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First American world champion ice dancers face familiar foes

An impressive streak ended last month for Canton-based ice dancers Meryl Davis and Charlie White when they placed second behind training partners Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir of Canada at the Four Continents Championships. Davis and W [...]

Posted On : Mar, 15 2012 | Comments : 0

Lap Dances Find Academic Champion as Cities Rein in Strip Cl...

Judith Hanna, a 75-year-old grandmother and anthropology professor, spent an afternoon in 2005 on a beach in Jacksonville, Florida, photographing women’s swimsuited backsides. Hanna, who has spent almost 50 years studying the cultur [...]

Posted On : Dec, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Miss Pole Dance Canada 2011 crowns a champion in Vancouver (...

And the newly crowned champion of the Miss Pole Dance Canada 2011 competition’s professional division is... 31-year-old Shanyn Pollard from Grimsby, Ontario. Pollard was one of 14 competitors in the division at the Vogue Theatre in [...]

Posted On : Sep, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

Davis, White dominate ice dancing at U.S. championships

There's no one in the U.S. who can compare with Meryl Davis and Charlie White. Keep skating this way, and there might not be anyone in the world who can touch them, either. The Olympic and world silver medalists easily won the short [...]

Posted On : Jan, 29 2011 | Comments : 0

Pole dancing holds world championships

Zoraya Judd says there is nothing she would rather do than pole dance. She's one of the best in the world at it and someday, she says, there might even be a place for her talents in the Olympics. Riding a wave of popularity that has [...]

Posted On : Dec, 10 2010 | Comments : 0

Tango World Championship Pictures

Tango World Championship Pictures: Four hundred dancing pairs from around the globe have taken part in the eighth Tango Dance World Championship.

Posted On : Sep, 02 2010 | Comments : 0

Alberta hosts the World Chicken Dance Championships

Leonard Scalplock is hurtling in a repurposed golf cart along a winding trail towards Chief Crowfoot's grave, dust pluming behind as he careens over the rollercoaster green hills of the Siksika Nation. I am coated in dust and loving every m [...]