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NYC Jam Session Erupts on Subway

andPOP Staff — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:49:29 +0000

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There is still a lot of good in the world. A random jam session broke out on a NYC subway and luckily YouTuber “MyBS86″ was there to capture it.

Below is the video summary:

okay- what you are about to watch is a true new york experience. what originally started out as a typical nyc subway ride (sitting across from guy who smelled like urine) turned into an awesome performance by two people who have never met before. i captured the whole thing on video.

the singer continued with another great song after the entire subway car demanded an encore. her name is jessica latshaw- make sure to check out her music.

Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom in Accident with Biker

andPOP Staff — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 23:33:57 +0000

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Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom were involved in a serious car accident in Queens, NY yesterday.

MediaTakeOut.com reports that Lamar’s car crashed into a motorcycle as the couple were heading to a barber shop. The biker is currently in hospital, and also a young male pedestrian was also seriously injured.

Khloe and Lamar were not injured in the incident. Definitely not a nice visit home for Lamar who hails from Queens, NY.

Justin Bieber Fights Back at Macy’s Appearance

andPOP Staff — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 21:51:39 +0000

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Anybody who says Justin Bieber is a pussy doesn’t really know the Biebs. During an appearance at Macy’s in New York City, Bieber was attacked by an older man, but Bieber fought back.

According to New York’s FOX 5, a man jumped over a security barricade at Macy’s and knocked the singer to the ground.

Reports say that Bieber fought back, and the man was restrained by NYPD. Although Justin was shaken, he still waved at fans before being removed from the event.

Can anybody figure out what’s going on in this video taken from the event?

Ja Rule Set For Prison Sentencing

Christian Allaire — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 15:40:59 +0000

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Ja Rule is set to go to to prison, reports Billboard.

The rapper and actor was sentenced to two years in a New York prison on Wednesday, after pleading guilty in December to attempted criminal possession of a weapon.

“My last day out,” he wrote on Twitter yesterday afternoon, adding that he was spending it at the movies with his family.

Police officials said they found a loaded .40-caliber semiautomatic gun in the rear door of his $250,000-plus Maybach sports car in 2007, which they had stopped for speeding.

“Laws are laws,” Ja Rule said Monday on ‘Good Day New York.’ “There’s nothing I could really do but own up to the situation.”

“You know, I try not to regret anything I do in life, because you go through life and you do things, and you man up to them. You own them.”

In other legal news, Ja Rule also pleaded guilty to failing to pay taxes on more than $3 million in income. He faces up to three years in prison in that case, but his lawyers are trying arrange for his sentences to be served at the same time. Smart decision: kill two birds with one stone.

Ja Rule may be able to cut six months off his sentence by meeting requirements for good behaviour. Hopefully he learns his lesson, he seems to be pretty aware of the situation.

Man Calls in Bomb Threat because of ‘Two and a Half Men’ Reruns

andPOP Staff — Sat, 28 May 2011 18:54:58 +0000

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Some people take TV very seriously, and some take it so far that they phone in bomb threats. A NYC man phoned in a bomb threat to WPIX if they kept playing “Two and a Half Men.”

NY Post reports the calls were made on May 11 and May 23. The calls were traced to a man named Freddy Caldwell.

According to the paper, Caldwell was charged with falsely reporting an incident and aggravated harassment.

We kind of sympathize, however we do not endorse bomb threats. Seriously, the obvious jokes and cheesy one liners make you want to puke eventually. Case in point below:

Lindsay Lohan’s Life Turned Into An Off-Broadway Play

Christian Allaire — Sun, 01 May 2011 00:33:04 +0000

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Lindsay Lohan’s train wreck of a life has been turned into an off-broadway play, reports Playbill. Flattering, or embarrassing? We’re not sure which of these it is.

The play, titled Project: Lohan, is written by D’Arcy Drollinger and directed by Ben Rimalower. It will run from April 29 to May 8 in New York. Playwright Drollinger also plays Lindsay in the play, and the cast also includes Clayton Dean Smith, Brandon Olson, Cindy Goldfield, Emily McGowan and Brian Reiss.

