How awful. I hope they get busted and help these men out.
"I like my job," Mario, a Mexican restaurant worker, told the Guardian. "But I never thought I would be living under a bridge. If I die here, I die alone." [ more › ]
If you spend any appreciable amount of time in the kitchen you will, at one point or another, be confronted with a kitchen fire. Dumping buckets of water on the situation is almost never a great idea, but luckily Bon Appetit has some tips on how to prevent and handle various kitchen fires.
Shake Shack's Rainbow Connection Concrete is unique to Los Angeles and features vanilla frozen custard mixed with pieces of a Cofax spiced crumb donut, Sqirl Seascape Strawberry & Rose Geranium Jam, and rainbow sprinkles.
A small was $4.59 and was plenty to eat.
I was expecting the frozen custard to be more frozen. It melted pretty quickly and was fairly liquid-y.
Sqirl is a local restaurant known for their artisan jams (as in made in small batches with carefully selected fruit and not whatever it is fast food joints mean when they say it). The jam offered up an intense strawberry base but I didn't pick up on the rose portion. It was a little too sweet to eat with sweet frozen custard although it's really nice on a piece of toast.
Cofax is also a local L.A. spot--a coffeehouse that also makes some donuts. The donut turned a bit stiff from either sitting out too long or from the cold of custard. The dusting of spice carried a strong cinnamon character but with an extra funk from something else that I didn't care for. A churro might have worked better from both a texture and taste standpoint.
The sprinkles are pretty much what you'd expect with a needed crunch and bit of sweetness.
Overall, I didn't really enjoy Shake Shack's Rainbow Connection Concrete, The custard itself fell a bit flat for me and I might have between appreciated the local components better separately.
Boaty McBoatface has topped an online poll to name the U.K.'s newest polar research vessel, beating entries that honored scientists and explorers.
Britain's Natural Environment Research Council had asked for help finding a name that would reflect the 200 million-pound ($284 million) ship's mission...
It may not seem like it, but 2006 was a different time. The concept of viral fame didn’t really exist yet. Even the creators of YouTube hadn’t quite figured out what it was for. (They thought it was going to be place where you could easily access “big, newsworthy footage,” like Janet Jackson’s nipple slip.)
It was into this online Wild West that comic and actor Liam Kyle Sullivan uploaded his massive hit “Shoes.” For those of you who’ve forgotten its glory, “Shoes” has Sullivan playing Kelly, a teenage girl with two things; an asshole family who doesn’t get her and an undying love of footwear. The whole song is backed by a sort of electroclash lo-fi thump.
This just reminded me of Tim's beef with the word "Artisinal" and also reminded me that Tim should open a restaurant called "ArTIMsinal"
You guys remember farm-to-table, right? That hip new (well, for a given value of new) trend where restaurants source local food to serve to local customers in an extremely local fashion? Yeah, turns out that in at least one major American city, the trend is a complete sham. Tampa Bay Times restaurant critic and certified
It’s a well-known fact that daycare is a financial drain on working parents; despite the often low pay of daycare workers, the cost of tuition and enrollment fees can easily run thousands of dollars a year. Now, new research from the Economic Policy Institute shows that in nearly half of the United States, full-time daycare is more expensive than tuition at in-state schools.
A man walks past a billboard of the "Grand Theft Auto V" video game in 2013 in Hong Kong. (Philippe Lopez/AFP/Getty Images)
In the "Grand Theft Auto" series, one of the world’s top-selling video game franchises, players can have sex with women and then kill them.
The action boosts the health of the protagonists — all of which are men. Researchers wondered how encouraging this kind of brutality in the digital realm could impact real-life teenagers.
In a study published this week in the journal PLOS ONE, a team of social scientists asked a group of Italian high school students to play one of three kinds of games: one that rewarded violence against women ("Grand Theft Auto"), one that promoted violence without degrading women (a portion of the "Half Life" series) or one that featured good, clean fun (a pinball or puzzle sequence).
After participants played their game for about 25 minutes, they answered questions about how they felt about on-screen characters. Did they identify with the mobster in "Grand Theft Auto"? Did they connect with the alien-battling scientist in "Half Life"?
