Looper I love the idea of time travel. I fantasize about it a great deal: going back and stopping 9/11; going forward and finding out the right lottery numbers; visiting ancient Greece to see the Parthenon in its original form; or to 1970s San Francisco to visit pre-AIDS Castro. I’m always excited by time travel…
NEW YORK – The gruesome murder trial of a Portuguese model, accused of killing his elderly lover, continued last Friday with jurors being shown the bloody corkscrew that he used to castrate his victim. The New York Times reported that Renato Seabra, 22, admits to using the bottle opener to gouge off the testicles of…
Released today, JK Rowling’s long-awaited new adult book The Casual Vacancy is firmly aimed at those in the grown-up world, with the writer’s pen dissecting social inequality, small-town politics and snobbery – with sex, abuse, lots of swearing and a gay subplot. Set in the fictional town of Pagford, in western England, it centers on a…
BY NEAL PUTNAM After six-and-a-half hours of deliberations, a jury convicted a North Park man Friday of second-degree murder in the 2011 death of Jason “Cowboy” Huggins, who was fatally injured with a heavy rock at a homeless encampment in a canyon near Hillcrest. The jury also convicted Joshua James Larson, 38, of felony assault…
Revenge was the reason that Jason “Cowboy” Huggins was killed after being struck in the head with a heavy rock by a man whom Huggins had testified against in court, a prosecutor has told a jury. Huggins, 31, often appeared in Hillcrest with his trademark black hat, boots, and a big belt buckle, but many…
ANKARA, Turkey – Last month, in the southeastern Turkish province of Diyarbakır a gay teenager was allegedly killed by his father and uncle because the boy was gay. According to local members of the LGBT community the powerful tribal family later sought to cover up the whole affair. The Hürriyet Daily News reported that, “R.A.,…
(CNN) — A porn actor suspected of killing and dismembering a university student in Montreal “trusts the Canadian judicial system,” his attorney said after a hearing Thursday afternoon. Luka Rocco Magnotta, faces first-degree murder and other charges in the death and dismemberment of Jun Lin, a 33-year-old Concordia University student from China. The 29-year-old Magnotta…
(CNN) — A Canadian porn actor suspected of killing and dismembering a university student in Montreal left Germany and arrived in Canada on Monday, a police official said. Luka Rocco Magnotta, 29, was in police custody when he flew back aboard a Canadian military plane. Magnotta faces first-degree murder and other charges in the May…
(CNN) — A Canadian porn actor suspected of killing and dismembering a university student in Montreal left Germany on Monday and was headed back to Canada, government officials said. Luka Rocco Magnotta, 29, was aboard a Canadian military plane in police custody, Rob Nicholson, Canada’s minister of justice, and Vic Toews, minister of public safety,…
(CNN – San Diego LGBT Weekly) — A Montreal teacher was fired for showing his 10th grade students the killing and dismemberment video allegedly filmed by Canadian gay porn actor Luka Magnotta, the school board said Thursday. “The unacceptable character of this action taken by the teacher commanded an unequivocal measure,” Diane Lamarche-Venne, president of…
