For Hello Kitty's Birthday, Katy Perry Got Herself a Tattoo
Twenty-five thousand people of all ages, drunk on cuteness: That was Hello Kitty Con.
The Empire of Harmlessness: Hello Kitty at 40
Thirty-nine years ago in Japan, Hello Kitty, the global emissary of cuteness, made her public debut. She appeared on a plastic coin purse priced at 240 yen, or about 80 cents.
The Man Booker Prize will be open next year to all fiction writers in the language called "English," even those from nations that forcibly unyoked ourselves from the Queen's jurisdiction. Power grab or final capitulation of failed empire? Either way, tough break for Hilary Mantel, up against Jennifer Weiner from now…
Amazing Colour Footage of Street Scenes of London in 1927
The film was shot by Claude Frisse-Greene, an early British pioneer of film.
More Oil Found Off Falkland Islands
Shortly after Britain announced cuts in Royal Navy funding, more oil was found off the Falkland Islands. Oops!
You Are Part of the Growing Olsen Empire
There's something gnawing at you long after you have read Ginia Bellafante's profile of Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen. It's not the fact that they won't be interviewed together, it's not that they employee 18 people in their Dualstar company, and it's certainly not that Ashley is the sadistic mastermind of the two. No,…
