Like Awkward Tweens, President Obama and the First Lady Danced the Tango in Argentina JE Reich3/23/16 10:35pm14525EditPromoteDismissUndismissHideGo to permalinkPresident Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama danced the tango in Argentina at a State Dinner, and now you too can feel like the proudest parent watching your bar or bat mitzvah kid slow-dance with their middle school crush!
The Juniper Bushes That Make Your Tasty Gin Are Dying, Happy Holidays!Hillary Crosley Coker10/27/15 6:03pm2364EditPromoteDismissUndismissHideGo to permalinkPrepare to mourn martini and gimlet fans: the juniper plant that produces delicious gin is under attack by a deadly fungus—and so close to the holidays!
Fake Weddings Are a Big Business In ArgentinaMark Shrayber10/09/15 12:29am544EditPromoteDismissUndismissHideGo to permalinkIt used to be that if you wanted to go to a fake wedding, you’d have to pony up $100 bucks to watch Tony and Tina get married while you ate cold spaghetti and paid per drink at the “no host bar!” In Argentina, however, people who love a good party now have more options than half-baked dinner theater and crashing…
Argentina's Coolest Dumb Teens Are Wearing Confederate FlagsJoanna Rothkopf8/10/15 4:40pm1739EditPromoteDismissUndismissHideGo to permalinkArgentina’s equivalent of Abercrombie is a store called John L Cook. It caters to hot teens dying to lose their virginity and manufactures t-shirts with meaningless identity-defining slogans on them like “Sea Salt” and “Grunge” and “Somewhere Between NY & LA.” They also have a lot of apparel featuring what seems to be…
Argentina, Like Many Countries, Wants To Put Justin Bieber In JailBobby Finger4/10/15 3:00pm386EditPromoteDismissUndismissHideGo to permalink If Justin Bieber ever goes to Argentina again, he will be arrested. Reuters reports that in 2013, a Buenos Aires photographer “accused Bieber and one of his bodyguards of lashing out at him when he tried to take a picture of the star as he left [a club.]” Bieber, still in the middle of his wild days and mad existence…
Argentine President Mocks Chinese Accents While on Trip to ChinaKelly Faircloth2/04/15 1:50pm20613EditPromoteDismissUndismissHideGo to permalinkStatecraft! It's a delicate art. But it shouldn't take the ghost of Franklin Delano Roosevelt to tell you that racist accent mockery on Twitter doesn't get you very far in diplomatic negotiations. Maybe somebody should inform Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, though.
Argentine Pres Was About to Be Arrested Before Prosecutor's MurderAnna Merlan2/03/15 6:30pm5016EditPromoteDismissUndismissHideGo to permalinkIn a story that's quickly escalating from "Huh, that's weird" to "Holy shit," there is (or was) a draft of a warrant for the arrest of Argentina's President, President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. That arrest warrant was found at the home of Alberto Nisman, a prosecutor who recently died under mysterious…
Tampons in Argentina Cost $30 a Box, If You Can Get ThemKaryn Polewaczyk1/10/15 1:45pm12610EditPromoteDismissUndismissHideGo to permalinkArgentina is known for a few things: natural resources like iron ore and zinc, Madonna's portrayal of Eva Perón, government corruption. And since the country is having problems with the latter—in particular, crippling inflation that's caused the price of imports as a result because no one wants to do business with a…
President of Argentina Adopts Boy to Stop Him from Becoming a WerewolfRebecca "Burt" Rose12/28/14 11:30pm15322EditPromoteDismissUndismissHideGo to permalink No, that is not a joke headline stolen from The Onion. This is actually a thing that happened.
Town in Argentina Bans Beauty Pageants; Miss World Bans Bikinis Rebecca "Burt" Rose12/21/14 11:10pm5318EditPromoteDismissUndismissHideGo to permalinkSome changes are coming in the world of beauty pageants.
