The Muppets are coming home... home to their birthplace in Washington, DC, where they got their start on local television. Ernie, Bert, Kermit and ohters from The Muppets and Sesame Street will be hanging out in a...
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Head of a waxwork of Adolf Hitler's has been restored and it will be reinstalled at the Germany's Madame Tussauds . "A waxwork of Adolf Hitler will return to Berlin's new Madame Tussauds as soon as experts have restored the head ripped off by a demonstrator on its...
The debate over the portrayal of children in the magazines are hotly debated in Australia and the current debate has got even Prime Minister involved. "A photograph of a nude six-year-old girl on the front cover of an Australian art magazine has re-ignited a row over the...
Some love these places, these almost freak shows, get that photo with a celebrity - but not with Adolph Hitler!" Before Adolf Hitler killed himself in April 1945 he explained to his aides that he was determined not...
What in the sam hill is Vancouverism, you're asking. Vancouver's city planning philosophy is such a hit with architects they've come up with a new name for it. Apparently we're good at building a dense city that...
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Prior to the DNC and RNC gatherings in the United States at the end of this summer, a decidedly different group will gather to discuss politics, voter engagement strategies, and hip-hop culture. The National...
An athlete running at top speed is a beautiful thing and something that's very hard for the sculptor or painter to capture so controversial Brit artist Martin Creed gives us the real deal - his latest work is real...
Official symbols of America have long been considered sacred and untouchable. In 1969, Jimi Hendrix enraged U.S.politicians by performing a distorted, fragmented version of the American anthem. Florida student Josh...
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Eight pandas arrived in Beijing today after a long journey from their damaged reserve near the epicentre of the recent China earthquake."The pandas will spend the next six months at the Beijing Zoo on a special...
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The world’s tallest LEGO structure has been built at the Legoland Windsor theme park in England. The tower was built from 500,000 LEGO pieces, and is close to 100 feet tall! Watch the time-lapse footage...
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art is about to be filled with a superheroic, couturiered assortment of capes, spandex, and transformative suits, as its new Costume Institute exhibit, "Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy"...
"Do you expect me to talk?""No, Mister Bond! I expect you to go to the museum!""In just over a week it will be exactly a hundred years since the birth of Ian Fleming, wartime intelligence officer and creator of...
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IOWA CITY - An Old Capitol exhibit recognizing children's authors across Iowa kicked off Sunday, expanding upon the "A Community of Writers: Creative Writing at the University of Iowa," exhibit that opened last...
For one night only, Justin 'Prince of Pop' Timberlake had a full-blown contemporary art show curated and exhibited in his honour. And what a great title for the show: "If I Told You You Were Beautiful Would You Date...
In London with some leisure time on your hands, the Victoria and Albert Museum treats us to The Art of Drinking covering 500 years of us fallible creatures trying to do just that without messy spills.
The show aims to show how "drinking has stimulated a rich material...