Posts by Jenifer Sako

If you needed to know whether or not your significant other was cheating, Miss Cleo was only a phone call away. If you watched any amount of late night television, you probably remember these mini informericals. Miss Cleo with her lyrical patois and tarot cards giving us the answers to all our burning questions. Financial...

Can you imagine any one but actor Ralph Fiennes as Voldemort for the Harry Potter movies? Well you came close to having to, because Fiennes very nearly turned down the role. Fiennes is a really, really good actor. He received Oscar nominations for his performances in Schindler’s List and The English Patient, both critically acclaimed...

Fyre Festival–the music festival that didn’t happen–is arguably the biggest non-event of 2017. If there was ever a time you were happy you didn’t bother getting a ticket to something huge–aside from Woodstock ’99–this was it. Scroll through these 10 terrible facts about Frye Festival and tell me I’m wrong here. 1. Billy MacFarland was...

This is my opening and now I will try to embed this tweet. In some ~personal~ news I’ve been brought on as a content producer for @byrdiebeauty!! — Shelby Slaughter (@Shelmarslaugh) March 21, 2019

Instagram influencers are usually beautiful, poised and stylish. Except if they’re dogs. I swear, I’m not being mean – dogs actually are getting in on the action, and they’re becoming Insta-famous in the process. Like their human counterparts, these hot dogs are getting tens of thousands of dollars using their carefully crafted brands to push...

Like sheep, pigs and dogs (not necessarily in that order)? Your day is about to get awesome. Meet the Mangalitsa–a pig that looks like a sheep and acts like a dog! Mangalitsas are all pig, except wooly like sheep. Breeder Wilhelm Kohl also claims these cuties can be pets, telling Modern Farmer, “If you treat...

Famous beauty. Deeply troubled. Muse to Andy Warhol. Edie Sedgwick–proclaimed It Girl of 1965–was the 1960s response to perhaps the greatest sex symbol of all time, 1950s Marilyn Monroe. Where Monroe was soft curves, Evie was angular and boyish. But both had the innate ability to ilicit an erotic response with their wide, blinking eyes,...

For vacationing civilians looking to drive, shoot and handle real war machines, a south Texas ranch is the only destination to consider. Around 100 miles west of San Antonio, a post on an 18,000 acre ranch allows holiday-makers to handle tanks through courses or over old vehicles. Other activities at DriveTanks, include shooting mortars and firing...

Freddie Mercury’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” is one of rock band Queen’s most beloved songs. The song is a little bit opera, a little bit hard rock and a whole lot of awesome. The ballad opening, played on the piano by Mercury, is instantly recognizable. It’s practically a law you have to turn the volume way up...

In an effort to encourage children to read, McDonald’s in New Zealand is tossing out the plastic toys and replacing them with books by revered author Roald Dahl. Approximately 800,000 books will be handed out. The books are excerpts of Dahl’s works, with titles like Amazing Matilda and Wonderful Mr. Wonka.  The specially created books are...

By her Instagram account, Brianna Williams seems as if she has it all. She’s beautiful, stylish, well-traveled, and she’s the mom of an adorable little girl named Evelyn. Williams is also a hard-working, smart, financially savvy, single mother graduate of Harvard Law School. A few months ago, she carried her baby daughter across the stage...

Petrochemicals, which are chemicals made from petroleum and natural gas, are used to make almost all of our plastic products. Such a high volume of petrochemicals are produced to meet our voracious demand for plastics that, as anyone with eyes can see, our environment is severely affected. Oil spills impact the land and waters, and...

For peanut butter lovers, few things are as satisfying as a thickly-spread peanut butter sandwich washed down with a cold glass of milk. Jelly provides a tasty – but optional – layer of flavor, texture and fruity complexity. However, as simple and adorable as this wholesome, filling snack seems, there are a few obstacles to...

How do you write your “x”? In which corner do you start? Did you know the answers to those questions can tell certain things about your personality? Oprahmag posted the graphic on Instagram, prompting thousands of people to stop what they were doing, grab pen and paper, and make X’s. Who knew there were so...

If you ever hear your neighbors through the walls shrieking things like, “What in holy hell?” and “For the love of God, why did you do that?” please understand. They are watching “Abducted in Plain Sight” on Netflix. “Ah,” you say. “I, too, have yelled and pleaded likewise while watching this show. It is a...