Friday, October 26, 2012
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
19 Species of Ferns Named for Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga is being honored by a Duke University biologist. Kathleen Pryer is naming a new genus of ferns found in Central and South America, Mexico, Arizona and Texas after the pop music megastar. A genus is a group of closely related species; in this case, 19 species of ferns will carry the name Gaga. At one stage of its life, the new genus Gaga has fluid definitions of gender and bears a striking resemblance to one of Gaga's famous costumes. Members of the new genus also bear a distinct DNA sequence spelling GAGA.
Read more here: https://today.duke.edu/2012/10/gagafern.
Read more here: https://today.duke.edu/2012/10/gagafern.
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Lady Gaga visits Julian Assange in Ecuadorian Embassy
SOURCE: Global Post
Julian Assange got a very special visit from the Mother Monster herself on Monday.
Lady Gaga dropped in on Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for a spot of tea after promoting her new perfume at Harrods, which sits just down the road from the embassy.
Assange has been living in the embassy since June. If he leaves, the British government has vowed to extradite him to Sweden where he is faces rape allegations.
According to the Huffington Post, Gaga, who was wearing head-to-toe black with a cowboy hat, entered the embassy around 7p.m. and did not exit until after midnight.
The two also shared a meal together before Tweeting out a photo.
Gaga reportedly was inspired to go meet with the Wikileaks founder following a Tweet from label mate M.I.A that read, "if ur at harrods today, come visit Assange at the Ecuador embassy across the st. im there. ill bring TEA and CAKE."
While it may seem like an odd pairing, Gaga and Assange do have a connection.
According to the Atlantic, Bradley Manning used Gaga's music to help him download hundreds of thousands of classified documents from US Army server.
One of Manning's chat logs with Adrian Lamo read:
Julian Assange got a very special visit from the Mother Monster herself on Monday.
Lady Gaga dropped in on Assange in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for a spot of tea after promoting her new perfume at Harrods, which sits just down the road from the embassy.
Assange has been living in the embassy since June. If he leaves, the British government has vowed to extradite him to Sweden where he is faces rape allegations.
According to the Huffington Post, Gaga, who was wearing head-to-toe black with a cowboy hat, entered the embassy around 7p.m. and did not exit until after midnight.
The two also shared a meal together before Tweeting out a photo.
Gaga reportedly was inspired to go meet with the Wikileaks founder following a Tweet from label mate M.I.A that read, "if ur at harrods today, come visit Assange at the Ecuador embassy across the st. im there. ill bring TEA and CAKE."
While it may seem like an odd pairing, Gaga and Assange do have a connection.
According to the Atlantic, Bradley Manning used Gaga's music to help him download hundreds of thousands of classified documents from US Army server.
One of Manning's chat logs with Adrian Lamo read:
"I would come in with music on a CD-RW labelled with something like 'Lady Gaga' … erase the music … then write a compressed split file. No one suspected a thing ... [I] listened and lip-synched to Lady Gaga's Telephone while exfiltrating possibly the largest data spillage in American history. "No word on what the two actually discussed, but odds are that Gaga will write a song about it.
Monday, October 8, 2012
Lady Gaga Identified as LennonOno Grant for Peace Honoree
By: ROLLING STONE
Lady Gaga has been revealed as the unidentified peace activist to receive the fifth and final LennonOno Grant for Peace. "Lady Gaga is one of the biggest living artists of our time," Yoko Ono said in a press release. "She is not only an artist, she is also an activist, using her art to bring better communication to the world. She is being acknowledged for her activism, and how her album Born This Way has widely changed the mental map of the world. And how it has made us deal with the future world, which happens to be here already."
Gaga joins Pussy Riot, Rachel Corrie, John Perkins and Christopher Hitchens as an honoree. She will accept the award and a donation in person today in Reykjavik, Iceland, and will give the donation to the Elton John AIDS Foundation.
Lady Gaga has been revealed as the unidentified peace activist to receive the fifth and final LennonOno Grant for Peace. "Lady Gaga is one of the biggest living artists of our time," Yoko Ono said in a press release. "She is not only an artist, she is also an activist, using her art to bring better communication to the world. She is being acknowledged for her activism, and how her album Born This Way has widely changed the mental map of the world. And how it has made us deal with the future world, which happens to be here already."
