Switzerland

Dubya's Europe Trip Canceled After His Arrest Is Called For

George W. Bush was all set to go and torture Switzerland with his views when several human rights groups spoke up, asking for him to be arrested and investigated on grounds that he propagated torture. No, not with his mispronunciations. They mean with his waterboarding tactics, for one thing.

Q&A: Tim Berne On Big Satan, Playing with Nels Cline, How The Internet Fucked Up The Music Business, And Not Being Part of The "Downtown Jazz Scene"

Saxophone giant Tim Berne is one forward-thinking renegade who started altering the landscape of jazz in the mid-1970s by wielding his horn and, in a show of then-unheard of DIY vision, launched his own record label. A late bloomer, Berne didn't pick up a sax until his very late teens but upon his ... More >>

Fringe Binge, 2012

Mo Rocca talks peckers, Büchner heads for the hills: Our festival review roundup

Top 10 Eurovision Song Contest Winners* of All Time

In a couple of weeks, the biggest, gaudiest, gayest and easily the most-watched televised music event in the world will unfold, this year from Baku, Azerbaijan, and once again Americans will be almost completely oblivious to it. We're talking, of course, about the Eurovision Song Contest, which sta ... More >>

Gold-Medal Cheese Sells for $8,400 at Wisconsin Auction

How much would you be willing to pay for the world's best cheese? As part of an auction held in Milwaukee to raise money for cheese producers, an Illinois company, Hoogwegt US Inc., paid $8,400 for a 24-pound wheel of Dutch cheese, according to the AP (via Bloomberg).

Europeans Are the World's Biggest Boozers

Is it really a surprise that the World Health Organization and the European Commission found that Europeans drink more than anyone else in the world? No, but the numbers, as reported by Reuters, are still pretty intriguing: the consumption of alcohol in the European Union is double the world average ... More >>

Luciano+Cesar Merveille

What Gals Really Want for Valentine's Day: Luxury Chocolates

Williamsburg's taciturn Mast Brothers know just what I'm talking about. This time of year always presents a dilemma for straight boys and gay girls: how to celebrate Valentine's Day -- the only holiday focused on carnal love and desire -- with your significant other? Taking her out to dinner is t ... More >>

THE OUTSIDERS

A fair for visionaries of the art world

Daniel Lacin Shoots Neighbor's Pit Bulls With Paintball Gun When They Won't Stop Barking

​Adorable animals in trouble! The New York Post reports that Daniel Lacin, "an uptight Swiss man" who lives in Brooklyn, became so irritated by his neighbor's dogs' nonstop barking (perhaps this is why he's uptight?) that he shot them with a paintball gun. Their owner, Peter Wojcik, was allege ... More >>

Richard Branson and Friends Gathering Tomorrow in NYC For Drug Legalization

Very powerful man​Tomorrow at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in Manhattan, Virgin boss and billionaire Richard Branson will appear with former presidents from Brazil, Switzerland and Columbia, together representing the Global Commission on Drug Policy, to present a report that calls for an end to t ... More >>

BBC to Air Footage of Man Dying For Science Program

​Next month, the BBC series Inside the Human Body will feature footage from the death of an 84-year-old man. Preempting the inevitable controversy, host Michael Mosley said during a radio interview that it's key not to "shy away from talking about death and, when it's warranted, showing it." T ... More >>

Q&A: French DJ Douster On Robyn, His Dislike Of Moombahton, And Why Music Makes Him See Colors

​Hugo Douster is all over the place, in terms of both the French DJ's schedule (which in the last week has taken him through Norway, Switzerland, France, and tonight Brooklyn, where he'll kick off his North American tour) and his sound. The traveling helps, as the producer's influences vary fr ... More >>

Jomama Jones Returns to the U.S.A.

Or at least to Soho Rep

MIME ZONE

A Swiss treat

Das Racist Are Now Officially Banned In the U.K.

