Isabella Rossellini's Oscars fashion tribute was the perfect homage to David Lynch

Her dress was the ultimate nod to his timeless legacy.

Isabella Rossellini attended the 2025 Academy Awards with her own honor secured: a Best Supporting Actress nomination for her role as a nun in the political thriller Conclave. But she made headlines by deflecting the attention elsewhere—wearing a blue velvet dress as a tribute to late filmmaker David Lynch, with whom she collaborated on the 1986 neo-noir thriller Blue Velvet.

Rossellini acknowledged the tribute briefly on the red carpet and on social media, writing on Instagram, "I wore blue velvet as an homage [to] David Lynch. We did a film together by this title." Her jewelry, meanwhile, included the earrings her mother, late actress Ingrid Bergman, wore "when she won the Oscar." (Bergman won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in the 1974 mystery film Murder on the Orient Express.)

A WWII Polish officer spied for the Allies by volunteering to be imprisoned in Auschwitz

His heroism was kept secret for decades.

According to the official records of the Auschwitz prison camp, he was known as Tomasz Serafiński, but was likely commonly called by the prison number tattooed on his arm: 4859. Just another dissident that was rounded up by the Nazis, being at the wrong place at the wrong time. But his real name was Witold Pilecki, an intelligence agent, one of the founders of the Secret Polish Army, and a man who volunteered to be sent to Auschwitz as a spy for the Allied Forces.

Following defeat against Nazi occupation of Poland in 1939, Pilecki remained in the country as part of the Polish underground resistance, translated in English as the “Home Army.” In August of 1940, the Home Army took notice when a group of Polish political opponents were imprisoned in Auschwitz and their families were given telegrams reporting their deaths shortly after. With the Home Army wanting to know what was really going on at this work camp, Pilecki volunteered to investigate.

Australian man gets back at people parking in his driveway by turning it into a 'splash zone'

"Block the gate, meet your fate."

Sometimes, we must come up with creative solutions for everyday problems. That's what Bruce Kerr, a resident of Queensland, Australia, decided to do after people refused to stop parking in the driveway of his IT company, Kerr Solutions. In an interview with Zarisha Bradley for A Current Affair, Bruce explains that people just won't stop parking in his spot, even though there are other spaces available. "Quite often, there are parks (parking spots) sitting there available, but those little numpties want to pull into here."

After reaching out to the city council and sending license plate numbers to the police, Bruce said nothing changed. So, he took matters into his own hoses. "That's when we started the waterworks," he said, explaining them as "a whole heap of individual jets" that he has rigged to go off when he sees fit.

Iowans rally against a bill that would make it a crime for children to attend drag shows

“This is a pointless bill."

On February 18 2025, an Iowa House subcommittee recommended passage of House Study Bill 158, a bill that would make bringing a person under the age of 18 to a drag show a felony, punishable with “up to five years in prison and a fine between $1,025 and $10,245,” the Des Moines Register reports. The bill would also fine owners of a venue where said child saw drag $10,000 for every child in attendance, and charge them with a felony as well.

According to the bill, parents whose children saw drag could also “institute a civil action for damages in the amount of not less than ten thousand dollars and up to fifty thousand dollars for each violation.” The bill would additionally bar “a state agency or public entity that receives state funds” from displaying drag performances, also at risk of a $10,000 fine per child.