Pick of the Month

“LAS VEGAS—Riley Reid became the surest bet in Vegas Saturday night in what turned into a historic haul at the AVN Awards Show. The 24-year-old native of Miami Beach captured six awards, including the AVN Female Performer of the Year honor, at the 33rd annual ceremony.”

“An exhibition combating negative self-image in a square in Copenhagen has been closed down by police.

Photographer Mathilde Grafström snaps women who don’t have traditional model looks, for a photo series called Female Beauty. ‘I take my photos to show young women that they are more beautiful than they think. I show the woman that she is beautiful, and that way I can help her to accept herself,’ she told Denmark’s TV2.”

“A crazy-eyed, bloodied god figure armed with a Kalashnikov is the cartoon on the cover of the special edition marking the first anniversary of the ‘Charlie Hebdo’ attacks in Paris. The headline claims: ‘One year on: The assassin is still at large.’”

“A cartoon in the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has caused online shock by suggesting drowned toddler Alan Kurdi would have grown up to be a sexual abuser like those immigrants allegedly involved in the assaults in Cologne. Under the headline ‘Migrants’, the drawing shows two lascivious pig-like men with their tongues hanging out chasing two terrified, screaming women who are running away. An insert at the top the cartoon contains the famous image of the three-year-old Syrian boy laying face down dead in the sand. The question at the top of the drawing ‘What would little Aylan have grown up to be?’ is answered at the bottom by ‘Ass groper in Germany’.”

“Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman, the world’s most wanted drug lord, was on Friday night recaptured following a last stand gun battle with Mexican security forces. Mexico’s President Enrique Pena Nieto said the fugitive cartel chief was taken alive and uninjured six months after he made an audacious escape from a maximum security prison.”

“David Bowie has passed away, just two days after his 69th birthday. The legendary singer’s Facebook page posted the tragic news Sunday evening, writing, ‘David Bowie died peacefully today surrounded by his family after a courageous 18 month battle with cancer.’ The statement continued, ‘While many of you will share in this loss, we ask that you respect the family’s privacy during their time of grief.’”

“The English actor Alan Rickman, who was best known for his role as Severus Snape in the Harry Potter series, died aged 69, from cancer, in London on January 14, 2016. Rickman was an accomplished stage actor, playing several of the great Shakespearean leads, as well as proving his range in comic, tragic and leading roles on the big screen.”