News of the Weird: Oct. 27
∫ Angela Pusateri, 79, may be unconventional, but, according to Jenna, 13, “She really is a cool grandmother.” The Hallandale Beach, Fla., woman is a rap-music singer with a new CD (“Who’s Your Granny?”) and occasional playdates, where she shows up in hockey jersey, jewels, sunglasses and baseball cap. Sample rap: “I can bring the noise better than P-Diddy / I am older and wiser, I ain’t a disguiser / I am condo commando in a high-riser, Who’s your granny?” Also, “Move over, Trick-Daddy, ’cause this is my town / I gotta shuffleboard posse and we’re known to get down.” Actually, conceded Jenna to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel in September, “Sometimes it’s embarrassing.”
∫ “In many ways,” reported the Los Angeles Times in August, the Torajans of Indonesia’s Sulawesi Island “spend a lifetime preparing for their demise,&rdquo
Darth Vader robs Ohio bank
Billiejoe Michelle Sayer, 28, of Middleport, Ohio, was arrested around 2:30 p.m., Oct. 22 by Meigs County sheriff’s deputies after a morning bank robbery, officials said.
Meigs County Sheriff Robert Beegle said a short, heavy-set wo
Celebrity Gossip
∫ Who wants a snack? That’s what wild coyotes were hearing when celebrity Paris Hilton put her 17 dogs outside her Hollywood Hills home Wednesday night. Two of the 17 dogs were viciously mauled and eaten for dinner before the other 15 were
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∫ Italian and U.K. legal authorities have recently discarded rule interpretations based on embarrassingly anachronistic stereotypes of women. In July, Italy’s Court of Cassation reversed a 1999 ruling creating a legal presumption that a wom
» Full StoryTop 5 Reasons to Hate the New England Patriots
There’s a saying in football, an old saying that dates back to the age of time that states, “I hate the New England Patriots.” Some of you may argue it’s not a real saying and I have arbitrarily made it up for thi
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∫ France’s Council of State turned down an otherwise-acceptable petition for citizenship by a French Moroccan woman in July, on the ground her total submission to her husband makes her “insufficient(ly)” “assi
On the Edge Poll
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Halloween Bash Blue Parrot 08
All Good Festival
Bod ? Mike Adkins
Rain ? Morgantown
La Roca
Bonnaroo
His & Hers ? 5.21.08
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