Described as a “multi-media, gender-bending theatrical experience,” the show only uses published text from tabloids, magazines, entertainment TV and internet gossip sites. Kind of a neat concept, if you ask me.

Here’s how the show is described:

“From starlet to harlot, from hottie to hot mess, from fashion plate to prison inmate,” the press notes states, “Lindsay Lohan has been the subject of arguably one of the most publicized rise and falls in showbiz history. The youngest person to host the MTV movie awards and earning over $7 million a picture before she turned 18, Lindsay had it all, but her love/hate relationship with the paparazzi played a significant role in her seemingly out-of-control spiral. The money, the fame, the feuds, the media-hungry parents, the lesbian lover, the insatiable paparazzi, five trips to rehab, two DUI’s, possession of cocaine, shoplifting, physical abuse and even carjacking — all played out in the public eye — will be reinterpreted for the stage; and will include other such luminaries as Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie, Hillary Duff, Jessica Simpson, Scarlett Johansson, Samantha Ronson, Dina and Michael Lohan, Tina Fey, Jane Fonda, Leslie Sloan Zelnick and Wilmer Valderrama.”

This will be nothing short of entertaining, I can tell you that much. I wonder if Lindsay will pop in to see the show? She does make trips to New York quite often, so how amazing would it be if she did a cameo?

The play will be housed at La MaMa, E.T.C., which is located at 74A East 4th Street. For tickets, priced $18/$13 students and seniors, call (212) 475-7710 or visit www.lamama.org.

Victoria Gotti Wants Lohan To Play Her In Film

Christian Allaire — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 22:41:24 +0000

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For once, it appears that Lindsay Lohan is being fought over to appear in a film. TMZ reports that Victoria Gotti herself has handpicked Lohan to play her in an upcoming film about her father and notorious gangster John Gotti.

Lohan even beat out Blake Lively and Sienna Miller for her new role as Victoria Gotti. Who would have thought this day would come? I’m personally so happy for her!

Sources close to the production tell TMZ that producers were considering both Blake and Sienna for the role, but John Gotti’s famously blonde daughter wasn’t having it, insisting Lindsay get the role instead. This isn’t surprising, apparently, as according to sources Victoria is a good friend of the Lohan family and often spends time with them on Long Island. An inside job? Maybe. But Lohan should take what she can get.

Lindsay is currently in L.A. auditioning for “Superman,” but TMZ is told she already has a plane ticket back to NYC for April 12th to close the Gotti deal for good.

I think this merrits celebration. It will be her first movie role since her cameo in Robert Rodriguez’s ‘Machete’ as a meth-addicted daughter turned nun, so I’m hoping this role will cause her to be taken a little more seriously. I’ve always been a huge Lohan fan, so I’m rooting for her. It’s time to move on up!

Kourtney Kardashian Talks New Reality Series

andPOP Staff — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 23:07:32 +0000

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TV viewers are soon going to learn the difficulties of opening a retail store in Manhattan with Kim & Kourtney Kardashian. The new series follow the two lovely ladies on their latest business venture.

“Since we were filming Kourtney & Kim Take New York while opening our newest Dash boutique, we were shocked at how much harder it was to open a store in New York as compared to Los Angeles and Miami,” Kourtney told PEOPLE.

The series will show the pressures of opening the store they are calling Dash SoHo. “The fashion pressure on us was really daunting,” Kourtney tells PEOPLE. “We are on the same block as mega successful stores like Chanel so we really had our work cut out for us. It was a lot more detail and worry than we ever imagined. That will come out on the TV show.”

So its come to this – business lessons from Kim & Kourtney Kardashian. Next thing you know they will be lecturing at Harvard Business. What’s this world coming to??

Michael Lohan Apparently Has Legal Woes; Entire World Completely Blindsided

Megan MacKay — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 17:06:46 +0000

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The balance of the universe was shattered late last week as Michael Lohan revealed that he was in some legal troubles – this time with a random woman from Montana.

Pop Eater reports that an arrest warrant has been issued for Lohan in New York State after it was discoved that he owes money in a Montana paternity suit.

When reached for a quote, Lohan said “I was on parole, and was not allowed to leave New York. So the judge in Motana held me in default, and ordered me to pay child support. I asked for three patermity tests, and even Maury Povich asked her to do one with me, but she refused all three.”

