Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Lady Gaga


Lady Gaga was born in New York on March 28, 1986. She is a singer of dance-pop and electronica, winner of two Grammy Awards. She worked as a songwriter for well-known artists. Her debut album The Fame was launched in August 2008, counting on a big commercial and critical success. The first two singles from the album "Just Dance" and "Poker Face", became major international hits, the first of which was nominated for "Best Dance Song" at the 51st Grammy Awards. Lady Gaga has become one of the biggest selling artists in 2009. She became known worldwide for the success of its singles "Just Dance", "Poker Face" and "Bad Romance."

Musically, Gaga is inspired by the glam rock of David Bowie and Queen, and pop singers of the 1980s as Cher, Cyndi Lauper, Madonna and Michael Jackson. She also is inspired by fashion, which she says is essential to his compositions and performances, and supports the gay community to credit them for their initial success.

Lady Gaga the new icon of the moment, among fashionistas and fashion critics. Her style is unique, surreal: She loves geometric forms, references eighties, gloves, leggings, stockings, Christian Loubotin, collantx, latex, sunglasses, Donatella Versace and a lot of skin showing. Gaga, sporting a platinum blond hair, almost colorless, with straight bangs.

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

The world's favorite food



If you think that hamburguers are the world's most popular food, you, like so many people all over the world, are wrong.

The most popular fast food in the world is something much easier to make, to serve, that has much more varied than the hamburguers, and it's delivered to your front door or served in fancy restaurants. It is, of course, the pizza.

The pizza is an really old kind of food that had been gradually evolved over the years. No one, no where exactly, it is from, but, we do know that had been gradually evolved over the years. For example, the name pizza is from the name picea, given by the Romans.



Naples, in Italy, is the pizza capital of the world. In the 18 century, the King Umberto I and Queen Margherita herad about pizza, and asked to try it on. An pizza maker came, and made a pizza with red tomatoes, mozzarella, cheese and green basil. The Queen loved it so much, that the new pizz was named Pizza Margherita in her homour.

But the greatest producers and consumers of pizza in the world are the Americans.

Here it is some curiositys about pizza:

1- Americans eat 350 slices of pizza per second.
2- Pizza is a $30 billion per year industry.
3- the world's first pizzeria, the Antica Pizzeria Port' Alba, which opened in Naples in 1830, isstill there.
4- In Naples, on Valentine's day, the cook huge pizzas in open air squares for everyone.