HTTP://FIERTH.COM – Donna Summer, whom millions of fans revered as “the Queen of Disco,” has died at the age of 63 in Florida after a battle with cancer, the Associated Press confirmed with the singer’s family Thursday morning.
Donna Summer, whom millions of fans revered as “the Queen of Disco,” has died at the age of 63 in Florida after a battle with cancer, the Associated Press confirmed with the singer’s family Thursday morning. Donna Summers cancer she believed was caused by inhaling the dusty fallout on the morning of September 11th 2001. There are very few people , disco lovers or not, who can say that her music hasn’t touched their lives and any anyone who has ever been to a party worth going to has surely danced their last dance with her. She will be missed but never forgotten
HTTP://FIERTH.COM – In a career that spanned four decades of concerts, recordings, motion pictures, television and endorsements, Liberace became world-renowned. During the 1950s–1970s he was the highest-paid entertainer in the world[2] and embraced a lifestyle of flamboyant excess both on and off the stage.
HTTP://FIERTH.COM – [EXCLUSIVE VIDEO ] FOUR MINUTE SUPER PREVIEW OF ” THE AMAZING SPIDER MAN “
HTTP://FIERTH.COM – This weekend, the New York Times published anextremely exploitative article about a transgender woman who had died in a fire. The article, about Lorena Escalera, only mentions that she was killed in a fire after telling readers that she was “curvaceous,” that she “drew admiring glances” in her “gritty Brooklyn neighborhood,” that she “was known to invite men for visits to her apartment,” that Lorena was “called Lorena” (as opposed to saying she was “named Lorena” or that she simply was Lorena) and that she “brought two men to her apartment” sometime between late Friday night and early Saturday morning.
HTTP://FIERTH.COM – Jay-Z was asked by CNN about what he thought about President Obama’s recent endorsement of gay marriage. He’s what he had to say:
HTTP://FIERTH.COM – Looks like an alien, sings like a diva – Klaus Nomi was one of the 1980′s most profoundly bizarre characters to emerge through the underground New York music scene. A counter tenor who sang pop music with opera and brought his unique style mix to the club and alternative audiences. The Nomi Song is a film about fame, death, friendship, betrayal, opera and the greatest New Wave rock star that never was.
The boys celebrate with a new video reviving many of their biggest hits. See if you can count the celebrity cameos — I’ll get you started: Justin Bieber, Justin Timberlake, Jon Hamm, Natalie Portman, Usher…….
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HTTP://FIERTH.COM – As an homage to the Frieze Art Fair’s first foray into the New York market this May, and as the launch of what will be a rotating art series, YOTEL New York at Times Square West introduces “NYC Future Zoo”, a temporary exhibition by Brooklyn-based artist Ian Sklarsky. Using the Blind Contour drawing method which has become one of his signatures, Sklarsky created a series of colorful animals which will be popping up in various locations throughout YOTEL — including in the elevators, on the glass walls of the Club Cabins and in the YOBOT lounge at Ground Control, right near the front entrance. “NYC Future Zoo” will be on display at YOTEL through May 18. Additional local artists are in the pipeline for future temporary exhibitions at the property throughout the year.
For more information about the artist check out www.iansklarsky.com
HTTP://FIERTH.COM – Vidal Sassoon used his hairstyling shears to free women from beehives and hot rollers and give them wash-and-wear cuts that made him an international name in hair care.
When he came on the scene in the 1950s, hair was high and heavy — typically curled, teased, piled and shellacked into place. Then came the 1960s, and Sassoon’s creative cuts, which required little styling and fell into place perfectly every time, fit right in with the fledgling women’s liberation movement.
“His timing was perfect: As women’s hair was liberated, so were their lives,” Allure magazine Editor-in-Chief Linda Wells told The Associated Press in a written statement. “Sassoon was one of the original feminists.”
HTTP://FIERTH.COM – [MUST WATCH] This Is Your Gay Life and This Could Happen To You… One day, people are going to look back at the days when gay people couldn’t get married and feel like fools for opposing it. One day.
HTTP://FIERTH.COM -Don’t look now but it’s almost swimsuit season. Are you ready to rock that Speedo? Here are some tips to get you beach-ready.
