By Mary Whitfill, editor-in-chief
The Miss USA pageant wrapped up on Sunday in Baton Rouge after crowing Nia Sanchez, Miss Nevada, as the 63rd winner. She will go on to represent the United States at the Miss Universe pageant later this year.
Runner-ups were Miss Louisiana...
by Nick Marini
The Black Keys help keep rock in the mainstream - as the most popular North American rock band currently making music, they put blues rock, yes blues rock, on many radio stations, in a great number of television commercials and stuck in the heads of music listeners everywhere.
I am a Sikh. My faith – which stems from India – is acknowledged as one of the world’s major religions (there are 23.8 million Sikhs and only 13.4 million Jews). We stand out because baptized, male Sikhs wear turbans, beards and uncut hair as a sign of their faith. If you see a man on the street with a turban and beard anywhere in the USA, it’s almost certain that he is a Sikh.
By Caitlin Walsh, managing editor
Nick Droege always knew that the ultimate goal was to make his app available for free, and at last, it finally is. The co-owner of the safety app SafeTrek was happy to announce that now, safety is free at your very fingertips, thanks to...
Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin, world-renown medicinal chemist known for creating a wide variety of psychoactive drugs and introducing MDMA (commonly referred to as ecstasy) as a psychopharmaceutical aid, died yesterday after struggling with liver cancer and various other health complications for several years, according to the Erowid Character Vault. Shulgin's research was controversial due to his experimentation on himself and his (consenting) friends and family with the MDMA analogs that he synthesized.
By Mary Whitfill, editor-in-chief
Proponents of the Mass. bottle bill, responsible for a five cent tax on the purchase of certain plastic beverage containers, are looking to extend the law in the next few weeks. For over 20 years environmental advocates have tilted at this...
When folk music meets rock, you have my curiosity. Then when the blues shows up, you have my attention. The young band out of Lilitz, Pennsylvania by the name The Districts manage to capture all three.
They consist of Rob Grote (vocals, guitar), Mark Larson (guitar), Connor Jacobus (bass) and Braden Lawrence (percussion).
With crude humor, spontaneously graphic death scenes and even a short drug-induced musical number, “A Million Ways to Die in the West” was everything we expected from writer, director and star Seth MacFarlane. From the not-so-subtle sexual innuendos to the quick dialogue littered with expletives, the movie was filled with MacFarlane’s trademarks, even including a smattering of Hollywood references to both the actors’ and the director’s previous works.
By Mary Whitfill, editor-in-chief
Maya Angelou, author and poet, has passed away at age 86 after suffering from poor health, confirmed Winton-Salem, NC mayor Allen Joines on Wednesday morning. A celebrated educator, actress, filmmaker and civil rights activist, Angelou has...
Alexander Selvik Wengshoel may not have been internationally recognized for any eclectic drawings, but the 25-year-old Norwegian sure made headlines when he decided to eat his own hip.
Seven, including the shooter, were killed on the University of California Santa Barbra campus on Friday night after Elliot Rodger, 22, allegedly went on a shooting rampage. Rodger, a student at UC Santa Barbara, has been confirmed dead but police have not yet said if the wounds were self-inflicted.
Before their show, Magic Man joked that they were happy someone was interviewing them so they knew there would be at least one person in the crowd. This couldn’t be further from the truth as a packed room cheered on the Boston-based group, but it’s this kind of self-deprecating humor and underestimation of their own success that makes the band just so magical.
