Photo: The Gloss Decorating queen Martha Stewart might have taken a few hits recently: her long-running Martha Stewart Show was cancelled and an insider let slip a view details of her anti-aging regimen, which includes plenty of Botox. Still, she’s still looking quite fine for a 70-year-old grandmother. That might have something to do with her youth, when she was supporting herself without resorting to doling out useful home design tips. Prior to her fortuitous start in the domestic biz she was a model and part-time nanny for Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra. This photo was presumably taken of her working the former capacity. · Retro Snap: The Fact That This Woman Was A Model Always Surprises Me [The Gloss via Refinery29] · Martha Beautifies [Curbed National] · The Martha Stewart Show Dropped From Hallmark Channel [Curbed National]
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Image Interlude: Behold Martha Stewart, Former Sexpot Swimsuit Model
An unidentified man was struck and killed by two drivers while walking on Borinquen Place in Williamsburg earlier this morning around 6 a.m. Details are still emerging about the cause of the crash, but the FDNY confirms that the victim was pronounced D.O.A. and that he was hit twice by two different vehicles. The NYPD press office tells us that at this point, “no criminality is suspected.” One local resident sent us the photo below, and describes the grisly scene near South First Street: [ more › ]
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Man Killed By 2 Drivers In Williamsburg Crash, "No Criminality Suspected"
American food companies, you need to step up your commercial game. Not only are Spanish-language viewers outside the U.S. getting celebrity-filled fast food spots but they are also getting magic. And by magic we mean epic, two-and-a-half minute online spots for pizza in the shape of a boomerang that includes a shirtless man using a microwave on the moon, magic balls, pizza-assisted suicide prevention, cheesey music and, oh yeah, a man’s penis severed by a pizza thrown from space . Trust us on this one, okay? [ more › ]
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We know that John Lennon loved to make music and bake bread … but did you know he was also a crazy cat lady at heart? According to Mental Floss , Lennon owned a number of cats throughout his lifetime, starting with his first childhood pet, named Elvis. There is also an adorable story involving a stray he saved, and trips he would make to the local fishmonger to buy treats for it! When he became famous with The Beatles, he would stil call in to check on the cat (which he had named Tim). [ more › ]
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John Lennon Was A Crazy Cat Man
Yesterday someone Tweeted this photo of a giant monster rat, supposedly discovered at a Foot Locker in the Bronx. You might recognize this guy, as he bears a striking resemblance to the 3-foot-long beast that was stabbed with a pitchfork in Brooklyn last year. That one was believed to be a Gambian pouched rat, and may have been someone’s escaped pet. However, it wasn’t the first one spotted in that area, and locals believed they were multiplying faster than Gremlins taking a bath. [ more › ]
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House collage via the New York Times Today the New York Times Home & Garden section publishes a lengthy piece on the personal residences of the seven GOP hopefuls, culling interviews and thoughts from folks like House Beautiful editor in chief Newell Turner and interior designer Thad Hayes. (For a quick refresher, Curbed ran a similar piece in June.) From the photo slivers above, and some brief descriptions below, can you match each property to its owner ( Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Jon Huntsman, Ron Paul, Rick Perry, Mitt Romney, or Rick Santorum )? C’mon, let’s play! 1) Owned by the candidate who’s worth $200M, here’s a stone-and-wood estate on Lake Winnipesaukee. 2) This home came with a brochure that “reads like a synonym finder for nouveau suburban glory, touting the home’s arched stone entry, hand-scraped walnut plank flooring, and a fully paneled library with see-through fireplace.” 3) The Times calls this the most traditional of the lot, “a yellow center-hall 1970s colonial with a gabled dormer and a portico that could easily be recreated using blocks from a nursery school.” 4) Interior designer Thad Hayes has this to say about this property: “It feels like it’s coming from a more authentic place.” And: “It says family.” 