Last week in culture, we mourned the loss of prolific American writer Gore Vidal, the world's largest torta was consumed, and Nicaraguans gender bended in honor of Saint Anne. Click on for more from the week.

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  • Hoopers perform with their illuminated hula hoops during a flash mob at Potsdam Square (Potsdamer Platz) in Berlin, Germany, Friday, July 27, 2012. The flash mob is part of the three day festival "Hoopurbia", offering workshops, dance parties and performance showcases with hula hoops. (AP Photo/Gero Breloer)

  • A couple takes a bath in a huge puddle at the summer music festival "Prznek Woodstock" (Polish for Woodstock Station) near the Polish-German border in Kostrzyn, Poland, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012. The German and the Polish presidents visited the festival and opened it officially. (AP Photo/Gero Breloer)

  • Team Oracle stunt pilot Sean D. Tucker flies in formation with U.S. Navy Blue Angels pilots Lt. C.J. Simonsen, left, and Lt. David Tickle, right, Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012, over Lake Washington, in Seattle. Tucker and the Blue Angels are in town for the annual Seafair summer festival, which will feature an air show and other events this coming weekend. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

  • In this Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2012 photo, a torch-bearer walks during the annual Buddhist festival of the Temple of Tooth in Kandy, Sri Lanka. Hundreds of thousands of Buddhists throng the hill-capital every year to venerate Buddha's tooth relic which is taken on a parade on decorated elephants with traditional dancers and drummers performing. The event is considered as Sri Lanka's most prominent religious and cultural ceremony that dates back to centuries. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

  • A cook shows the inside of a 52 meter "mega torta" sandwich after it was assembled during a Torta Festival in a plaza Mexico City, Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2012, in an attempt to make the largest torta in Mexico's history. Pieces of the sandwich were given away free to the public. (AP Photo/Eduardo Verdugo)

  • Reginald Veillard parades in costume during Carnaval des Fleurs, or Carnival of Flowers celebrations in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, July 31, 2012. The carnival, a three-day festival, marks new beginnings and the revitalization of Haiti with a Sunday parade, concerts and street dancing. Some critics have questioned the wisdom of spending about $1.6 million on the event. The government countered saying the celebration boosts morale and provides jobs. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

  • A young Indian displays her "Mehndi" on the eve of "Raksha Bandhan" festival in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2012. Mehandi is the traditional art of adorning the hands and feet with a paste made from the finely ground leaves of the henna plant. The Raksha Bandhan festival, which falls on Aug. 2 celebrates the relationship between brothers and sisters and is marked by the tying of a Rakhi, or holy thread, by the sister on the wrist of her brother. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

  • Leona, right, Charlie Ryan, from Norfolk England, explore the 'aMAZEme' installation, a maze constructed of 250,000 books by Brazilian artists Marcos Saboya and Gualter Pupo, at the Royal Festival Hall, on the southbank, in central London Tuesday July 31, 2012. (AP Photo/Dominic Lipinski/PA)

  • People throw colored powder into the air during the Holi Festival in Berlin, Sunday, July 29, 2012. The original Holi, also known as the festival of colors, is a festival celebrated in India and other Hindu countries. Thousands of people celebrated this event with Indian DJs, acrobatics and dance in the German capital. (AP Photo/dapd/Oliver Lang)

  • In this Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2012 photo, a traditional Sri Lankan juggler performs during the annual Buddhist festival of the Temple of the Tooth in Kandy, Sri Lanka. Hundreds of thousands of Buddhists throng the hill-capital every year to venerate Buddha's tooth relic which is taken on a parade on decorated elephants with traditional dancers and drummers performing. The event is considered as Sri Lanka's most prominent religious and cultural ceremony that dates back to centuries. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)

  • An Indian girl carries an idol of Hindu goddess Dashama as she looks for reusable material amid idols left by devotees on the banks of the River Sabarmati at the end of Dashama festival in Ahmadabad, India, Sunday, July 29, 2012. The 10-day festival celebrated in the Shravan month of the Hindu calendar culminates with the immersion of the idols of Hindu goddess Dashama. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

  • This image released by Starpix shows, former boxer Mike Tyson, right, and his wife Kiki Tyson at the curtain call for the opening night of "Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth," Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012 at the Longacre Theatre in New York. The one man show starring Tyson was directed by Spike Lee, and written by Kiki Tyson. (AP Photo/Starpix, Amanda Schwab)

  • This Monday, July 30, 2012 photo shows actress Michelle Beck as Lady Anne mourning the loss of her husband King Henry IV, played by Michael Crane, during a performance of Shakespeare's "Richard III" at the Taconic Correctional Facility in Bedford Hills, N.Y. The medium-security prison was one stop that The Public Theater's Mobile Shakespeare Unit has made across the city over the past several weeks (AP Photo/Mark Kennedy)

  • Candles cover the sidewalk at a memorial across from the theater, Monday, July 30, 2012 in Aurora, Colo. Twelve people were killed and more than 50 wounded in a shooting attack early Friday at the packed theater during a showing of the Batman movie, "The Dark Knight Rises." Police have identified the suspected shooter as James Holmes, 24. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

  • Gays, lesbians, transvestites and their supporters dance as they participate in a gay rally in Pokhara 200 kilometers (125 miles) from Katmandu, Nepal, Friday, Aug. 3, 2012. Hundreds of gay, lesbian and transgender people marched in a Nepal town to demand recognition as a third gender in citizen certificates, to allow same-sex marriage and support criminalizing discrimination based on sexual preference. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

  • Dancers Kamil Warchulski, Maria de Duenas Lopez, Giacomo Corvaia, Karolina Wyrwal and Yannis Karalis, from left, perform behind a tarp during the dress rehearsal of "anderland" at the dance theatre "Halle Tanzbuehne" in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2012. The new production of choreographer Toula Limnaios will be shown from Aug. 2 to Aug. 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Gero Breloer)

  • A dance team performs during a timeout of preliminary women's basketball game between Canada and Great Britain at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Monday, July 30, 2012, in London. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

  • In this Sunday, July 29, 2012, photo, Cambodian dancers perform a local dance called, Ongdoeur, during Buddhist Lent in Prek Takov village, Kandal province, some 10 kilometers (6 miles) northeast of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Cambodians held a week-long march to mark the Buddhist Lent that the Buddhism rule bars the monks from traveling for three months during the rainy season. Almost 90 percent of Cambodia's 15 million population practice Buddhism. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

  • This theater image released by The Hartman Group shows Adrienne Warren, foreground center, and Taylor Louderman during a performance of "Bring It On: The Musical," at the St. James Theatre in New York. (AP Photo/The Hartman Group, Joan Marcus)

  • A woman wearing a traditional Indian dance mask representing a conquistador attends the popular celebration known as "El Cartel," in honor of patron Saint Anne, in Nandaime, Nicaragua, Saturday, July 28, 2012. According to El Cartel tradition, males dress as a women and females dress as a men, in a payment for a favor received from Saint Anne, whose feast day is on July 26. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

  • In this Sunday July 29, 2012 photo, girls practice during their ballet class at a dancing school in Haikou, in southern China's Hainan province. (AP Photo)

  • LOS ANGELES, CA - NOVEMBER 14: Gore Vadal arrives at the MOCA New 30th Anniversary Gala on November 14, 2009 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)

  • In this photo taken Wednesday Aug. 1, 2012, a Tibetan demonstrates his riding skill during a traditional horse race to celebrate the annual Ongkor Festival for the harvest time in Yumbu-Lha Khang in west China's Tibet Autonomous Region. (AP Photo)