In his Olympic year, Oscar Pistorius steadily became an avid firearms collector, joining a gun-collecting club and purchasing a collection of firearms that included a .500 Magnum pistol and a civilian version of a military assault rifle.
When it comes to gender equality, Japan has never failed to disappoint.
Here's an open secret: Japanese men have a bad international reputation on the romance front.
SELLING WOMEN: Prostitution, Markets and the Household in Early Modern Japan, by Amy Stanley. University of California Press, 2012, 282 pp., $49.95 (hardcover) In the vast cultural landscape, Japan fascinates the mainstream with manga and anime, the martial arts, Zen and kimono. Of course, ...
Manchester United's Shinji Kagawa is back with a bang, becoming the first Asian player to score a hat trick in the English Premier League.
Director: Temujin Doran Language: English Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent who left the New York Times after it censured him for voicing opposition to the Iraq war. “Open,” a documentary based on Hedges’ book “Death of the Liberal Class,” is composed of ...
Director: Sion Sono Language: Japanese (subtitled in English) Third Window Films of the U.K. has released a region B Blu-ray of “Ai no Mukidashi (Love Exposure),” Sion Sono’s 2008 four-hour black-comic epic about a pure-hearted Catholic (Takahiro Nishijima) who becomes an up-skirt photographer to ...
Director: Steven Soderbergh Language: English Check this out on DVD at a rental shop near you, or just go buy it — “Haywire” may turn out to be a keeper. Consider the tough and gritty Mallory Kane (mixed martial artist Gina Carano) in director ...
