedial lesson on what queerbaiting is, any why media queerbaiting tactics, in general, are wrong.

10 things not to do as a New Yorker visiting LA, via The Homemaker.

Why BuzzFeed is shifting its strategy. And why they’ve quietly deleted nearly 5,000 old posts.

And finally, to end on a disturbing note: From Matter magazine: You’re 16, you’re a pedophile, you don’t want to hurt anyone… what do you do now?

 

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In praise of back hair on The Dish,

An incredibly lengthy puff piece of Vine star Nash Grier on HuffPo Gay (odd, considering his recent homophobic rant. Damage control anybody?)

Forget Ebola. We’re all going to die of Valley Fever.

“I had no idea I’d been sex trafficked”: A terrifying true story in Salon.

Simon Napier-Bell: The ultimate rock n’ roll gossip in the Times of London.

The troubles and triumphs of fat, gay men in Slate.

Simon Doonan has 10 ways to stay chill in the heat of the summer.

Hmmm. If monkeys can own selfies, what other rights should they have? Check out the debate in Wired.

Also in Wired: When robots take all our jobs, what’ll be left for us to do?

How culture affects madness in The New Republic: An anthropologist asks schizophrenics around the world to describe the voices in their heads.

Also in The New Republic: Why did those two US missionaries get the Ebola serum while Africans are left to die?

And finally, the rise and fall… and rise again?… of superstar celebrity journalist Kevin Sessums in The New York Times.

 

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What you need to know about the Ebola outbreak in the New York Times.

Also: The Ebola virus is outpacing efforts to control it, World Health body warns.

And: Ebola vaccine is possible, but many doubts persist.

How ravers became the new hippies in The New Republic. Interesting, but would have been more interesting 20 YEARS AGO.

In Salon: Why “the Money Shot” became the defining aesthetic of modern porn.

9 things to know about raising the recently dead in Wired

Film Noir “The Elusive Genre” in The New Yorker

Musty on the 13 best clubs in New York history.

Slate wonders if we still need gay resorts like P-town and Fire Island.

GAY SHAME & GRINDR at Gay HuffPo.

JAWDROPPING. UNBELIEVABLE. TRAGIC. 11 heinous lies conservatives are teaching America’s schoolchildren in Salon.

The Washington Post has a story about the Amish prisoners enjoying modern conveniences in Pennsylvania prisons.

Theodore Van Kirk, the last surviving crew member of the Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortress that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in the last days of World War II, died this week. The New York Times obituary makes you wonder about the morality of men at war.

And finally, for a giggle: The 10 bands you will be forced to listen to in Hell.

 

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Salon has a fascinating investigation into the history of swearing.

“Buzzenfreude” – Why everyone is gleefully pouncing on BuzzFeed’s plagiarism scandal, at Slate.

Gay Cities lists the 11 types of gay bars, and why they matter now more than ever.

Bear with me. One last column on the Great T-Word Debate of 2014 – From Slate: “Conservatism in the LGBTQ Movement.”

“Sing to Me, O Muse (But Keep It Brief): The New York Times says the future of poetry lies on Twitter.

The Washington Post pointedly notes that in 13 seasons, Project Runway has yet to launch a true fashion star (as they repeatedly promise).

In The Daily Mail: John McCain condemns the two-hour execution of Arizona killer Joseph Rudolf Wood, saying it was “torture.” And the man knows from torture. What gets me is that they can euthanize a dog in 15 seconds, but for some reason they keep botching up these executions. Something’s just not right.

The Independent says that watching TV after work makes you feel like a failure. I could have told them that.

i-D takes Suzy Menkes to task for revealing the identity of the Maison Martin Margiela designer (fashion’s biggest secret).

And finally… The REAL problem with sexy profile pics.

 

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If you haven’t read the controversial Time magazine piece “Dear White Gays: Stop Stealing Black Female Culture,” it would behoove you to do so now.

Gay man pens rebuttal: “Dear Black Women: White Gays Are Your Allies, Don’t Push Us Away.”

Autostraddle has a rebuttal for his rebuttal.

HuffPo tells Time to stop telling gay men how to act.

New York magazine explains that it’s not so much white gays stealing from black women, but white gays stealing from black drag queens, which makes it all OK? Hmmmm. But aren’t the black drag queens ALSO stealing from black female culture? Which, by the transitive property, leads us right back to the beginning? I don’t know. I’ve lost track of who’s right and who’s wrong.

Black women, it seems, are ALSO upset with Iggy Azalea who “mistakes appropriation for artistry, and [pushes them] to the sidelines” – this, according to Salon.

i-D magazine has a piece on how Instagram’s constant stream of it-girls with fabulous gifted outfits at A-list parties can make you absolutely LOATHE fashion.

In PAPER: Mikey Musto lists the 10 WORST CLUBS IN NEW YORK HISTORY.

The Washington Post explains the plan to split up California into six separate states, and why.

Salon has the story of a Virginia father who recently traveled to Bir Tawil, an 800 square mile territory between Egypt and Sudan, to plant a flag designed by his three children and, thanks to a century-old land dispute over one of the few remaining unclaimed lands in the world, declared it for his 7 year-old daughter Emily. Making her the princess of North Sudan. What a great dad. I’m sure she’s not going to grow up to be an entitled brat. No sireee.

Salon also disputes Malcom Gladwell’s 10,000 minute rule: “If you practice the necessary 10,000 hours you can reach the zenith of your field.” I do, too, for the record.

And finally, in The New York Times: Stalking the shadow universe of dark energy. I don’t get it either, but I’m sure nuclear-physicist-tuned-astronaut Scarlett Johansson will be exploring it in a summer blockbuster this time next year.

 

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BREAKING NEWS: OLD MAN YELLS AT CLOUDS: Will Self proclaims this generation is fucked. Find out why in i-D

Much handwringing in The Guardian because writers can no longer afford to write.

HuffPo After Dark interviews drag legend Linda Simpspn on the evolution of drag from the late ’80s to today.

