When the Burj Khalifa opened, attention focused on this Emerald City-like apparition.
This week Josh Chalom announced that he'd received the Guinness team's official certification of a new world record for a 29-by-15-foot rendition of Michelangelo's "Hand of God", made entirely of Rubik's cubes.
I have done some incredibly stupid things in my life, which is why I am not considered the sharpest knife in the drawer. And I proved it recently when I was a target for a knife thrower.
Preparing for one's first skydive was a daunting proposition...once upon a time.
Thank you Jon and Stephen, and Viacom, if only for the shear delight that Sumner Redstone seems to get in using their loud, clear voices to stick it to Rupert Murdoch.
Does Natalia Paruz's tune come from heaven or hell? It emanates from a saw -- the carpenter's tool that's used to cut wood.
Central Park was set to be transformed into the world's largest yoga studio, as over 10,000 blue mat wielding participants were prepared to go into down dog in unison. Things didn't go exactly as planned.
World champion eater Joey Chestnut devoured 40 1/2 slices of pizza in ten minutes to set a new world record.
My view of the Eiffel Tower this morning reminded me of the changing title of world's tallest building. While there are too many categories of towers...
"As amazing as these numbers are, it's even more impressive when you realize that no one actually needs this thing," Mr. Jobs chuckled while crowing to reporters on a recent conference call.
Moses Josiah plays the guitar. From time to time, he plays the piano. But his favor...
Projecting the image of a world leader content with its place in history, the Chinese government presented a spectacle last week in Chicago. Ancient ...
It's been more than a month since Michael Jackson's demise and still no burial, cremation, resting place, or any manifestation of "closure" for this fallen King of Pop.
In 1969 the King of Pop was a pipsqueak when I heard the lead singer of The Jackson Five belt out "I Want You Back." Even now the songs "ABC" and "I'll Be There" take me back to my teenage days in San Francisco.
From the very instant we learned of Michael Jackson's death, and before he was finally allowed to rest in peace, if only for a brief moment, the leer...
After a week of forcing myself to fly fourteen hours a day and sleep on the plane alone at night, my mental sanity was in serious jeopardy. On the plus side, I had the entire SkyMall catalog memorized.
Juliet could almost make me forget how grotesquely contorted competitive eaters' faces get when they jam 10 hot dogs in their mouths at once, and how, you know, they eat their own puke. Almost.
I have no idea who Ashton Kutcher thinks he is. But I am massively out-stripping him in one very important race in the Twitter world.
This post was written originally for the Santa Monica Daily Press newspaper (www.smdp.com) so please excuse the few Southern California references ......