Sachio Kawabata, 61, was awarded the equivalent of about $5,000 by a court in Kagoshima in January because the police abused him during interrogation over possible violations of election law. The judge found that Kawabata suffered “great mental anguish” when police wrote his family name and derogatory messages on pieces of paper and forced Kawabata […]
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Sexual politics drive Pollard’s production of ‘Man for All Seasons’
Before King Henry VIII became a porcine version of his younger self, he was a frisky womanizer who tailored his belief system to suit his own purposes. In the early 16th century, his concerns were twofold: to marry his latest mistress, Anne Boleyn, and to produce male heirs to the throne. The problem was that […]
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Zoo seeks junior curators
Lions and tigers and bears ” heck, yeah! The Oklahoma City Zoo is looking for teens who want to work closely with animal friends in the “Junior Curator” program. The program, which lasts around a year beginning in September, takes teens 14-18 years old and places them side by side by with members of the […]
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Primeval
slow-motion. Gustave’s attacks “? the only reason people watch these kind of things in the first place “? are too obviously fake and outright laughable, on the scale (or is that scales?) of “Anaconda.” That this is supposedly based on a true story makes me feel sorry for real life. When you hit this […]
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Leading Economic Indicators
Zimbabwe’s almost comically sad hyperinflation, which News of the Weird reported had reached 1,593 percent in January (one could buy a house, pool and tennis court in 1990 for the same dollars as would buy a single brick today), was up to 3,731 percent in May, and is expected to get much worse. Star Trek […]
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News of the Weird Update
In November, News of the Weird reported the arrest of Michael McPhail of Spanaway, Wash., who was charged with bestiality under the state’s brand-new law, having allegedly been caught by his wife having sex with the family dog. In May 2007, a jury in Tacoma, Wash., found McPhail not guilty.
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Least Competent Criminals
Claude White, 34, was arrested in April in Elizabethton, Tenn., and charged with stealing a forklift, which sheriff’s deputies later found overturned in the middle of a road, but with a pair of shoes and socks trapped underneath. Around the same time, a call came from Sycamore Shoals Hospital about a patient (White) telling an […]
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Bitch
Reviewer’s grade: A Keira Leverton works in a record store and is a total bitch. She yells at and punches people she sees on the street and in her store. Leverton hates people, hates poseurs, hates life and hates her sister, whom she refers to only as “dipshit.” Everything makes her mad, including herself. […]
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Something’s Burning
Reviewer’s grade: D+ This short vampire comedy could be called “Looking for Raimi,” as it borrows heavily and unsuccessfully from the tone of “Evil Dead II,” with globs of Sergio Leone, Edgar Wright and John Carpenter blended in, as well. When vampires rule the earth, they keep humans chained as sanguinary lunch pails on […]
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Try to Read This Without Wincing:
A cable broke on a leg extension machine at a YWCA facility in Akron, Ohio, in 2004, catapulting a steel bar forcefully at a 22-year-old football player working out for a shot at a college scholarship, hitting him squarely between his parted legs, whacking his left testicle. Three years later, he still walks gingerly and […]