Turning “Likes” into a career: The New York Times on how social media stars are using Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr to build their career.

BEWARE! Hamster cannibals in Slate!

Everything we know so far about Better Call Saul, in Vulture.

Tips for having a great one-night stand, in Salon.

Also in Salon: What you do post-sex (cuddle? sleep? get a sandwich?) says a lot about who you are.

In defense of Britney’s auto-tuning in The Daily Beast.

Trans civility in The Washington Post: “How do I introduce my transgender son or daughter?”

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Absolutely riveting account of Justin Bieber’s cosseted and feral life in Vulture. Seriously, if you read ONE article this week, read this one.

Slate explores why we don’t have a gay A-lister in Hollywood yet.

When Mexico chants “Puto” during the World Cup, it’s actually a rather sophisticated bit of word play.

New York magazine reports: Publishing bigwigs gather to deal with problem of Amazon.

An interesting article in Salon about a death doula.

Bruce Villanch on How to Write for the Academy Awards

In PAPER magazine: The 25 gayest cartoon characters of all time.

 

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The true history of the Stonewall riots at Back to Stonewall

New York magazine has a pictorial history of the early days of Gay Pride.

“Don’t sneak” – A dad’s unexpected advice to his gay son in the 1950s, at NPR.

At Salon: The history of heterosexuality. It’s shorter than you think.

At the Daily Dot, a level-headed, non-screechy, non-judgemental look at those infamous Bryan Singer parties.

Justin Vivian Bond writes a level-headed, non-screechy, non-judgemental artical about the “t” word in The Stranger.

Quite out of the blue, a group of chimpanzees in Zambia have started following a “fashion trend” by wearing a blade of grass in their ear. Read about it at The Science of Us.

A survivor of Auschwitz teams with a German rap duo. Read about it in the New York Times.

In The Daily Mail, scientists simulate sending quantum particles back in time. Yes, TIME TRAVEL IS BECOMING A REALITY! YOU HAD BETTER WATCH OUT SCOTT JACKMAN IN 8TH GRADE! I’M COMING FOR YOU!

And Fear Not the Coming of the Robots.

An interview with Rufus Wainright at ChicagoPride.com.

Slate explains why people hate Cristiano Ronoldo.

The Daily Beast revisits the the ’90s when Judas Priest went to trial over the suicides of two teen boys.

And finally, in New York magazine, just how in the hell did Hilary Clinton become Marie Antoinette?

 

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Linguist and language creator David Peterson teaches a new course: “Conversational Dothraki.” Read about it in Salon.

PAPERmag has nightlife survivors discussing how much cooler New York used to be. Duh.

Interesting article in The New Yorker about how a gay kiss between SIMS characters changed video games forever, and how it happened quite by accident.

Porn star Aurora Snow explains to the Daily Beast why threesomes are never fun in real life.

The Vulture thinks that Shakespeare’s tragedies, like, totally suck and are soooo unbelievable.

The story behind that “Go You Chicken Fat, Go” song in the Apple commercials is actually pretty fascinating. Read all about it in the Daily Kos.

Uh, we have pubic hair FOR A REASON, guys. Stop shaving it off.

Teller, of Penn & Teller, writes in The Smithsonian about the neuroscience of manipulating the human mind.

Jezebel investigates the dangerous and grotesque trend of rosebudding. DON’T READ. PROMISE ME YOU WON’T CLICK OVER AND READ. YOU DON’T NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THIS.

Woman who became famous for blogging about her son’s illnesses is arrested and charged with poisoning him. Read about it in The New York Times.

i-D magazine has Harmony Korine’s five most iconic looks (yes, the Bunny Boy from Gummo makes the list)

Important: Slate breaks down the YouTube controversy, where artists (including Adele, Radiohead, and Arctic Monkeys) who don’t agree with their (unfair) terms will be removed from the site.

 

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In HuffPo, a father discovers his 9-year-old son has a “type”: Pretty boys with dark hair.

Man gives up sitting for an entire month. Read the day-by-day account in New York magazine.

Make no mistake: Jayne County is the REAL Hedwig.

Salon lists the 8 things Americans get wrong about sex.

The Daily Beast asks: If not Hilary, then who? Without her, the Dems have NO ONE.

The Daily Beast also asks: Is Jack White the last real rock star?

Louis CK goes up against TMZ

The New York Times on the Uber revolution.

NASA’s obstacle-filled path to Mars.

In The Telegraph: The man who coined the term “metrosexual” says it’s all about “spornosexuals” now, i.e. sporty, porno-looking dudes. Um, yeah, no. That’s not going to catch on, dude.

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From The Guardian: Will Self pontificates (in that way that he has) about the death of the novel. Fascinating and upsetting and very likely true.

The Hollywood Reporter wonders if Justin Bieber’s racist jokes will negatively impact his career (SPOILER: They won’t).

Remember that time Tom Cruise jumped on Oprah’s couch? The Village Voice examines our mass delusion because IT NEVER HAPPENED.

From tween fashion blogger to feminist editrix to Broadway and movie actor, Tavi Gevinson is embarking on her next project: being a grown-up. (How is that possible?)

The Washington Post reports on a project to send religious and historical artifacts to the moon for safe keeping, just in case, you know, we all blow each other up.

Hey. Why don’t we have flying cars yet?

Vulture has a spoiler-laden guide to making it through The Fault in Our Stars without crying.

Speaking of tears: Here’s a touching story in The Daily Mail about an airline gate attendant who brought Detroit Metro Airport to a standstill when she sang the National Anthem to a group of World War II veterans as they boarded their plane to France for the D-Day festivities.

Flashback: Here’s how The New York Times covered D-Day back in 1944.

A few years ago, Beyoncé Knowles was like any other record-breaking pop star in an already crowded field. Then something changed. The New York Times canonizes Bey.

Banana Facts!

