A singer is being sought for questioning in connection with the death of a woman following a cosmetic procedure, police said Friday.

Claudia Aderotimi, 20, died early Tuesday, shortly after receiving buttocks enhancements in a hotel room near Philadelphia International Airport, according to police. The procedure allegedly cost $1,800.

Police say singer Black Madam -- whom they have identified as Padge Victoria Windslowe, 41 -- is believed to be the person who injected Aderotimi with a substance that was supposed to be silicone.

Publicists for Lady Gaga say they had nothing to do with a Christ-like image of the pop star that appeared a top Los Angeles’ Runyon Canyon in advance of the Grammy Awards on Friday.

People who frequent the popular Hollywood hiking and jogging trails were greeted with the gigantic painting of Gaga Friday morning.

"Here is what I stumbled up on during my morning jog before work," tipster Alexis Zimmer said in an e-mail to NBC Los Angeles.

"I took pictures of what looks like an gigantic painting of Lady Gaga with a crown of thorns on her head with blood. The painting is laying flat all the way on top of the hill near by the benches..."


I hike Runyon Canyon on the weekends, they couldn't do this on a Saturday morning?

Legendary actress Elizabeth Taylor is being treated in a Los Angeles hospital for "symptoms caused by congestive heart failure," her representative said Friday.

Taylor, 78, checked into Cedars-Sinai Medical Center this week for the "ongoing condition," Taylor representative Jamie Cadwell said.

"This issue is being addressed," Cadwell said. "She is currently being kept in the hospital for monitoring."

Her publicist gave CNN more detail in a statement later Friday evening.

"I can assure you she is fine and even better, comfortable," Sally Morrison said.

A 22-year-old college student attending the CPAC conference with the gay conservative group GOProud took time out from the event to tellMetro Weeklyhe doesn't much care for gay people and that only "straight acting" gay people are normal.

Matt Hinsey told Metro Weekly's Ebone Bell: "I don't really like gay people that much. Gay people frustrate me, the stereotypical gay people, it frustrates me...someone who puts on a total act. I understand that some guys are feminine, which is fine. But some guys, at some point, are normal, straight-acting, whatever and the next minute they're jumping up and down. It just frustrates me. The whole conservative thing is just be yourself, be an individual and just don't be someone you're not. If someone does or does not accept you, that's fine but don't change who you are to look different to others."

Hinsey also says he wants Sarah Palin to run for president in 2012 because she reminds him of his mother.

A gay student teacher who was dismissed by the Beaverton School District last year, over a conversation about gay marriage in class, will now get a monetary settlement.

Alcohol causes nearly 4 percent of deaths worldwide, more than AIDS, tuberculosis or violence, the World Health Organization warned on Friday.

A cruise ship passenger from California has been arrested for allegedly selling drugs to fellow passengers on a Caribbean cruise.

Add CommentU.S. Customs and Border Protection spokesman Jeffrey Quniones says 51-year-old Steven Barry Krumholz of West Hollywood was arrested in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The Allure of the Seas had come from the Bahamas on a charter billed as the “world’s largest gay cruise,” run by Atlantis.

Court records show that customs agents boarded the ship Wednesday in St. Thomas and found drugs on one passenger. The passenger told agents he bought the drugs from Krumholz. A search of Krumholz’s cabin yielded more than 140 ecstasy pills, nearly 3 grams of methamphetamine and $51,000 in cash.

An alleged would-be smuggler was caught at a Thailand airport with dozens of rare wildlife -- including snakes, squirrels and tortoises -- stuffed into three suitcases, a wildlife monitoring organization says.

The Indonesian man, whose name was not released, was stopped at Suvarnabhumi International Airport on Wednesday, according to a news release from Traffic, an organization that fights wildlife trafficking.

The man had purchased the wildlife at Bangkok's Chatuchak Market and was attempting to smuggle them out of the country, the organization said. He was stopped after a regular luggage scan revealed the animals.

