Tag: Offbeat
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OFFBEAT: Airbnb becomes sponsor of 2016 Olympics in Rio
Rio de Janeiro’s hotel bed shortage was eased on Friday, as online home share startup Airbnb inked a deal to be the official “alternative accommodations” sponsor ... -
Offbeat: Crowd-funding campaign launched for ‘Super Troopers’ sequel
The comedy troupe behind the cult hit film “Super Troopers” has launched a crowd-funding campaign to help bankroll a sequel. Broken Lizard made the 2001 police ... -
Offbeat: Canadian set to plead guilty in Florida sex tourism case
A Canadian man is scheduled to plead guilty to charges he traveled to Florida to have sex with someone investigators say he believed was an underage ... -
Offbeat: David Copperfield’s rooftop pool ruptures, floods penthouse
Now you see it, now you don’t. The water in magician David Copperfield’s rooftop pool vanished — and flooded his penthouse apartment as well as multiple ... -
Offbeat: Ikea nixes massive hide and seek games at Dutch stores
Ikea has a message for people wanting to converge on its stores for giant games of hide and seek: Go play someplace else. The phenomenon has ... -
Offbeat: South African woman celebrates 100th birthday with a skydive
Celebrating her 100th birthday with a parachute jump is not enough for South African Georgina Harwood. She plans to make her centenary even more exciting by ... -
Offbeat | FIFA expels Zimbabwe from 2018 World Cup qualifying
Zimbabwe was thrown out of 2018 World Cup qualifying yesterday for failing to pay its national team coach. FIFA’s disciplinary committee said it took the action ... -
Offbeat | Best-laid Plagnes of skiers in France can go badly wrong
Skiers beware! La Plagne may be a bustling ski resort in the Alps but a badly programmed bus GPS won’t be able to distinguish it from ... -
Offbeat | California care home operators face abuse charges
Owners of a Northern California care home accused of abandoning patients in a case that garnered national attention were charged Monday with elder abuse. California Attorney ... -
Offbeat | Agents find stowaway Chihuahua in checked bag at US airport
This Chihuahua could be headed to the dog house. Transportation Security Administration officers say a woman’s 7-year-old Chihuahua sneaked into her suitcase and triggered a luggage ... -
Offbeat | Rooms going fast at Hungary’s village for rent
Rooms at Hungary’s village-for-rent are going fast. More than 300 inquiries and reservations for 280 guests have been made since Mayor Kristof Pajer last week began ... -
Offbeat | Honey, we shrank the SUV – and Europe loves it
In Europe, SUV now stands for: Shrinking Utility Vehicle. An array of ever-smaller sport utility vehicles and SUV car-like crossovers is going on display this week ... -
Offbeat | Hungarian village for rent, comes with deputy mayor’s post
If “king for a day” sounds too majestic, a small Hungarian village will let you become deputy mayor for a few days. The village of Megyer, ... -
Offbeat | Next Google Maps adventure: Soaring through Amazon jungle
For its next technological trick, Google will show you what it’s like to zip through trees in the Amazon jungle. The images released yesterday are the ... -
Offbeat | 2 loose llamas lassoed after running amok in Arizona
Two quick-footed llamas that dashed in and out of traffic in a Phoenix-area retirement community were captured by authorities last week, causing a stir in the ... -
Offbeat | Bofa agrees to pay USD300m to settle Vegas casino suit
Bank of America Corp. agreed to pay USD300 million to settle a lawsuit that claimed the bank improperly disbursed funds to a Las Vegas casino development ... -
Offbeat | Poland: Roman Polanski appears in court in extradition hearing
Filmmaker Roman Polanski appeared in a court in Poland yesterday for a hearing concerning a U.S. request for his extradition charges of sex with a minor, ... -
Offbeat | ‘Fifty Shades’ dominates box office again with USD22.2 million
