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Eco-Protest Crew Stage a Nude XXX Action in a Church

Norwegian erotic activists from Fuck for Forest wandered into a Cathedral in Oslo yesterday and proceeded to make sweet foreplay to each other on the altar during mass. Their prerogative? X-rated re-wilding and rejection of everything that inhibits free, natural love! NSFW. Read more »

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Internet #killswitch Doc: Free the Web!

Like the United Nations, the documentary filmmakers behind #killswitch believe that access to the internet is a basic human right. That right gets seriously jeopardized as big corporations buy it up and dole it out. Say what? Read more »

Parting Shot

This shot of a couple making out in the middle of a hockey-related riot in Vancouver is truly inspiring, staged or not. (Photo: Rich Lam/Getty)

Just like evangelical Christians in America, residents of Kabul, Afghanistan also have an irrational fear of certain numerical sequences, but in their case it’s 39—not 666—due to the sexual connotation it carries.

Police Will Pay Big Money to Person Who Solves LI Serial Killer Case

The investigation of several bodies dumped near a section of beach on the South Shore of Long Island is not progressing so well and now the Suffolk County Police Department is looking towards a more time-tested method for solving crimes: tips. The reward for information connected to these homicides has been upped to $25,000, which is about five times the going rate.

Patrick Martinez’s Bodega of Truth


Los Angeles-based artist Patrick Martinez brings a few of his signature neon pieces to the group show at the Known Gallery tonight. Disguised as standard commercial signage, these works disambiguate the problem with today’s hip hop, comment on the decrease in the standard of living with a “fresh produce” sign to a backdrop of junk and spell out encouraging/tongue-in-cheek aphorisms. Hustle on. “Assorted Flavor,” Group Show, Jun 18 – Jul 9, Known Gallery, Los Angeles

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Watch Vancouver Hockey Fans Destroy Cop Cars

The usually peaceful city of Vancouver erupted into chaos last night after their hockey team lost the Stanley Cup to another team that never wins. Fans took to the streets and tore shit up. Things were smashed, overturned, and naturally, lit on fire too. Oh Canada!

Artist Exaggerates the Controversy of His Dead Osama Painting

Remember artist Michael D’Antuono who chickened out of showing his mildy controversial Obama-Jesus painting in Union Square in 2009 — because he didn’t want to offend Christians with the “blasphemy?” Behold his new work And Justice For All wherein President Obama triumphantly brandishes a severed, bullet-blasted head of Osama bin Laden off a grassy cliff, to be auctioned on eBay for a vet charity. The artist is already crying “unfair censorship” because Newswire won’t post it because it’s so-o-o controversial… and not because it’s corny.

Russian Leaders Hire Lady Photographers: The Battle Begins

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin have both hired pretty women as their personal photographers, presumably to get their nation’s attention for the upcoming, potentially inconsequential election. This is Putin’s Yana Lapikova. We don’t really know what her portfolio looks like because her site is down. But here she is posing for a lingerie shot that she later said was “a mistake” and her photograph of a cat. Read more »

Help Make the East River Swimmable

Wouldn’t it be nice to take a dip in the East River without fear of contracting a disease? It can be done… with money. The group who designed the concept for a giant, plus-shaped public pool using natural, but filtered river water, just launched a Kickstarter page to help make their aquatic vision a reality. They need $25,000 to get the ball rolling, but it will ultimately take $250,000 to make a big splash. Who’s in? Solicitation video below: Read more »