A wellspring of introspection, Goodbye September is a subdued record, the Sunday morning hangover to Saturdays wild night stemming from Drakes Take Care blueprint. If Mon is content to color within those lines, at least he does so adeptly. He hits puree on this soul-baring hip-hop and R&B blend from the get-go. Its confident, sensual […]
September
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
Recurring themes — Among America’s most prolific “fathers” (in this case, perhaps better considered “egg-fertilizers”) are Nathaniel Smith, age 39, who claimed on TV’s Divorce Court in September that he is the father of 27, and the late Samuel Whitney, whose grown stepdaughter Lexie Woods learned that he claimed 54 before he died in July […]
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
The entrepreneurial spirit Extract of cockroach is a delicacy among some Chinese, believed able to miraculously reduce inflammation, defy aging and cure tuberculosis, cancer and cirrhosis. Quartz reported in August that Yunnan province is a Silicon Valley-type business center, where pulverized roaches can sell for the equivalent of about $89 a pound, and five pharmaceutical […]
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-outline-level:1″><span style=" Times New Roman”,”serif”;mso-fareast-Times New Roman”; mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-fareast-language:ES-BO”> Imminent swirling vortex of damnation Land developers for the iconic Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colo. (famous as the inspiration for the hotel in Stephen King’s The Shining) announced recently that they need more space and thus will dig up and move the hotel’s […]
NEWS OF THE WEIRD
More bang American exceptionalism: Which is more characteristically American — that a Texas company could invent an ordinary rifle that mimics a machine gun or that America’s incomparable legal minds could find a loophole in existing anti-machine-gun laws to permit it to be manufactured and sold? The Slide Fire company’s weapon can spray bullets “like […]
Bite Size
The restaurant was closed due to a fire that tore through the historic building in 2009, but is going to open its door to business, much to the delight of people who enjoyed going there for the food and the dancing. It wasnt just a fire that has challenged Lucilles. In 1999, a tornado came […]
