RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif. — A decades-old landslide that’s rapidly accelerating has forced the dismantling of Wayfarers Chapel, an iconic Southern California church that was designed by one of famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s sons and built among soaring redwoods and sweeping Pacific Ocean views. The earth beneath the chapel in Rancho Palos Verdes is […]
It’s a steak and salad without the steak. It’s Wham! without George Michael*. It’s Presidentish Joe Biden without his teleprompter. Hell, it might even be Biden with his teleprompter. It’s a Swiss Army knife… without that bothersome knife part. Swiss firm Victorinox has made a huge assortment of its […]
Given the hyper-sterile nature of corporate public relations in 2024 (nobody wants to be cancelled), color this writer genuinely surprised that this social media administrator hit “send” on this joke. First, some background on two seemingly disparate topics. The more simple topic: “Hitman” is a video game franchise developed by IO Interactive that began in […]
The four windmill blades at the famous Moulin Rouge, a 134-year-old Parisian cabaret club in Paris, fell off early Thursday morning. No one was injured. The blades and part of the club’s electric sign fell to the ground at around 2 a.m. local time, after the audience for the last performance of the night had […]
Few — if any — superhero films are held in higher esteem than the seminal 2008 Batman film “The Dark Knight.” Between the mature sense of gritty realism that the movie brought (the Batman franchise had largely been known for campy live-action movies prior to the Dark Knight trilogy) and an absolutely iconic portrayal of […]
The sun is setting on Stumpy, the gnarled old cherry tree that has become a social media phenom. This year’s cherry blossom festivities in Washington will be the last for Stumpy and more than 100 other cherry trees that will be cut down as part of a multiyear restoration of their Tidal Basin home. Starting […]
It appears a new agent is ready to carry the mantle of “007.” According to a new report from the U.K. edition of The Sun, former Marvel villain-turned-superhero actor Aaron Taylor-Johnson has been offered the role of iconic British super spy James Bond. The 33-year-old Taylor-Johnson, a fellow countryman of Bond’s, is expected to accept […]
Pro-Palestinian protesters managed to get their message displayed on London’s Houses of Parliament Wednesday night. The slogan “From the river to the sea” was projected onto the Elizabeth Tower that houses Big Ben during a pro-Palestinian protest, according to the Daily Mail. The Palestinian Solidarity Campaign claimed thousands of protesters turned out for the “Stop […]
Believe it or not, I am not a surfer. That is John’s gig. I represent the old, fat, and balding demographic, not the spry, athletic, and manly-man types in our audience. Still, I feel perfectly competent to judge a situation like this one, in which an iconic Australian surfing brand drops a female athlete for […]
The European Union has just run crosswise with Captain James T. Kirk, and by any measure the Captain is right to blast Europe’s left-wing, nanny state, cancel culture, loons for their latest “diversity” move. This week, news broke that the EU — which apparently stands for Entirely Useless — is looking to make the world […]
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