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Misty Copeland, Ashley Murphy & Ebony Williams Cover 'Pointe,' Proving Black Ballerinas Rock

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These women are the definition of fierce.

The electric Misty Copeland is joined by fellow professional ballerinas Ashley Murphy and Ebony Williams on the June/July cover of Pointe Magazine -- and they are all legs! There is power behind their glistening muscles and pluck in their balanced grace. Hats off to Pointe for perfectly describing the trio of superwomen as they truy are: “Beyond Role Models.”

With the existence of the “Brown Girls Do Ballet” Instagram account and Misty Copeland’s diversity initiative “Project Plié” -- which she and American Ballet Theatre launched to find more black ballerinas -- it's safe to say that the dance world is overflowing with awesomeness these days. We just can't look away.

So, haters beware: the takeover of these beautiful brown athletes is inevitable. You’ve been warned.

Check 'em out!

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'Troop Beverly Hills' Turns 25! Here's What The Cast Is Up To Now

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Beverly Hills, what a thrill! Beverly Hills, what a thrill! "Troop Beverly Hills," the iconic film about fake Girl Scout cookies, shopping and being a dictator's daughter, turned 25 this year. Snakkle caught up with all the girls who made Beverly Hills' Wilderness Girls into the best cookie salespeople in town. One of the young women became the lead singer of Rilo Kiley, another now stars in her own reality show, "True Tori" -- ahem, Tori Spelling -- and another is Shelley Long. It's cookie time, indeed!

Stephen Burrows And Byron Lars Honored At 2014 Pratt Institute Fashion Show And Benefit

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Last week, New York City's Pratt Institute closed the doors on its highly successful "Black Dress: Ten Contemporary Fashion Designers" exhibit, which ran for 11 weeks and spotlighted the contributions and creations of black designers.

While the show has been shuttered, that certainly doesn't mean the celebration of those talented individuals has ended.

In fact, Thursday night two of the fashion designers included in the exhibit, Stephen Burrows and Byron Lars, were honored at the 2014 Pratt Institute Fashion Show and Cocktail Benefit. The annual event is an opportunity for the fine arts school to showcase designs from its graduating class and hand out its most prestigious awards.

This year, Pratt's Fashion Award for Lifetime Achievement went to Burrows, a designer whose work spans more than 50 years and whose creations have been worn by Michelle Obama, Kate Moss, Diana Ross and many more. Lest we forget, this is also the man that put Iman in her first pair of high heels.

But it was another iconic supermodel and a close friend of Burrows, Pat Cleveland, who presented the award to Burrows last night, thanking him for "making us all feel that we've flown on the red carpet of the wonderful rainbow of fashion."

The night's Fashion Visionary Award went to Lars, who launched his eponymous collection in 1991 and is known for his intricate ladylike frocks -- making it no surprise that he has also dressed the First Lady, as well as stars like Alicia Keys, Natalie Portman and Tasha Smith.

But it was acclaimed actress Angela Bassett, one of Lars' biggest fans, who was on hand Thursday night to present him with the Pratt award.

Bassett recited a poem she wrote for the occasion praising Lars for his superb designs. The "American Horror Story" star waxed poetic about Lars' collection, saying it "flatters my assets and diminishes the real, or perceived, shortcomings" and that it offers "classic shapes and twists of detail -- familiar to a point and unexpected thereafter."

Thomas F. Schutte, Pratt's president, added to the chorus of praise for Burrows and Lars, calling them "two of the most dynamic designers of our time."

Schutte's assessment couldn't be more true, considering the honorees' bodies of work and their level of influence within the fashion industry. But the Pratt awards take on more meaning when one considers fashion's glaring lack of diversity, an issue that's received a lot of attention in recent years. In that light, it's both exciting and surprising to have two black designers celebrated by Pratt in the same year.

"It really came as a result of the Black Dress exhibition that was curated in part by one of our faculty members, Adrienne Jones. We wanted to continue that celebration, because she really put to the forefront the importance of these designers and I wanted to carry the message over to the show tonight," Jennifer Minniti, Chair of Pratt's fashion department, told The Huffington Post.

"When we looked at all of the designers, clearly Stephen Burrows was the pioneer and Byron looked up to him," Minitti added. "We're so proud to be able to express our appreciation."

