Category: Lifestyle

Trading in Basketball Shoes to Dance with the Stars

In recent news, Los Angeles Lakers star Ron Artest has just announced that he’ll be dancing with the stars this year. During Monday night’s live Dancing with the Stars announcement in L.A., they revealed that Artest will, indeed, be dancing with the best and worst this year.

Artest explained how he came to this decision. While the idea of dancing was not appealing to him when the idea first arose, he explained that “my daughter Diamond was like, Daddy, you should do it.”

And the rest was history. Diamond, Artest’s 8 year old daughter, battled cancer when she was 4. Artest saw the Dancing roll as a chance to fulfill his daughter’s wish and to raise money for cancer research. As he said to People magazine, “I’m going to donate the profits.”

Dancing’s new season will kick off on Monday, September 19 on ABC.

Joy Behar Finally Says “I Do” After 29 Years

So, it took 29 years of dating to finally tie the knot, but who’s counting. In a situation that just might make it into the Guinness Books, the View co-host Joy Behar has finally tied the knot with her incredibly long-standing boyfriend, Steve Janowitz.

After dating for 29 years, the two finally decided to go ahead and commit. Married over the weekend on August 11th in New York City in a private ceremony, Joy Behar promises to discuss the big day on September 6th on The View, when the show returns for its 15th season.

Behar has called Janowitz her “spousal equivalent” for all these years, and she even made plans to wed in 2009. Cold feet, however, caused her to break off the engagement that time.

Hopefully, her feet will stay warm this time around.

Picture from Splash New Online.

Optical Illusion Sidewalk Art

This is a photo of a sidewalk chalk drawing by Francois Abenalet in Paris. It is unique in that it incorporates the grass and trees already present in the area, creating a spherical impression that distorts reality and the laws of physics.

The drawing is a perfect example of anamorphosis; which is a convoluted image that can be understood or seen “correctly” only from a specific angle.

For alternative angles and a deeper understanding of the image, go to the original article.

Katharine McPhee Appears on ‘The Voice’

Fans of The Voice were undoubtedly excited by American Idol Season 5 runner-up’s visit to the set this past Tuesday. Katharine McPhee spoke about her new TV show called ‘Smash.’ In the new musical drama, which will be aired on NBC, McPhee will star alongside Debra Messing and Jack Davenport. She will also be doing her own version of The Voice judge Christina Aguilera’s ‘Beautiful.’

Here is a clip from her visit on the show:
http://youtu.be/iphvyokKgvQ