Jonny Fairplay was a contestant on Survivor: Pearl Islands several years ago, and he is still making headlines. Back in the day, Fairplay came onto the competitive show and lied to his cast mates and America when he claimed his grandmother had died. He showed deep emotion, and everyone reached out towards him in a sympathetic nature. Well, the truth was later revealed that his grandma was actually alive and well. It had turned out that Fairplay wasn’t playing very fair. Then again, his real name is Jonathan Dalton. Got us again there Jonny! This time he is making headlines, because of his recent separation to wife Michelle Deighton, who…Read more

CelebrityMagnet Tom Murro and good friend The Real Housewives of New Jersey’s Kim Granatell attended the season three official premiere party for VH1’s hit reality series, Basketball Wives. The Friday event was hosted by stars Shaunie O’Neal, Evelyn Lozado, and Jennifer Williams at Club 4Sixty6 in West Orange, NJ. The party was held to celebrate the successful premiere of the show, which features the power players behind the NBA’s most sought-after men. The night was packed with plenty of ballers, surprise celebrity guests, and camera crews galore. The attendees were asked to “dress to impress” considering the cameramen were filming the festivities for a future Basketball Wives episode. Although CelebrityMagnet…Read more

A lot goes into being airborne in America, with a Transportation Security Administration that acts erratically and often fumbles. This month revealed some unsettling discrepancies in the agency’s defense tactics; after the plane police forced a 95-year-old woman to drop her adult diaper before inspection, and allowed a man with an expired boarding pass and no passport to jet cross-country the next day, travelers became less than trustful in the TSA. A flustered elder claims that despite being alive for almost a century, the absurd aircraft cops demanded that she ditch her adult underwear. The TSA insists that they would have let the woman keep her pull-ups, and that her…Read more

There are plenty of museums throughout the country, but one that doesn’t exist anywhere in the United States is a math museum. Math enthusiastic Glen Whitney is looking to change that come 2012 when he’ll bring us the Museum of Mathematics, nicknamed MoMath, located in Manhattan on 11 East 26th Street. Whitney, who has been a math professor as well as an employee at an investment firm where he used algorithms to determine where to put money, aims for this museum to be fun and invigorating. “There are all sorts of myths about mathematics out there,” Whitney explained what we all know to be true, “All these are cultural myths…Read more

On June 28, 1846, Adolphe Sax emerged from his workshop with 14 new babies. These 14 babies were the patents for the saxophone. The saxophone was initially made out of wood and flared at the tip to create a music-amplifying bell. It came in several sizes ranging from soprano to contrabass. Before his patents expired, Sax made hardly any money on an instrument that would later revolutionize music. He spent tons of time in court trying to defend against knock-offs, but once the patents expired, many changes were made to the instrument and it became easier to play. The saxophone appearred in the US in 1888 when Charles Conn of…Read more

29-year-old Kate Middleton was born a commoner with no aristocratic background and yet she now holds the title of Duchess Catherine of Cambridge after marrying Prince William, second in line to the British throne.  This description alone makes her fit in with the many heroines of Jane Austen’s famed novels who end up falling in love with men of higher rank. But this is now not the only connection Middleton and Austen share. According to Ancestry.com, the world’s largest online family history resource, the two are distant relatives. Thanks to Henry Percy, the 2nd Earl of Northumberland in the first half of the 15th century, Middleton and Austen are 11th…Read more

Usually a savory celebration of African-American accomplishment, this year’s BET Awards was a semi-circus. Human error in the ceremony’s blueprint produced  a string of accidental awards, one being a messy mix-up between hostile exes Chris Brown and Rihanna. Last night, instead of seeing a fantasy fulfilled, the  ill-fated fan selected to present the award endured a nationally boradcasted nightmare. The poor girl’s fifteen minutes of fame were occupied by the awkward award screw-up that lasted just about that long; after reverently rewarding Chris Brown, the king of R&B with the ‘Viewers Choice’ award, the presenter quickly retracted her words and deemed Rihanna the winner. As if mistaking former lovers caught…Read more

Most mortal angst usually surrounds falling from fatal heights or burial before we’ve kicked the bucket. The passing of an ill-fated 49-year old Russian woman today, however, assigned death and dying a whole new realm of horrific possibilities. Fagilyu Mukhametzyanov, the woman who died while in her coffin at her funeral, gave croaking a new  ‘freak accident’ capacity. After collapsing in her home due to unbearable chest pains, doctors falsely declared Mukhametzyanov deceased. The malpracticed medics were quickly made aware of their deadly diagnosis when the woman gained enough conciousness to open her eyes, realize that she was lying in a coffin and begin screaming in the middle of her…Read more

The Jersey Shore cast has returned from Italy after taping their fourth season and have been put on a brief lockdown in Seaside before filming their fifth season. This means, no cellphones, no internet, no friends, or family, because MTV wants the cast “to remain in the zone.” After that news broke across the internet, MTV made another huge announcement. The fifth season will be the last for this Jersey Shore cast. Rumor is that MTV execs want fresh new faces for the continuation of the show. Fans shouldn’t worry too much about whether they’ll see their favroite cast members again though because spinoff deals have already been penned for The Situation,…Read more

Actress Emma Stone is no stranger to the undead, having stared in 2009′s Zombieland.  So being offered the lead role in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is no surprise! In this twisted retelling of the Jane Austin classic, Stone will play  Elizabeth Bennet, who must battle zombies while also looking for love and independence in 19th century Britain. Craig Gillespie,  the directer who most recently worked on the remake of  Fright Night, is set to direct the film.   Did you like this? Share it:Tweet