Lady Gaga’s restaurant slammed for filthy habits

The high-end Manhattan restaurant owned by Lady Gaga and her family has been hit with a number of violations by the Department of Health.

Joanne Trattoria on the city’s West Side restaurant was smacked with a shameful ‘C’ grade, the lowest possible rating, after health officials uncover


its filthy habits, the Daily Mail reported. Any restaurant racking up 28 or more violation points gets stamped with a ‘C’ and Gaga’s was found to have a staggering 42, six of them ‘critical’.

According to the report published by the Smoking Gun, the clean team visited the restaurant, run by Gaga’s parents Joseph and Cynthia Germanotta, on October 2. The Gotham eatery first fell foul (literally) of health standards less than one month after its launch in February, scoring a boarder-line ‘C’ with 31 violations.

Now, the health officials discover that the restaurant has no hand-wash basins in staff toilets. “Hand washing facility not provided in or near food preparation area and toilet room,” the scathing report reads. “Hot and cold running water at adequate pressure to enable cleanliness of employees not provided at facility. Soap and an acceptable hand-drying device not provided,” it added.

Other health crimes committed by Joanne’s included staff wearing filthy clothing and no hair nets.

Surfaces were left unwashed, officials found, food not protected from contamination and kitchen workers abandoned utensils in favour of their hands.

Kendrick Lamar And Lady Gaga's Collaboration Delayed Indefinitely

Lady Gaga got fans excited for her new collaboration with Kendrick Lamar weeks ago, but now she's confirmed that the track "Partynauseous," is delayed indefinitely.

On Tuesday, the track list for good kid, m.A.A.d city, was revealed and Lady Gaga's name was nowhere to be seen. Now, she's breaking down what went down ahead of the album's release, citing some behind-the-scenes shakeups.

"I apologize to the fans that this situation with Partynausous is confusing. To it clear it up I must explain this," she wrote on Little Monsters.com. "When I collaborate with an artist i work solely with them, not with their camps or management. Its purely organic and creative. I love Kendrick dearly as a friend, but was not willing to compromise musically to the changes his team was making to my music.

"This is why I am not [on] his record. I have a very specific vision as a producer and songwriter, and I always have," she continued. "That song will be released at a different time, for a different project. I love you, and think you should check out his stuff because he is truly great. He's a good kid, its just sometimes a mad city."

The love goes both ways. Lamar has also addressed the decision to can the track, explaining that it didn't fit in with the finished vibe of this album, but notes it in no way reflects the way the rapper and the singer feel about each other.

"Me and Lady Gaga, we really good friends. She's not on the album. We got some records, but when I was breaking down the bulk of the album, the ones we picked, we set them aside for future reference," he told Power 105's the Breakfast Club. "I already had everything premeditated for this day, for October 22nd."

The song was first announced back in August. From what MTV News heard at a , listening party, the Hit-Boy-produced track, with is strong bass and dark vibe, finds Gaga singing about her sinful ways while Lamar raps about fame and how it affects the people around him.

The album, out October 22, may not include Gaga, but itdoes feature the likes of Dr. Dre, Drake and Mary J. Blige.

Lady Gaga booed at London launch

Lady Gaga angered fans outside Harrods after she arrived an hour late for a promised appearance and dashed inside before many had caught a glimpse of her.

Hundreds of screaming fans filled the streets around the top London department store ahead of the UK launch of the singer's new perfume, Lady Gaga Fame.

The screams turned to boos after the star refused to walk the full length of a specially themed black carpet, and then went inside before some had seen her.

Lauren Weymouth, 19, had waited for five hours to see the US star.

'I'm disappointed,' the Australian holidaymaker said. 'I thought she'd stand there for a while, but we didn't see anything.'

Alex George, 18, from Islington, north London, waited almost three hours to see Lady Gaga and described the event as 'a bit of a let down'.

She added: 'I'm obviously annoyed. She was late and I thought she would sign autographs and I'd be able to get a picture.'

Luke Reader, 18, from central London, said: 'It's quite ironic it's called Fame because it just shows how much fame has changed her.

'She couldn't even spend five minutes talking and having some pictures taken. It's not on.'

Marcello Marino, 43, brought his five-year-old daughter Marcella to the store but was left frustrated.

'We thought she would come up to the fans. We've been here all day long but she didn't do anything,' said Mr Marino, from Ramsgate, Kent.

Lady Gaga's fans - known as Little Monsters - held black and gold balloons and sang a number of her hits including Bad Romance and Poker Face as they waited for her arrival.

