En Vogue and other artists set to perform at Superbowl on January 27.
INDIANAPOLIS — Patti LaBelle, Bret Michaels and En Vogue are among the artists who will perform in free concerts during the week leading up to the Super Bowl in Indianapolis.

The Super Bowl Host Committee made the announcement Wednesday at a news conference at Lucas Oil Stadium, site of the Feb. 5 game.

The artists will perform on stages along Georgia Street beginning Jan. 27. 5. A specific schedule was not announced.

Other artists scheduled to appear include Big Head Todd and the Monsters, Corey Cox, Darius Rucker, Dierks Bentley, Edwin McCain, Fitz & the Tantrums, Fuel, Here Come the Mummies, IU’s Straight No Chaser, LMFAO, O.A.R, Railroad Earth, Sixpence None the Richer, Umphrey’s McGee and Will Hoge. More artists are expected to be added.

Madonna will perform at halftime.

Man turns himself in for the horrific death of a woman who was burned alive.

Less than 12 hours after the horrific death of a woman who was burned alive in the elevator of her apartment building, a man who the police said was “reeking of gasoline” surrendered and implicated himself in the crime, the police said on Sunday.

The police said in a statement that the man, Jerome Isaac, 47, came into a transit police station about two and a half miles from the apartment building in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, around 3 a.m. Sunday.

“He confessed to the crime, claiming that the woman owed him money for work he had done in the last year,” said Paul J. Browne, the chief spokesman for the New York Police Department. Mr. Isaac did not specify the kind of work he had done, but said he was owed $2,000, Mr. Browne said.

The attack was captured in chilling surveillance video, its images disturbingly clear. Two cameras, one in the elevator and one in a hallway of the apartment building, at 203 Underhill Avenue, show a man dressed as an exterminator, wearing white gloves, with a protective mask perched atop his head, and carrying a container on his back.

The man attacks the woman, Deloris Gillespie, 73, as she tries to leave the elevator on the fifth floor, laden with groceries. As the doors open, the man first sprays her in the face and then douses her methodically from head to toe with what a city official said was an accelerant. She turns and cowers, raising her hands, the grocery bags hanging from her wrists.

After cornering her in the elevator, the man struggles to ignite a barbecue lighter, which he uses to set Ms. Gillespie on fire. He retreats momentarily into the hall and then returns with a Molotov cocktail — a wine or Champagne bottle filled with accelerant, with a rag stuffed in its neck — and hurls it at her. Suddenly, the silent video goes white with a conflagration in the small space, capturing what is perhaps a singular act of violence: a woman being burned alive.

Mr. Isaac faces charges of first-degree and second-degree murder and arson.

On Sunday morning, puddles of black water and charred debris covered the fifth floor of the apartment building. Police caution tape hung from banisters.

People there said they recognized the man in still images of the surveillance video as a familiar face around the building.

Ramon Vargas, 65, who lives on the fifth floor and said he knew the victim for over 30 years, said he frequently saw the man in the photo carrying the woman’s shopping bags and once helping her with a heavy bookcase. Though he did not know the man’s name, he described him as well dressed and recalled discussing religion, war and politics with him. “He was a very intelligent guy,” Mr. Vargas said.

Rickey Causey, who said he was Ms. Gillespie’s nephew and had lived with her since late June, said his aunt had hired the man to clear out her cluttered apartment earlier in the year. He said the man had harassed Ms. Gillespie after she fired him over the suspicion that he had stolen a VCR and a large cake pan, among other things.

In November, Mr. Causey said, the man stuck an invoice on Ms. Gillespie’s door that said she owed him more than $300; she did not pay him.

Mr. Causey said his aunt had no particular reason to fear anyone. But Dorinda Thomas, 56, who described herself as a relative, said Ms. Gillespie put several additional locks on her door and reported the man to the police.

“She knew that something was going to happen to her in that building,” Ms. Thomas said.

The police said Mr. Isaac admitted that he had set a second fire later on Saturday, at his home at 315 Lincoln Place. There, an apartment door was sprayed with what appeared to be gasoline and torched. The police had discovered a Molotov cocktail.

In that second fire, Mr. Isaac sustained burns to his face, hands and neck. He said he hid on a nearby rooftop, at 571 Lincoln Place, and fell asleep, concerned that the burns were a “giveaway” regarding his identity, according to Mr. Browne, the police spokesman. After wandering the streets of Brooklyn, he turned himself in when he learned that the police were looking for him, Mr. Browne said.

A neighbor at 315 Lincoln Place, Eric Charles, 42, said Mr. Isaac had lived in the building for several years. Mr. Charles said he often saw Mr. Isaac on his bicycle around the neighborhood collecting cans and bottles. On Sunday afternoon, the second floor still smelled of gasoline; there were black scorch marks at the top and bottom of the door to Apartment 2F.

Mr. Isaac also told the police that he had left his equipment on the rooftop where he had fallen asleep, and a search of the roof recovered the implements, Mr. Browne said.

Artist Maisa Chaves uses a clever way to encourage young women to conduct there own breast self examinations.

The battle against breast cancer just got some super power!

Wonder Woman, Cat Woman, Storm and She-Hulk have teamed up to tackle breast cancer awareness for a new ad campaign released in the African nation of Mozambique.

The renditions of the extra busty heroines checking for potentially cancerous lumps were drawn by artist Maisa Chaves for ALCC Associacao da Luta Contra o Cancer) and are sure to grab plenty of attention. But ultimately the ads are a call to action for young women to perform their own self examinations–the idea being, if Cat Woman can get breast cancer, so can you.

The ads read: “When we talk about breast cancer, there’s no women or superwomen. Everybody has to do the self-examination monthly. Fight with us against the enemy and, when in doubt, talk with your doctor.”

Using comic book heroines is a clear (and clever) way to target a younger audience, which was also the objection behind the controversial “I Love Boobies” bracelets. And while cases of breast cancer are rare in women under the age of 30, early detection is key.

This isn’t the first time ALCC has used shock value to push their cause. The company previously released ads depicting creepy insects under the skin of a woman’s breasts. Eek! We get the message–let’s start feeling our ladies, ladies!

 

 

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