The Allure of Naked Posing: Lady Killer PhotoShoot Is Sexy Work

Get ready to see Debra Messing, Maria Menounos, Taraji P. Henson, Leslie Bibb, and Morena Baccarin like you’ve never seen them before — completely nude! The gorgeous stars all posed in the buff for Allure‘s annual celebrity nudes portfolio, which also features Heidi Klum topless on the May cover.   Debra Messing (Patrick Demarchelier/ALLURE) “Smash”…

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New Book Says O.J. Simpson’s Son Jason Killed Nicole Brown

  Updated 2/4/2016 RUN OF HIS LIFE 02.02.16 8:00 PM ET ‘The People vs. O.J. Simpson’ Premiere: Big, Bold, and Shockingly Relevant The white Bronco. The bloody glove. It’s 1994 all over again. Yet FX’s new series proves the Trial of the Century is just as enthralling—and maybe more important—than ever. “Oh my god. We’re…

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Mommy Is Devouring Porn: “50 Shades Of Grey” Erotic Sex Bestseller Into Movies

   Women Having Wilder Sex And Watching Porn     Fifty Shades of Grey’ Film Adaptation Faces Challenge From ‘Control-Freak’ Author   If bestselling books turned into movies are hot, bestselling books about kinky sex turned into movies about kinky sex must be even hotter. 50 Shades of Grey is the “triple-X” trilogy originally self-published by E.L. James that’s being devoured by women across the…

“With the disappearance of paper encyclopedias, a part of the Western intellectual tradition is disappearing as well,”

March 20, 2012 Knowledge is a property of the network: Mapping Britannica’s world in a Wikipedia age  Matthew Battles argues that the nature of knowledge is changing in the context of networks. By Matthew Battles Email At The New Republic, David A. Bell offers a wistful threnody for the paper edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica,…

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Damien Hirst: Art and Words From “Enfant Terrible”

Behind an elegant door on a posh street in London, Damien Hirst, one of the world’s greatest artists, sits surrounded by treasures: an Andy Warhol “Electric Chair” is propped on a shelf; a major Francis Bacon hangs over the room’s mantel; a piece by Jeff Koons sits nearby. That’s as it should be—Hirst is filthy…

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Porn In Peshwar: Adult Cinema Thrives In Hotbed Of Pakistani Fundamentalism

      In Peshawar, capital of Pakistan’s most conservative province, billboards showing women are regularly torn down and music shops have been repeatedly bombed. So how is it that under the noses of Islamist forces, adult movie houses continue to flourish?    The half-lit room smells strongly of hashish. On the screen, a woman…