She was due at the event in Knightsbridge, central London, at 7.45pm on Sunday evening but it was 8.45pm before she finally turned up - in a horse and carriage.

She then walked part of the way down the black carpet before entering the store where she held a tea party for 75 competition winners.

The Born This Way star earlier wrote on Twitter: 'So excited, going to be at @Harrods in an hour! Just drove though London, so beautiful seeing all the Sunday strollers in love...'

She has previously described the reaction to her floral perfume as 'overwhelming' and claimed six million bottles were sold in its first week.

It is the first black fragrance that becomes clear once it has been sprayed. It contains the poisonous flower Belladonna, sweet honey drops, saffron and apricot.

Lady Gaga vomits on stage

Lady Gaga has told fans to have a good laugh after she vomited during a concert in Barcelona.

The 26-year-old singer threw up three times while on stage performing her hit Edge of Glory. Somehow Gaga still managed to finish her routine and after the show she took to Twitter to joke about it.

"Was praying nobody saw but actually it's quite a good laugh if you need one!" the pop star tweeted.

"Check out Lady Puke GA doing Swan 'Vomit' Lake. I still hit my routine mom!! :) Thank goodness for the Dorchester...I need some tea, I think I just cried a little watching that (sic)," she wrote.

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Gaga also posted a YouTube clip of the incident. In the footage Gaga is midway through her act when she is seen turning away from the audience to vomit, while the backup vocals continued to play. Like a true professional she finished the routine with a male dancer by her side.

The on stage incident follows fellow pop star Justin Bieber's vomiting incident last week. The teen idol faced similar on stage embarrassment, when he threw up during his Glendale, Arizona, show.

Festival of Business: catching the web's new wave

The 38-year-old business manager for Lady Gaga – through his Los Angeles-based Coalition Media Group and talent management arm, Atom Factory – has invested in 40 internet companies through his angel investment fund vehicle, AF Square.

And he and Lady Gaga have this year co-founded Backplane, a company aiming to revolutionise social networks by building small "micro-networks" around interest groups.

Lady Gaga has 29 million Twitter followers and 50 million Facebook "likes", while AF Square's investments include stakes in music-sharing websites Spotify and Songza, file-sharing firm Dropbox, taxi-ordering firm Uber, social commerce firm Fab and the eponymous London firm behind, Fight My Monster, the world's fastest growing computer game for boys aged between eight and 10.

"Songza is already a rocket ship in America," says Carter. "Uber has completely disrupted the US taxi industry. Spotify has disrupted the music industry and its forms of distribution, while Fab has disrupted social commerce.

"This is a whole new wave of the internet. We're seeing old industries get turned over."

LISTEN TO LADY GAGA’S ‘STACHE (PRINCESS HIGH STACHE)’ ZEDD REMIX

Lady Gaga shared new music — sort of — via Twitter where she tweeted a vocal “puzzle” for her little monsters to pair with the song ‘Stache’ by Zedd, who is also her labelmate.

It’s an innovative way to share music. The end result remix is below, and it’s called ‘Stache (Princess High Stache).’ It’s decidedly electro and beat-fueled. Gaga delivers her vocals in a robotic, monochromatic and clinical way. It’s not anything like the hardcore rapping of that whole ‘Cake Like Lady Gaga‘ track.

The princess motif is recurring — ‘Princess Die,’ the Disney Princesses references and the neck tattooed, cartoon version that serves as her Twitter skin and now this remix — in Mother Monster’s music as of late.

This is a disco-style dance song meant for the clubs. It’s not as sweeping as anything we heard on ‘Born This Way,’ and when Gaga repeats “Where’s my stache” over and over, we don’t think she’s talking about facial hair, but perhaps her weed “stash,” since “high” does factor into the title. Just sayin’.

If this is the direction of ‘ARTPOP,’ we’re in for synthy dance music on Gaga’s next platter.

Lady Gaga wins peace award named for John Lennon, Yoko Ono

Music superstar Lady Gaga will share a peace prize in memory of John Lennon to honor her work campaigning for equality for gay, lesbian and transgender people.

The singer has been chosen along with four others — including Russian punk band Pussy Riot and the late writer Christopher Hitchens — to receive the biennial LennonOno Grant For Peace.


Gaga is expected to accept the award and a donation from Lennon’s widow, Yoko Ono, in Reykjavik, Iceland, on Tuesday — the birthday of John Lennon and his son, Sean.

Ono said in a statement Friday that while Gaga is “one of the biggest living artists of our time” she is also an activist whose album “Born This Way” altered “the mental map of the world.”