The researchers then showed each student a photo of a bruised girl who, they said, had been beaten by a boy. They asked: On a scale of one to seven, how much sympathy do you have for her?
The male students who had just played "Grand Theft Auto" — and also related to the protagonist — felt least bad for her, the study found, with an empathy mean score of 3. Those who had played the other games, however, exhibited more compassion. And female students who played the same rounds of Grand Theft Auto had a mean empathy score of 5.3.
The researchers’ conclusion: Sexist games may shrink boys' empathy for female victims.
Brad Bushman, a professor of communication and psychology at Ohio State University, said the violent games may nudge players closer to the mind-set of the character they control. “You’re making the person shoot and stab and kick and hit,” he said. “In the short term, at least, it’s much harder to adopt the perspective of the victim.”
Of course, when someone commits a crime and says a video game made him do it, that argument tends to die quickly in court. Bushman’s team knew it couldn’t prove that "Grand Theft Auto" incites violence. They focused instead on how stepping into a killer's shoes could alter the player’s attitudes in the moments after putting down the controller.
"Grand Theft Auto," which included a graphic torture sequence in its latest installment, mixes violence with another form of oppressive behavior: blatant sexism. Women in the games are only side players, mostly strippers and prostitutes. They serve as bikini-clad scenery and support for the men. And they are, quite literally, disposable. A player can pay a sex worker for “everything,” promptly run her over with his car and then reclaim his money.
Fans of "Grand Theft Auto" say it is harmless entertainment, a “dazzling but monstrous parody of modern life.” What some find toxic, others label satire. (The makers of "Grand Theft Auto" did not respond to an interview request.)
After the latest version of the game came out in 2013, Tom Hoggins, video games editor at the Telegraph, said he worried young fans might not understand the over-the-top sexism is a dirty joke.
“The satirical barbs at its target demographic are too heavy-handed, the industry too much in its adolescence,” he wrote, “which leads to many of its male players to revel in its frat-boy humour, rather than feel repelled by it.”
Victoria Simpson Beck, a professor of criminal justice at the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh, found in a 2012 study that male college students exposed to sexually violent video games were more likely to accept “rape myths” or stereotypes about sexual assault victims: She was asking for it, women secretly want to be overpowered, et cetera.
Like Bushman and his colleagues, she showed young people scenes from "Grand Theft Auto" and surveyed them afterward. The sample size was tiny — less than 200 college students. She could not say that violent imagery swayed the worldviews of the male participants. She did not, though, rule out that prostitute-shooting sequences, for example, had an effect on them.
“All I can definitively say is: Sex and violence is everywhere,” she said. “It has become normative behavior. And we need much more research."
Beck recalls watching her adult son play "God of War," another game that blends sex and violence. The avatar appeared to be copulating his way through a harem.
“I’m trying to keep an open mind and think maybe it’s not sexism,” she said. “Maybe the are now equalizing brutality against both sexes.”
I *love* all of her dresses in this pictorial. That last one - wowie wow I want it.
And we’ve arrived in Bhutan! It looks amazing. This is the trip of a lifetime (all of the royals reporters I follow on Twitter are tweeting with a barely restrained undercurrent of “holy shit I can’t believe I’m here,” as would I in their shoes). If any of you have been in Bhutan, please tell Read More ...
I am only sharing this because in my scanning of the headlines I thought it said "Channing Tatum won't casue cancer"
Because there is no magical indoor tanning system that uses UV lamps and comes with a 100% guarantee you will not get cancer from using it, a company that marketed indoor tanning systems will have to pay out refunds to consumers under a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission.
Illinois-based marketers of Mercola-brand indoor tanning systems will not only have to fork over refunds, but it will be permanently banned from marketing or selling those kinds of products.
The FTC claims that Dr. Joseph Mercola and his two companies — Mercola.com, LLC and Mercola.com Health Resources LLC — ran ads claiming that their indoor tanning systems are not only safe, but that research proves indoor tanning does not increase the risk of melanoma skin cancer. The ads also claimed that their systems, which deliver both ultraviolet light and red light, can “reverse the appearance of aging.”
