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Rasputin

What do Rasputin's Penis and Einstein's Brain Have in Common?

Justin Nobel | Posted 03.25.2013 | Weird News
Read More: Einstein, Death and Dying, Rasputin, Corpses, Grief, Dealing With Grief, Death, Weird News, Einstein's Brain, Weird News News
Justin Nobel

What do Rasputin's penis, Shelley's heart and Einstein's brain have in common? They were all taken from their bodies after death and went on adventures of their own.

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Beck Lee: The Weird and Wonderful St. Jude of Entertainment Publicists

Myra Chanin | Posted 04.17.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: Ed Koch, Jennifer Belle, Grandma Sylvia's Funeral, Andrew Krents Esq., Beck-Lee, Paul Schaffer, Folksbiene, National-Yiddish-Theater, Metropolitan Room, Rasputin, Crazy Lake Pictures, Keith Boynton, Mike Lavoie, Entertainment News
Myra Chanin

He's been described as "something of a marketing genius" by NPR's "On the Media" which means that if you're involved in presenting some quirky production or event that desperately needs publicity, Beck will somehow, someway save the day.

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Magical Lake Tahoe Inspires The Last Romanov

Dora Levy Mossanen | Posted 10.15.2012 | Arts
Read More: Magic, Lake Tahoe, Ambergris, Art, Dora Levy Mossanen, Nicholas II, Books, Writing, Sierra Nevada, Opal, Gallery, Kris Moose Gallery, Creative Writing, The Last Romanov, Rasputin, Arts News
Dora Levy Mossanen

Having spent my formative years in a country where poetry, myth and superstition are woven into the fabric of everyday life, these elements find their way into my stories. The Last Romanov is no exception.

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PHOTOS: 10 Grisly Unsolved Murders

Maureen Walsh | Posted 01.11.2012 | Books
Read More: Unsolved Mysteries, Jack the Ripper, Slidepollajax, The Town, Murder Mysteries, Rasputin, Unsolved Murders, Murders, Murders History, Books News
Maureen Walsh

And as if the more than half a million real-life murders a year around the globe (some 17,000 in 2010 in the United States alone) somehow constituted a lack of violent death, fiction novels add a never-ending supply of made-up stories of murder and mayhem to the count.

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The Lords of The Fly

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Puccini, Carmen, John Gardner, Woody Allen, Ruxandra Donose, Theatre Du Chatelet, John Goldenthal, Across the Universe, The Fly, Nicholas & Alexandra, Howard Shore, Vincent Price, Beowulf, Deborah Drattell, William Friedkin, The Fly II, Jeff Goldblum, Madame Butterfly, Dante Ferretti, Batman Forever, George Langelaan, The Lion King, Ann Bogart, The Magic Flute, Return of the Fly, Lost in Space, Michael Collins, Opera, The Phantom of the Opera, Verdi, Playboy, Placido Domingo, David Cronenberg, Mozart, David Henry Hwang, La Boehme, Il Trittico, Beethoven, Julie Tamor, Daniel Okulitch, Heat, Geena Davis, Dorothy Chandler Pavillion, The Lord of the Rings, Grendel, Berlioz, Los Angeles Opera, Frida, Aida, Rasputin, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

The production contained some pre-requisites for the medium -- a tragic storyline that centered around love, sex and three principles, making it a theoretical candidate for an operatic treatment.

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