Here's a look at all the fun and the fashion-forward crowd at Pratt's annual fashion show and benefit.

Here's Michael Fassbender, Hugh Jackman & James McAvoy Dancing To 'Blurred Lines'

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On the latest episode of "The Graham Norton Show," Hugh Jackman revealed ("revealed") that his "X-Men: Days of Future Past" co-star Michael Fassbender would only come out of his trailer during the film's production if Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" was played. Jackman, Fassbender and fellow "X-Men" star James McAvoy then demonstrated what that looked like. The result is as glorious as it sounds. Hey, hey, hey.

15 Instagram Accounts To Follow If You Want To Be Jealous Of Aussies

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Life is better in Australia. It just is. And if you want to be reminded of that little fact on a daily basis, it's as easy as following these Instagram accounts.

Whether your planning a trip to Oz and need some inspiration, or just like look at stunning photos of some of Earth's most incredible places, having these accounts on your Instagram feed is a must.

1. Lauren Bath (@laurenepbath)



2. Pauly Vella (@paulyvella)



3. Elisa Detrez (@elisaparkranger)



4. Tourism Australia (@australia)



5. Matt Glastonbury (@mattglastonbury)



6. Aqua Bumps (@aquabumps)



7. Stephen Bak (@somuchfortheafterglow)



8. Paul Fleming (@lovethywalrus)



9. Nick Henderson (@njhenderson)



10. Visit Gold Coast (@visitgoldcoast)



11. Nicole Warne (@garypepper)



12. Will Patino (@william_patino)



13. Visit Melbourne (@visitmelbourne)



14. Russell Ward (@russellvjward)



And one for the all the foodies out there...

15. Australian Gourmet Traveller

The Most Stunning Stained Glass Windows In The World (PHOTOS)

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When stepping into a holy place, our eyes seek the light. If we're lucky, the light will be shining through a stained glass window, adding illumination and beauty at once. Stained glass windows tell a stories, educate and inspire.

Doctor Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, the mind behind the theory of the five stages of grief, once wrote:
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.


Take in their beauty here:

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La Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, Spain


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'Glory Window,' Chapel of Thanksgiving, Dallas, Texas


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Kings Chapel, Cambridge, United Kingdom


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Nasir Al-Mulk Mosque, Shiraz, Iran


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Church of Notre-Dame au Sablon, Brussels, Belgium


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Grace Cathedral, San Francisco


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La Sainte-Chapelle, Paris, France


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Gloucester Cathedral, Gloucester, United Kingdom


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Temple Emanu-El, New York City, New York


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St Peter and St Paul's Church, Lavenham, Suffolk, United Kingdom


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St. Salvator Cathedral, Bruges, Belgium


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Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, France


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Cathedral of Maringá, Maringá, Brazil


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Aix Cathedral, Aix-en-Provence, France


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Salisbury Cathedral, Salisbury, United Kingdom


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Lloyd Street Synagogue


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Reims Cathedral, Reims, France


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Coventry Cathedral, Coventry, United Kingdom


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St. Martin's Cathedral, Ypres, Belgium


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St Nicolaaskerk Church, Amsterdam, the Netherlands


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Blue Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey


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Siena Cathedral, Siena, Italy


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Metropolitan Cathedral of Saint Sebastian, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil


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St. Clements Church, Hastings, Sussex, United Kingdom

Kevin Spacey, Jimmy Fallon & The Ragtime Gals Turn 'Talk Dirty' Into A Barbershop Masterpiece

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Fans of "House Of Cards" already know that Frank Underwood is fond of spouting sing-songy phrases, so imaging him in a barbershop quartet isn't that much of a stress.

Don't believe us? Then you should watch this clip from Friday night's "Tonight Show" in which Jimmy Fallon and Mr. Underwood (Kevin Spacey) sing an A Capella version of Jason Derulo's hit song, "Talk Dirty," with Fallon's favorite barbershop group, The Ragtime Gals.

With nothing but their sweet voices (and some enviable striped suits), Spacey and Fallon, along with Tom Shillue, A.D. Miles and Chris Tartaro, turned "Talk Dirty" into a song that even your mother could love.

