From the category archives:
The Archie comics are as American as a Norman Rockwell painting.
But like Rockwell’s paintings, they run the risk of becoming icons of a bygone age.
Does including Kevin, the first openly gay character ever to appear in the strip, help make the 50’s-something comic easier to relate to?
According to co-chief executive of Archie Comic Publications, Jon [...]
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As part of their current world tour, Die Antwoord’s Yo-landi and Ninja went big in Japan last week, introducing their unique brand of piss-take/Zef Zen to the country, as part of the Summer Sonic music festival.
They performed in the company of Stevie Wonder, Jay Z, Taylor Swift, Guns n Roses, The Smashing Pumpkins, Pixies, The [...]
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Irony.
While the grim-yet-unexpectedly-juicy trial of Charles Taylor continues in The Hague, it’s highest-profile witness, Ms Naomi Campbell, popped off on “holiday” to Sardinia with some friends.
She and her Russian boyfriend, Vladimir Doronin, controversial racing billionnaire, Flavio Briatore, fellow model Bar Refaeli and the star of “Blood Diamond,” Leonardo DiCaprio all washed up at a party [...]
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Henry Leutwyler won the commission of a lifetime, the job of photographing for a magazine, the iconic white glove of Michael Jackson.
Then, in his own words: “I went to Los Angeles with one vision in mind and little more than a day to capture it. Michael Jackson’s primary home at Neverland had been vacant for [...]
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What better way to celebrate Michelle’s lesser half’s birthday, than with a cakewreck or 9?
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I imagine that most of us feel that “Real Dolls” (uncannily realistic female simulators acquired by sad little men who haven’t even got sufficient guts to seek out a Mail Order Bride) are marginal, sleazy, desperate and depressing.
Maybe we don’t much like reading about dirty and pathetic men and their sad, perverse playthings.
But then again, [...]
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You’ve got to admit, wrt to making news, us South Africans punch above our weight.
Dominating International headlines this past week: Madiba, Louis Oosthuizen, Jordy Smith, our currently pathetic bi-polar team of that Other Sport That Isn’t Football and one joyful young Southern Right.
Not bad for one small mad country at the cul-de-sac of Africa.
It’s safer, [...]
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Newser reports, “The agent for the captain of Germany’s national soccer team has blamed “gay players” for the nation’s failure to capture a World Cup title, sparking a firestorm of criticism. Michael Becker, who represents captain Michael Ballack, scoffed at the “bunch of gays” on the World Cup team in an interview with Der Spiegel. [...]
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