Bryan Pace/for New York Daily News Performing artist Neil Young goes back to basics at a rare acoustic gig at Carnegie Hall on Jan. 6. Neil Young had time on his mind when he took the Carnegie Hall stage for the first of four shows Monday. Performing in his solo, acoustic guise, he bracketed the night with songs about relationships of ...
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Docs short on sex talk with teens
John Slater/Getty Images Teens aren’t learning enough about condoms and safe sex at doctor’s visits, a new study suggests. Doctors spend a measly 36 seconds on average talking about sex with teen patients, a new study finds. Researchers at Duke University said physisicans are missing out on a crucial opportunity for sex education by skipping “the talk,” and added that ...
Read More »Leonardo DiCaprio reveals terrifying shark attack
Leonardo DiCaprio has revealed he has been terrified of sharks ever since he got trapped inside a cage with a gigantic Great White. “The Wolf of Wall Street” actor told The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Tuesday how he narrowly cheated death during a diving expedition in Cape Town, South Africa, in 2006. The Hollywood star, on a break from filming ...
Read More »David Stern says Rodman blinded by North Korean cash
CNN “It’s all about the game. People love to do one thing: Sports,” Rodman said when explaining why he was not addressing the widespread human rights abuses in North Korea. Dennis Rodman delivered a rambling, impassioned and occasionally incoherent defense Tuesday of the basketball game he organized for North Korean despot Kim Jong Un’s birthday. “I don’t give a rat’s a-s ...
Read More »David Stern says Rodman blinded by North Korean cash
CNN “It’s all about the game. People love to do one thing: Sports,” Rodman said when explaining why he was not addressing the widespread human rights abuses in North Korea. NBA Commissioner David Stern believes “a flash of North Korean money” has blinded Dennis Rodman‘s love of Kim John Un and slams that any future trips by him abroad “should ...
Read More »No, TV makers, 4K and UHD are not the same thing
Over the last year, the terms UHD and 4K have become so conflated that TV makers, broadcasters, and tech blogs are now using them interchangeably. Let me just say this now: 4K and UHD (Ultra HD) are not the same thing. Yes, as far as the consumer is concerned, there isn’t much of a practical difference — but, in much ...
Read More »PS4 sells 4.2 million units in 2013, beating the Xbox One comfortably
At CES 2014, Sony has announced that the PS4 has sold 4.2 million units as of December 28, 2013. Yesterday, Microsoft revealed that it had sold 3 million Xbox Ones as of the end of 2013. It would appear that the PS4 is outselling the Xbox One by some margin, but the bigger picture is actually a lot more complex ...
Read More »Zora Neale Hurston featured in Google Doodle
The Google Doodle for Tuesday, Jan. 7 featured the black author with a folksy illustration. Their eyes were watching Google. Google’s daily Doodle, the digital image that greets billions of visitors to the site each day, honored Harlem Renaissance author Zora Neale Hurston yesterday on what would have been her 123rd birthday. RELATED: HARLEM IS HOME TO A RESTAURANT RENAISSANCE ...
Read More »Chinese worker gets ‘pinchers’ after factory accident
HAP/Quirky China News/REX USA Wang Jin’s hands were nearly destroyed beyond repair after a factory accident. A Chinese man whose hands were ripped from the rest of his body in a ghastly accident got four of his fingers reattached in the form of pinchers. Wang Jin, 18, was rushed to Xiang Ya Hospital in Changsha, Hunan Province on Dec. 11 ...
Read More »Lindsay Lohan’s laptop stolen in China airport
Splash News Lindsay Lohan’s laptop was stolen at an airport in China. Lindsay Lohan is missing a laptop after her computer was stolen on her way home from China. The 27-year-old actress was in Shanghai for the Sohu Fashion Achievement Awards on Monday. RELATED: LINDSAY LOHAN WRITING TELL-ALL AUTOBIOGRAPHY lindsaylohan.com The starlet was in Shanghai for the Sohu Fashion Acheivement ...
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