South African Wins 31st Dakar Rally

    South African Giniel De Villiers finished two seconds ahead of Russian driver Leonid Novitsky to win the 31st Dakar Rally this weekend. The two week race which is traditionally held in Africa...

773 Lounge- The Oldest New Game in Town - Brooklyn, NY

More and more, young artists and musicians are fleeing their overpriced, underserved neighborhoods for the land of big houses, front yards and clean, peaceful streets. No, they’re not moving to the suburbs —...

Man Dies After Eating Extra Hot Chilis

A British man was declared dead after getting into a chili-eating contest with his girlfriend's brother. Andrew Lee passed away after getting eating a sauce made of extra hot chilis. He dared his girlfriend's...

Fire wrecks Chili Pepper's home

Fleas home gets a Santa Anna makeover. "Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea has lost his multi-million pound house to the wildfire that swept through Malibu over the weekend. His house was one of 53 destroyed by...

Coachella 2007: A NowPublic roundup

This weekend's Coachella festival has been hailed as its most successful yet, (supposedly) drawing upwards of 100 000 attendees--in triple digit weather--to the desert in Indio, California. Net coverage of the...

Underdogs steal the show at 2006 MTV VMAs

"The Red Hot Chili Peppers and Shakira led this year's pack of MTV Video Music Award nominees with a total of seven nominations each, but they were practically shut out when a number of the night's Moonman...

Nightmare For Californian Born In America And Who Speaks Only English

"The strangest, and most frightening, shoppers are those who shout alternatively in Arabic and Spanish."

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