Even Mark Sanford's Ex-Fiancée Was Surprised by That Facebook PostIsha Aran9/14/14 1:42pm829EditPromoteDismissUndismissHideGo to permalinkI think it's safe to say that we were all sort of taken off guard by Mark Sanford's cry-me-a-river Facebook post announcing his break-up with fiancée Maria Belen Chapur. Mostly because he's an irrelevant politician whose claim to fame is his extramarital business. But apparently, we weren't the only one's surprised…
Protesters Want 'World's Saddest Polar Bear' Moved From Argentina ZooCallie Beusman7/14/14 6:15pm5112EditPromoteDismissUndismissHideGo to permalink Arturo, the only remaining polar bear in the Mendoza Zoo outside of Buenos Aires, has been dubbed the "world's saddest polar bear" by animal rights activists, and for good reason. (If there is a sadder polar bear out there, then I'm pretty sure that we have no way of being sure that our earth isn't a terrible…
Doug Barry10/06/13 1:15pm3EditPromoteDismissUndismissHideGo to permalinkArgentina’s president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, is going to take a month off after doctors informed her Saturday that she had a “chronic subdural collection” stemming from “skull trauma” she suffered back on Aug. 12.
Woman Marries Her Twin Sister’s Incarcerated Killer, Absolutely Nobody RejoicesDoug Barry2/17/13 12:30pm102EditPromoteDismissUndismissHideGo to permalinkThe people of Pico Truncado, Argentina bore witness to a not-so-touching Valentine's Day marriage this on Thursday when Edith Casas married the man currently incarcerated for killing her twin sister. Romance! Chalk candies! Long-con revenge plot?
Argentina’s New Gender Law Is Making Life Way Easier for Trans PeopleDoug Barry10/02/12 12:25pm59EditPromoteDismissUndismissHideGo to permalinkA helpful new law that simplifies the process for changing one's name and gender on an ID card (and covers sex procedures like sex reassignment under health care) aims to make joining the mainstream population a much more attainable goal for transgender citizens in Argentina. In other countries, the gender/name change…
Don't Thigh for Me, ArgentinaDoug Barry8/26/12 2:30pm1EditPromoteDismissUndismissHideGo to permalinkArgentina's Martin Rodriguez, bottom, is tackled by South Africa's Francois Hougaard during their Rugby Championship second round match in Mendoza, Argentina, Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Argentina Makes Sex-Change Surgery History with New Gender Identity LawKatie J.M. Baker5/10/12 1:20pm44EditPromoteDismissUndismissHideGo to permalink Wow: Argentina just passed an unprecedented "Gender Identity" law that will allow adults seeking sex-change surgery or hormone therapy to get expenses covered under private or public health plans without a stamp of approval from a doctor or judge.
Morgue Miracle Baby Is on the MendCassie Murdoch4/12/12 10:00am68EditPromoteDismissUndismissHideGo to permalinkFor Analia Bouguet the past week has been the very definition of an emotional rollercoaster. First the woman, who lives in Argentina, gave birth in her local hospital to a baby that was born three months premature. The girl was pronounced stillborn immediately. Without allowing Analia to see the baby, they sent her…
Falklands Newspaper Bitchily Calls Argentina’s President a BitchDoug Barry2/12/12 2:30pm77EditPromoteDismissUndismissHideGo to permalinkLong believed to be a mythical archipelago populated exclusively by penguins and three elderly British wizarding couples who all have tea together on Sundays and exchange potion recipes, the Falkland Islands recently proved that it is a very real and newsworthy place when one of the local papers, Penguin News, took a…
Hugo Chavez Subtly Suggests That The U.S. Government Is Shooting World Leaders Full Of CancerCassie Murdoch12/28/11 5:45pm54EditPromoteDismissUndismissHideGo to permalink After Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, the president of Argentina, was recently diagnosed with thyroid cancer, Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's disturbingly kooky president, has begun insinuating that perhaps the United States is running around secretly infecting his region's leaders with the disease. His proof? Five Latin…