Watch the performance above and catch up with The Ragtime Gals' previous covers, "I Wanna Sex You Up," "Ignition (Remix)," and "SexyBack" featuring Justin Timberlake.

White House Correspondents' Dinner 2014: Tammy Haddad Brunch Kicks Off Weekend

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The 2014 White House Correspondents' Dinner weekend is finally here.

Among its share of signature events is Saturday afternoon's Garden Brunch -- hosted by Tammy Haddad, president and founder of Haddad Media. The brunch kicks off a day of activities where celebrities and political figures meet, often until the early hours of the following morning.

Watch the event above.

'You Are You,' Lindsay Morris Photography Book, Documents Camp For Gender-Nonconforming Kids

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A new photo book is aiming to bring visibility to a camp that provides a safe space for young children -- of all gender identities and expressions.

Called "You Are You," the book focuses on a unique weekend summer camp for gender non-conforming children and their families. This camp provides an opportunity for these children to express themselves creatively and safely without judgement or expectation.

The project comes from photographer Lindsay Morris who has spent the past six years documenting this incredible camp. Morris is now engaged in a Kickstarter campaign in order to turn her work into a fully realized photography book in hopes of humanizing the experiences of these LGBT children.

The Huffington Post chatted with Morris this week in order to better understand the experiences of the children who attend this camp, as well as her own.

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The Huffington Post: How did this project come about?
Lindsay Morris: I first discovered the list-serve through the Children's National Medical Center (CNMC) in Washington, D.C. through a loved one. From this web based list-serve, created by Dr. Edgardo Menvielle, families discuss the trials, tribulations and events worth celebrating while raising an LGBT child. We began discussing the idea of meeting face to face. The kids and parents found that these annual meetings were so successful that they began to expand and found it necessary to explore other options. The camp is now organized by parents and moves around the country depending on the geographical location of that years' organizers. It's worth commenting that the camp is hosted by Christian and Jewish retreat centers which are rented by the camp community. Over time, I was appointed as camp photographer. The families were taken with the images and after four years of shooting, suggested that I consider creating a photo book with resources that would tell our story through pictures.

What as the most surprising thing you learned while shooting the project?
I was surprised at the amount of time it took before I had the confidence to tell this story in a way that I felt would convey accurately and compassionately what the first supported LGBT childhood looked like. This camp is unprecedented and this is the most important story I have ever told. If I could give the outside world a glimpse into this very special place of acceptance, if everyone could experience this through these images, they might gain some respect for the other person's predicament. I have been documenting now for six years, and each year my photographic story telling skills are evolving.

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How does this project differ from other LGBT-centered photo projects?
I believe this project differs from other LGBT based projects in that the subjects are so young. The age range at camp is about 5-12. Through these images we are witnessing history. These parents are ordinary people who are listening to their gender-unique children and rather than dismiss them or attempt some kind of reparative therapy they are allowing them to lead the way and self identify. It's a new approach for most and although this is a daunting process for the parents, who have to be ready to advocate for their children in the most well versed and skillful ways, I believe in time, it will change the direction of our attitudes toward LGBT youth.

What do you hope viewers take away from this project?
If I have accomplished anything with this project, I hope that it serves to nurture understanding. And to show that these are people like you and me, parents who are attempting to help. That all children, regardless of how they identify, are not just to be accepted, but celebrated and consequently will choose to live long, happy, productive lives.

Check out a selection of images from "You Are You" below and head here to visit the project's Kickstarter. Morris also has a solo exhibition opening Thursday and running through Sunday in Philadelphia at the Avenue Gallery, 401 South Broad Street, for the 15th Annual LGBT Art Exhibit, in collaboration with Equality Forum's Global Summit and The University of the Arts.

Brad Pitt And Angelina Jolie Are Teaming Up For Another Movie, And That's All We Know

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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie lit up the big screen and the tabloids in 2005's "Mr. and Mrs. Smith," and it looks like they're set to stage a repeat.

The Oscar-nominated pair is reportedly inking a deal to star in another movie together based on a script Jolie wrote, Deadline.com reports. As of now, there are no official details about the film, such as what the plot might be or which lucky studio may nab what will undoubtedly be one of the few non-superhero, non-sequel tentpole movies of the year.

