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The Shinto Kanamara Matsuri (かなまら祭り, "Festival of the Steel Phallus") is an annual Japanese festival held each spring at the Kanayama Shrine (金山神社, Kanayama-jinja) in Kawasaki, Japan. The exact dates vary: the main festivities fall on the first Sunday in April. The phallus, as the central theme of the event, is reflected in illustrations, candy, carved vegetables, decorations, and a mikoshi parade. The shrine is part of the Wakamiya Hachimangu Shrine and located near Kawasaki-Daishi Station.   The Kanamara Matsuri is centered on the Kanayama Shrine where the god Kanayama-hiko and the goddess Kanayama-hime are venerated. They are both gods of blacksmithing,...

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Lee Hsien Yang and his wife Lee Suet Fern are in the midst of selling their two-storey bungalow in the Caldecott Hill Estate good class bungalow (GCB) area as a prospective buyer has been found. Word about the sale got out on April 27, as reported by Yahoo News, following a search on the Singapore Land Authority site.   Buyer is scion of Luxasia Group The freehold bungalow is being sold for S$13.25 million to the scion of Luxasia Group, The Straits Times subsequently reported. The deal works out to S$1,336 per sq ft. The bungalow sits on a 9,920 sq ft site. The buyer is reportedly Alwyn Chong, managing director of cosmetics and fragrance distributor Luxasia. The house is near...

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After buying one of the most unique coastal properties in California last year, it now looks like Brad Pitt may be moving to his Carmel castle permanently. In July 2022 we learned that the megastar — who picked up his first acting Oscar in 2020 for his turn in Quentin Tarantino's "Once Upon a Time In Hollywood" — had forked over $40 million for a historic home perched over the Pacific on the Central Coast. According to TMZ, the actor has now sold his sprawling Los Angeles estate in the Hollywood Hills and intends to move to the more peaceful, oceanside home known as "Seaward." Hanging over the bluffs in the Carmel Highlands, the sandstone Mediterranean castle was built a...

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A man was reportedly arrested after trying to propose to Rihanna at her Beverly Hills home Thursday. According to TMZ, the man traveled from South Carolina to get down on one knee for the singer. It's unknown if Rihanna was at home at the time of the incident. Police were called to Rihanna's Beverly Hills home on Thursday after a man tried to sneak onto the property to propose to her, according to multiple reports. TMZ reported that the man traveled over 2,500 miles from South Carolina to get down on one knee for the singer, but was stopped by her security detail along her driveway. Police were then called and the man was arrested for trespassing, reported Page Six. TMZ said that he...

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A home health aide squatting in a New York City apartment allegedly threatened to flush the ashes of a 103-year-old woman down the toilet amid a heated legal battle with the dead woman's daughter. Tatiana Abello, her mother and sister have been squatting in the Upper East Side apartment where the elderly woman had lived for at least 18 months, the New York Post reported. Abello had been hired by Verra Katz and her daughter Alayne Skylar in 2016 to help care for the elderly Katz. After Katz died in 2021, Abello reportedly remained in the two-bedroom, 1,221-square-foot, rent-stabilized apartment and brought her other family members to live in the home. They argue in court records they have...

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Kanye West reportedly buys a $78.8 million Malibu house amid divorce Billionaire rapper Kanye West has reportedly dropped nearly $79 million (US$57.25m) on a box-like Malibu house as he navigates his divorce from Kim Kardashian. And although the 340 sqm concrete-heavy house is designed by award-winning star architect Tadao Ando, it wasn’t impressing the social media masses when Dirt broke the news Monday. Inside Kim and Kanye’s ‘empty’ $76 million mansion Paris Hilton is ‘sliving’ it up in $11.1m Malibu house with new fiance Leonardo DiCaprio selling music star’s old LA house for $7.8 million “Kanye living in a parking garage,” one...

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Ditching their careers, a couple decided to leave their home for a life on the road, with travel their main priority. Craig Saunders and his wife Kerry Whitelegg, from Bristol, decided to buy an ex-Army DAF T244 truck and convert it into a portable home. For a while they had been learning carpentry, mechanics and plumbing skills as they went – documenting the transformation of ‘Penelope the Truck’ on YouTube. Six months ago they decided to take things further by quitting their jobs, selling their house and heading off with no fixed plan of returning to the UK. Before the pandemic, Kerry worked freelance in events and taught yoga, but switched to a remote position...

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In 2015, Andy Lau starred in a heart-wrenching movie based on a real-life story of a Chinese man who spent 15 years searching for his son, who’d been abducted at the age of two. Titled Lost And Love, the movie, which also starred Chinese actor Jing Boran, garnered rave reviews. According to reports at that time, Andy was very invested in the movie’s plot, and was “deeply touched” after hearing the story of Guo Gangtang, whose life inspired the movie.   (That's Andy on the right, and his real-life inspiration on the left) In 1997, Gangtang’s two-year-old son, Guo Zhen, was abducted by human traffickers. Gangtang, who was only 27 at that time, then...

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Brad Pitt has just sold an estate he's owned for almost 3 decades ... an estate he used to sharpen his pretty amazing architectural skills. Real estate sources tell TMZ ... Brad sold the property for $39 million ... pretty impressive since he bought it from Elvira (aka Cassandra Peterson) back in 1994 for $1.7M.   The California craftsman estate was built in 1910 by an oil baron. It has a lot of history ... it's also the place where Jimi Hendrix wrote "May This Be Love." Brad lived in the house for many years ... he and Angelina Jolie, along with their 6 kids, called the place home until they split in 2016.   Brad scooped up several lots adjacent to the estate over the...

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The founder of one of the world’s biggest dumpling empires has died. Yang Bing-yi, who set up the Taiwanese restaurant chain Din Tai Fung, “passed away peacefully” at the age of 96, the company said in a statement Saturday. It did not mention the cause of death but said that private funeral arrangements were underway and that the family has asked for privacy. Born in 1927 in China’s northern Shanxi province, Yang immigrated to Taiwan when he was 20 “with 20 dollars in his pocket,” the company said. He opened a small shop in Taiwan’s capital Taipei with his wife, naming it Din Tai Fung and selling cooking oil and Xiao Long Bao, steamed Chinese...

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