According to the organization, the man carried 88 Indian star tortoises, 33 elongated tortoises, seven radiated tortoises, six mata mata turtles and four Southeast Asian narrow-headed softshell turtles. He also had three Aldabra tortoises, one pig-nosed turtle, and one ploughshare tortoise, which Traffic described as the world's rarest tortoise.But that wasn't all that the man stuffed into his luggage. Authorities also found 34 ball pythons, two boa constrictors, several milk snakes, corn snakes and king snakes and one hog-nosed snake, Traffic says.

According to the organization, there also were 19 bearded dragon lizards, four spiny-tailed lizards, two Sudan plated lizards and six Argentine horned frogs.

And, to top it off, there were 18 baboon spiders, 22 common squirrels and one African grey parrot inside the suitcases, Traffic says.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak resigned Friday, relinquishing power after three decades of iron-clad rule in the powerhouse nation of the Arab world.

Vice President Omar Suleiman announced the resignation on state television and said he was transferring authority to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces to "run the affairs of the country."

I got back to LA last night! And the warm weather feels great!!! All though i had a blast on the East Coast for the last few months, it was great to get back to the sun....

New York GOP representative Christopher Lee has resigned in a statement read on the House floor after a shirtless photo of him soliciting a woman he met on Craigslist surfaced Wednesday.

“It has been a tremendous honor to serve the people of Western New York," he said. "I regret the harm that my actions have caused my family, my staff and my constituents. I deeply and sincerely apologize to them all. I have made profound mistakes and I promise to work as hard as I can to seek their forgiveness. The challenges we face in Western New York and across the country are too serious for me to allow this distraction to continue, and so I am announcing that I have resigned my seat in Congress effective immediately.”

The married, socially conservative (and antigay) Republican congressman reportedly sent flirtatious messages and a sexy picture of himself to a woman he met on Craigslist.

The woman, a 34-year-old government employee from Maryland, had placed a personal ad on Craigslist in January, seeking “financially & emotionally” secure men, website Gawker reports. She received a reply from a man using Gmail address belonging to Rep. Christopher Lee of western New York State. The correspondent identified himself as Christopher Lee and described himself as a “very fit fun classy guy,” age 39 (seven years younger than Lee’s actual age), a lobbyist, and divorced. He went on to provide a photo of Lee, shirtless.

The woman ended contact with Lee after she searched online for him and concluded he’d lied about his age and occupation, then forwarded the e-mail exchanges to Gawker.

A spokesman for Lee confirmed to Gawker this week that the e-mail account belonged to the congressman but said Lee had not sent the messages and believed his account had been hacked. “That could, theoretically, be true,” Gawker’s Maureen O’Connor observed. “But the evidence suggests otherwise.”

She also noted that Lee’s “support for ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ and vote to reject federal abortion funding suggests a certain comfort with publicly scrutinizing others’ sex lives.”

Apple's production partners are already hard at work on the new model of iPad, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.

The fact that Apple is working on an iPad 2, of course, is common knowledge. The famously tight-lipped company rarely talks about upcoming product launches, and isn't talking now. But Apple has never denied that it intends to follow up on one of its most successful products.

Nearly $5 billion worth of iPads have been sold in the three quarters since its launch. And a quick glance at the history of the iPhone, which launches a new model every year, suggests that we should expect to see the iPad 2 right around the first anniversary of its predecessor's launch: April 3, 2011.

The U.S. is delaying $350 million in aid to Malawi until talks commence on the African nation's limits on personal freedom.

A U.S. embassy spokesman didn't elaborate on what human rights abuses the Americans were hoping to see ended. Last year, after Malawi convicted a gay couple of gross indecency and sentenced them to 14 years in prison — a decision later overturned — Western nations responded with rebuke and then-U.S. presidential press secretary Robert Gibbs condemned the action.

Germany has pulled back on aid to Malawi, citing its criminalization of homosexuality and its restrictions on the press.

It would be legal for an Iowa business owner who cites religious beliefs to refuse to provide jobs, housing, goods or services to people involved in a marriage that violates his or her religious convictions, according to a bill an Iowa House subcommittee will consider on Wednesday.