Some insiders speculate the movie is a relationship drama, according to The Hollywood Reporter. If that's true, it could hail from a script Jolie wrote several years ago about a couple whose failing marriage prompts them to take a vacation as a last-ditch effort to fix their problems.

If the movie comes to fruition, it will be the first time Jolie and Pitt appear onscreen together since "Mr. and Mrs. Smith," which grossed $186 million in North America alone. It'll also mark another behind-the-scenes project for Jolie, who wrote and directed 2007's "In the Land of Blood and Honey" and helmed this December's "Unbroken."

Everything You Need To Know About Mike Kelley Before Seeing His Blowout Retrospective

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At long last, Mike Kelley's gargantuan retrospective has come to Los Angeles, and in case you haven't yet seen the overwhelming display of fuzzy friends, wonky low-budget films, aggressive drawings and dizzying installations, we'll warn you: it's quite an overwhelming experience. Around 20 new pieces have been added to the exhibition since its stay at MoMA PS1 in New York. And, like so many who journey from the East Coast to the West, the works have room to stretch.

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Sprawled across the massive space of MOCA's Geffen Contemporary in Downtown LA, Kelley's works forge a topsy-turvy landscape that resembles an alternate Los Angeles with all your fears and fantasies made flesh. Divided into self-contained pockets, not all too unlike the disparate components of the city, Kelley's exhibition features a nearly endless variety of media, ideas, styles and affects. Viewers go from a bubbling vault of mythical Superman utopias into a rainbow tunnel that leads to the artwork of a local murderer. Reactions fizzle with a visceral heat, the art as tangible inside as your morning's breakfast;; this is not a show you stroll calmly through.

Kelley moved to California from his hometown of Detroit, Michigan in 1976, to study art at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). He lived and worked in LA for over 35 years, his work mirroring in many ways the fractured persona of the city -- a suburban replica of a metropolis, dressed up yet shattered, utterly unapologetic. His artwork branched in infinite directions of style and technique, while often returning to themes of sexuality, shame, childhood, memory, and the monstrous inside.
Throughout his career, Kelley revealed the always lurking proximity of blue collar tastes and the avant-garde, innocence and perversion, the banal and the absurd, the bedroom and the nightmare. Behind every pair of tattered stuffed animals in flagrante delicto, there's an idea hungry for a new mind to infiltrate. When he committed suicide two years ago at 57 years old, Kelley had become one of Los Angeles' most influential and experimental artists. His legacy is everywhere, from the current crop of art school grads to the shiny displays at the 99 Cent Store.

If you're in the LA area, Kelley's retrospective is a must. To relieve you of some of the delicious burden ahead, we've provided a timeline of our favorite Kelley works. Enjoy.




Mike Kelley's retrospective runs until July 28, 2014 at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA in Los Angeles.

The Cave That Inspired History's Most Creative Minds, From Mendelssohn To Pink Floyd

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By Ella Morton

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world's hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura.

Like something out of an epic fantasy novel — or maybe The Lego Movie — Fingal's Cave, located on the Scottish island of Staffa, is a 270-foot-deep, 72-foot-tall sea cave with walls of perfectly hexagonal columns.

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Celtic legend holds that the cave was once part of a bridge across the sea, built by giants to fight one another. (The other end of the bridge is Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland, which exhibits the same blocky look.) Science says it formed from enormous masses of lava that cooled so slowly that they broke into long hexagonal pillars, like mud cracking under the hot sun.

When naturalist Sir Joseph Banks rediscovered the cave in 1772, it quickly captured the English imagination and inspired the work of artists, writers, and musicians. Composer Felix Mendelssohn premiered an overture about the cave in 1832. That same year, artist J. M. W. Turner painted a mist-swirled depiction of it.

In the ensuing centuries, the geological feature has continued to inspire — one of Pink Floyd's unreleased tracks from their 1970 Zabriskie Point soundtrack sessions is called Fingal's Cave. Matthew Barney also used the cave as a location in Cremaster 3, a 2002 fever dream of a film that formed part of his Cremaster Cycle art installation.

Visit Atlas Obscura for more on Fingal's Cave.