Free Dapwell! All images via DasRacist.net​At least, they were detained in and then deported from that country yesterday, due to "some sticklerism on the part of UK Customs regarding paperwork." Or was it because of their radical political views and brown skin?! The trio has been out in first ... More >>

Wouldn't You Know, Falling in Love Is the Crack Cocaine of Nature

​Just in case you doubted it, scientists have now confirmed that falling in love basically generates the same "euphoric" feeling as using cocaine. It also stimulates intellectual areas of the brain as well as the stereotypical areas of the heart...and it only takes a fifth of a second to get y ... More >>

Giggle-Fit Turns Balding Swiss Finance Minister Into Totally Adorable Funny Dude (Video)

Merz​This clip of Switzerland's finance minister Hans-Rudolf Merz is funny for a number of reasons, including, to start, the juxtaposition of a totally boring parliamentary meeting and a giggle fit, ever the more funny because OH, MY GOD, WE'RE GIGGLING DURING A PARLIAMENTARY MEETING. You can ... More >>

Confirmed: Happy People Are Nicer; Australians Are the Happiest and Nicest

If this was a regular sighting, you'd probably be happy too.​Charities Aid Foundation has taken a look at countries doing charitable things -- giving money, helping a stranger, or volunteering time -- and guess where the U.S.A. ranked? Number five. Which is not horrible, but also maybe not as ... More >>

Iker Casillas, World Cup-Winning Spanish Goalie, Giving Totally Unprofessional, Totally Awesome Victory Kiss (Video with Subtitles)

​There's an old Swedish proverb: A life without love is like a year without Summer. And Summer is the season when love is most definitely in the air. So is there any better way to start this Monday Summer morning than with this totally awesome smooch of victory video?

Morning Links: Roman Polanski Won't Be Extradited; Well May Be Re-Capped Today; Mayor Bloomberg Hearts His iPad

​• Switzerland has refused to extradite Roman Polanski to the U.S. over a child sex case (regarding a 13-year-old girl) dating from 1977, and he has been freed from house arrest. "The reason for the decision lies in the fact that it was not possible to exclude with the necessary certainty a ... More >>

Alain Tanner Retro at Anthology

'Blkmarket Membership Presents Junction SM'

In Praise of Ovaltine

​"You're Keats, you're Shelley, you're Ovaltine," goes the Cole Porter song You're the Top. Although you can buy your own tub of the malted milk powder at the supermarket, it's more fun to grab a warming cup of it at any Hong Kong-style cafe or bakery, where, among the buttered toast sandwiche ... More >>

North Face's Harsh Conditions Don't Lie

'Drums Festival: Gerry Hemingway Quintet'

Bad Polls Keep Paterson Home, But Don't Faze the Mayor

Governor Paterson and Mayor Bloomberg reacted to bad poll numbers in different ways. The Governor, shown in a Siena poll to be running about even with Andrew Cuomo in the gubernatorial affections of the people, has canceled his trip to the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, presumably feeling that ... More >>

SXSW's 2009 Partial Performers List: If You Can Afford to Go, You Must Be Running a Ponzi Scheme

Dark Meat at last year's SXSW, photo by Rebecca Smeyne See, it's totally lame, don't worry, you're not missing a thing South by Southwest just firebombed everybody's inboxes with a partial list of names playing this year's barbecue-and-booze blitz. A quick scan reveals the midsize marquee names to ... More >>

Bones' Beat: Olaf Breuning at Metro Pictures

Cam'ron Surfaces, Sort Of

Daily Flog: Games -- Nuclear, Political, and/or Olympic

Jesus Christie's! Art Buyers Are Richer Than Ever!

Not Just Cheese

Switzerland stakes culinary turf with a new Chelsea bistro

'Exit: The Right to Die'

Go Big Green

Under a storied tent, Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder

Foreboding

Tomorrow's photographers confront the present

A Page Six-Worthy Hangout Minus the Attitude and Catfights

Directors Without Borders: Swiss Fest Highlights Spirit of Experimentation

Film

Thank You, Grandfather

And that clever idea you had for canning vegetables in Switzerland

German Xploration, Part 1

In which Tristan journeys to Berlin to present at a sex-positive weekend

Material World

Recipe for a retrospective: Mix sausages, bananas, Easter bunnies, cacti, and add chocolate

Beyond The Valley

Neutral Territory, Global Voices

Fragments Jerusalem

Israel Beyond the Front Page

Global Retreat

The Real Reason the Forum Bigwigs Are Here: The Swiss Didn’t Want the Hassle

Big Cheese

Human Traffic

e-Toy Story

Gore to the Fore

Landow Lurks in Background

Long Shot

Drug Policy Experts Ponder Prescribing Heroin to Junkies