Surrealist Mexican artist Frida Kahlo’s image has been emblazoned on many things: t-shirts, tote bags, jewelry, magnets — even makeup and tequila. The product description for one dress even calls...
Often, when people discuss “unconventional beauty”, they're discussing unpopular features like, say, close set eyes or big noses. The problem usually goes a bit deeper than that, though. I don't...
Sajid Javid, a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) and Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, has revealed that census data suggests that 770,000 people living in England...
Once upon a time, mukashi mukashi, there lived a beautiful woman in Yotsuya named Oiwa. A ronin (a masterless samurai) named Iemon wanted to marry Oiwa, but her father knew of Iemon’s misdeeds and...
During the Chinese Exclusion era, Chinese men were often called “John” and women called “Mary”. In the time when America outlawed the immigration of Chinese laborers, between 1882 and 1943,...
Hi from Fox News, friends. I am hanging out here, disguised as a Russian agent by affecting a convincing enough “Eastern Promises”-style accent while asking everyone for their e-mail passwords,...
Even though I was living in France during the Bill Clinton / Monica Lewinsky “scandal”, it was still all over the news. Nothing was left to the imagination as their indiscretions were picked...
Fashion designer Reynolds Woodcock glides through his fairy tale life like a pair of his cloth paper scissors; deceptively serene yet sharp and quick to cut to the bone should his wit or peculiar...
When you donate to a massive charity like Oxfam, you know that some of your cash goes to maintain the shiny corporate image of the organisation but you also imagine the bulk of your donation going...
In early February, it was reported that the United Nations envoy to Myanmar had uncovered numerous mass graves filled with the chemically-charred corpses of an untold number of Rohingya Muslims,...