House Study Bill 50, called the Religious Conscience Protection Act, would allow a person, business or organization such as a charity or fraternal group to deny services without fear of facing a civil claim or lawsuit if they think doing so would validate or recognize same-sex relationships.

The same-sex exclusion is by itself constitutionally troubling, several legal scholars and civil rights activists said.

Former Navy Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt is charging his followers $159 each to fax anti-DADT repeal petitions to members of Congress. Klingenschmitt was dishonorably discharged for insubordination in 2007 after refusing to stop wearing his uniform to protests outside the White House. 


He continues to lie about that on his website, where he claims he was fired for "praying in Jesus' name." He also has issued "imprecatory prayers" which cite a scriptural verse calling for the deaths of his adversaries, a move apparently endorsed by Peter LaBarbera, who today approving tweets links to Klingenschmitt's efforts.  via Joemygod


Lols, yeah good luck with that one. I am sure he will get a "ton" of people paying $159 bucks to send a useless fax....Although he may get John McCain and Tim Pawlenty....

I said in a post yesterday that i am a huge soap fan. I watch ABC soaps. But i will say One Life To Live is my favorite. Now i just read this article about OLTL possible being homophobic. I will say i was not to happy when they wrote of they gay story line last year. I was great. And if they caved into complaints, that is very dis-hearting....


This time last year, One Life to Live had some of the most gay-inclusive story lines on television: A mass gay wedding, a front-burner story involving a gay couple (played by out actor Scott Evans and Brett Claywell), and a woman pretending to be a lesbian to improve her chances of being elected mayor.

What a difference a year makes, says former All My Children writer turnedDeep Soap blogger Sara Bibel. 

When the ABC soap’s gay romance coincided with a drop in the show’s ratings, the couple was quickly written off. “That does not explain why, out of the blue, last week’s episodes featured a plethora of borderline homophobic lines,” she writes.

It started with a story line about a pair of thugs who attempt to escape questioning by saying they are on their way to a PTA meeting. One of the men questioning them says, “OK, do you guys have kids together? Which one’s the mom? I think it’s you. Get the hell out of here.”

On last Wednesday’s episode, three of the show’s men strip at a bachelor party to Right Said Fred’s “I’m Too Sexy.” “Since when did this place become a gay bar, anyway?”the character of Todd asked upon arriving. He and his drunk friend then spent the rest of the scene pretending to be gay. 

The following day, a shirtless Brody (Mark Lawson, pictured) opens the door to the cousin of his bride-to-be, having just spent the night with his friend John, who is also getting married. Upon opening the door, he says, “No, no, it’s not what you think. We’re getting married ... to Jessica and Natalie, not to each other.” 

Bibel concludes, “Maybe I’m just being hyper politically correct. I realize that these are relatively innocuous remarks. Had I not watched three episodes in a block, I might not have noticed.

“But OLTL is a show that has won numerous awards from GLAAD. Headwriter Ron Carlivati is openly gay. I hold the show to a high standard on this issue.”

I am a big soap fan! I love All My Children, One Life To Live and General Hospital. Yes kids they are in my dvr and i have been a fan since i was a kid. My mother had them on everyday and what gay kid did not love all the divas and hot men. On Wednesday, Oprah is doing a tribute to the soaps. I cant wait! 


As a part of her farewell season, Oprah will bring together icons like Jeanne Cooper (Katherine Chancellor, The Young and the Restless), Michael E. Knight (Tad Martin, All My Children), and Darnell Williams and Debbi Morgan (Jesse and Angie Hubbard, AMC) for a legendary soap star spectacular. The stars will dish about on-air dramas and reminisce over retired soaps like As the World Turns, Guiding Light, Passions, and Port Charles.Actors Anthony Geary and Genie Francis (Luke and Laura Spencer, General Hospital) will reunite as Luke and Laura for the first time since 2008. 

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico – Three teenage boys were shot to death in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, at least two of them U.S. citizens and high school students in Texas, authorities said Monday.
The boys were killed at 4:22 p.m. Saturday while looking at cars in a dealership in the city across the border from El Paso, Texas, Chihuahua prosecutors' spokesman Arturo Sandoval said. One was found inside a white Jeep Cherokee and the other two in the courtyard.

