March 8, 2016 2:56 PM EST
Michael Phelps, who has stated that he will retire after the 2016 Rio Games, has begun his farewell tour with a poignant Under Armour ad showcasing the 30-year-old’s brutal training regimen for what will be his last Olympics. The 90-second spot features the 22-time medalist swimming, lifting weights, carbo-loading and even undergoing cupping therapy as “The Last Goodbye” by the Kills plays in the background.
The fashion world shed a tear in June when the legendary French designer, Yves Saint Laurent, died of brain cancer in Paris at the age of 71. As a designer, he was as important to 20th century fashion as Coco Chanel and Christian Dior. After a stint at Dior at the tender age of 21, Saint Laurent opened his own house and set fashion on fire by elevating street clothes to the haute couture runway.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Gemini, a 33-bedroom compound on a private barrier island in Manalapan, Florida, just got a $30 million price chop. That brings its listing price down to $165 million from $195 million. The 16-acre estate is the property of the billionaire family of deceased publisher William B. Ziff, Jr. Ziff passed away in 2006. He had developed a successful empire of tech-focused magazines, including titles like Car and Driver and PC Magazine.
Full Name: John Michael Osbourne
Profession: Rock Vocalist
Biography: Rose to prominence in the early 1970s as the lead vocalist of the pioneering band Black Sabbath, whose dark and heavy sound has often been cited as key to the development of the heavy metal genre.
Born: December 3, 1948
Birthplace: Birmingham, England Age: 75 years old Generation: Baby Boomer
Chinese Zodiac: Rat
Star Sign: Sagittarius
Career Highlights 1978-09-28 Metal band Black Sabbath release their 8th album "
Over the past few years, zombie-centric TV shows and movies have been quite popular and Netflix has taken note. Earlier this month, the streaming service debuted "Black Summer," a new, must-watch original series that features zombies. The new horror show has quite a few layers and it's certainly about a lot more than survival. Here's everything you need to know before you watch the Netflix original series "
August 25, 2016 6:10 AM EDT
When did this story come to you?
I was a person who thought I knew what was best for everyone else, but I had this epiphany where I realized the more I’m focusing on other people’s lives, the less I’m looking at myself. That led me on this journey of being a less harsh critic to the people around me.
You’ve talked about the value of therapy.
March 16, 2015 11:17 AM EDT
Mario didn’t just want to run to the right just because he had an insatiable curiosity about what existed on the far side of your vintage Nintendo Game Boy. He was programmed to run forever to the right because that’s the way gamers’ brains like it, a new study surfaced by Gizmodo suggests.
Dr. Peter Walker, a a psychologist at Lancaster University, inspected thousands of still and moving pictures in Google Images, finding evidence of a “rightward bias .
Maybe his dark curiosity came from his Southern Gothic background (he hails from North Carolina). What Daniel discovered in the shadowy corners was a host of strange treasures: a Greek amphitheater, antique furniture and leaded windows, wooden angels, plaster gargoyles, light fixtures from the long-destroyed Penn Station, twisted metal remains from the World Trade Center, and a series of saints standing in single file which some workers call “the line to the men’s room.
Inside a tight steel chute on a late-September night, Sunshine–1,450 lb. of ironically named aggression–is thrashing and fuming with everything he’s got. He rams his thick horns against the gate, desperate to get out into the ring. Finally it opens, and Sunshine darts into the dirt arena. The bull bucks and heaves while the 165-lb. cowboy on his back tries desperately to hold on. Douglas Duncan needs to stick it out for just eight seconds to score points, but Sunshine won’t cooperate: he ditches Duncan in three and then bounces around the ring in a dirt-kicking victory lap.
The film which is his directorial debut follows the story of Jason Adams, played by Stan Nze, the only surviving child of wealthy parents, and his girlfriend Betty, played by Chinelo Enemchukw, seeking a pleasant weekend away at his grandmother’s house. They arrive alongside Jason's cousin Ken, played by Anthony Monjaro, and Ken’s girlfriend Isabel, played by Crystabel Goddy. While Jason plans a weekend of celebration, including proposing to Betty, he soon discovers the surprise is on him.