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Members of Outdoor Co-ed Topless Pulp Fiction Appreciation Society put on production of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” — and the actors were all female and all nude. The show, that took place in Central Park on May 19 and 20, was completely legal because in New York City you are allowed to be fully nude — as long…
Amanda Lauren’s tagline on her website reads “I write things that become a thing,” and boy does she! This week two pieces of hers received an influx of attention and response—a Your Tango essay called “Staying Hot For My Husband Is ESSENTIAL To A Successful Marriage” and a now-deleted xoJane essay titled “My Former Friend’s…
Sarma Melngailis had it all: an Ivy League degree, model looks and a hot vegan restaurant, Pure Food and Wine in Gramercy, beloved by Alec Baldwin and Bill Clinton. Now, she’s got a mug shot, a $350,000 bail and husband Anthony Strangis: an alleged gambling addict with a criminal past and an 11-year-old child he…
Photo Hannah Kloepfer, an actress and writer, testing shower heads at Pirch, a SoHo store selling luxury home fixtures that is set to open to the public on Saturday. Credit Yana Paskova for The New York Times Someone closed the wide glass doors and pulled the curtains — for privacy — and Hannah Kloepfer did…
Last month, law firm Baker & Hostetler announced that it would employ IBM’s artificially intelligent lawyer, Ross, to help ease its tedious workload. In a statement, the firm’s chief technology officer said, “we believe that emerging technologies like cognitive computing and other forms of machine learning can help enhance the services we deliver to…
CAIRO — In an eerie coincidence, the EgyptAir jetliner that plunged into the Mediterranean on Thursday was once the target of political vandals who wrote in Arabic on its underside, “We will bring this plane down.” Three EgyptAir security officials said the threatening graffiti, which appeared about two years ago, had been the work of…
GIF On May 21, 2001, developer Volition and publisher THQ took gamers to Mars and let them blow the living hell out of everything that moved and most things that didn’t. Red Faction is a game about a miner revolt on Mars in the year 2075. Earth’s resources have been depleted and a vile corporation…
Photo Officers escorted people who had been charged with selling fake tickets to the Statue of Liberty out of the 7th Precinct on the Lower East Side of Manhattan on Wednesday. Credit Dave Sanders for The New York Times The arrival of spring beckons millions of tourists to New York City, and many are set…
300ad The Huffington Post’s own Executive Editor Liz Heron, a self described Brooklynite Mom, tweeted a photo of an Editors Meeting at the Huffington Post main headquarters. The photo was meant to be a positive publicity stunt for the media giant. Only she didn’t expect to get the firestorm over the photo that followed. In…
Watch the new trailer for Star Trek Beyond, starring Idris Elba, Chris Pine, Simon Pegg, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, John Cho, Anton Yelchin and Karl Urban. Star Trek Beyond is coming to theatres July 22, 2016. “Star Trek Beyond,” the highly anticipated next installment in the globally popular Star Trek franchise, created by Gene Roddenberry…