Aug 27th, 2008 · Who was behind the inflammatory ad that showed Obama wearing a turban? The answer could be the start of a joke: a hypnotherapist, an apolitical wedding videographer, and a felon now on the run. And they still haven't paid for the ad.
Aug 23rd, 2008 · One more Bigfoot hoax went down in history this week. But Jeffrey Meldrum, a professor of anatomy and biological sciences at Idaho State University, says strange tracks are part of a growing body of evidence that something may be out there.
Aug 18th, 2008 · After thirty years, thousands of miles, and dozens of books, Paul Theroux knows how to travel: By train. Decades after his classic, The Great Railway Bazaar, he takes that long strange trip, again.
Aug 9th, 2008 · A Dutch primary school teacher has accidentally discovered what some are calling a cosmic space 'ghost' — a strange greenish, gaseous object with a hole in the middle that may represent a new class of astronomical phenomena.
Aug 8th, 2008 · Researchers say that if the conditions had been slightly different for our solar system, planets could have careened into the sun or been expelled into deep space. Also: A volunteer astronomer spots a strange gaseous object some are calling a "cosmic ghost."
Aug 2nd, 2008 · It's wrong to tease animals, and a recent reporting trip to Switzerland proves it can be wrong to tease inanimate objects, too. Especially that rented GPS you're counting on to get you to your destination in a strange country.
Jul 23rd, 2008 · Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews the new Silver Jews album, Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea. The band is fronted by singer, songwriter, poet and occasional cartoonist David Berman.
Jul 17th, 2008 · If pop ever had a strange bedfellow, it's been in Deerhoof. Hear the forward-thinking indie-rock band perform a concert from the Wordless Music Series in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Friday, June 18. The Metropolis Ensemble opens with its electronic take on Stravinsky's The Rites of Spring.