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The latest OOAK Madonna doll created by MadonnaTribe friends Ale & Giu from Artist Creations is once again inspired by the Sticky & Sweet Tour. This time the Queen of Pop is seen in the costume for the opening number of the show - in its 2009 leg version. Check it out at the ArtistCreations.it website by clicking any of the images below. Please note that this doll is not available for sale.

This coming January 2011 Sunset Media will be releasing a great new photo book aboutThe Queen Of Pop. Madonna Queen Of Stage is an amazing photo journey through the most memorable moments of Madonna's three last tours.Queen Of Stage is divided into six exciting chapters including rehearsals, spectacular entrances, Madonna the skilled guitarist, dancing queen, queen of controversy and last but not least a whole chapter of sublime live photo portraits. Madonna Queen Of Stage is a special limited edition book of only 500 copies, a must for every die hard Madonna fan, to be released on January 6th 2011. Pre-order starts NOW! at queen-of-stage.com. More to come about this exciting project

Just in time for your Xmas shopping Live Nation has released the official Madonna - Celebration Mug. This lovely mug that bears the fantastic Mr Brainwash design on both sides, can be found at HMV stores in the UK for just £ 5.99.

I was a fan of Madonna's so I was pleased to collaborate with her for that reason - not because it would be good for my career." Designer Jean-Paul Gaultier, telling The Telegraph that he did not realise how important would be designing the corsets for Madonna's world tour at the time. Gaultier also has a smart word about Lady Gaga - saying: "I think she's talented and very inpolitically incorrect, which I love. But I also think that she read up on Madonna's life and learnt it like the Bible." Thanks to our Community member Cam.

Inspired to the iconic Blond Ambition Tour, M-Tribe friends Mario and Gianni from Magia 2000 come up with a brand new addiction to their world famous OOAK Madonna dolls. As you see in the images below the outfit is a replica of the original Jean Paul Gaultier costume for the "Keep It Together" performance with a black satin top and black stretch velvet shorts, intricated rope corset with jacket cosnstruction and microphone holder on the back, several criss cross with the same patterne of the original dress. She also wears net stockings with knee protectors and black short boots and black sport gloves and of course Madonna's iconic headset and a black flocked jazz cabaret hat. The set is completed by a cabaret chair. The doll also received a professional full facial repaint with acrilic color. The body used is pivotal, with posable joinings. All accessories are handcrafted by Magia2000. Please note that this doll is not available for sale For more info about these and many more exclusive OOAK dolls from Magia2000 please visitmagia2000.com.

Madonna clippings from MexicoMadonna clippings from MexicoMadonna clippings from MexicoMadonna clippings from MexicoMad Madonna is everywhere on the Mexican press the day after the launch event of her Hard Candy Fitness center. Here's a nice selection of articles from today's newspapers brought to you by MadonnaTribe reader Edgar. "I'm very excited for Madonna visit to Mexico 2 years exaclty after the last time, when she last came for the Sticky & Sweet Tour dates for Mexico City in 2008", Edgar writes. Click on the images below to enlarge the scans. Thanks to Edgar from Mexico City. onna clippings from MexicoMadonna clippings from MexicoMadonna clippings from MexicoMadonna clippings from Mexico

Madonna turns hand to fitness with gym launchMadonna turns hand to fitness with gym launch Madonna launched her new brand of "Hard Candy Fitness" gyms in Mexico City on Monday, opening a huge, 30,000-square-foot (2,787-square-meter) compound where Mexico's rich and the beautiful can go through dance classes and fitness routines inspired by the singer's routines. So why choose a sprawling metropolis of some 20 million people, struggling with crime, pollution and endless traffic jams to kick off an international sports venture that may eventually include gyms in Russia, Brazil and Argentina? "I have a history with Mexico," Madonna, wearing a black and white-striped dress with boots, told Reuters. "I have a connection that I have always felt anyways because of my love and interest in Frida Kahlo," she added, referring to one of Mexico's best-known 20th century painters. Hundreds of screaming fans, from boys wearing "Mexicans do it better" T-shirts to drag queens in leg warmers, lined up outside the gym in a fruitless effort to get a glimpse of the singer, who arrived tightly protected by security. Guests at the launch included the capital's mayor, Marcelo Ebrard, and Carlos Slim Domit, the son of the world's richest man, Carlos Slim. Inside the new gym, Madonna taught a short dance lesson to a handful of lucky gym members handpicked by her staff to join her on the dance floor for a few minutes. She said she is getting ready for another busy year in 2011 that will include a new movie and analbum that would follow on the steps of her highly successful "Hard Candy" studio album. Asked whether she would pursue new collaborations as she did with stars such as Justin Timberlake, she said only that she is working with fellow artists. On the home front, the mother of four kept open the possibility of expanding her brood. Who knows?" she said. From Reuters via Google News.