“Fifty Shades of Grey” stayed on top of the box office. Universal’s erotic drama starring Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan earned USD22.2 million at No. 1 ... -
Offbeat | India insists: Obama’s tree is not dead
Officials in India want to make one thing clear: The tree that President Barack Obama planted in New Delhi three weeks ago is not dead. It ... -
Offbeat | Rudy Giuliani backs off assertion that Obama doesn’t love America
It may be as close as Rudy Giuliani will come to a retraction. The former New York City Mayor called into Bloomberg Politics’ With All Due ... -
Offbeat | Party Animals: Dogs also celebrate Carnival in Rio
At one Carnival street party in Rio de Janeiro, the revelers weren’t as skilled at dancing samba as they were at wagging their tails. More than ... -
Offbeat | Gaffe: Romania’s foreign ministry summons diplomat after rude notes
Romanian foreign ministry has summoned a diplomat to Bucharest after its embassy in Paris sent out invitations to a reception containing rude remarks about the guests. ... -
Offbeat | Rare monkey eaten by otters in accident at British zoo
A British zoo says an endangered monkey that accidentally fell into a pond was eaten by otters. Bristol Zoo Gardens say the rare golden lion tamarin ... -
Offbeat | Australian V8 champ Jamie Whincup bitten by snake
Australian motor racing champion Jamie Whincup has been bitten by a snake at Sydney’s Taronga Zoo during a pre-season photo shoot for the domestic V8 Supercars ... -
Offbeat | The Ross brothers redefine the Western
Documentary directors and brothers Bill and Turner Ross have made a career out of examining microcosms in the modern American landscape, from their first film, “45365,” ... -
Offbeat | Virgin Galactic gets back on track toward space tourism
The only thing interrupting the creosote and mesquite that makes up one of New Mexico’s most remote stretches of desert is a pristine runway where Virgin ... -
Offbeat | Bart the cat hit by car, buried and then crawls from grave
Bart the cat was hit by a car, buried and crawled back from the dead — literally. Earlier this month, a car hit the 1 ½-year-old ... -
Offbeat | Dinosaur no more: UK museum’s Dippy to be retired in 2017
Dippy the dinosaur is being retired from London’s Natural History Museum — and his fans aren’t happy. The museum announced Thursday that the 26-meter plaster skeleton, ... -
Offbeat | US: Years-old stash of marijuana found inside woman’s van
A woman drove a van for more than 13 years without realizing there was marijuana hidden inside. Melodie Peil told the Alamogordo Daily News (bit.ly/1Ep572B ) ... -
Offbeat | Sentencing day for Chicago twins who turned on cartel
The twin brothers from Chicago are reviled by Mexican cartels but praised by prosecutors as the most valuable traffickers-turned-informants in recent U.S. history. Pedro and Margarito ... -
Offbeat | Zoo offers scorpion adoptions for Valentine’s Day singles
Feeling the sting of rejection? The San Francisco Zoo is offering the chance to “adopt” a hissing cockroach or giant scorpion in honor of that special ... -
Offbeat | Dancing genitals clip not progressive enough for some Swedes
In socially liberal Sweden, an educational video for children featuring dancing genitals has become an online hit — and even drawn criticism for not being progressive ... -
Offbeat | Man cited in US for eating cheeseburger while driving
A man says he was cited by police outside Atlanta for eating a cheeseburger while driving. Madison Turner tells Atlanta station WSB-TV (http://bit.ly/14Xxy83) he ordered a ... -
Offbeat | London: Dad gets ‘no-show’ bill after son, 5, misses birthday party
It was not what Derek Nash expected to find in his 5-year-old’s school bag: A bill demanding a “no-show fee” for another child’s birthday party. Nash ... -
Offbeat | Iran: Surprised subway riders brush shoulders with president
Rush-hour passengers in the busy subway of Iran’s capital have brushed shoulders with a surprising commuter — President Hassan Rouhani. Rouhani, along Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad ...
