As former Jet Blue flight attendant Steven Slater demonstrated last year, flight attendants can be pushed to their breaking points. So Boeing makes their lives a little easier by relocating and redesigning that poorly placed call button. The 49th International Paris Air Show has plenty of aircraft flash that means little to the everyday air
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Former Dior designer John Galliano went on trial Wednesday charged with hurling anti-Semitic slurs in a Paris cafe, allegations that shocked the fashion world and cost him his job at the renowned French high-fashion house. (June 22)
Continue reading …And you thought spending over $30,000 per year for an Ivy League education was a hefty bill.
Continue reading …The morning after Judge Belvin Perry, Jr. abruptly halted the Casey Anthony murder trial, the defense continued challenging forensic evidence in an effort to cast doubt on the prosecution’s theory of how Caylee Anthony died. But like many days in this trial, the testimony inside is technical and complex, while the speculation in the media
Continue reading …High school graduation is a right of passage for millions of teens. Now, those schooled at home want mortar boards too. It turns out that students and parents who have turned down traditional education still long for a little “Pomp and Circumstance.” As the number of homeschoolers in the U.S. balloons to 2 million children,
Continue reading …What is a midsummer night’s dream like? Just ask Japanese artist Takashi Murakami, who’s created a fantastical Google doodle to celebrate the summer solstice. The brightly colored cartoon, populated by smiling flowers and slightly sinister beasties, commemorates the longest day of the year. “Two super fun, superflat doodles today created by one of our favorite
Continue reading …Hats off to Belvin Perry, the judge in the Casey Anthony trial, for trying to keep things moving along. It’s just too bad he had to grind it to a halt to do so. As the trial entered day 23 of testimony, things got off to a slow, jerky start that concluded with Perry dismissing
Continue reading …This Was Inevitable: Deep-Fried Kool-Aid Balls on Sale at California County Fair
June 20, 2011 No CommentThis is America, the land our Founding Fathers built on certain unalienable rights—namely those of life, liberty and the pursuit of deep-frying everything we can possibly think of. Which includes, apparently, Kool-Aid. An ABC News video shows a vendor at a county fair making the deep-fried balls of Kool-Aid. “Chicken” Charlie Boghosian starts by creating
Continue reading …Amy Winehouse just doesn’t do quiet. Mixing stints in rehab and court with occasional forays into, you know, her actual career of recording, releasing and performing music, the 27-year old singer made a simply shocking start to her 12-date European comeback tour. The result was a Serbian show labeled “the worst in the history of
Continue reading …Afghanistan’s car industry may seem like an unlikely target for superstitious rumors, but it turns out the number 39 is causing quite a stir for car dealers and drivers in Kabul. The haunted numbers first won a bad reputation after a pimp living in neighboring Iran earned the nickname “39″ from the license plate number
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