Ariel Messman-Rucker is an Oakland-born journalist who now calls the Pacific Northwest her home. When she’s not writing about politics and queer pop culture, she can be found reading, hiking, or ...

KISS frontman Gene Simmons blamed “bad decisions” for his friend and fellow bandmate Ace Frehley’s death. The band’s co-founder condemned Frehley’s substance abuse, suggesting it was to blame for the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Kiss debuts its half-century-old live album Alive! in the U.K.

SBS’s new Wednesday-Thursday drama “Dynamite Kiss” is on the rise! According to Nielsen Korea, episode 3 of “Dynamite Kiss” garnered an average nationwide viewership rating of 5.3 percent. This is a 1 ...

Matilda Brindle has previously received funding from the Natural Environment Research Council and the Leakey Foundation If I asked you to imagine your dream snog, chances are it wouldn’t be with a ...

Kissing occurred around 21.5 to 16.9 million years ago, the researchers said. Stories have long been swapped on awkward first kisses and princesses smooching frogs, but a new study suggests the ...

And humans are far from the only species locking lips. By Ali Watkins The act has been called many things: Centrifugal motion. Perpetual bliss. The thrill of the moment. Unstoppable. In technical ...

For humans, kissing holds major cultural cachet, accompanying confessions of romantic love, religious rituals of reverence and even betrayals, à la The Godfather Part II’s “kiss of death.” New ...

A new study that examines how kissing evolved suggests that ape ancestors and early humans like Neanderthals probably locked lips with their friends and sexual partners. The behavior may date back 21 ...

KISS honored Ace Frehley in the band’s first performance since his death. The rock group performed its three-day KISS Kruise: Landlocked event in Las Vegas over the weekend and paid tribute to the ...

During the latter show, former KISS guitarist Bruce Kulick joined the rock legends for the final two songs. Meanwhile, on Sunday, November 16, Simmons, Stanley, Thayer, and Singer took part in a ...

The rocker died at age 74 on Oct. 16, weeks after suffering a fall at his home Mark Gray is a journalist of over two decades. He has written about entertainment, sports and crime since 2001, focusing ...