Those claims, the FTC alleges, are false, misleading, or unsubstantiated.
The ads also falsely stated that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has endorsed the use of indoor tanning systems as safe, the FCT’s complaint says, and that a group called the Vitamin D Council has recommended the tanning systems – without disclosing that the Council was paid for its endorsement.
Dr. Mercola and his companies advertised their systems through their website, Google search ads, YouTube videos, and newsletters. In the ads, they claimed that consumers could “Slash [Their] Risk of Cancer” by tanning indoors and “improve the clarity, tone and texture of [their] skin, basically giving [them] a more youthful appearance.”
“These types of false claims are especially troubling because of the serious health risks posed by indoor tanning,” said Jessica Rich, Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection. “The fact is, indoor tanning is not safe because it increases the risk of skin cancer, including melanoma.”
The tanning systems include tanning beds, door mount models, and standing beds for home use at prices ranging between $1,200 and $4,000 each.
Along with being banned from selling or marketing any indoor tanning systems, the defendants will have to pay refunds to consumers who bought Mercola brand tanning systems between January 1, 2012 and the present. If you’re eligible, you’ll receive a notice and claim forms from an FTC redress administrator. You’ll have to return the claim from by the date stated in the letter in order to obtain a refund.
Readers, I literally screamed when I saw this: Actually, it was more like this: (I was Titus in that scenario, not News Anchor Carol. Actually, I think I was BOTH Titus and News Anchor Carol.) It is…a walking face-palm of an ensemble. The lace leggings are a crime, of course, but I’m actually more concerned Read More ...
There’s a famous (and probably fictitious) anecdote about the filming of Dustin Hoffman and Laurence Olivier’s Marathon Man: Hoffman—a noted method actor—supposedly ran himself ragged for days before one of the movie’s big scenes, avoiding sleep and pushing his body to the limits to best capture his character’s on-the-run desperation. When he got to set, he explained his preparations to his co-star, who pithily responded with the sort of advice that only a classically trained, Oscar-winning Shakespearean actor could, telling the younger actor, “Don’t be in a big-budget supervillain movie with Jared Leto, because he sounds like a prick.”
We might be slightly misremembering some of the details of that story, but the sentiment is one that that Leto’s Suicide Squadco-workers could likely get behind. We’ve already reported on some of the wacky hijinks the actor committed in his goal ...
In 2015, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel assembled an independent task force to investigate city police when protestors demanded he resign around his mishandling—cover-up?—of Lauan McDonald’s fatal shooting by cops, which was captured on video. Now their scathing report is here, detailing how racism led to rampant police misconduct and a broken relationship with the people they’re meant to serve.
After a dismal and chilly start, April will become a lot more springlike in coming days. Though Tuesday was still chilly with city highs holding in the 40s, Chicagoans basked in unlimited sunshine for the first time since mid-February, breaking the month's dreary pattern to date. Through Tuesday,...
As part of our ongoing coverage of people stuffing meat down their pants, here’s the latest incident out of Texas: an employee spotted a man stuffing steak down his pants in the meat department. The suspect took off on foot, and police caught up with him not far away. He was charged with theft and with evading arrest. [KOSA]
Carl's Jr.'s / Hardee's Midnight Moon Moonshine Burger features a charbroiled Black Angus beef patty, a smoky-sweet Midnight Moon Moonshine glaze, pepper jack cheese, crispy garlic-pepper onion straws, thick-cut, Applewood-smoked bacon, lettuce, and tomato on a signature Fresh Baked Bun.
It's $7.79 for the 1/3 lb. version but I received this courtesy of Carl's Jr. (my local Carl's Jr. is really pricey; the suggested price starts at $4.39 for a single, which would put the 1/3 lb. version closer to $5.39 or so).
There's a low burning heat to the sauce that lingered and built up over time but never got to any level of discomfort. If we're comparing to Burger King's latest spicy offering, the Angriest Whopper, the Midnight Moon Moonshine glaze is relatively mild. Other than that, as billed, it was sweet and smoky with a slight tang and more or less like barbecue sauce without the tomato base.