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The 'Mona Lisa' Just Might Be Part Of History's First 3D Image, Researchers Claim

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Leonard da Vinci was the original Renaissance man, dabbling in not just art, but anatomy, geology, botany, cartography, mathematics, literature and much, much more. Not only do we give him credit for masterpieces like "The Last Supper" and "The Vitruvian Man," history praises his work in musical instrument construction, hydraulics, cannon design and early flying machines.

So it wouldn't hurt, we suppose, to credit the man with 3D imagery too.

It's a claim German researchers Claus-Christian Carbon and Vera Hesslinger assert in their study of Leonardo's famous portrait, "Mona Lisa." The pair have been analyzing the well-known version of La Giaconda that hangs at Paris' Louvre, as well as an eerily similar copy known as the "Prado Mona Lisa," housed at the Museo del Prado in Spain, and have concluded that the two artworks -- taken together -- may amount to the first stereoscopic image in the world.

In other words, our first 3D artwork.

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The Portrait of Mona Lisa painted by Leonardo da Vinci (L) and a picture taken at Madrid's Prado Museum on February 1, 2012 of an authenticated contemporary copy of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa (R). (JEAN-PIERRE MULLER-JAVIER SORIAN/AFP/Getty Images)

Carbon and Hesslinger base their theory on side-by-side comparisons of "Mona Lisa" and her Prado counterpart -- a painting introduced to the public back in 2012 as the possible work of Leonardo or one of his students. They claim that there is a slight perspective shift between the two works, meaning that the portraits were painted from separate vantage points.

"When I first perceived the two paintings side by side, it was very obvious for me that there is a very small but evident difference in perspectives," Carbon, of the University of Hamberg in Germany, wrote in an email to Live Science.

"This is particularly clear if you observe the chair on which La Gioconda sits: In the Prado version, you can still see the end of the end corner of the chair at the background of the painting, which you cannot see in the Louvre version, because the painter of the Prado version looked at the 'Mona Lisa' more from the left than the painter of the Louvre version."

Intrigued, Carbon and Hesslinger decided to calculate the positions the painter (or painters) would have taken to create each "Mona Lisa" version. They found that the horizontal difference between the two paintings was about 2.7 inches, which happens to be very close to the average distance between a person's eyes.

Here's where the researchers take their leap into 3D hypotheses. Each of our eyes perceive objects at different perspectives, sending two separate, flat images to our brain to be translated into one three-dimensional representation. That is the image we "see."

Similarly, Carbon and Hesslinger surmise that the two perspectives used in the Louvre and Prado "Mona Lisas" could amount to one 3D image. Place the visual information together, and you have a stereoscopic masterpiece.

They've used a red–cyan anaglyph to combine the two portraits -- namely, the area depicting La Giaconda's hands -- and the result is like gazing upon Leonardo's mysterious woman without 3D glasses. Essentially, there's depth. But it's impossible to know whether Carbon and Hesslinger's observations are coincidental, or if Leonardo intentionally created the first stereoscopic art.

"DaVinci did write about monocular and binocular vision, and studied aspects of optics including eye anatomy and light reflection, and he even experimented with colored light sources," Science News' Erika Engelhaupt writes. "But it’s not clear whether he put all the pieces together to understand how to create a stereoscopic image. The paintings don’t quite make a perfect stereo pair."

You can read Carbon and Hesslinger's entire study here. Let us know your thoughts on Leonardo's 3D aspirations in the comments.

h/t NBC News

Parched Rivers, Danube Flights And A Monk On May Day: Week In Photos, April 27 - May 4

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Nothing quite compares to the power of a photograph to communicate the goings on in the world. Ranging from the serious to the silly, these photos offer peeks into what happened around the globe this week.