5) Here’s a Federal-style townhouse was once home to the contestants on the seventh season of Top Chef. 6) This 5,200-square-foot “mansionette” has a master bathroom “sheathed” in mirrors. “His house sits so awkwardly on its site,” says Turner. 7) Some features of this home: “a marble-countered kitchen that would be at home in any one of the Real Housewives shows, a wood-paneled study, a marble bathroom, and balconies overlooking the well-kept lawn.” · The Houses of the Hopeful [NYT] · The Personal HQs of the 2012′s GOP Hopefuls [Curbed National] Answers: 1/D (Mitt Romney); 2/F (Michele Bachmann); 3/E (Rick Santorum); 4/B (Ron Paul); 5/A (Jon Huntsman); 6/G (Newt Gingrich); 7/C (Rick Perry)
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Photo: DailyNK The death of North Korea dictator Kim Jong-Il inspired no great sadness in the West—though many of his subjects faked their own to escape arrest. The lover of Bond movies and fine cognac famously pursued a nuclear weapons program and kept an active military of more than a million men while orchestrating a mass genocide by famine through his incompetence. So, we had to wonder, where did this villain reside? As ruthless oppressors usually do, Kim lived in some truly lavish residences, most well-suited for a Bond antagonist. Of course, pictures of these palaces are few and far between, but one defector managed to smuggle a few out in the early ’90s. Kim’s “beach house” (above) , looking more like a Howard Hughes-era hotel than a private residence, towers above a white sand crescent in Hamgyong. According to some reports, the white behemoth is built on three stories of basements with underwater portals. Photo: DailyNK ↑ Kim kept several elaborate compounds around the country, perhaps to confuse Western spys or, more likely, just to assuage his famously mercurial tastes. This one, a summer retreat at Kangdong, in the mountains outside of Pyongyang, is known, in a very Communist fashion, as No. 32 Guest House. While this was one of the Dear Leader’s favorites, it also suggests that he had at least 31 other homes from which he could choose. Not a bad supply of vacation homes, especially for someone who so rarely welcomed many foreign guests. Photo: DailyNK ↑ These are a few of the extra “guest houses” at Kangdong, overlooking a lake festooned with walkways and gazebos. Again, the slick modern architecture looks like something out of a Bond film circa 1989. It seems the dictator was a stickler about his television, even in these remote environs, and would reportedly check every channel to ensure his satellite reception was strong. Photo: People’s Daily /Global Times ↑ Satellites weren’t always Kim’s best friend. A more recent but less detailed look at one of the dictator’s homes, a satellite photo, was uncovered by an American economist. Said by South Korean sources to show No. 21 Guest House, the photo actually looks quite similar to the above photos of Kangdong. Could it be possible that Kim had just the two mansions and called them both “[Insert Any Number Here] Guest House”? Still, most defectors claim he had at least 17. · Kim Jong Il, Where He Sleeps and Where He Works [DailyNK] · Kim Jong-il’s sitting room discovered by Google earth [People's Daily]
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Click here to view the full photogallery. The dry rundown: here’s a three-bedroom, one-bathroom Houston bungalow that’s “surrounded by mature trees” and is asking $150K. Luckily, Houston real estate blog Swamplot eternalized the photo above before it could be pulled from the listing. Keep on dreaming, dude! · Houston Home Listing Photo of the Day: Inside the Coziest Bungalow of Them All [Swamplot via Lovely Listing ] · 5304 Michaux Street, Houston, Texas [HAR]
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R&B singer R. Kelly is back to pissing away some of his fortune by opting for a short sale on his suburban Chicago crib. The 22,000-square-foot mansion, set behind walls and gates, is asking just $1.6M, but the outlandish $173K in property taxes might be driving buyers away. [Curbed Chicago]
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The Google guys have honed in on a new home for their many, many private jets: NASA’s historical airship hanger at Ames Research Center. The site is undergoing a $33M restoration that the beleaguered space agency would love to get off its books. Meanwhile, Google’s billionaires seem to have too much money anyway. [Architizer]
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