 

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The New Yorker investigates how a raccoon became an aardvark thanks to the weird phenomenon known as Wikiality – wherein an error that appears on Wikipedia then trickles to sources that Wikipedia considers authoritative, which are in turn used as evidence for the original falsehood.

Near death experiences, explained in Salon.

The Stranger has a moving account of one boy’s coming out in Iran, where being gay can get you killed.

Is he harmless? Dangerous? Kind of cute but ultimately annoying? A timeline of Unkranian reporter Vitalii Sediuk’s red carpet “pranks.”

Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard has written a 6-volume, 3,600 page autobiography that endlessly details the most pointless minutia of his life – and apparently it’s MESMERIZING! BRILLIANT! UN-PUT-DOWNABLE! Discover why critics and fans are falling over themselves to proclaim him THE NEXT LITERARY GOD in New York magazine.

In Saudi Arabia, they’ve translated Frozen into the Arabic equivalent of King James’ English. The New Yorker‘s explanation of why they did that is more interesting than the actual movie.

So apparently “vocal fry” is the new “uptalk” – The Science of Us explains why talking like a Kardashian makes you less attractive, less competent, less educated, less trustworthy, and ultimately less hirable. (As if you couldn’t have guessed)

HuffPo has an interview with Valencourt Books publishers James Jenkins and Ryan Cagle whose mission is to rediscover and republish early gay literature.

Slut-shaming and class: Why rich girls think lower-class girls are whores and why lower-class girls think are rich girls are whores. In Slate.

RIP Massimo Vignelli, the graphic designer behind the cult classic 1972 NYC subway map. Read about the creation of that here, and read what other designers thought of him here

 

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David Lachapelle is interviewed in OUT magazine about the about the firestorm of controversy his Love Ball poster has caused in Austria.

PAPER magazine lists the top 40 drag queens in New York.

The Daily Mail has the strange story of the twice-married, 51-year-old virgin. Really. You gotta read this one.

The Spectator has a piece on how chasing the Pulitzer has destroyed American journalism (which is why we’re all edited by Brits).

Kate Bornstein blogs about the T word.

Vulture has 10 theories about tonight’s mid-season finale of Mad Men (my money is on Megan’s plane going down).

The New York Times has an an interesting picture of the young Teddy Roosevelt watching President Lincoln pass by in a parade. Not exactly topical, but fascinating for history buffs.

Speaking of history: Open Vault has the complete public access debate about whether gay marriage should be legal… from a 1974 episode of PBS’s The Advocates.

The DMV lays out rules governing how self-driving or autonomous cars are tested by manufacturers on California roads. Which is one of those weird “THE FUTURE IS COMING! THE FUTURE IS COMING!” moments we should all acknowlege.

Conner Oberst talks to Lorde about being young and “it” in the Times music section.

The Alternative Press has why 5 Seconds of Summer are more important than you think.

The Anatomy of a Look: Vanity Fair has the breakdown Angelina Jolie’s villainous transformation in Maleficent.

The Atlantic looks back on Frank O’Hara’s iconic Lunch Poems – “21st Century Poems Written in 1964… Full of pop-culture references, Lunch Poems has all the brevity, informality, irony, and at times chatty pointlessness of modern discourse without having been influenced by it… O’Hara’s Lunch Poems — like Facebook posts or tweets— shares, saves, and re-creates the poet’s experience of the world.” They are, of course, ABSOLUTE BLISS.

Finally, a bit of fun from The New Yorker: “If You Let Your Teenage Daughter Sleep in on a School Day”

 

PREVIOUSLY:

Always the optimist, Michael Musto lists 10 ways New York nightlife is better than it was in the ’80s.

The New York Times states the obvious: Being bullied is bad for your health.

So you’re still confused about normcore (and avant-normcore and hardcore-normcore and brokecore and florcore)? The Cut breaks it down for you. (Short answer: Dress like Seinfeld)

Trend sherpa Bradford Shellhammer tell Medium the 5 ways to navigate design politics.

i-D reflects upon the 20-year anniversary of the making of the most expensive video of all time: “Scream” by Michael and Janet Jackson.

Molly Shannon’s party etiquette in W magazine. Sure, why not?

History, literature, religion and the arts are receding from public life, replaced by technology, statistics, science and math. Even the most elemental form of communication, the story, is being pushed aside for numbers and data. The nerds have won. They’ve taken over the world. Now what?

New York magazine says it pays to be overconfident, even if you have no nidea what the hell you’re doing. (Look to Kanye as your spirit animal)

Andy Warhol: The first king of selfies.

Gift ideas: Why not check out the 9/11 museum gift shop?

The paradox of art as work, in the Times.

The future of fashion is 3-d. Duh. It’s the future of EVERYTHING.

New York magazine asks: How much French do you need to know to live in Paris?

Also: The things that New Yorkers do that stun Parisians, and vice versa.

and The Atlantic investigates what the death of home pages means for the future of news and the future of blogging. Oh dear. On second thought: NEVER MIND! NOBODY READ THAT! IT’S NOTHING BUT HOGWASH AND POPPYCOCK! KEEP IT MOVING!

 

PREVIOUSLY:

Isn’t it ironic? We were all wrong to sneer at Alanis Morrissette in 1996. Turns out she actually DID understand irony, and Salon explains why.

The Daily Mail has a piece on the Chinese performance artist who had a rib removed onstage without anesthesia, then made a faaaaaabulous necklace out of it.

The Daily Beast asserts that Hilary is going to run without any challengers for the Democratic nomination.

Tina Brown pontificates on how Monica Lewinsky changed the media and “midwifed modern culture.”

Vanity Fair reports that the Queen is backing out of royal obligations due to “heavy garments.” Oh dear. It’s the beginning of the end, isn’t it?

A fascinating review in the New York Times of the Charles James exhibit at the Metropolitan Costume Institute.

In praise of Courtney Love via i-D magazine.

HuffPo explains how #hashtags became the raised fist of punctuation.