1. Muslims flee the Central African Republic capital of Bangui, April 29, 2014.
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(Nacer Telal/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

2. A cow tries to drink water from the bed of a dried rivulet in Mayong village, India, April 30, 2014.
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(AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

3. Russian students and unions members celebrate at a May Day rally in Red Square, Moscow, May 1, 2014.
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(Sasha Mordovets/Getty Images)

4. Pilot Zoltan Veres flies under the oldest Hungarian bridge, during a car and air show in Budapest, May 1, 2014.
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(ATTILA KISBENEDEK/AFP/Getty Images)

5. A girl attends a rally in Lagos calling for the return of schoolgirls kidnapped in Chibok, Nigeria, May, 1. 2014.
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(AP Photo/ Sunday Alamba)

6. A Buddhist monk stands in front of police during a Labor Day demonstration in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, May 1, 2014.
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(Omar Havana/Getty Images)

7. A Pakistani worker works in a small steel factory in Lahore, April 29, 2014.
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(Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images)

8. An Iraqi woman displays her ink-stained finger after voting in general elections in Najaf, April 30, 2014.
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(HAIDER HAMDANI/AFP/Getty Images)

9. Ukrainian ultra-nationalists march to Kiev's Independence Square to commemorate those killed in protests, April 29, 2014.
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(SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP/Getty Images)

10. An Egyptian boy reacts outside a court after it sentences hundreds to death in Minya, April 28, 2014.
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(KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images)

Here's Why Spring Is The Best Season To Fall In Love

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It's spring and love is in the air. With all the weddings, romantic picnics and opportunities for hand-in-hand strolling, spring is really the unofficial season of love. These carefree days make it the best time for lovey-dovey overload, and here's why ...

Spring is the best time to take off on a random romantic adventure. Come on, let's go!




It's the season that reminds us that love is most exciting when it's fresh and new...




...But that it's best when it's everlasting.


Spring is made for slowing down, walking hand-in-hand watching the sun set.


And of course, just chillin' and doing nothing.


Even though it's warm, spring is made for holing up just the two of you.


And there's no better time for an impromptu road trip.




It's the season that reminds us that love -- and life -- should be a roller coaster.


Springtime love means getting extra close to the besties you love most.


In Spring, love abounds in the strangest of places.


And when we find it, we never want to let it go ...


There's no better time to lounge with bare feet.


And walk hand-in-hand with no particular place to go.


Spring is made for adventures of reckless abandon.


Yep, it's Spring and love is truly in the air!


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Author: Courtney Love, Not Kurt Cobain, Wrote Note Found In Cobain's Wallet Upon His Death

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SEATTLE (AP) — One of the foremost experts on Kurt Cobain said the late grunge rocker did not pen a note mocking his wedding vows to fellow musician Courtney Love.

Love herself wrote it, said Seattle author Charles R. Cross, who has written several books on Cobain, including the biography "Heavier Than Heaven." Cross said Love emailed him to say that she wrote the note and that she gave it to Cobain before their wedding in 1991. "Early in their relationship, they wrote notes like that to each other constantly," Cross said. "The handwriting is absolutely Courtney's."

Police found the note in Cobain's wallet after he killed himself in 1994. It received a lot of media attention last week after CBS News published it, saying it was presumably written by Cobain and that it was sure to stoke questions about what role his marriage played in his death. The note references Love as Cobain's "lawful shredded wife" who would be "siphoning" his money for drugs.

"The note was promoted as Kurt mocking their wedding vows three years after they were married. It just doesn't make any sense," Cross said.

Cross said the couple often wrote each other such sarcastic notes

Cobain's body was discovered in Seattle on April 8, 1994. An investigation determined that days earlier Cobain had gone into the greenhouse of his home and taken a massive dose of heroin. He then shot himself with a 20-gauge shotgun.

Earlier this year, in advance of the 20th anniversary of Cobain's suicide, a Seattle detective reviewed the case files, including evidence photos and statements. He found no new information to change the police conclusion that Cobain took his own life.

Cobain, who was 27 when he died, sold millions of albums with Nirvana and helped popularize the Pacific Northwest's heavy, muddy "grunge" rock. Nirvana was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last month.

White House Correspondents' Dinner Secretive Pre-Party Draws Hollywood Celebrities

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Comedy website Funny or Die hosted its second annual "No Pictures, No Sponsors, No Press, No Hassle Party” Friday night at Baby Wale in Washington, D.C., which was undisclosed to guests until the day before the secretive late night White House Correspondents’ Dinner pre-party.

An aggressive celebrity-fawning crowd at the 2012 party sparked a new press ban at Washington’s celebrity social of the year, co-hosted by IMPACT Arts + Film Fund.