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Venus D-Lite, cast member for the third season of Logo's hit show "RuPaul's Drag Race," will star in a new Holiday-themed play by Tony Blass, "Madonna's Christmas Carol," in which the famed impersonator will star as the Material Girl. In this modernized retelling of the Dickens classic, Madonna will encounter Cher (Joycelyne Lew), Britney (Sabrina Holguins) and Lady Gaga (Taylor Judkins) as the Spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Future, and Joan Crawford (Josie Kat) substituting for Jacob Marley. The outrageous comedy also stars Art Francisco, Sean McCullen, Michael Ojugo, Alberto Valdovinos, Cody White and Ben Woolf. Directed by international jazz and comedy sensation Leslie Bee. Costume and Sing-a-like contests every night. Exclusive limited engagement at the Paul G. Gleason Theatre in Hollywood from Dec. 9 - 18, 2010. (Thursdays and Fridays at 8 PM and Saturdays at 7:30 PM) Tickets available at Brown Paper Tickets.

Madonna sweats details in Mexico debut of new gymMadonna sweats details in Mexico debut of new gymMadonna sweats details in Mexico debut of new gymMadonna sweats details in Mexico debut of new gymMadonna sweats details in Mexico debut of new gym As the glass doors of Hard Candy Fitness, Madonna's first gym, slide open in Mexico City on Monday, a mural of white, black and violet Warhol-esque images of the Queen of Pop greets each client. But it's no disco with exercise machines or Hard Rock Cafe-style temple of Madge memorabilia. The facilities are not much different from any other high-class gym in Mexico City, and very little screams that this is Madonna's first fitness venture, apart from the name -- the title of her last album -- which she says in fitness parlance is the perfect combination of "hard body" and "eye candy." "It's a sexy name that gives you the opportunity to have fun and to build strength as far as the imagination will allow," the singer, dancer, actress, children's author and clothing designer said in a Q&A provided by her handlers. Still, not every gym opens with a Hollywood red carpet appearance by one of the most powerful women in entertainment, who will cut the ribbon as tradition dictates, then teach a dance class for 20 hand-picked members with music by Paul Oakenfold, the DJ who opened her last tour. The star said she chose Mexico City because it was a stop on last year's Sticky & Sweet tour, which grossed $408 million, second only to the Rolling Stones' A Bigger Bang Tour. She said she liked the energy of the people. "Our plan is to use Mexico as a place to fine-tune our brand and then expand it to other countries and, in the long term, develop a global brand that includes the United States," she said, noting that Mexico is close enough to home for her to be heavily involved. Though Madonna's own hard body may not be plastered everywhere in the gym, the singer of "Like a Virgin" is omnipresent in the 30,000-square-foot (2,800-square-meter) facility in the city's upscale Bosques de las Lomas neighborhood, much as she has been in pop culture for nearly three decades. Her touch is in the mosaic design of the bathroom tile and in the yoga salon's bamboo floor imported from China. "She chose the graphics, colors, the machines," said Chris Dedicik, general director of California-based New Evolution Ventures, Madonna's partner in creating the gym. "She has weighed in on the choreography of all the classes and given them a twist to make them more dynamic, more special and to better reflect her style." Members can do cardiovascular exercises on five types of advanced-technology machines chosen by Madonna, many with individual viewing screens and iPod docks. The yoga instructors are trained in various styles of the ancient Indian art, inspired by the knowledge the singer has accumulated in her travels. The yoga room will also have a special wall used in Iyengar yoga, one of very few in the world according to Dedicik, with ropes and steps to help people with less physical ability. A balcony outside will feature plants and Zen-style decor, all at the singer's request. "If any of you have seen my shows, you know that I don't skimp on them and the same is true for the gym," she said. "We spend what it takes to make a globally first-class gym." At 52, the Material Girl's own workout regimen is legendary and her physique has been both admired and chided for being overdone. Her famously pumped biceps have been labeled scary by some. Members who have signed up so far didn't seem to care about matching Madonna's workout feats. Those using the gym during a weekend preview said they liked the equipment and features and cited proximity to their home or work as their reason for joining. Ronen Waiss, businessman and Honorary Consul of Lithuania in Mexico, said his office is two doors away and he registered long before he was told it was a venture by Madonna. "I think it's super sexy and motivating of course, but I didn't know till after I joined," said Waiss, 32. "But it's attractive to me because it's close and has the best computer technology. That's what caught my attention." Clara Ruiz, a 59-year-old housewife, said she, too, chose the gym for location. But she likes the facility and wishes Madonna success in her new venture. "She has a lot of experience in this," Ruiz said. "She's done it all her life. I think she chose what for her is the best." From the Associated Press, images by Ap and Reuters, via Yahoo! News.

Here's the latest news from Mexico City about the opening of Madonna's Hard Candy fitness center. Madonna dancers have been selecting, during some casting lessons, the final club members to attend the special dance class to be held by Madonna herself next week. In the meantime the mayor of Mexico City, Marcelo Ebrard, said in a public statement that he is very happy Madonna chose his city to open her first fitness center ever in the world. He added that he will be cutting the red ribbon with Madonna on Monday November 29th. Locals should be aware that on Monday streets near the club, especially Bosque De Duraznos, will be closed from 4 pm. Guests and members will can enter the club on two different hours that have not yet been specified. Madonna's arrival is expected at about 7 or 8 pm while rehearsalsfor the dance class will be done on the previous Saturday or Sunday. MadonnaTribe.com will keep you updated. Thanks to our reader from Mexico, Pedro Miranda