Imagine watching The Godfather without the horse’s head. Or a bloodless version of Game of Thrones’ infamous Red Wedding. Or a Quentin Tarantino movie—any Quentin Tarantino movie—without a single F-bomb or gruesome death.
The Los Angeles area has an abundance of themed taquerias. Azteca Mexican Restaurant in Garden Grove, for example, is the place to go if you prefer your carnitas surrounded by Elvis memorabilia.
In the 2012 presidential campaign, no other show on television earned as much money from political TV ads as the stalwart game show Wheel of Fortune. The series, which has aired for 41 years and has been anchored since 1982 by the unnervingly ageless Pat Sajak and Vanna White, brought in $57 million in campaign-ad revenue during the 2012 election cycle.
During his 31-year rule, Cambodian prime minister Hun Sen has been accused of crimes including corruption, election rigging, and orchestrating violent attacks on opponents.
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A new study has confirmed something many news readers have long suspected: A lot of online commenters are more interested in brandishing their opinions in the comment section than reading the articles themselves.
IMG Models, one of the largest modeling agencies in the world, has just launched a plus-sized division for male models.
St. Patrick’s Day marks the peak of a seasonal event celebrated with cult-like intensity by its followers: the appearance of the McDonald’s Shamrock Shake.
Are you physically fit? Are you 18 or older? Do you have the mannerisms of a secretive assassin, and also great people skills?
Surveys are key tools of social science research. But sometimes they’re tainted by responses from subjects who fail to follow the instructions they’ve been given.
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In 2011, a retired bricklayer and part-time fisherman found a starving, oil-covered penguin lying on his local beach in southeast Brazil. Joao Pereira de Souza, 71, scooped up the bird and took him home. He cleaned the bird, fed him, and named him Dindim. When Dindim was strong enough, Pereira de Souza took him back to the sea.
What was the happiest moment of your life? Remember that feeling, magnify it by 100, and then you’d be close to astronomer Mike Kentrianakis’s contagious joy at the sight of yesterday’s (March 8) total solar eclipse.
Last week Spotify announced a playlist specifically curated to accompany the birth of a child. Unlike the 90,000 user-created birth playlists currently on the service, Spotify’s was developed with the input of Dr. Jacques Moritz, an obstetrician-gynecologist in Manhattan’s New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
Right this very minute, a tiny blind dragon in a Slovenian cave is watchfully guarding her eggs, snapping at anyone who comes too close.
In the early 2000s, the Lego Group was hemorrhaging money and sifting through reports that creative toys faced an agonizing death in the digital era. In 2015, the Danish toymaker’s net profits rose 31% over the previous year, and with $5.3 billion in sales, the company now is challenging Mattel as the world’s largest toy company.
What would “Starry Night” look like animated? A team of filmmakers is seeking artists to help complete the first feature-length film composed entirely of paintings: a Vincent Van Gogh biopic entitled Loving Vincent.
Google searches for “move to Canada” in the US spiked Tuesday night as Donald Trump racked up victories in the Super Tuesday primaries.
There’s a strangely fascinating video on YouTube of an unseen man in Estonia walking the viewer through his personal income tax filing. What’s incredible about it is the length: two minutes and 50 seconds.
The rumors are true. Effective this weekend, the Walt Disney Company is introducing demand-based pricing at its US parks, which means guests who show up on busy days will be asked to pay even more per ticket.
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The author of the novel behind The Revenant, director Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s grueling Oscar-nominated saga of bear-on-DiCaprio violence, is also the US ambassador to the World Trade Organization.
With a key moment in the primary season approaching, the Republican Party is falling over itself to unseat its leading candidate: Donald Trump.
We are more likely to choose mates who resemble us in everything from education to body type to physical attractiveness. Researchers in Sweden have now found that people with psychiatric disorders end up with people with the same condition far more often than chance alone would allow.