Gaga joins Pussy Riot, Rachel Corrie, John Perkins and Christopher Hitchens as an honoree. She will accept the award and a donation in person today in Reykjavik, Iceland, and will give the donation to the Elton John AIDS Foundation.
Sunday, October 7, 2012
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Thursday, October 4, 2012
Lady Gaga and The Luckiest Little Monster
To Enter, visit http://www.omaze.com/LadyGaga
Across the country funding for arts education is being cut. So the Young Storytellers Foundation, a charity dedicated to providing arts mentorship to public schools that had to cut their programs, is finding a creative solution.
For a limited time they are matching donations with the chance to meet Lady Gaga backstage at the Born This Way Ball via a $10 raffle.
If you'd like to help, you can:
1) SUPPORT by making a $10 donation (and entering the Lady Gaga contest!) at http://www.omaze.com/LadyGaga
2) SHARE this video through Facebook and Twitter. http://youtu.be/rfnKtf4g2kg
Deadline to enter: October 12, 2012
Across the country funding for arts education is being cut. So the Young Storytellers Foundation, a charity dedicated to providing arts mentorship to public schools that had to cut their programs, is finding a creative solution.
For a limited time they are matching donations with the chance to meet Lady Gaga backstage at the Born This Way Ball via a $10 raffle.
If you'd like to help, you can:
1) SUPPORT by making a $10 donation (and entering the Lady Gaga contest!) at http://www.omaze.com/LadyGaga
2) SHARE this video through Facebook and Twitter. http://youtu.be/rfnKtf4g2kg
Deadline to enter: October 12, 2012
Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett Plan Jazz Album Together
On a hot summer day in New York last year, Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett
recorded a flirty cover of Rodgers and Hart's "The Lady is a Tramp" for
Bennett's 2011 Duets II LP, and Gaga was so nervous, she downed whiskey
throughout the day. "Did all the girls used to have to get drunk to hang out
with you?" Gaga asked. "You're such a dreamboat!"
The unlikely duo will reprise their chemistry on an entire new album, Bennett tells Rolling Stone. "Of all things, she called me from New Zealand and said, 'I want to do a jazz album with you,'" Bennett, 86, said in an interview where he also discussed his upcoming Viva Duets album, out on October 23rd. "And I said, 'You got it!' So that's one of the things we're gonna do."
"We're gonna do a jazz album with Marion Evans, a big swing band, and I'm looking forward to it because a lot of people don't know it, but she's a phenomenal jazz singer," Bennett says, adding the record will consist entirely of songs from the catalog of a mystery songwriter. "I can't mention the composer because I don't want anybody to do it before we do it, but there's a great composer that's very underrated, very famous, but not as famous as Gershwin or Porter. But he did as many hit songs as anybody, and so we're gonna do a big swinging album."
When will sessions happen? "As soon as I can," says Bennett.
Asked if he sees himself performing with Gaga soon, Bennett says, "Let's see what happens. She's a good friend and I respect that she's so creative, that every day she changes, she has so many ideas and carries them out. She just never stops with it. I call her the musical Picasso. Her energy is just phenomenal."
The unlikely duo will reprise their chemistry on an entire new album, Bennett tells Rolling Stone. "Of all things, she called me from New Zealand and said, 'I want to do a jazz album with you,'" Bennett, 86, said in an interview where he also discussed his upcoming Viva Duets album, out on October 23rd. "And I said, 'You got it!' So that's one of the things we're gonna do."
"We're gonna do a jazz album with Marion Evans, a big swing band, and I'm looking forward to it because a lot of people don't know it, but she's a phenomenal jazz singer," Bennett says, adding the record will consist entirely of songs from the catalog of a mystery songwriter. "I can't mention the composer because I don't want anybody to do it before we do it, but there's a great composer that's very underrated, very famous, but not as famous as Gershwin or Porter. But he did as many hit songs as anybody, and so we're gonna do a big swinging album."
When will sessions happen? "As soon as I can," says Bennett.
Asked if he sees himself performing with Gaga soon, Bennett says, "Let's see what happens. She's a good friend and I respect that she's so creative, that every day she changes, she has so many ideas and carries them out. She just never stops with it. I call her the musical Picasso. Her energy is just phenomenal."
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
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