The onion straws were just lightly crisp here and there but offered a nice, slightly-charred onion-y note. The bacon was, unfortunately, limp but flavorful, adding another layer of smokiness beyond the glaze. If you're hoping to taste any Midnight Moonshine, I can't say I picked up on it.
The patty was moist and meaty with a bit more garlic and onion to it then the typical salt and pepper seasoning. The cheese added an extra creaminess over a more standard slice of American but didn't exactly deliver on the peppery bite you'd expect from pepper jack. The bun lent the burger a more fresher, premium feel over your typical burger bun.
The lettuce was slightly wilted and didn't offer up much watery crispness as a result. The tomato was fine though. They're probably not necessary in the burger but they don't hurt either.
Overall, the Midnight Moon Moonshine Burger was quite good, especially if you Burger King's Rodeo Burger or the Carl's Jr. Western Bacon Cheeseburger. If you missed the Jim Beam burger, you can consider this its slightly upgraded spiritual successor. At the price my local Carl's Jr. is selling them though, it's casual dining pricing without being cooked to order.
Unapologetic bigot Phil Robertson delivered the invocation before tonight’s NASCAR race in Texas, and it didn’t disappoint—if you were looking forward to the duck call industrialist to pray for “A Jesus man” to be elected president in November.
It’s all good and great if you’re in need of a caffeine fix and you happen to possess hands and a human voice for ordering food and beverages, but despite having neither of those things, a goat in California managed to break free from her home and make her way to her local Starbucks in search of a snack.
The wayward goat, named Milly, came strolling into a Starbucks in Rohnert Park, CA on Sunday morning, the Santa Rosa Press Democrat reports, just before the sun came up.
“It’s not every day a goat walks into a Starbucks,” Rohnert Park police Sgt. Rick Bates told the paper. “The two girls were opening for business. … They tried to give the goat a banana, but it walked right past them.”
No bananas for Milly, no sir. She was more interested in a stack of cardboard boxes, which is where Sgt. Bates found her, chowing down on her snack, when he arrived on the scene around 5 a.m.
As it turns out, Milly wasn’t visiting from some far-off farm or animal refuge: she’s an 11-year-old pet goat who lives two doors down. Her 12-year-old owner said she got out by wriggling out of her leash and walking off from her sleeping area.
“When we heard, we thought she was a little crazy,” he said. “She’s a really happy and sweet goat. She’s also pretty curious.”
Milly’s family took her home from the animal shelter Sunday afternoon, and is resting at home with the family’s dog and six chickens. A new fence is in the works to keep her from straying in the future.
Milly isn’t the first animal to go adventuring in human retail land: we’ve seen sea lions, bears, more bears, deer, more deer, and coyotes take a walk on the tame side on the past.
Cruz: "I'm a slime goblin." Cruz: "I eat the entire apple, seeds core stem fuck it I'll eat the whole tree, USA." Cruz: "I'm perfectly malleable. I'm a non-Newtonian fluid"
Ted Cruz sought to erase lingering skepticism from Jewish Republicans about his ability to win in November, making his most granular, formal remarks yet to prove that he has a realistic chance at victory.
Rescue officials on Monday sifted through a Hindu temple in southern India where at least 110 people died when a fireworks display - an unauthorized pyrotechnic display that went horribly wrong - swept through a temple packed with thousands for a religious festival.
Chicago Cubs left fielder Kyle Schwarber had no regrets about the play that led to his season-ending left knee injury Thursday night.
"I felt bad for 30 minutes," Schwarber told reporters Saturday in his first public comments since colliding with center fielder Dexter Fowler and suffering tears...
Good conversation has a natural back and forth like a game of tennis. That pleasant flow comes to a grinding halt, however, when you stop to try and clear up all of the unnecessary details.
"Do nude pictures of parents help judges decide who should get custody?" asked Justice Alex Pazaratz in his March 29 ruling. " A silly question? Why then, on this motion for temporary custody, has the Applicant father attached to his affidavit a series of sexually explicit 'selfies' of the mother, retrieved from her discarded cell phone?"
The answer, it seems, was: This was a dick move.
