Skip to: Content
Skip to: Site Navigation
Skip to: Search

October 7, 2008 4:45:55 PM CDT

Learn about Newser Points »

Stories related to: public nudity

Stories

6 Stories

  • October 2008

    • Naked Lunch? Maine Town Strips Diner of Booze

      Bangor Daily News  |  Oct 3, 08 2:41 PM CDT

      Naked Lunch? Maine Town Strips Diner of Booze

      (Newser) - A Maine restaurant has been denied a liquor license over a promotion that encourages skinny dipping in a nearby lake, the Bangor Daily News reports. The offer promised a free sandwich to any diner intrepid enough to strip and take the plunge behind the Black Frog Restaurant. After numerous complaints and three arrests, the town rejected the establishment's liquor license when it came up for renewal. More »

      Tags

      restaurant  • Maine  • promotion  • public nudity  • sandwich

  • September 2008

    • Naked NY Man Falls to Death After Cops' Taser

      New York Post  |  Sep 25, 08 11:30 AM CDT

      Naked NY Man Falls to Death After Cops' Taser

      (Newser) - A naked man fell to his death yesterday in Brooklyn after police fired a Taser at him, the New York Post reports. The man, 35-year-old Iman Morales, had been ranting on a second-story fire escape. His mother begged police not to hurt him, saying he was sick, but when Morales began waving a fluorescent light tube, officers got the order to stun him. More »

      Tags

      police  • NYPD  • Brooklyn  • police brutality  • Taser  • public nudity

  • July 2008

    • New Yorkers Bullish on Bare Market

      New York Post  |  Jul 21, 08 2:17 PM CDT

      New Yorkers Bullish on Bare Market

      (Newser) - Naked dinner, yoga in the buff and comedy clubs au naturel are turning the Big Apple into Nude York City, the New York Post reports. One New Yorker rents out restaurants for monthly nude dinner parties—the motto for a group often numbering 50 is “no hot soup”—while a midtown studio has a devoted following for its twice-weekly naked yoga classes. More »

      Tags

      New York City  • nudity  • trend  • public nudity  • yoga

  • June 2008

    • Famous Nudie Beach Under Fire

      Associated Press  |  Jun 17, 08 1:40 PM CDT

      Famous Nudie Beach Under Fire

      (Newser) - Sunbathers at one of the nation’s most famous nude beaches may be forced to put their clothes on, the AP reports. South Cove in Vermont is considered destination traveling for nudists, but locals are petitioning for a town ordinance against nudity. “It’s about common public decency,” said one petitioner. Nudists shouldn't "prance around like a puffed up chicken in front of my kids and think it's OK." More »

      Tags

      nudity  • Vermont  • public nudity  • petition

  • May 2008

    • Construction Oglers Get an Eyeful

      New Zealand Herald  |  May 23, 08 6:29 PM CDT

      Construction Oglers Get an Eyeful

      (Newser) - Some wolfish construction workers got an eyeful of a sheep without clothing, the New Zealand Herald reports, when a female Israeli tourist apparently fed up with their whistling got naked as she used an ATM in downtown Kerikeri. "She gave the explanation that she had been pestered by New Zealand men," a local policeman said. "She's not an unattractive looking lady." More »

      Tags

      tourism  • sexism  • New Zealand  • nudity  • ATM  • public nudity

    • Vt. Town Sheds Inhibitions, Puts Them Back On

      Wall Street Journal  |  May 19, 08 5:45 PM CDT

      Vt. Town Sheds Inhibitions, Puts Them Back On

      (Newser) - Whether shopping, bicycling, hula-hooping, or demonstrating for PETA, people in Brattleboro, Vt., have witnessed a rash of nakedness, the Wall Street Journal reports. Public nudity is generally legal in Vermont, but a spontaneous act of nakedness by three 20-year-olds two summers ago sparked a trend that made many residents uncomfortable and prompted passage of a ban. More »

      Tags

      PETA  • nudity  • Vermont  • public nudity  • fine  • indecent exposure  • legislature  • Brattleboro, Vt.

6 Stories

Today's Most Popular

Loading...

Premium Articles from HighBeam

Find more articles like this

What is Newser?

2008 Codie Finalist

Newser gives you more news in less time. We search for the best and most important stories all over the web, read them for you, and deliver concise and sharp summaries—along with links to the full text. Newser provides a way to stay on top of an ever-expanding horizon of news and opinion—politics, sports, business, trends, technology, personalities, crimes, and controversies. Newser keeps you not just better informed, but, with our signature graphic interface and smart condensed format, more enjoyably informed.

Learn more »