Adrian Street with his father at the Blaina colliery, November 1974. Photograph: Mirrorpix/Getty ImagesAdrian Street with his father at the Blaina colliery, November 1974. Photograph: Mirrorpix/Getty ImagesWrestlingObituaryAdrian Street obituaryWrestler whose flamboyant style contrasted with his Welsh coalmining roots and proved influential beyond the ringApproaching the ring, his face painted and decorated with sequins, and dressed in a robe trimmed with feather boa, DayGlo trunks and platform boots, “Exotic” Adrian Street, who has died aged 82, was a professional wrestler who more than lived up to his nickname, on both sides of the Atlantic. Read More...
Art This article is more than 5 years oldInterviewFloating cyborgs and a mutant octopus … the grotesque, gorgeous art of Lee BulThis article is more than 5 years oldSkye SherwinSci-fi and the human drive for self-perfection fuel the South Korean artist provocateur’s monstrous creations
Lee Bul’s earliest memories are defined by dust. In a military town outside Seoul, where she lived aged 11, many of the trees had been cut down for fuel, while, under the dictator Park Chung-Hee’s modernisation programme, new roads were begun and abandoned. Read More...
Two suspected thieves were killed when they were electrocuted as they tried to steal from a power substation during a "heist," according to police.
The pair's bodies were discovered when a transformer fire broke out at the site in Gainesville, Georgia, about 55 miles northeast of Atlanta, in the early hours of Monday morning.
Gainesville Police Department said that when emergency responders arrived at the substation around 3:00 a.m. to tackle the blaze, they found two men dead at the scene. Read More...