Carole A. Smith ranked among the top 10% of workers when it came to catching weapons on the X-ray machine at New York’s Albany International Airport. So why did the TSA fire her? She says it was over her religious beliefs: Smith is a practicing Wiccan, or, as she calls…
Continue reading …In a bid to thaw tense US-Cuba relations, former President Jimmy Carter arrived in Cuba today for a three-day stay. Carter was invited by the Cuban government and will meet with President Raul Castro; the Carter Center calls the trip a “private, nongovernmental mission.” But Politico notes that the trip…
Continue reading …Chicago-based brewing company Goose Island will be taken over by Anheuser-Busch, the companies announced today. Goose Island beers are “the hometown pride of Chicagoans,” says Anheuser-Busch’s president in a statement; in particular, the company is known for its 312 Urban Wheat Ale. Anheuser-Busch will buy a 58% stake in Goose…
Continue reading …If, for some reason, you need to convince all your online friends that you have a girlfriend … start hoping Cloud Girlfriend makes good on its promise. The new service vows to create your “perfect girlfriend,” who will then interact with you publicly on the social networking site of your choice,…
Continue reading …A rep for Joe Biden has apologized to a reporter for his lengthy stay in a storage closet on Wednesday, where he waited to cover a fundraiser, reports Fox News . “This was the unfortunate mistake of an inexperienced staffer and the vice president’s office has made sure it will never…
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The animated pig’s new theme park has plenty to delight kids – but don’t forget to bring a towel She’s bright pink, bossy and her TV show is watched in more than 180 countries. Before you make any unflattering guesses, we’re talking about Peppa Pig, whose animated adventures – usually involving muddy puddles – have splashed across our screens since 2004. The character is such a phenomenon among the under-fives that she’s appeared in videogames and a live stage show. Now comes the ultimate accolade: Peppa Pig World, a £5m three-acre area of Paultons Family Theme Park in
Continue reading …The animated pig’s new theme park has plenty to delight kids – but don’t forget to bring a towel She’s bright pink, bossy and her TV show is watched in more than 180 countries. Before you make any unflattering guesses, we’re talking about Peppa Pig, whose animated adventures – usually involving muddy puddles – have splashed across our screens since 2004. The character is such a phenomenon among the under-fives that she’s appeared in videogames and a live stage show. Now comes the ultimate accolade: Peppa Pig World, a £5m three-acre area of Paultons Family Theme Park in
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The aesthetic movement was more than William Morris wallpaper – it turned Victorian values upside down. Jonathan Jones goes to Paris to seek out its dark side In spring sunlight, art students rush through the grand courtyard of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Artists such as Matisse studied here. But I am looking for a British and Irish cultural hero. On the Rue des Beaux Arts, a narrow Left Bank street next to the famous art academy, an expensive hotel (simply called L’Hôtel ) is getting ready for the lunch hour. Only if you know this was once the run-down Hotel d’Alsace where Oscar Wilde died in 1900, disgraced, despised, penniless, his health broken by Reading jail , will you
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The aesthetic movement was more than William Morris wallpaper – it turned Victorian values upside down. Jonathan Jones goes to Paris to seek out its dark side In spring sunlight, art students rush through the grand courtyard of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Artists such as Matisse studied here. But I am looking for a British and Irish cultural hero. On the Rue des Beaux Arts, a narrow Left Bank street next to the famous art academy, an expensive hotel (simply called L’Hôtel ) is getting ready for the lunch hour. Only if you know this was once the run-down Hotel d’Alsace where Oscar Wilde died in 1900, disgraced, despised, penniless, his health broken by Reading jail , will you
Continue reading …When Murray Richmond became a Presbyterian minister in 1989, “homosexuality was an invisible issue,” he writes for Salon . But over the next five years, “it became The Issue,” and Richmond found himself forced to choose a side—and chose the “incredibly obvious” one, he recalls. “It seemed clear that I…
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