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THE NUDIE FOODIE by Lauren Sloss

from The Bold Italic The first time I went to a strip club, I was so nervous I spiked my morning coffee with a pour of Baileys. I was anxious because I didn’t know what to expect: Would the clientele be trench-coat-wearing men with slack jaws and red eyes? Would the surfaces be sticky? It [...]

Fresno Pentameter

from The New York Times Recognition Grows for Poets of Streets, Main or Otherwise By NORIMITSU ONISHI Jim Wilson/The New York Times FRESNO, Calif. — This city has long been an object of ridicule. Even seemingly innocuous details like the flatness of the land, reinforced by the sea of ranch-style houses, take on a pejorative hue. [...]

11,000-square Feet Of Fame

from SPIN Skrillex Is Building a Warhol-Inspired Bass Factory in Los Angeles’ Chinatown by Philip Sherburne 11,000-square-foot OWSLA nest will give “in-the-box” producers their wings After living in hotels for the past decade, Skrillex seems to be settling into his newfound digs in Los Angeles quite nicely. He recently posted a Vine video documenting his recently completed home [...]

Ray Harryhausen Gone

from USA Today Hollywood effects wizard Ray Harryhausen dies at 92 The legendary filmmaker was best known for using stop-motion model animation in movies such as ‘Jason and the Argonauts’ and ‘Clash of the Titans.’ Way before movies like Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings inspired the imagination of film lovers everywhere, audiences were enraptured by the [...]

Mario Machado Gone

from KSWT Newsman and “Rocky III” and “Scarface” actor dies LOS ANGELES (AP) – A Los Angeles television news anchor in the 1960s and 1970s who also appeared in movies such as “Rocky III” has died. Mario Machado was 78. KCBS-TV (http://cbsloc.al/10AM106 ) says Machado was of Chinese and Portuguese descent and was LA’s first Asian-American [...]

“[The clitoris has] been ignored, vilified, made taboo, and considered sinful and shameful for centuries because of patriarchal religious values”

from CBS Las Vegas Human Rights Organization Debuts ‘International Clitoris Awareness Week’ LAS VEGAS (CBS Las Vegas) - A group formed to protest and combat female genital mutilation declared the time between May 6 and May 12 of this year to be the first-ever International Clitoris Awareness Week. The organization, Clitoraid, released a statement Friday about the awareness campaign. “[The [...]

“The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved” Infographic

from Paste Infographic: Hunter S. Thompson’s Kentucky Derby BY LAURA MEDINA Infographic by Kentucky for Kentucky and Rachael Sinclair In Hunter S. Thompson’s 1970 article, “The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved,” Thompson described the people and events surrounding the Kentucky Derby in a frenzied first-person account unlike traditional news reports. In honor of tomorrow’s [...]

Jeff Hanneman Gone

from Terry’s Diary [ click to view at Terry's Diary ]

Eggs Derby with Sweetbreads

from AZCentral Eggs Derby with Sweetbreads From chef Lee Hillson 2 large sweetbreads 1 1/4 teaspoons salt, divided use 1 cup sweetbread stock (from cooking the sweetbreads) 1 cup plus 1 to 3 tablespoons heavy cream 4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) butter 8 ounces fresh morels 4 tablespoons all-purpose flour 4 tablespoons finely chopped country ham [...]

Inventor Of The Second Coolest Instrument Ever Inducted Into Hall Of Fame

from The Los Angeles Times Robert Moog, EDM pioneer, inducted into Inventors Hall of Fame By Randall Roberts \ Los Angeles Times Pop Music Critic If you’ve listened to any music in the last 48 years, chances are you’re familiar with the Moog Ladder Filter, whether you know it or not. Idiot savants might know [...]