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During his long singing life, Yevgeny Nikitin has gone from a young heavy metal singer into a star in the opera world.  A bass-baritone, Nikitin’s body is decorated with yards upon yards of tattoos inked when he was a much younger man, and those tattoos caught up with him.  Yevgeny Nikitin was kicked out of the […]

When Don’t Ask Don’t Tell got repealed, things immediately changed for gay military personnel, but I doubt even they expected it to change that much.  For the first time ever, military personnel have been given permission to service members to march in a gay pride parade in uniform.  The unusual change in government policy comes […]

A crowded movie theater full of people eagerly awaiting the premier of the hottest new movie to come out of Hollywood since The Avengers.  In the Denver suburb of Aurora, Colorado, what was supposed to be a night of harmless movie violence became a harrowing night of real-life violence as shooting broke out in a […]

For most of his life, Laszlo Csatary has been a man looking over his shoulder for the authorities.  While he looks like a little old man, Csatary is actually the world’s most wanted Nazi war criminal, and for decades he has avoided justice until now.  Hungarian authorities have arrested 97-year-old Nazi war criminal Laszlo Csatary in […]

Once upon a time, the town of Mittenwalde, Germany, was a seat of medieval power in Germany.  However, since the glory days of the 1500s, Mittenwalde has fallen on hard times and its population has shrunk to 8,800 people.  Meanwhile, Berlin has become one of the world’s most powerful capitals, but Mittenwalde hasn’t forgotten its […]

Since Coachella started in 1999, the music festival in Coachella, California, has grown by leaps and bounds.  Coachella now fills 6 days–two three-day weekends— in order to meet the demand of fans wanting to see the best music in the world.  Well, now Coachella is leaving Southern California and is heading out to sea.  Goldenvoice […]

The battle against the global pandemic HIV won another victory for humanity against the dreaded disease, thanks in no small part to the efforts of scientists and pharmaceutical companies.  Since 2004, Gilead Sciences has marketed its pill Truvada as an HIV-fighting medication that has extended and improved the life of thousands of people with HIV. […]

There’s never a good time to break up one of the online world’s earliest and most successful joint news ventures, but sometimes you have to do what you have to do to expand your brand and make the most of what you’ve started.  For Microsoft and NBC, the time to break up MSNBC is now. […]

Since their first year participating in the Olympics, three countries have never sent a woman athlete:  Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Brunei.  Two of these countries agreed to send their first female competitor to the London Olympics in 2012.  Saudi Arabia was the last hold-out, forcing a face-off with the International Olympic Committee.  Well, Saudi Arabia […]

Well, that was fast.  One season, Steven Tyler joins American Idol as a new judge.  The next thing you know, the show gets interesting with some weird guest singers and Steven Tyler is a hit.  A strange hit, but a hit nonetheless.  Next thing you know, Steven Tyler is quitting American Idol to concentrate on […]

Jesse Jackson Jr., the son of civil rights leader and political gadfly Jesse Jackson and a member of the House of Representatives from the south side of Chicago, Illinois, hasn’t been showing up for work very much lately.  In fact, no one has seen him in Congress for over a month, and no one really […]

The state of California, despite struggling with municipal debt, had not had a city declare bankruptcy since 2008.  However, that streak has been broken.  First, the city of Stockton became the largest US city to declare bankruptcy.  Now, a second California town has cashed in its chips and declared Chapter 9 bankruptcy.  San Bernadino, a […]

It is a huge honor to have something named after you.  From stars to species, getting your name on something is a really cool honor.  However, is it as big of an honor when the creature bearing your name is kind of disturbing and gross?  That’s a big question.  A newly-discovered fish parasite has been […]

Gisela Gagliard, a 53-year-old accountant from Kingston, New York, i is a hardcore Twilight fan.  One look at her Facebook would tell you that.  Unfortunately for Gisela, her Twilight fandom cost her her life yesterday.  On Sunday, fans started lining up to get tickets for a San Diego Comic-Con panel about The Twilight Saga: Breaking […]