For the love of being liked: The New York Times thinks you and your desperate, approval-seeking tweets are pathetic.

The Daily Mail profiles Irene Triplet, the 84-year-old woman who is the only person still getting benefits from a civil war veteran (her father). Not as sweet and uplifting a story as you might expect.

And the different faces of Godzilla through the years.

 

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Death & Taxes has the story (and pictures) of the dead New Orleans socialite dressed in a pink feather boa, with a cigarette and champagne flute, propped up on a bench during her wake, overlooking the festivities. So punk rock.

Speaking of punk rock: Dangerous Minds has a report on why transgender punk pioneer Jayne County was banned from Facebook.

VICE has an A-Z Guide to Pizza that’s worth your time.

Salon, God bless ‘em, goes undercover to discover why having sex in a reststop men’s room is so much fun.

And for the ladies: My Boobs, My Burden.

Vulture has eight up-and-comers to watch this summer movie season. All you need to know is two words: BRENTON THWAITS! BRENTON THWAITS! BRENTON THWAITS! OMGOMGOMG.

From New York magazine: Why you need to deep-clean your Facebook account NOW.

Be Aware: Brunei has begun phasing in antigay law and will soon allow Death by Stoning. Read more in The Advocate.

The New York Times has advice on how to calculate the division of rent among roommates when rooms are of different sizes, have different amounts of closet space, or get varying degrees of light. It’s called Sperner’s lemma, and you’ll never, ever, ever understand it. Just split three ways and agree to pay the light bill for the one in the little room.

What does Joyce Carol Oates think of Twitter’s “lynch mob mentality”? Find out here!

In Slate: Linguistics professors look into the science of beatboxing.

After last week’s skin-crawling lethal injection disaster, The Daily Beast has an article about botched executions. Just ugh.

And finally, did you know that Will & Grace‘s first audience didn’t realize it was about a gay man? Queerty has a great quote from Debra Messing about that.

 

PREVIOUSLY:

Vulture argues: At this point George W Bush is actually a better artist than James Franco.

Vulture also has a fun interview with Neil Patrick Harris about Hedwig, dressing rooms, and how he gets all that glitter off every night.

BuzzFeed goes deep inside Bryan Singer’s wild Hollywood world of upwardly mobile twinks and the men who prey on them, oh my!

Vaguely related: Meet the Hollywood screenwriter by day, go-go dancer by night, Jeff Tetreault, who tells New York magazine he’s having “an awesome dick day.”

The Daily Mail uncovers why the British are such fashion victims. HA! Also how trends are interpreted by the various classes, which is something the British have always obsessed about.

30 internet famous people YOU NEED TO KNOW.

And a poignant interview with a formerly famous internet star.

Simon Doonan just wants everybody on TV to PUT THEIR DAMN CLOTHES ON.

To celebrate Shakespeare’s 450th birthday this week, Harper’s Bazaar has listed the best fashions from our favorite Shakespeare films.

Frazier Glenn Miller, the former KKK leader and anti-Semitic murderer, was once arrested with a black, cross-dressing hooker. The Daily Beast says that according to psychology and history, it’s not that surprising.

Slate has the poignant story of a daughter and the gay father she never knew.

Why Joan Rivers, Madonna, and, um, “OTHER CELEBRITIES” don’t owe you an apology, in Salon.

and The New York Times listens in as Liz Smith and Jess Cagel (of People and Entertainment Weekly) dish on just about everyone from Jackie O to Kim K.

 

PREVIOUSLY:

David Foster Wallace long ago warned that irony is ruining our culture. Salon thinks we ought to have listened.

Dame magazine reports that trans semantics is causing an uproar within the community, but is language REALLY the issue here?

Slate explores the science behind Transcendence. So… when will be able to upload Johnny Depp’s brain? And, more importantly, why would we want to?

After James Franco called the New York Times theater critic “a little bitch” on Instagram for giving his performance in Of Mice & Men a bad review, The Guardian says we have now entered into a new age of counter-criticism.

The Daily Beast tallies up every woman Don Draper has ever slept with.

And Vulture asks a serial killer expert to analyze every episode of Mad Men for links to the Manson Family murders (because OBVIOUSLY Megan is about to be killed by them).

Alice Hoffman has some… um… out-of-the-box suggestions for getting you started on that novel you’ve been meaning to write.

Newsweek reports on how Laverne Cox transformed the audience at the GLAAD Awards.

New York magazine announces that we have reached “Peak Beard Saturation” and has the scientific proof the trend is is OVER.

A lengthy piece on Cartoon Network’s iconic Adventure Time declares it is a “deeply serious work of moral philosophy, a rip-roaring comic masterpiece, and a meditation on gender politics and love in the modern world. It is rich with moments of tenderness and confusion, and real terror and grief even; moments sometimes more resonant and elementally powerful than you experience in a good novel.” And I thought it was just fun to watch in a k-hole.

The New York Times obituary for Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and over at Slate: What he meant to the people of Colombia (and why we can never TRULY get his novels).

Also in the Times: The complicated life of one of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s heroin connections.

Salon exposes Leonardo DiCaprio’s DARKEST SECRET: He’s actually deeply uncool.

Newsweek has earthshattering nerd news: Dick Grayson ISN’T DEAD after all! The former Robin-turned-Nightwing-turned-Batman (for a period) has gone deeeeep undercover and become… a secret agent? Yep, he’s basically Archer now. Greeeeeat move, DC.

Oh My Gah. Going braless is SO NORMCORE.

And finally, a rather salacious article in The Daily Beast goes inside Bryan Singer’s infamous twink pool parties. I saved it for last because you’re going to need a Silkwood shower after reading it.

 

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OMGOMGOMG! An interview with Brienne of Tarth! An interview with Brienne of Tarth! Game of Thrones star Gwendolyn Christie talks to IGN on the new challenges her character faces now that her quest with Janie Lannister has ended.

