Every day, the same, again
Three men stepped into a Boynton Beach strip club and shot several dancers with paintball guns in retaliation for another stripper’s alleged mispayment.
35 dozen oysters in eight minutes. “I could probably do a couple dozen more, especially if they were charbroiled.”
Uruguay hosts biggest BBQ, grills 12 tons of beef.
Boy blows 213 balloons with nose.
Big U.S. study links breast cancer to drinking.
A promising new cancer treatment that may one day replace radiation and chemotherapy is edging closer to human trials.
Over the weekend I learned that all of my current and future problems have been solved.
Monsanto already dominates America’s food chain with its genetically modified seeds. Now it has targeted milk production. Just as frightening as the corporation’s tactics–ruthless legal battles against small farmers–is its decades-long history of toxic contamination.
NYU president John Sexton has been promised a blank check to duplicate his university on a desert island in Abu Dhabi. The expansion will leave both campuses flush with petrodollars.
Munehisa Honma, the greatest trader of all time.
Lawyer admits stealing $310,000 from his grandparents.
Police charged an aspiring reality show director with blocking four women — half of a cast billed as ordinary girls hoping to become “princesses” — from leaving the central Florida house where the show was being shot. The women were also upset that they had not been paid for the past five weeks of filming.
Wal-Mart to film gun sales in bid to fight crime. Related: More attempts to limit guns.
More demand for pets’ end-of-life care.
Test if a plant is edible. Avoid thorns, spines, mushrooms, plants with shiny leaves, yellow or white berries, umbrella-shaped flowers, milky sap…
Forty-five years ago, Elaine Kaufman, who was running a restaurant in Greenwich Village, used her life savings to buy an Austro-Hungarian bar at 88th Street and Second Avenue. Elaine’s became a famous literary refuge, saloon and restaurant.
A spelling-challenged city worker changed the name of SoHo’s Mercer St. to Merser St.
Jean Shrimpton in New York, 1962.
Cholera in Nineteenth-Century New York.
Magicians to repopulate hives.
Don’t drink nitrogen: “within two seconds, I collapsed to the floor, unable to breathe or indeed do anything except feel intense pain.”
