Hot Sex

It is nearing midnight on a typical Tuesday for the city's most sought after self-made party photographer.

"I've met you before, I met you at that party. What was it? The Diesel party?" Hunter asks Jonny Kops, a 25-year-old Brooklyn music producer standing against a wall holding a beer.

"He's all over the place," Kops says after Hunter disappears to look for another shot. "He's ...

With his camera, L.A.'s 'Cobra Snake' is both definer and darling of hipster subculture.

With evident glee, Mark "The Cobra Snake" Hunter bypasses a long door line and climbs the steps to the packed upstairs level of the Hollywood club Cinespace, his digital Canon D20 camera at his side.

As soon as Hunter and his two female friends are in, hipsters in the crowd reach out to gree...

Computer programmer, working toward a master's degree in business administration at the University of Delaware

"I'd make her a home-cooked meal: champagne, an Italian main course and then a romantic dessert like chocolate-covered strawberries. After dinner, I wouldn't plan anything -- we'd just see where the night takes us."

"How much does a polar bear weigh? Enough to break the...

It's good to be back home again. I've missed you. I'm still catching up on my taped shows. Later, dearios, later.

There's only one problem tonight: your show's a repeat. Okay, it's not so much a problem because this is the one I missed a few weeks ago (September 23, 2005) when the VCR pooped out on me.

Monologue: You want your ass slapped. No, not because you're into sports, ...

NEW YORK -- Meryl Streep puts the Prime of Miss Uma Thurman in context.

In their new movie together, the 56-year-old Streep plays a frump. To suit the role, she looks older, unglamorous, matronly. Yet her ego never gets in the way, even though Thurman is a dish served sensually hot in the same scenes.

"I'm in a movie with Uma Thurman!" Streep says, spiking her words with a dramatic...

When you are in agony, the last thing you want to be told is that it's all in your head. But, in truth, pain comes from a group of interconnected brain regions known as the pain matrix. Some regions deliver descriptive information about the feeling - where it is, whether it's a dull soreness or a sharp prick. Others, like the anterior cingulate cortex, connect the physical sensation of pain t...

Fort Wayne City Councilman Don Schmidt made a phone call to the director of the city's civil rights agency on behalf of a friend under investigation by the agency, demanded a meeting with the director and a hand-picked commissioner, then showed up at the office and berated the staff when the meeting was canceled.

People who witnessed the exchange say Schmidt was using his clout to influe...

Tucked away on a quiet street on Capitol Hill sits an unassuming business called Club Seattle. From the outside, its appearance is little more than a grey warehouse with a 24-hour ATM sign in front.

Inside, however, a gay men's bathhouse is doing business 24 hours a day, and business is booming.

The club is located between competing sex clubs Basic Plumbing and Club Z, both a few b...

Screenings: Students from the University of Cincinnati College of Pharmacy will offer diabetes screenings and blood pressure checks and answer general health questions at a health fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday in the lobby of the Westin hotel, 21 E. Fifth St., downtown. Kroger Pharmacy will also offer flu shots for $20.

Deaconess health fair: Deaconess Hospital, 311 Straight St., ...

Now that NZ Idol, the bastion of our national identity, has come to an end, what is there to warm up with before Desperate Housewives on a Monday night? Why, it's the equally manipulative reality show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, (TV2, 7.30pm). Like Idol, EM:HE aims to induce an emotional response for profit - to make chicks cry while pulling in lucrative advertising from hardware stores. T...