Have you heard about the cherry tree that was raised on the space station and stunned scientists by blooming six years earlier than it would on earth? Read about the far-reaching implications of that in the Daily Mail.

From Dior’s New Look to Bianca Jagger’s birthday party at Studio 54, Harper’s Bazaar has the most iconic moments in fashion history.

The Geldofs were Britain’s first celebrity family, long before the Osbournes and the Beckhams. The death of Peaches is the latest cruel twist in a tragedy the nation has watched unfold for decades. The Guardian tells the tale of one family’s epic suffering for Americans who don’t understand the fuss.

Mickey Rooney gave his life to show biz, the least you can do is read his obit in the Florida Sun Sentinal.

The Daily Beast implores you: For God’s sakes, don’t remember Barbara Walters for The View.

OMGOMGOMG! You MUST READ this investigative report about why people loathe “upworthy” headlines. IT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE!

From Brandon Teena in Boys Don’t Cry to Swan in The WarriorsDazed Digital ranks the most rebellious screen icons of all time

Salon debunks the myths of Alcoholics Anonymous.

Slate has some data on how Hilary could make a difference.

 

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In boingboing: Filmmaker, writer, and trans activist Andrea James writes about LGBT reactionaries throwing drag queens under the bus for “transphobic language” and the growing rift between the drag, gay, and trans communities.

Trans icon Calpernia Addams passionately sounds off on the same subject in the Huffington Post.

In The Atlantic: Scientists create Mars-like community in Hawaii to see if astronauts will get SPACE MADNESS when we begin colonizing it in the ’30s.

A fascinating tribute to the lasting legacy of DJ Frankie Knuckles, the Godfather of House music in The LA Times.

Moby reminisces about Klaus Nomi, the ’80s club scene, and the ’90s rave drugs in Vulture.

Just how risky is oral sex? Find out here. (The answer might surprise you)

The Daily Star says the comedian Jonathan Ross is starting his hunt for Britain’s Next Drag Superstar…

Noah is just the latest film to earn the wrath of the Christian right. Read about five other blasphemous movies in Salon.

Then read: The 10 Weirdest Things the Christian Right Thinks Will Turn Your Kids Gay.

From Slate‘s advice column: “Dear Prudence: My twin brother had a one-night stand with a girl, gave her my name and number as joke, then she and I started dating. We’re engaged now, should I tell her the truth?”

Gen X catastrophe in the making: How the coming inheritance boom is going to DESTROY THE NATION.

Slate asks: How do we instill journalistic ethics into our robot reporters?

The New York Times decrees that mankind is inherently spiteful, but you know what? That’s a GOOD thing!

A fun Q & A with Cyndi Lauper in The Guardian.

BBC News: A French couple has gathered a thousand on-line fan tributes to Pharrell’s “Happy”

So the Black Death wasn’t really the Bubonic plague after all? Read the new theories in Slate.

Swoonworthy rates the top ten hunks of Game of Thrones. (Grey Worm should have scored higher, just sayin’)

 

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Always tackling the most important stories of the day, HuffPo has 19 Very Real Struggles of Women with Big Butts.

The much buzzed-about New York Post article: “L’Wren Scott’s Suicide Reveals Tragic Side of City’s Glitzy Scene.”

Slate uses music theory to explain the genius of Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky” (Maybe next year they’ll tackle why “Happy” is so goddamn annoying).

Nile Rogers writes about Studio 54, Grace Jones, and the Disco backlash in New York magazine.

From Salon: Why Entertainment Weekly‘s decision to start paying writers with “prestige” rather than, you know, actual money is terrible for both writers and readers (and does not bode well for the future of pop culture).

Also in Salon: Why Gwyneth Paltrow’s utterly obnoxious “conscious uncoupling” letter proves she’s the last, great star, “worthy of the legacy of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford.”

Mental Floss investigates: Is the Five-Second Rule real?

The New York Times says millennials in the work place are shallow, callow, unmotivated, and undependable… just like every generation since the middle ages.

Also in the Times: Exploring the Salton Sea, the Sunken City and other modern ruins of Southern California.

Lead singer of cult metal band GWAR David Brockie aka Oderus Urungus found dead at 50. Read about it in Rolling Stone and Daily Mail.

 

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Nickelback, Smash Mouth, Goo Goo Dolls: Salon has the 15 most hated bands of the last 30 years. (But no fun.? No Mumford & Sons? I demand a recount!)

The must-have coffee table book of 2014 about the mob hit men of Murder Inc. will cost you exactly $4,200. But YOWZA, what a book! Read about it in the New York Times.

Washington Post has a fascinating obituary of the villanous Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps.

And HuffPo has the LGBT reaction to his death.

Arkansas school doubles down on decision to ban gay student’s coming out story in yearbook.

For all you hardcore Benson fans out there (you know who you are), Salon has the answer to how the series was supposed to end.

For when you absolutely need purple pleather harem pants on the run: Fashion trucks are about to become ALL THE RAGE.

Coming soon to the Great White Way: James Franco and Chris O’Dowdare reimagine Of Mice & Men as a bromantic comedy

Absolutely riveting video (if you’re into this sort of thing): Alexander Wang, Prabal Garung and Eddie Borgo analyze the concept of style at the SCADstyle 2014 conference. At Style.com

Liza Minnelli talks to the LA Times about Ellen, that blue streak, and her new show.

Why Ruth Bader Ginsburg must NEVER EVER retire from the Supreme Court in Slate.

Of Hippos and Kings: Archeologist and anthropologist Eric H Cline has a new book called 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed, and it sounds remarkably like today.. Read the review in the New Yorker.

 

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Air & Space magazine magazine has a fascinating article about a 727 airline that vanished from Angola in 2003.

Daily Mail claims that the pilot of missing Flight MH370 was a political fanatic. This comes as police are investigating the possibility that he hijacked his own aircraft in a bizarre political protest.

OK, so we all think Flight 727 was hijacked, but just in case that gets disproven, New York magazine has other theories ranging from mechanical failure to alien abduction.

