Burj Dubai, the world’s tallest building, is set to open to the public on December 2, 2009. This titan of towers is the centerpiece of a 20 billion dollar development project that is bizarrely ambitious and ostentatious even by Dubai standards. Other record-setting features of this enormous undertaking include Dubai Mall (“the world’s largest shopping […]
The Western world isn’t ready for another Adolf Hitler — even one immobilized in wax. July 5th, on the first day at a new Madame Tussauds museum in Berlin, Germany, a man savagely decapitated a controversial wax figure of Hitler. The man was arrested, and the statue and head were carted off from public view. […]
Proof of the continuing and universal appeal of lusty gag souvenirs: We received this photo taken last week of a gift shop window in Bariloche, Argentina, a tourist mecca in the heart of the Patagonia region filled with chocolate shops and hippies. The figure on the left bears an uncanny resemblance to the cactus cowboy […]