The ten-page ruling does consider the welfare of the couple's two children, but also spends quite a bit of time wondering what the hell the dad was thinking when he attached "full page color photographs of the nude mother in sexually provocative positions" to his custody application.
"If the objective was to humiliate the mother, undoubtedly the father succeeded," Pazaratz wrote.
The legal fight was what you'd expect. The father contended that the mother was unfit, couldn't support the children, and was preoccupied with her new boyfriend. The mother countered that she's a stay-at-home mom and is doing perfectly fine at looking after the two—an eight-year-old boy and 16-month-old girl—and that the father is inventing problems in order to win custody.
But that regular bullshit, with the kids caught in the middle, wasn't enough for the dad.
So how did he get the nudes?
"In mid-November 2015—after separation—the parties were living under the same roof but in different units," the judge writes. The eight-year-old son went down to his visit his dad's apartment who, then, "suddenly heard the boy screaming in the bedroom. The boy was very upset because he had come across sexually explicit pictures of his mother while playing with her cell phone."
Worst. Nightmare.
The dad "filed the pictures with his affidavit, so the court would understand how badly the child had been traumatized by the images."
Uh huh.
"He blamed the Respondent." (The mom.)
Of course he did.
The judge, obviously, had none of this.
In what has got to be one of the most sarcastic legal rulings I've ever read, Pazaratz writes:
"The nude photographs and salacious texts submitted by the father merely confirm what I would suspect of most other adults on this planet: The mother has a sex life. Big deal."
The dad also submitted 89 pages of her text conversations ("Light on grammar. Heavy on anatomy"), which the judge called "the litigation version of 50 Shades of Gray."
Here's the kicker: Saddad's lawyer "speculated that the for the child seeing nude images of his mother, there was no need to actually attach color enlargements to his affidavit. He could have summarized his version of events in a single paragraph. All he had to do was refer to them as 'nude selfies,'" the judge wrote. "I think most judges would have understood."
The judge (who is awesome) had the files destroyed. And while he did order the mom to give the dad more visitation time, he also forced the dad to hand over the cell phone and forbid him from sharing the images.
So there you go, sad middle aged men. Don't go sharing photos of your naked ex-wives with judges. Just go back to listening to that Phil Collins tape.
For Best Summer Ever, Har Mar Superstar’s upcoming full-length, Sean Tillman came up with a novel concept. While Tillman has always used the Har Mar name to jump wildly across genres, Best Summer Ever is meant to be a collection of Har Mar’s greatest hits from the years of 1950-1985. Ignoring the fact that Tillman was born in 1978, Best Summer Ever is a wild genre homage that all fits nicely under the Har Mar Superstar banner. While the tracks from Best Summer Ever that have been released thus far have skewed toward ’80s pop, The A.V. Club is premiering “How Did I Get Through The Day?,” a ’50s-style heartbreaker that highlights Tillman’s knack for soulful crooning. It’s a track that shows Tillman’s masterful understanding of music history, while establishing his place in it as a chameleonic force.
There is a mafia of alleycats that patrol our hood. A few weeks ago I had an upsetting run-in with a trapped rat, but since then I've noticed the cats appear to have stepped up their patrols. When I let Mickey out one night around 3 am, there were 3 cats slinking around near the dumpsters. Haven't seen a rat since.
Pest control company Orkin has named Chicago "the rattiest city in the nation" for two years running. But we just might lose our title this year. [ more › ]
Earlier this week, the Swedish Tourist Association decided to honor the 250th anniversary of the Swedish abolishment of national censorship by creating a phone number for the whole of Sweden. If you call that number, you're connected to a random Swede, and you can have a chat.
So now we have the opportunity to really get to know Sweden, and finally, once and for all, figure out what exactly is wrong with it. Because you can be sure that a country that's so much like one big life insurance commercial is hiding something.
To get to the core of things and understand what Sweden is about, our different European VICE offices called the Swedish number to ask the Swedes their burning questions.
UNITED KINGDOM
VICE: Hi! Why does everyone in Sweden love dill so much? Torgny from Gothenburg: Oh yes, dill—very popular in Sweden. Well, it's tasty! We use it in salad, you can use it in fish in the oven—but not on meat. It doesn't go with meat. But it's excellent!
