Shocker 2: Michael Jackson not Biological Dad

Debbie Rowe Says Michael Jackson Isn’t Kids’ Biological Dad A new confirmation has just been made by Michael Jackson’s ex-wife Debbie Rowe who tells Britain’s News of the World that Prince Michael Jackson Jr. and Paris Michael Katherine Jackson actually aren’t the late singer’s biological children. Speaking exclusively from her home in California, she says [...]

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Shocker 1: Michael Jackson was Bald with Needle Marks

Jacko’s Autopsy By Nick Partner and Steve Kennedy [UPDATE: TMZ is now reporting that this story is false. We will wait and see. Liza Minelli says we will be in for many surprises once we know the full horror of Michael's problems.]  The horrifying state of pop superstar Michael Jackson in his final days can be [...]

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Michael Jackson: The Whole Story

From the Los Angeles Times OBITUARY Michael Jackson’s Life Was Infused With Fantasy and Tragedy By Geoff Boucher and Elaine Woo In the early 1980s, Michael Jackson was the world’s most popular entertainer thanks to a series of hit records — “Beat It,” “Billie Jean,” “Thriller” — and dazzling music videos. Michael Jackson was fascinated [...]

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Michael Jackson’s Glide Move

 Watch Michael Jackson’s incredible glide move from a 1987 Yokohama concert.   I’ve written a new teen mystery, THE CANDY RAVERS, which I’ve posted here on this blog in its entirety. Click here  to read THE CANDY RAVERS or use the tab at the top of the site.

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Michael Jackson Inspired Jail Dance

Filipino inmates in `Thriller’ video stage tribute by AP writer Teresa Cerojano The Filipino inmates who shot to global fame with a YouTube video of their “Thriller” dance (July 2007) swayed and stomped again today, Saturday, June 27, in a behind-bars tribute to their idol, Michael Jackson. After being told of Jackson’s death Thursday in [...]

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Michael Jackson: We Are the World

In 1985, Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie wrote a song that ended up making music history. The single, “We are the World,” was recorded to raise money to fight famine in Africa, particularly in Ethiopia, where a 20 year-old civil war raged. As a result of drought and poor harvests, millions of Ethiopians were starving and suffering from [...]

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Michael Jackson and the Moonwalk

Michael Jackson’s signature dance move, the Moonwalk, debuted in 1983 and revolutionized modern dance. Michael’s moonwalk was inspired by the French mime Marcel Marceau’s famous “walking against the wind” routine shown below in Mel Brooks’ “Silent Movie.” Click on the words, ”Marcel Marceau,” centered below to see the video clip of Marcel walking against the wind:  Marcel [...]

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Michael Jackson: Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough

Michael Jackson won a Grammy Award for this song, “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough.” He was happy back then and such a positive force in music. This is one of his best songs. Rock on, Michael.  

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Michael Jackson, Rest in Peace

  Watch this video of the Jackson 5 singing “I Want You Back” and “ABC” on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1970. This is how we got to know him, Little Michael Jackson, a kid chocked-full of talent and fun. May he rest in peace. I’ve written a new teen mystery, THE CANDY RAVERS, which I’ve [...]

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Sarkozy and the Burqa

On June 22, 2009, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France arrived at Versailles Palace to address legislators, the first presidential appearance before Parliament since 1875. To protect the independence of lawmakers, presidents had been barred from entering Parliament since Charles Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte’s reign. Reforms carried out by Sarkozy’s party last summer, though, opened the way for him [...]

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NEW Mystery Book for Young People: THE CANDY RAVERS

The Candy Ravers, by Lisa Waller Rogers   I’ve just posted my new mystery book, The Candy Ravers, here on Lisa’s History Room. You can read all 19 chapters online for free by clicking here. Let me know what you think of The Candy Ravers by writing a comment after one of the chapter pages. If [...]

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The Murder of President Lincoln. Appeal to the Colored People!

It was April 24, 1865 – ten days since President Lincoln was assassinated – and his killer still remained at large. On the night of April 14, John Wilkes Booth had shot the president in the head, jumped on a horse, and slipped across the Potomac River undetected. He had disappeared into Maryland, a state that [...]

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Imelda Marcos Almost Gets the Beatles Killed Part 2

(Read “Imelda Marcos Almost Gets the Beatles Killed Part 1″ first.) Hear what the Fab Four had to say about their brush with death in Manila:   *For other related posts on this site, see: “Imelda Marcos: 2000 Shoes” “Ferdinand Marcos’ Restless Corpse” “Imelda Being Imeldific*”

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Imelda Being Imeldific*

“Filipinos are brainwashed to be beautiful. We’re allergic to ugliness,” said Imelda Marcos as as she greeted reporters this weekend in her swank two-story Manila penthouse. Approaching her 80th birthday on July 2, she complained about her lot in life, saying she is penniless and struggling to still look presentable. Her claim is hardly believable, [...]

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When He Was Barry at Oxy

“Barack Obama: The Freshman,” an exhibition of black-and-white photographs by Lisa Jack, is on view at M + B Gallery in Los Angeles. Lisa Jack took the photographs of the man who would be president when both were students at Occidental College (“Oxy”) in L.A in 1980. Ms. Jack was scouting that year for people [...]

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