Kitty Genovese, whose 1964 rape and murder was witnessed by 37 bystanders who DID NOTHING, became a symbol about the unravelling of society, racial fears, and the lack of care exhibited by city dwellers for their neighbors. Now Off the Grid reports that Kitty was a lesbian. Did that have something to do with her neighbors’ responses (or lack thereof)?

The New York Times writes about the growing transgender presence in pop culture, talking to icons-in-the-making Laverne Cox, Janet Mock and wowlebrity Zachary Drucker.

Has the tv-star-to-movie-star career trajectory become outmoded? Vulture thinks so.

Why Mel Gibson deserves a second chance: Deadline pleads his case.

Salon has an expose on how to behave at an orgy.

10 famous geniuses and their drugs of choice, also at Salon.

One man’s mission to name an island after Busta Rhymes in Slate.

 

LAST WEEK’S LONGER READS:

What the hell happend to Jay McInerney? Slate examines the ’80s literary superstar’s unrealized potential.

Finally, someone details the difference between Death Metal and Black Metal.

The Independent examines the culture of rape in men’s prisons.

Semen allergies, broken penises, and spontaneous orgasms: Salon has six weird consequences of sex they don’t teach you in sex ed.

The New York Times Style section has a breathless investigation into the return of the monocle as the fashion accessory du jour for hipsters.

Slate has a bit of fun with Beyond the Monocle: Five Ideas for Future New York Times Hipster Trend Pieces including ruffs, powdered wigs, and plague doctor masks. Which, of course, I was wearing before they were cool.

The Guardian has grim news for authors: Not even award-winning best-selling authors are making money in publishing anymore.

Nightclubbing 101: An oral history of New York’s Pyramid Club as told by the trailblazing drag queens and performance artists who performed there.

Is belly dancing racist? Salon decrees it so.

The New Yorker has a humorous piece about 59-year-olds who look down their noses on 56-year-olds. Insolent pups!

 

PREVIOUS LONGER READS:

Sunday, March 2, 2014:

The inimitable Cindy Adams predicts tonight’s Oscars, as only Cindy can.

Who thanks who at the Oscars (No surprise: Meryl gets thanked more than God)

The Guardian has a piece imploring Academy voters not to give the Oscar to the documentary The Act of Killing (in which Indonesia’s political mass-murderers restage their slaughters).

The brilliant Douglas Rushkoff writes in Politico: “How Technology Killed the Future

Slate has the 19 most common questions a trans person is asked.

The Atlantic has a fascinating interview with trans activist and memoirist Janet Mock.

New York magazine asserts the latest sartorial rage among hipsters is Normcore: the dad-brand non-style you might have once associated with Jerry Seinfeld.

Riveting stuff: Furniture shopping habits of the rich and famous at Salon.

Gawker profiles the adorable 101-year-old man who’s running for Congress, and really ought to win.

Fascinating article in The Economist about the controversial heroin treatment used in Switzerland and the Netherlands which sets up safe sites where users can inject while monitored by health-care staff and – in some cases – provides heroin itself free.

An investigation at Slate into the impenetrable time signature of The Terminator‘s musical score. Honestly, I wouldn’t mention it if I didn’t think it was REALLY INTERESTING.

W has a piece on venerable downtown fashion designer Andre Walker’s comeback. I still kick myself EVERY DAY for not buying some of those cookie-cutter outfits back in 1985 when I had the chance. STUPID JAMES!

The New Yorker translates what Ted Nugent was really trying to say when he called President Obama a “subhuman mongrel.”

Slate covers an exhibit at the National Museum of Australia showcasing convict love tokens – coins that had been smoothed over and then engraved with messages that prisoners gave to their sweethearts before leaving for penal colonies in Australia in the 18th and 19th century.

And finally, the Daily Beast has an update on Michael Alig and his post-prison plans.

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The Beginning of the End?: Over 300,000 Gather For People’s Climate March In NYC

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MARCHING SELFIE: Dennis Kucinich, Leo DiCaprio and friends

Peoples Climate March New York City Global Climate Change beginning of the end

The People’s Climate March began this morning at 11:30AM, moving east along 59th Street from Columbus Circle. More than 1000 groups from all 50 states and 300 colleges participated along with animal activist Jane Goodall, Al Gore, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, Dennis Kucinich, my local councilman, Corey Johnson, Mark Ruffalo, Leonardo DiCaprio and over 300,000 other concerned citizens.

“I am overwhelmed by such a strong power, energy and voice of people – I hope this voice will be truly reflected to the leaders when they meet on September 23rd. Climate change is [a] defining issue of our time and there is no time to lose. If we do not take action now, we will have to pay much more. They have raised their voice, they have shown their power to change the mind set of people and I hope that this power will help — and the heat will help — cool the global temperature rise within 2 degree Centigrade.” –Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General

Let’s hope this brings much-needed mass awareness to the issue and this really does signal the beginning of the end – of the debate! These shots were taken from friends Twitter and Facebook pages (T/Y to Stephen, Barbara, Kenneth, Jim and others) Note: An updated final count, at this writing, is closer to 400,000, making it the largest climate march in history.

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My upstate pals, husband & wife Akira and Ellie Ohiso, designed this poster seen all over town prior to the march.

