After Lady Gaga's vomit-inducing SXSW performance wherein a woman puked all over her in the name of Doritos, another pop star has taken issue with the performance art. Demi Lovato, who has struggled with an eating disorder herself, called Gaga's spectacle a glamorization of a real disease in a series of tweets.
On Friday night, a comedian named Ari Teman rented out his Manhattan apartment on Airbnb to a man named David who said he was looking for a place for his family to stay while in New York for a wedding. What Teman accidentally discovered later was that his apartment was being prepared to host an orgy.
In the autonomous Crimean peninsula, voting is underway to decide if the region will secede from Ukraine entirely and become a part of Russia. The result of the vote is largely considered a forgone conclusion, and a number of Western leaders are threatening economic sanctions on Russia in the event of a severed Crimea.
Fred Phelps, the one-time leader of the infamous "GOD HATES FAGS" church, is on his deathbed in Kansas. Hopefully, you can carry on with your day having learned of this terrible news.
Cue Jay Leno's opening monologue in his dreams: "Archaeologists are saying they've found prehistoric fossils below a West Side subway station. Well, hey, I thought Elizabeth Taylor was buried in Hollywood! Ho ho ho."
Yesterday, CBS News acquired security camera footage from a building across the street from where a gas explosion in Harlem left eight dead and more than 70 people injured. The video shows the windows of the adjacent building being blown out as debris pours onto the street and nearly knocks over a man walking down the sidewalk.
“Is this Matt the Hat?” A pet-name from my childhood.
On Thursday this week, it was confirmed that an H.I.V.-positive woman transmitted the virus to another female sex partner in what is the first reported case of the virus being transmitted between female partners. Health officials claim it is "exceedingly rare" but advise that precautions should be taken nonetheless.
There once was a film called Life is Beautiful about Nelly's "Hot in Herre" being looped on a radio station for 24 straight hours. Now, that movie has come to life.
Wesley Warren, Jr., famous for a scrotum that weighed as much as 132 pounds before he reduced it with surgery, has died at age 49. He recently suffered two heart attacks and had been hospitalized for weeks due to complications from diabetes.