This year’s guests included Sir Patrick Stewart, Emile Hirsch, Valerie Jarrett, Jeff Goldblum, Tony Romo, JC Chasez, Casey Affleck and Zooey Deschanel, among others.

Despite the organizers’ attempts to ensure that Hollywood’s press weary celebrities partied in peace, professional caricaturist Dana Verkouteren managed to capture the dramatically secretive VIP scene in a series of sketches pictured below.

English actor Sir Patrick Stewart with guests:

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On the left, former Titans running back Eddie George:

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Watch The White House Correspondents Dinner Live

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The 2014 White House Correspondents' Dinner is taking place tonight at the Washington Hilton in Washington, D.C.

Comedian Joel McHale is hosting the dinner. President Barack Obama will also give remarks.

Watch a live stream of the event above.

Below, more from the AP on tonight's dinner:

The dinner has often come at key moments of Obama's presidency. In 2011, Obama showed up the day before special operations troops killed Osama bin Laden. Last year's dinner came nearly two weeks after the deadly Boston Marathon.

This time, the U.S. and Europe are anxiously watching Ukraine and Russia's role in the turbulence in the eastern region of the former Soviet state.

The correspondent's association, which represents the White House press corps, is celebrating its 100th anniversary.

Several journalists were to be awarded prizes for their coverage of the presidency and national issues.

Glenn Thrush of Politico and Brianna Keilar of CNN won the Aldo Beckman Award, which recognizes excellence in the coverage of the presidency.

Peter Baker of The New York Times and Peter Maer of CBS News won the Merriman Smith Award for deadline coverage.

Megan Twohey of Reuters and a partnership between The Center for Public Integrity's Chris Hamby and ABC News' Matthew Mosk and Brian Ross won the Edgar A. Poe Award for coverage of issues of national significance.

WHCD 2014 Promises Laughs

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WASHINGTON (AP) — On at least one night a year President Barack Obama and the journalists who cover him try to find something nice — and something funny — to say about each other.

The annual dinner of the White House Correspondents' Association has become an annual tradition in the nation's capital, promising a black-tie evening of humor and celebrity gazing. The dinner attracts an array of journalists, government officials, politicians and media personalities as it raises money for college scholarships.

Obama and first lady Michelle Obama arrived Saturday evening at the Washington Hilton Hotel. The president was expected to speak after dinner but ahead of the featured entertainer, comic actor Joel McHale, the star of the NBC series "Community."

The correspondents' dinner has often come at key moments of Obama's presidency. In 2011, Obama showed up the day before special operations troops killed Osama bin Laden. Last year's dinner came nearly two weeks after the deadly Boston Marathon.

This time, the U.S. and Europe are anxiously watching Ukraine and Russia's role in the turbulence in the eastern region of the former Soviet state.

The correspondents' association, which represents the White House press corps, is celebrating its 100th anniversary.

Several journalists were honored by the WHCA for their coverage of the presidency and national issues:

—Glenn Thrush of Politico and Brianna Keilar of CNN won the Aldo Beckman Award, which recognizes excellence in the coverage of the presidency.

—Peter Baker of The New York Times and Peter Maer of CBS News won the Merriman Smith Award for deadline coverage.

—Megan Twohey of Reuters and a partnership between The Center for Public Integrity's Chris Hamby and ABC News' Matthew Mosk and Brian Ross won the Edgar A. Poe Award for coverage of issues of national significance.

Gorgeous Long Exposure Train Photos Reveals The Magic Of City Life

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We're going to take a leap of faith and say that you don't gasp in awe each time the subway zooms past. But with the help of some long exposure photography, suddenly trains look less like a claustrophobic mode of transportation and more like a hypnotic light ray from another planet.

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For this stunning revelation, we thank photographer Aaron Durand. In his series "Trains in Motion," Durand captures trains charging full speed ahead, their illuminated windows and headlights forming solid, neon streaks against the black night sky. The otherworldly beams of light stretch across bridges, curl around street corners and zip through tunnels, turning urban landscapes into an ethereal playground. It's hard to imagine housed insides those rays of light are crammed passengers fighting for seats, don't you think?

See public transit at its most enchanting below and let us know your thoughts in the comments.


h/t Creator's Project
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