Peoples Climate March New York City Global Climate Change beginning of the end

Over 300,000 turned out for the #peoplesClimateMarch

Peoples Climate March New York City Global Climate Change beginning of the end

Peoples Climate March New York City Global Climate Change beginning of the end

Peoples Climate March New York City Global Climate Change beginning of the end

Peoples Climate March New York City Global Climate Change beginning of the end

Peoples Climate March New York City Global Climate Change beginning of the end

Peoples Climate March New York City Global Climate Change beginning of the end

Peoples Climate March New York City Global Climate Change beginning of the end

Peoples Climate March New York City Global Climate Change beginning of the end

Peoples Climate March New York City Global Climate Change beginning of the end

Peoples Climate March New York City Global Climate Change beginning of the end

Peoples Climate March New York City Global Climate Change beginning of the end

Peoples Climate March New York City Global Climate Change beginning of the end

Peoples Climate March New York City Global Climate Change beginning of the end

Peoples Climate March New York City Global Climate Change beginning of the end

Peoples Climate March New York City Global Climate Change beginning of the end

Peoples Climate March New York City Global Climate Change beginning of the end

(Photos, Twitter & Facebook)

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Anderson Cooper’s BF’s “Lovegun” Opens in NYC

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The wait is over!!! Last week, the much-anticipated new Brooklyn boutique club Lovegun, owned by Darren Dryden, Pablo Raimondi, Chris Canon and Anderson Cooper’s man Ben Maisani, finally opened. And this opening was HUGE! The night was hosted by NYC cool kid Frankie Sharp (Westgay), and brought out all the twinks, twonks, gym bunnies and turnt up celebs, including AC, Kelly Ripa, Juliana Huxtable, Joey LaBeija, Andy Cohen, Thorgy Thor, Merrie Cherry and Mark Consuelos. Lovegun is located at 617 Grand St, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York. (Photos by Chris Harder)

 

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Important Tune for Today: Mz 007′s “Important”

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The self-proclaimed #FatFlyChick from St. Louis gets a LOT of hate in the YouTube comment section (“Biggysmalls lookin Diabetes marshmallow-built clumped clogged artery looking bitch hahahaa :D gurl Take yo Pills-berry-doe-boy lookin ass on somewhere The only thing that is Important is yo cheese cakes and Twinkies and night sweats when u sleep at night”) but that kind of makes me love her even more. She’s strong. She’s opinionated. And she clearly loves herself. I think she’s going places.

Not everyone agrees. In a post titled “Obese Black Woman Takes Narcissism to a Whole New Level,” Downtrend says:

Though I genuinely appreciate her struggle as an obese woman, I fail to see how embracing every single despicable ghetto stereotype enhances her image. Nor do I understand how gorging on alcohol and marijuana will help her “fix” her unfortunate problem.

 

 

 

 

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Your Moment of Zen: Guillaume Néry Dives into the Deepest Swimming Pool in the World

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Beautiful and slightly terrifying. French freediver Guillaume Néry, who specializes in Constant Weight freediving, gently floats to the bottom of NEMO 33, the deepest pool in the world (113 feet). Hold your breath and see if you can make it to the bottom with him. I panicked after 30 seconds.

And how exactly does he just slide to the bottom like that? I thought that as long as your lungs were filled with air, you floated.

From a Youtube commenter: You obviously didn’t get a very high grade in physics. Yes, you do float at a certain point near the surface when your body’s density is less than that of water. Density is measured in mass per volume (m/V). The deeper you go, the higher the pressure, which means that the air in your long is now compressed. The smaller the air in your lungs become, the denser your body becomes, and at a certain depth, your body is now denser than the surrounding water and you begin to sink. That is why he used his in the beginning to push himself down, then later he just sank without effort.

The song, btw, is “Deep Water” by Portishead”

 

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Vintage Playbills – With Handwritten Reviews on the Cover!

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Matthew Rettenmund (of Boy Culture fame) found a stack of old Playbills dating back to the ’60s at the Broadway Flea Market yesterday. What makes them really fun is that the theater-goer who collected them jotted down his own (often scathing) reviews on the covers. Torch Song Trilogy? “Too much mugging and the fat fag with a gravel voice never could be believed.” Evita? “So so. Couldn’t understand words—2nd rate spectacle” and Gloria Swanson in Butterflies Are Free? “She is TERRIBLE.” Ouch. Check them out after the jump. (t/y Tom)

3-3-1976: “Eclectic Fosse—he’s done all this—and better. Interesting set but silly fable, caricature parts and no real dancing. Missed Rivera. Verdon supposed to be a dancer but he didn’t give her a thing. What worked in Berlin flops in Chicago. Bad book, music + direction. Stars not used. Come on Bob!”

 

7-22-1982: “4 hours of a comic gay love story. He can write, especially but acts 1 + 2 are too long and loosely constructed (?). III is fine (?) Mr. Fierstein has great energy but I didn’t believe his character til moments in Act III—too much mugging and somehow a fat fag with a gravel voice never could be believed. But he has talent—clip, clip.”

2-24-67: “Strange, amusing and light treatment of lesbian horribles. The idea is communicated with air of witty perversity. Well writte, flowed, few interest gaps. Excellent cast led by Reid. Dull set. Entertaining theater, no telling point to it all—girls will be girls.”

4-16-1970: “I didn’t know the play well and hared it was dated, but unless midle age is reaching me for more placid theater—I loved the show. It is easy and fun and structured—but it seemed to me also undated, fresh and relevant. We all need a bit of Ellwood P’s sincere concern for everyone—we all need to listen more. Hayes overacted a bit for my tastes, but Stewart was superb. I can’t imagine anyone else being Mr. Dowd. I thought of One Thousand Clowns. The sets were interesting and the direction moved along. Good production and a really enjoyable event. More revivals! I want to struggle, but it is fun to sit back and enjoy, too.”

2-2-1072: “She is terrible, but fine, traditional comic-drama. Liked play.”

9-4-1968: A too much entertainment. The most outrageous, bizarre, exciting opening I have ever seen. End of first act necessarily dropped a bit, but second act with more thematic atmosphere was once again vibrant. Whole show is delightfully irreverent and iconoclastic. Well directed, excellent cast which never broke character, set a bit continually weird without being particularly helpful or successful. While Hair may not create a new dramatic form, it will open the door for new technique. A marvelous entertainment experience—hold on to your hats + pants.

4-4-1971: “Only saw Beast, other cancelled. It seemed like ? to me poorly written, directed + acted. Allegory or symbolism has to communicate something or at least be head visual ? and attention holding. This had no substance and the form put me to sleep. Come on APT.”

