Новости за 31.12.2015

WolVol, a toy company that you’re probably not familiar with, makes a toy F-16 jet that your kids will probably never ask for. But get it for them anyway and you might discover that the model plane accidentally plays a recording of a Muslim prayer rather than its advertised jet noises. If that’s the case, your local news media would probably love to talk to you!

Wow! Just wow! Women’s Health editor-in-chief Amy Keller Laird announced this week that the magazine is replacing words like “shrink” and “diet” with words like “toned,” “strong” and “sexy” on their covers. They’re also entirely getting rid of the infamous women’s magazine coverlines “Bikini Body” and “Drop Two Sizes.”

In Chicago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel wants Chicago police to carry tasers and become trained to defuse non-lethal situations with non-lethal weapons and force. What a concept!

Rita Moreno was one of the first prominent Puerto Ricans in Hollywood—one of the first , period—and remains a source of inspiration as one of Hollywood’s most talented. The first boricua to EGOT—Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony, though no doubt Lin-Manuel Miranda’s up for that next—Moreno’s first iconic role was Anita in the 1961 film adaptation of West Side Story. (She won an Oscar for that, and was one of just a small handful of Latinos in a film whose characters were largely Puerto Rican immigrants... Читать дальше...

The caption that accompanies this circa-1925 photograph doesn’t provide anywhere near enough information: “A passer-by is intrigued with the window display of a beauty parlour with a sign that reads ‘The Present Limit of Truly Antiseptic Toilet Science.’”

A group of four men recently introduced a bill into the New Hampshire State House of Representatives that would make it a misdemeanor for exclusively women to show their nipples.

Pete Souza, the chief official White House photographer—a low-key genius who also gave us this one, and this one—has released his annual 2015 Year in Photographs, and I’m not trying to get all sentimental on you guys, but they are pretty great!

Welcome to Midweek Madness, where we—oh motherfucker. Damn it. Damn it, damn it, damn it. Blake Shelton impregnated Gwen Stefani. This is miserable news. Absolutely miserable. Hurry the hell up, 2016, because a Gwake Baby just made 2015 boil over.

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