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On Wednesday afternoon, Dan Johnson, a 57-year-old father of five, drove to a bridge in Mount Washington, Kentucky, parked his car on the north side and fatally shot himself in the head, authorities have said.

His body was found on the nearby riverbank.

Johnson, a first-term Republican state representative from Louisville, Kentucky, killed himself just two days after a political scandal had enveloped his career.

On Monday, the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting published an exposé that alleged sexual misconduct by the lawmaker.

Here are four things to know about the case and about Johnson.

1. Johnson Was Accused of Molesting...

Tony Award Nominee Alex Brightman Dewey in School of Rock and Hillary Porter A Bronx Tale will star in an upcoming reading of Kevin Ray Johnson's The Unpredictable Times.

K.C. Chiefs rookie Patrick Mahomes II was robbed at gunpoint in Texas on Friday by a tiny bad guy who stole the Qb's wallet ... but don't worry, cops believe they have the suspect. The 10th pick in the '17 NFL Draft told police he and 3 friends were returning to a Smith County home after a baseball game when a car pulled into the driveway next to them and a man demanded their belongings. Mahomes...

Traditionally, a couple's 60th wedding anniversary is their "diamond" anniversary. Shalyn Nelson, though, decided to give her grandparents something else that would last forever for their 63rd anniversary. Nelson, a professional wedding photographer, arranged a glamorous photoshoot for her maternal grandparents, Billy Wanda and Joe Ray Johnson. She also went the further step of setting up her grandmother with a new gown, professional makeup and styling and floral arrangements for the shoot, courtesy of her network of professional friends. Nelson shot the couple at their ranch in Jewett, Texas, "where they've worked their entire lives," she told ABC News. • Need a little inspiration?...

Traditionally, a couple's 60th wedding anniversary is their "diamond" anniversary. Shalyn Nelson, though, decided to give her grandparents something else that would last forever for their 63rd anniversary. Nelson, a professional wedding photographer, arranged a glamorous photoshoot for her maternal grandparents, Billy Wanda and Joe Ray Johnson. She also went the further step of setting up her grandmother with a new gown, professional makeup and styling and floral arrangements for the shoot, courtesy of her network of professional friends. Nelson shot the couple at their ranch in Jewett, Texas, "where they've worked their entire lives," she told ABC News. • Need a little inspiration?...

Robert Rauschenberg called his friend Ray Johnson an artist who existed in “the gap between art and life.” Doesn’t sound like the greatest of compliments coming from a best friend — but these are artists, and the lines between art and life are blurred. Johnson was a character, a provocateur, and just as likely to be cited by other people as an inspiration as to be remembered for his actual work. Though the work was really good! Active from the late 1940s up until his death in 1995, Johnson provoked Pop Art into being and followed the Dada tradition of using collage and cutouts as a satirical force to poke fun at society — take, for example, his “moticos,” a.k.a. small collages laden with logos and pop-culture references, which predated Andy Warhol by a decade.But it might just be that the most impressive thing about Johnson was his incredible...

When Bob Hoskins (Obituaries, 1 May) took the part of Ray Johnson in the film of Last Orders, he anxiously apologised to me for not having the physique. He had to play a small, slight man, a follower of horses with the lifelong dream of being a jockey. Bob was short, but huge across the shoulders. He needn't have worried, since he turned in one of his finest, most tenderly nuanced and humorous roles, a role I'll think of as his memorial.

On set he was enormous fun. He called me "sunshine". He called everyone, male or female, "girls". But he was scrupulously professional. I remember one close-up "take", when everything was ready, camera and sound were rolling, but Bob did nothing. He didn't speak or move, he froze. The whole set froze. Finally, the inimitable voice piped up to director Fred Schepisi: "Well give me an 'action' then."

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Are we surprised that Richard Phillips hopped on over from the Gagosian for a cameo in the rich kid problems drama "Gossip Girl"? Not at all. Given the artist's obsession with pretty young celebrities pop culture icons like Lindsay Lohan and Sasha Grey, fictional it-girls Blair and Serena were arguably a logical next step.

Phillips' "Spectrum" painting first appeared on Gossip Girl in 2008, but this week the work became the centerpiece of a hot live auction. Phillips is shown chatting at the bar with TV dad Rufus Humphrey when the artist finally makes his way into the "slash actor" category. Rufus is reminiscing about street art from the 1940s -- aka "Dubuffet, Pollock, Ray Johnson," when Phillips interjects, saying, "when artists were the stars of New York. Instead of celebutantes." Oh snap!

Perhaps more exciting for us personally was the appearance by Art Production Fund's Doreen Remen, who, full disclosure,...

Ashcan #1 & #2

Written by Mike Murphy

Art by Celina Hernandez, Sergio Calvet, Mike Murphy, Ray Johnson

Chibi Comics

Release Date: April, August 2011

Cover Price: $2.00

Digital Price: $.50

A quarterly anthology of four stories, Ashcan gives the reader a wide variety of stories that are bound to please almost everyone. Since I'm reviewing two comics at once, I will just break this up into four parts and speak to each story separately since they have no correlation with one another.

Newborn has a bit of a minimalist approach to the art, it's very basic but it helps to keep the reader focused on the story which is, at this point, a little unclear. The first issue contains a scene from a bedroom involving two people talking in bed. The second shows us more of a femme fatale angle and I'm guessing the December issue will tie these together for us [...]...

***Warning*** This article discusses Wednesday night’s episode of Work of Art.

Every television season usually features one show that is a surprise break-out hit. The one you first hear about while standing in line at Starbucks and the person ahead of you breathlessly says to their friend, “Are you watching X? It’s so good! You have to start watching it!”

This year that program is Bravo’s Work of Art, a new reality competition program pitting fourteen artists against each other as each week they create a new work of art. While much like Bravo’s own Top Chef – arguably the gold standard for these sorts of programs – there is one important difference about WoA. Unlike Tc where the audience can't taste the food and must rely solely on the opinions of the judges, viewers watching WoA can form an opinion (no matter how uninformed) about whether or not they like the art.

Meryl Streep In Director John Walter'S Documentary Theater Of War. Courtesy White Buffalo Entertainment. In the field of documentary, John Walter has emerged as the medium's most eloquent and entertaining cultural historian. The Detroit-born director, who is also an unpublished poet, began his career in the film industry as a boom operator and worked in that capacity on Sam Raimi's Evil Dead II. In the mid 90s, he became an editor, beginning with Norman Reedus' Messenger (1994), and in 1995 he directed Edison's Miracle of Light, an episode of PBS' television series The American Experience. In 2002, Walter made his documentary feature debut with How to Draw a Bunny, a portrait of the Pop Art collage artist and prankster Ray Johnson, which...