Jill Sobule, a ground-breaking American songwriter whose hit I Kissed a Girl is widely considered the first song with openly-gay themes to crack the Billboard Top 20, has died in a house fire in the US city of Minneapolis, her publicist has said. Sobule, whose satirical anthem Supermodel featured in the 1995 coming-of-age film Clueless,...
Jaz Coleman announces groundbreaking choral work based on Aleister Crowley’s ‘The Book of the Law’ Dr. Jaz Coleman has embarked on the creation of a groundbreaking choral work based on Liber AL vel Legis (The Book of the Law), the mystical text received through transmissions to Aleister Crowley in 1904 during his time in Cairo....
Coventry’s career has been intertwined with politics for years. In 2008, she accepted a $100,000 reward from Zimbabwe’s authoritarian leader president Robert Mugabe – given to her in a suitcase – for winning four medals at the Beijing Games. The gift came at a time of severe food shortages and inflation, and the swimmer announced...