First, take a good look at yourself in the mirror. Perhaps you are carrying around a few extra pounds from the winter doldrums. Like most of us, you probably have your own routine for loosing weight. I have only two suggestions. Watch your diet and sweat. Also be realistic about your weight lose goals. Experts say you can safely loose 2 pounds a week. Realistically you can expect to loose 1 pound per week. In 8 weeks you will be down 8 pounds which will make a huge difference in how you look in your swimsuit. (or naked for that matter).
HTTP://FIERTH.COM – Bloody-Disgusting caught up with writer Seth Grahame-Smith during the “Dark Shadows” press conference and asked him for an update on “Beetlejuice2″ and whether Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis or Winona Ryder’s characters will return.
HTTP://FIERTH.COM – I don’t know when the WA|HH Quantum Sensations spray is coming to the United States, but it’s not coming soon enough. Created by the French American scientist David Edwards, it gets you drunk for a few seconds with no aftereffects. Why? I don’t know why, but I want to try it anyway.
HTTP:;//FIERTH.COM – Daniel Nardicio announces his Cherry Grove Fire Island 2012 Line up! Daniel Nardicio announces his 10th year anniversary on Fire Island with a Summer 2012 line up featuring Liza Minnelli, Margaret Cho, Sandra Bernhard, Alan Cumming, Grammy award winning pianist Lance Horne with Justin Vivian Bond, Chicago’s Stage Door Johnny’s, Australian cabaret star Meow Meow, Bridget Everett and raconteur Justin Sayre. Continue to check
HTTP://FIERTH.COM – In 2005, Michael Jackson declared he would never return to his beloved Neverland because he felt violated by the police searches that had taken place there after he was accused of child abuse. In 2008, the theme park and its attractions were dismantled and sold. But not before intrepid photographer Scott Haefner and his friend Jonathan Haebe hatched a plan to sneak inside and capture the abandoned grounds on camera “before it was too late.”
HTTP://FIERTH.COM – Dior’s Secret Garden Versailles, Full Length. A film by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, starring Daria Strokus, Melissa Stasiuk and Xiao Wen Ju in La Galeries Des Glaces – Château de Versailles.
HTTP://FIERTH.COM – According to research conducted by the Williams Institute at the University of California Los Angeles, there are an estimated 2.4 million lesbian, gay or bisexual Americans over the age of 55. LGBTQ seniors are five times less likely to access social services than their heterosexual counterparts, half as likely to have health insurance coverage, twice as likely as straights to live alone, and 10 times less likely to have a caretaker should they fall ill. “Untitled Gay Retiree Documentary” seeks to put faces to some of these jarring statistics.
HTTP://FIERTH.COM – A message from Patricia Krentcil, the tanorexic Tanning Mom accused of bringing her daughter tanning.
HTTP://FIERTH.COM – In an effort to determine one community’s acceptance of transgender people, “RuPaul’s Drag Race” alum Carmen Carrera is cast in the role of a New Jersey diner waitress, while an actor portrays a longtime customer who deplores the fact the waiter he once knew and liked as “Christopher” is now a woman.
HTTP://FIERTH.COM – After Kelly Osbourne made RuPaul’s Drag Race disqualifee Willam lip sync for her life against Eden’s World star Eden Wood on Logo’s 2012 New Now Next Awards to Selena Gomez’s Love U Like a Love Song, Willam decided to write a version of the tune that he could really wrap his lips around. Ladies & those more phallically inclined- We present Love You Like a Big Schlong.
FIERTH sits down with IGGY AZALEA , ground breaking rapper who just signed a record deal with Interscope Records, Her debut studio album “The New Classic” will be released in June 2012 – Get to know IGGY AZALEA
HTTP://FIERTH.COM – BQE returns with an ode to rough trade. Hook by Lil’ J aka Joe Thompson. Featuring Glenn Payne & Ricky Perez. Cinematography: Brandon Herman. Shot on location in DUMBO, Brooklyn.
HTTP://FIERTH.COM – What did Willam do? It was the question we all asked after the controversial contestant was eliminated from RuPaul’s Drag Race — a first for the series — back in mid March. Rumors about what rules Willam broke spread like wildfire, but at the time, the queen wouldn’t reveal her transgressions.
HTTP:/FIERTH.COM – RuPaul just announced one of the fine drag queens pictured here as America’s Next Drag Superstar, the winner ofRuPaul’s Drag Race season 4. “The race for the crown,” RuPaul said at the top of the hour, “has never been this tight.” And, indeed it was! The run-up to the crowning has been long and drawn out, to say the least.