SEATTLE — One man died and dozens of people were treated after overdosing on a drug called Molly at a weekend music festival at the Gorge Amphitheatre in central Washington, authorities said.
More than 25,000 people attended the sold-out, two-day Paradiso Festival, which features dozens of electronic music performances.
Is this the last straw? Substandard drinking straws making up 80 percent of the straws sold in Shanghai can cause a host of harmful health issues when the toxic chemicals used in their manufacture leach out into hot drinks.
As sacred a hashtag as #tbt is on Instagram, the hashstag #nofilter is right there with it. If the selfie’s purpose is to crown your own face with likes, not using a filter on a picture and then bragging about it through a hashtag is to megaphone your arrival as an artist. Like saying you could totally be a photographer if you weren’t stuck in a cubicle all day. Like telling the whole world to look at you and then not look at you but really, look at you. Digital flexing. #nofilter
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Small-screen stars seem to have an affinity for one particular home in the ritzy Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, Calif.
Right now, the home belongs to long-time talk show host Ricki Lake, who just listed the property for a whopping $8.75 million. But back in 2002, Lake bought the estate from “Friends” star Courtney Cox and her then-husband David Arquette for $5.6 million, according to real estate blog Redfin.
One look at the listing photos reveals why celebs like Lake and Cox have made this house a home. Built in 1949, the gated “plantation”-style property has six bedrooms, 5.5 bathrooms and sits on almost one acre of land, notes the official listing. Outdoors, the grounds feature a pool, spa and several patio areas. Carrying on the indoor-outdoor theme, the home’s interiors boast large skylights, soaring wood beam ceilings, floor-to-ceiling windows and glass doors.
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Cairo (AP) — A new wave of sexual assaults by groups of men targeting women during anti-government protests in Cairo’s central Tahrir Square has been reported as millions of Egyptians take to the streets to demand President Mohammed Morsi’s ouster.
A vigilante group formed to protect women in the square, which has become the epicenter of anti-government rallies, said it recorded the highest number of attempts — 46 — on Sunday as the majority of protesters were festive as families with small children and others spilled into side streets and across boulevards, waving flags, blowing whistles and chanting.
The atmosphere became less friendly in Tahrir as night fell on the badly lit plaza, which has seen a rise in attacks against women since shortly after the 18-day revolution that forced the resignation of Morsi’s predecessor, Hosni Mubarak, in 2011. Sexual harassment has long been common in Egypt, but its increasing frequency and violence has shaken the protest movement.
Many console gamers know the drudgery of entering a download code with a gamepad or keyboard. Now that Kinect is part and parcel of the Xbox One experience, however, they’ll always get to skip that step: Microsoft’s Marc Whitten has revealed that system owners can scan the codes with the Kinect camera. While this is really an extension of what the original Kinect can do — Kinectimals takes advantage of QR codes, for example — it should be a big help for gamers who’d rather be playing than typing.
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Source: Marc Whitten (Twitter)
Congress is debating the so-called Federal Agricultural Reform and Risk Management Act. More commonly known as the Farm Bill, it is a looting expedition, roughly 80 percent general welfare (food stamps, officially called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program) and 20 percent farm welfare (agricultural price supports).
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This week is all about July 4th, and as a result even some of our favorite TV shows are taking the week off. There are still a few things to get excited about with classic flicks like The Producers and The Kentucky Fried Movie arriving on Blu-ray, and the season finale of Christopher Guest’s excellent Family Tree on HBO. Look below for the highlight this week, followed after the break by our weekly listing of what to look out for in TV, Blu-ray and videogames.
UFC 162
Anderson “The Spider” Silva is considered by some as the greatest MMA fighter of all time, and this weekend the UFC’s middleweight title holder gets in the Octagon again versus Chris Weidman. This is Silva’s first fight in eight months, and if he wins it could lead to a superfight against either Jon Jones or Georges St-Pierre.
(UFC 162, PPV, July 6th 10PM)
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Anyone who says, “Now, I’m not a racist, but… ” is a ginormous racist-y racist and is about to say something horrendously racist. Another thing: accidental racist, you say? I call bulls***.
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Usually, “Liking” something gives it broader exposure — and thus a better chance of propagating in the digital realm. A new online art project called “Like to Death” is the opposite. It disappears bit by bit as people “Like” it.
“Social media is the fifth dimension that fabricates our online existence,” reads a screen that appears when visitors enter the flickering black and white site for Like to Death. “Imagine a life without it, if you can’t you have been possessed. Break the curse, like it to death.”
A collaboration for Adidas Originals by digital artist Geoffrey Lillemon and Stooki, an independent U.K. jewelry and apparel label that’s also an art collective, Like to Death presents an ominous-looking seated robed figure of death wearing four heads like rings on its fingers. The artists describe these symbols as “demons,” toying, they say, with the idea “that everyone possesses a social-media demon” — be it an unhealthy addiction to social networks or the traces of ourselves we leave online that we might later wish we could make disappear.
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