Is the aesthetic of dill as appealing to you as the flavor? Yeah, but it depends what you do with it. If you cook it, it doesn't look appealing, but if it's fresh—for example, in a salad—it looks excellent.
In the UK, we consider Swedish food to be mostly dill, meatballs, and salmon. Is that correct? No, no, no. A typical Swedish dish that we would have on midsummer, Christmas, Whitsun, and Easter would definitely be meatballs, different kinds of herring, boiled eggs, caviar, lots of salad, and lots of bread, of course—rye bread usually.
ROMANIA
VICE: Hello Sweden, here's a question: There's this legend that in Communist times in Romania, blond and tall Swedish women came here to have fun and drink whiskey and take drugs and have affairs with Romanian men. Do you know if there's any truth to this legend? Sam: No, that can't be true. Why would Swedish girls want to go to Romania? It's a poor country. It's not nice there.
No, it's nice here, and cheap. If you bring money, you can have fun. Spend money on women?
Wait, how old are you? I'm sixteen.
OK, never mind. Thank you very much. Have a good day lady.
VICE: Hi Sweden! You've been spending your holidays in Spain for the past fifty years, and there are around seventy thousand Swedish people living here. Why? Andreas from Skåne: I don't really know much about Spain. I've never been there, but I think Swedish people go to Spain because it's warm and beautiful. There's good food and great culture. I've heard Mallorca will be the place where more Swedish people will go on holiday this summer. I'd completely understand if you're not a fan of us being there, though. We just go there to enjoy our holidays, so we don't get the see the whole picture. We don't have to deal with your politicians or their policies.
GERMANY
VICE: Hi Sweden! Who really killed Olof Palme in 1986? Roger from Haninge, Stockholm: Well, this year, the media paid a lot of attention to the case. I personally don't have an opinion on the matter. I've been following the case, but it is confusing. There is this one guy who was accused of the murder. He was declared guilty, but that was in a lower court. So he appealed. The case went to a higher court, where they reversed the verdict, and he was declared not guilty. In the media, they said it was because of the lack of evidence. I trust the Swedish judiciary, but there are a lot of people who think there's some kind of conspiracy going on. I cannot speak for everyone here, but I think they know what they are doing here.
GREECE
VICE: Which country is Sweden's mortal enemy? Anonymous: I would say Norway. If we're talking about hockey, it's Finland. If we're talking about football, it's Denmark. But overall it's mainly Norway.
SERBIA
VICE: So, Sweden, are your prisons really as amazing as we think they are? Marianne from Malmö: Yeah, I haven't ever been in one, but I can imagine that Swedish prisons can be a kind of heaven when compared to the ones in the US or other Western countries. Some people in Sweden say prisoners here are better off than pensioners, and that their conditions should be harder. But this country is built on social democracy, and it has been that way since the 1920s. The basic idea is that no person is a hopeless case, and that everybody can become a better person. It's been that way for the past fifty or sixty years.
DENMARK
VICE: With your stance on gender equality and refugee discourse, Sweden might just be the most politically correct nation on Earth. Is it hard for you to live up to that in your everyday life? Martin Page from Sundsvall (a UK native): I'm aware of the fact that the Swedes are like that with their politics, but I don't think most people find it a problem in their daily life. It's just something they're used to here in Sweden. Everyone tries to do their best with helping refugees, and I think the Swedes are pretty high on the list in that respect. I don't think I differ from Swedes in terms of what I consider to be PC. In fact, most people think I'm Swedish.
VICE:Do you know why there are so many handsome Swedish guys studying in Paris? Anonymous from Malmö: It's hard to say, but I really think it's because we consider Paris the "City of Love." I've been there numerous times, and it never bores. You know, more and more Swedish students are learning French at school, so it's easier for us. In fact, we love to go abroad to study and work, so it's not a big surprise to find plenty of people from Sweden in Paris.
