VIRTUAL FANDOM The phenomenal Japanese singer Hatsune Miku (100 million YouTube hits) is coming off of a sold-out, 10-city North American concert tour with high-energy audiences (blocks-long lines to get in; raucous crowd participation; hefty souvenir sales), except that “she” isn’t real. Hatsune Miku is a projected hologram on stage singing and dancing (but her band is … [Read more...] about NOTW: Holographic pop stars, tourists gone wild and great mosquito festivals
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NOTW: Brown fingerprints, handgun follies and a ‘tortured’ Playboy Playmate
JAIL IS ALL HELL The eye-catching Vietnamese model and Playboy (Venezuela edition) Playmate Angie Vu complained to the New York Daily News in April that her five-plus months in jail in Brooklyn have been “torture” and “cruel” because of her lack of access to beauty care. Vu is fighting extradition to France for taking her nine-year-old daughter in violation of the father’s … [Read more...] about NOTW: Brown fingerprints, handgun follies and a ‘tortured’ Playboy Playmate