There were no leads on suspects or a motive, Sandoval said. Two managers were also in the dealership during the attack. One refused to give a statement, while the statement from the other manager was not released because of the pending investigation, Sandoval added. At least 60 bullet casings were found at the scene.

One of the boys, Carlos Mario Gonzalez Bermudez, 16, was a sophomore at Cathedral High School in El Paso, said Nick Gonzalez, the Roman Catholic brother who is the principal. Another victim, Juan Carlos Echeverri, 15, had been a freshman at the private all-boys Catholic school last year but left to study in Ciudad Juarez, Gonzalez said.

Both were U.S. citizens, he said. The U.S. Embassy in Mexico City said it could provide no immediate information on the case.

The third teenager was identified as Cesar Yalin Miramontes Jimenez, 17.

There was a photo that accompanied this article, but i am not going to post photos of teenagers laying murdered on a street.

The West Hollywood City Council voted 3 to 2 on Monday night in favor of an outdoor smoking ban. One more vote is required and will occur on February 22 for the ordinance to be enacted. If it passes, it would take effect in January of 2012.

Councilmember Lindsey Horvath joined the most vocal opponent of the ban, John Duran, in voting against the measure. Until recently, Duran was the lone opponent of the ban on the Council.

Prominent attorney Giovanni Di Stefano, who has represented former Iraq dictator Saddam Hussein and his right-hand man, "Chemical Ali," or Ali Hassan al-Majid, is representing Charles Manson in his attempt for a new trial, Di Stefano told CNN on Monday.

Di Stefano has filed an application with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on behalf of Manson, he said. The petition says Manson didn't receive a fair trial when he was convicted 40 years ago because, among other things, he was not allowed to represent himself, Di Stefano said.

The prosecutor in the Manson case, however, said Di Stefano's claim has no merit.

Keith Olbermann, the former top-rated host on the news channel MSNBC, will announce his next television home on Tuesday, and people on Monday familiarwith his plans pointed to a possible deal with the public affairs channel Current TV.

Mr. Olbermann, his representatives and executives from Current TV declined to comment on the move, but they did not deny that the channel, which counts former Vice President
Al Gore as one of its founders, will become at least one partner in Mr. Olbermann’s future media plans.

The ladies of The View are debating Christina's National Anthem. Whether it was good or not. Omg. And how a camera panned to Cameron Diaz feeding popcorn to ARod...Thank god Whoopi changed the subject because listening to Sherry and Elizabeth is just beyond idiotic....I wonder what Whoopi and Joy think about those two some times...

The largest gay cruise ever will sail on Sunday from Fort Lauderdale, Fla. on Royal Caribbean’s second largest cruise ship, Allure of the Seas.

Republican lawmakers in Indiana are resuming their push for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.

A legislative hearing is scheduled for Monday. Opponents say the amendment isn't needed because Indiana law already bans gay marriage, but supporters worry that courts could overturn that law.

An amendment banning gay marriage passed the General Assembly in 2005 when Republicans controlled the House and Senate, but constitutional amendments must go through two separate Legislatures before being put to a public vote. In 2006, Democrats won control of the House and the proposal never cleared that chamber.

Republicans now control both chambers, giving the proposal a better shot of passing. If it clears the Legislature this year, it would have to pass again in 2013 or 2014 before getting on the ballot.

AOL has agreed to purchase The Huffington Post for $315 million, the two entities announced in a joint news release Monday.

"As part of the transaction, Arianna Huffington, The Huffington Post's co-founder and editor-in-chief, will be named president and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post Media Group, which will include all Huffington Post and AOL content," the statement said.

The new group will have a combined 117 million unique visitors a month in the United States and 270 million around the world, according to the release, which cited December 2010 data from the marketing research company comScore.

"Our readers will still be able to come to the Huffington Post at the same URL, and find all the same content they've grown to love, plus a lot more -- more local, more tech, more entertainment, more finance, and lots more video," Huffington said in the statement.