In a guest column in Friday’s Yale Daily News, Shvarts claimed she had “performed repeated self-induced miscarriages” over the past year after a process of inseminating herself. She provides a detailed description of how she injected sperm in a way to “insure the possibility of fertilization” and later ingested abortifacients to induce miscarriages.

An artist, who gained notoriety for a Nicaraguan exhibit in August of 2007 for tying a stray dog to a wall in an art gallery and starving it to death, believed his exhibition was a tribute to a Nicaraguan burglar who was killed in Costa Rica by two guard dogs.

LINCOLN, Neb. — There’s a scene near the end of “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed” that illustrates the documentary’s disastrous flaw - or at least one of them.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — It’s not enough that his sister is an acclaimed short story fiction writer or that he’s often referred to as leading one of America’s smartest bands. Indie rock’s favorite bookish storyteller has decided to go the solo route so he can release more music for the adoring public, and if you’re quick enough you may just get a specialized bookmark to boot.

MADISON, Wis. — Spotted: Upper East Siders back in Manhattan with more drama than ever before. Thus goes the CW’s “Gossip Girl,” which has returned after an almost four-month hiatus. For those unaware, “Gossip Girl” is a show similar to “The OC,” “Beverly Hills 90210″ or even “Dawson’s Creek” in how it glamorizes high school adolescence as overly mature and, of course, gorgeous.

MADISON, Wis. — Sometimes, you just have to wonder how the concept for a film like “Zombie Strippers” shambles into existence. Could it have come from the fevered dreams inspired by grindhouse films of old or simply escalating production values in the porn industry? At any rate, zombie fans will watch the undead undress onstage with glee in a film that’s one hardcore sex scene away from being rented behind a beaded curtain.