Unusual Stuff

Los Angeles has been the home to some impressively gristly murders, but even the City of Angels wasn’t prepared to find the scattered parts of a dead body in the shadows of one of their most iconic landmarks.  In Bronson Canyon, near the Hollywood Hills home of the Hollywood sign, two people walking dogs made […]

The latest import to Major League Baseball has a destination.  Japanese ace pitcher Yu Darvish was a hot commodity on the transfer market, and after a bidding war that captivated the hot stove season, a desintation has been agreed to.  Yu Darvish is going to the Texas Rangers.  The rich–Texas is a two-time American League […]

Fame is fleeting for most celebrities. Only a few endure longer than Andy Warhol‘s quotable 15 minutes. For those celebrities and world leaders who survive the initial rush of fame and create life-long bonds with their fans, a  place of honor at Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum usually results. It’s hard to believe that the wax […]

One man’s fashion victory is another’s fashion crime.  That’s true for everything from mini-skirts to anti-cancer bracelets, all of which have been banned.  Next on the ban-dar?  Pajamas.  If one Shreveport, Louisiana politician has his way, Caddo parish will ban wearing pajamas out in public under a proposed new ordinance. “If you can’t [wear pajamas] […]

Things are looking might strange this morning around the Internet, and you have Congress to blame for that.  Despite the massive groundswell of anti-censorship protests that forced companies like GoDaddy to shun the Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act, Congress still hasn’t gotten the message.  So, the Internet has united as one to […]

These days, you can get just about anything delivered to your home.  From books to groceries, you don’t have to leave your house to get anything if you time your orders right, and same-day delivery is becoming increasingly popular for more and more things, except for one area:  fast food.  If you want a burger […]

By all accounts, last night’s Golden Globes as presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association failed to strike the same controversial tone that was taken during host Ricky Gervais’s previous stints as the presenter of the ceremony.  For his third hosting gig, it seems like he was mostly marginalized to a few brief introduction periods, […]

In the movie The Royal Tenenbaums, Royal Tenenbaum takes his grandsons Ari and Uzi for a trip through the seedier parts of New York.  They jump on the back of a garbage truck to steal a ride, go to a cockfight, and generally have a great time.  Unsurprisingly, Gene Hackman has a little of that […]

Well, the case is over.  Natalee Holloway is officially deceased.  In a court in Birmingham, Alabama, Judge Alan King honored the request of Dave Holloway, Natalee’s father, to have the girl declared legally dead in part to free up her college fund for use by her younger brother.  No doubt this is also a move […]

The story may be reported first in The Star, one of those supermarket tabloids, but the sources seem solid.  Robert Kardashian’s ex-wife Jan Ashley and widow Ellen Kardashian are banding together to announce an alleged Kardashian family secret:  Khloe Kardashian isn’t Robert Kardashian’s daughter.  At least, that’s what Robert believed before he passed away; meanwhile, […]

When Osama Bin Laden’s secret compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan was raided by US military forces, the world held its breath.  When word of Bin Laden’s death spread around the world, people everywhere celebrated the demise of the terrorist mastermind.  Now, it looks as if all traces of Bin Laden are going to be wiped off the […]

It’s one thing to track pop culture trends via social media numbers. The number of followers of Charlie Sheen’s Twitter account grew exponentially once he joined the site to report on all his “winning” and “Tiger blood” during his 2011 meltdown.  Twitter users have also broken big news stories before. The assassination of Osama bin […]

Every year, National Geographic sorts through tens of thousands of incredible images taken in the previous 365 days and comes up with a winner for their annual photography contest.  This is a big deal for a photographer, as professionals and amateurs enter their best work in one of three categories (people, places, and nature) in […]

When it comes to the modern music festival, two names stand out.  One of these is Bonnaroo, Manchester, Tennessee’s hippie-centric music event.  The other is California’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, which takes place in April in beautiful Cali.  The organizers of Coachella, AEG-owned GoldenVoice, have announced the full 2012 Coachella lineup, which spreads […]

The news coming out of the North American International Auto Show is good, if you’re a Ford fanatic.  Nissan has their plug-in Leaf, Chevy has its plug-in Volt, Toyota has its Prius, and now Ford has the 2013 Fusion.  Ford has announced a 100 miles-per-gallon plug-in hybrid version of the Fusion coming in 2013.  Also, Ford […]