THE NETHERLANDS
VICE: Bars in Sweden are supposed to ban people from dancing unless they have a special license. It looks like that's now going to change, but do you think this law is typical for Sweden? Peter from Umeå: I guess it's just one of the many bureaucratic rules we have. But this law says that you also require security if you want people to dance in your bar. That's necessary because when people want to dance they drink a lot, and when people drink a lot, there are also a lot of fights. When I'm in Stockholm, I see this sometimes. It's not like Amsterdam, where you also use other stuff that makes you more calm and peaceful—if you get what I mean.
SWITZERLAND
VICE: Hi Sweden. Do all of you have an elk in your garden? Anonymous: I live in an apartment in the city of Malmö, so I don't have a garden and no elk. But mythologically speaking, it's true that every Swede has an elk, at least in his attic. We have to put porridge for Santa Claus in the attic on Christmas night—that's a tale we tell our children. So I guess the answer is yes and no.
I have some good news for all of you, and it’s not that today is Friday (which it is, and which is technically good news). No, the good news I have to share this lovely day is so much better than the mere fact that the weekend is upon us.
After a rocky attempt to get cool , Banana Republic is returning to its old, staid ways. Which is why I ask the following question: is the dress I was told to purchase in my email inbox today part of the new BR or the old BR?
"I like my job," Mario, a Mexican restaurant worker, told the Guardian. "But I never thought I would be living under a bridge. If I die here, I die alone." [ more › ]
Shake Shack's Rainbow Connection Concrete is unique to Los Angeles and features vanilla frozen custard mixed with pieces of a Cofax spiced crumb donut, Sqirl Seascape Strawberry & Rose Geranium Jam, and rainbow sprinkles.
Cofax is also a local L.A. spot--a coffeehouse that also makes some donuts. The donut turned a bit stiff from either sitting out too long or from the cold of custard. The dusting of spice carried a strong cinnamon character but with an extra funk from something else that I didn't care for. A churro might have worked better from both a texture and taste standpoint.
And we’ve arrived in Bhutan! It looks amazing. This is the trip of a lifetime (all of the royals reporters I follow on Twitter are tweeting with a barely restrained undercurrent of “holy shit I can’t believe I’m here,” as would I in their shoes). If any of you have been in Bhutan, please tell Read More ...
Readers, I literally screamed when I saw this: Actually, it was more like this: (I was Titus in that scenario, not News Anchor Carol. Actually, I think I was BOTH Titus and News Anchor Carol.) It is…a walking face-palm of an ensemble. The lace leggings are a crime, of course, but I’m actually more concerned Read More ...
As part of our ongoing coverage of people stuffing meat down their pants, here’s the latest incident out of Texas: an employee spotted a man stuffing steak down his pants in the meat department. The suspect took off on foot, and police caught up with him not far away. He was charged with theft and with evading arrest. [KOSA]
Carl's Jr.'s / Hardee's Midnight Moon Moonshine Burger features a charbroiled Black Angus beef patty, a smoky-sweet Midnight Moon Moonshine glaze, pepper jack cheese, crispy garlic-pepper onion straws, thick-cut, Applewood-smoked bacon, lettuce, and tomato on a signature Fresh Baked Bun.
There's a low burning heat to the sauce that lingered and built up over time but never got to any level of discomfort. If we're comparing to Burger King's latest spicy offering, the Angriest Whopper, the Midnight Moon Moonshine glaze is relatively mild. Other than that, as billed, it was sweet and smoky with a slight tang and more or less like barbecue sauce without the tomato base.
The patty was moist and meaty with a bit more garlic and onion to it then the typical salt and pepper seasoning. The cheese added an extra creaminess over a more standard slice of American but didn't exactly deliver on the peppery bite you'd expect from pepper jack. The bun lent the burger a more fresher, premium feel over your typical burger bun.
It’s all good and great if you’re in need of a caffeine fix and you happen to possess hands and a human voice for ordering food and beverages, but despite having neither of those things, a goat in California managed to break free from her home and make her way to her local Starbucks in search of a snack.
Very sad man! Photo via Flickr user er madx
Pest control company Orkin has named Chicago "the rattiest city in the nation" for two years running. But we just might lose our title this year. [ more › ]
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