1-15-1967: “Most enjoyable examination of relationships, friendship—do people ever relate outside themselves as they wish they could. Albee always writes good theater. Excellent cast—a real pleasure to see true pros like the Cronyns and Murphy. Dull set—excellent lighting. Much drinking and late hours reminiscent of V. Woolf.”

See them all at Boy Culture.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Don’t Tel Aviv: An “ISIS-Themed” Gay Party Gets Expected Backlash

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The appropriately named Drek, a popular organizer of gay parties in Tel Aviv, advertised an ISIS-themed party this last Friday. He posted this image on the group’s Facebook page, that shows one man as a black-clad ISIS member and the another as a Western hostage in an orange jumpsuit, like those worn by slain American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff (who was an Israeli citizen.) The image was taken down following backlash in the press and social media, but it remains preserved on Twitter: YNET reported on the theme:

“The organizers wrote ‘as the new Islamic State gains traction in the Middle East, we at Drek have decided to give in to Sharia law and cheer the stubborn Daesh,’ using the Arab acronym for the group, and invoking a veiled play on words – ‘stubborn’ in Hebrew can be written as hard necked’, a reference to the group’s infamous executions.”

Yeesh. Bad taste doesn’t cover it. (via TPM)

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Three-Breasted Girl Answers Your Burning Questions

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Jasmine Tridevil (possibly not her real name) has three boobs after saving for two years to get the operation to have a third breast implanted in between the original pair. “It was really hard finding someone that would do it,” she said, “because they’re breaking the code of ethics.I called, like, 50 or 60 doctors – nobody wanted to do it.” Hard to believe, I know. But finally she found a doctor who was willing to help her achieve her dream of being a three-boobed beauty.

She’s hoping now to get the reality show she’s developing (Jasmine’s Jugs) on MTV. “My whole dream is to get this show on MTV,” she tells Real Radio. “I’m dumping every penny I have into this. If this doesn’t work, I’m through.”

Below, the 21-year-old Tampa, Florida native (of COURSE) answers fans questions.

Sadly, her parents aren’t that wild about her new look. Jasmine says that her mum “ran out of the door” after she told her what she was planning. “[My mum] won’t talk to me. She won’t let my sister talk to me. And my dad… he really isn’t happy… he is kind of ashamed of me but he accepted it.” (via the Daily Star)

 

 

 

 

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Must-Watch: Homeless Guy Got Game

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Elite Daily asks: If you were homeless, could you still pick up chicks? Joe does. That’s how he survives. During the day he panhandles on the streets of Manhattan – making up to $150 on a given day – but at night Joe uses his charm and good looks to go home with women, where he’ll shower and enjoy an evening away from the streets.

Via Elite Daily: If you don’t think Joe looks homeless, well, that’s only because he’s good at what he does. According to Joe, his only responsibility is to not look homeless. In his mind, his appearance is a survival tactic. Joe spends whatever money he makes on keeping his appearance up, in addition to copious amounts of drugs and booze, with one goal in mind: attract as many girls as possible.

After meeting Joe – about a block from our office – the Elite Daily Video Team spent over a week with him, chronicling his epic lifestyle and learning about the hardships and triumphs of one “cardboard all star.”

Literally, one of the most obnoxious and despicable creatures on God’s green earth. A cautionary tale for our time.

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Absolutely TERRIFYING: The Trailer for Goodnight Mommy

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An isolated home. A pair of twins. Their mother returns home from the hospital, her face bandaged, and her behavior weirdly off-kilter. What if… it wasn’t Mommy at all?!! DUN DUN DUN. Following its premiere at the Venice Film Festival, Radius films picked up the North American rights to the horror thriller Goodnight Mommy (Ich Seh Ich Seh), directed by Austrian filmmakers Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala and starring real-life twins Elias Schwarz and Lukas.

Radius plans a 2015 release. (via Dread Central)

 

 

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It’s Birthday, Bitch

Get Ready for Season Two of #CandidlyNicole on AOL!

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AOL has just set it’s premiere dates for Fall 2014. And season two of #CandidyNicole starring our favorite lavender blue-haired beauty, Nicole Richie has been included! The new season is set to premiere October 9th on AOL! Click over to read more about what the crazy new season entails! Nicole Richie Candidly Nicole AOL #CandidlyNicole

In the second season of one of AOL’s top-viewed series last year, Richie, daughter of pop singer Lionel Richie, riffs on her daily life based on musings from her Twitter feed. Guest stars are set to include Ryan Seacrest, who will tutor Nicole ahead of her turn as a radio DJ, Matt Greene and Jarret Stoll from the L.A. Kings, and Rashida Jones. Produced by Telepictures and World of Wonder, with exec producers Nicole Richie and Michael Baum. VH1 picked up the show, which aired this summer, and the cabler recently renewed it for a second run. (via Variety

You can head over to AOL to watch season one of #CandidlyNicole to get ready for season two!

And remember season two of VH1′s Candidly Nicole (they’re two separate series. Confusing I know) starts is returning to VH1 Spring OR Summer 2015!

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Get Ready for Good Clean P0rn! Adult Cinema Without the Distracting Sex and Nudity!

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Many moons ago, long before easily accessible internet porn and computers in our pockets, there was a little show known to few that graced our great nation. Now, over a decade later, World of Wonder and Vivid Entertainment present the revival of this television classic. It’s Good Clean P0rn! The only web series that features the greatest achievements in adult cinema without the distracting sex and nudity. Hosted by Steven Sims! Long overdue, Good Clean P0rn will be debuting new episodes every other Thursday – starting this Thursday, September 25th with the debut of She-Hulk XXX. So zip up your pants and put your lotion away because it’s time to sit back, relax and enjoy some Good Clean P0rn. Watch the preview after the jump!

Get your Good Clean P0rn fix on FacebookTwitter, and Instagram! And make sure you subscribe to Good Clean P0rn so you’ll never miss a new episode!

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