Oh snap! You know you’re in trouble when not even Maury Povich can contain the situation!

Lohan begrudgingly began to pay child support to avoid more legal trouble, but had some issues after sending the second payment late. “[The payment was late] because of election day,” He explains. “But I did send it, and I have receipts. So because I was a couple of days late, they issued a warrant. How sick.”

Hmm, this doesn’t sound like the whole story Mr. Lohan… Since when do you have enough cash in the bank to start paying off random alleged babymamas that refuse to take a paternity test? Sounds suspicious to us!

Charlie Sheen Found Naked with Cocaine in a Restaurant

Jacob Morris — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 17:47:52 +0000

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Earlier this week Charlie Sheen had a pretty crazy night out which ended with him under psychiatric evaluation in a New York hospital on Tuesday.

A source told RadarOnline that the struggling actor was found “wasted at the restaurant” before he went nuts at a hotel. The source continued, “He was snorting cocaine and drinking vodka. He was also drinking wine… and he was wasted.”

That’s only the beginning though!

The source said that Sheen was at the restaurant with Capri Anderson, a porn star acting as his escort for the night (for the price of $12,000).

“At one point he convinced Capri to go to the bathroom with him. When they got into the bathroom he started snorting cocaine and then took off his pants,” the source said.

“Charlie wanted to have sex with Capri and tried but she stopped him and demanded her $12,000. He didn’t have the money on him so she left him in the bathroom!”

Capri alerted Sheen’s assistant about the actor’s state of mind, so the assistant went to check on him. “When the assistant opened the door, there was Charlie standing there naked with cocaine all over his face! He was delusional and just completely lost. Totally out of it,” said the source.

After leaving the restaurant and making it back to the hotel, Sheen allegedly smoked cocaine and trashed the room, naked, which is when the cops showed up.

Honestly, Charlie Sheen, you’ve got some big problems!

Charlie Sheen Back To Work on ‘Two and a Half Men’ Next Week

andPOP Staff — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 14:08:36 +0000

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After his recent hospitalization and trashing a Manhattan hotel room, Charlie Sheen is getting back to work.

“Charlie will be working this week doing a cameo role, playing himself, in a small movie as a favor to a friend and has every intention of going back to work on Two and a Half Men on Tuesday,” his manager Mark Burg tells PEOPLE. “He’s looking forward to working.”

Sheen was discharged from a New York hospital Tuesday night. Sources are claiming he was sent to hospital by police for what is believed to be intoxication.

Oh Charlie, never change!

Rihanna Rocks Red Locks for New Video

Megan MacKay — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:20:54 +0000

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Radar Online reports that Rihanna was spotted in the streets of New York this weekend shooting some scenes for her new music video, and as always her wardrobe was… um…interesting.

RiRi was sporting a Beetlejuice inspired blazer, crazy matching short shorts, and the piece de resistance – a flaming red wig with a perfectly colour-matched mesh veil…contraption.

In the most unfair twist of events known to womankind, she still managed to look gorgeous despite the absolutely heinous dress-in-the-dark quality of her outfit.

The scenes will be a part of the “Umbrella” singer’s video for her new single, “What’s My Name?” andPOP has confirmed that her name is, in fact, still Rihanna.

In all seriousness, you’ve got to admit that the lady’s a musical powerhouse! We’re pretty sure we’re going to die with the chorus of “Rude Boy” stuck in our heads.

Do you like Rihanna’s new red wig obsession?

Jack Bauer Gets Drunk at New York Bar

andPOP Staff — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:30:16 +0000

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Jack Bauer, or Kiefer Sutherland (whatever you prefer), is a man who likes to party and have a good time. And with “24″ over, Bauer is going to have a lot more free time on his hands to have a good time.

PerezHilton reports that Sutherland was at a New York City bar getting so drunk, he started taking off his shirt.

A source says “Kiefer got so drunk, he took off his shirt and tried to take the pictures off the wall at the bar. He eventually calmed down and was not asked to leave the hotel.”

Granted it may have not been the most respectful thing to do, but with all that “24″ money, let the man have a good time!

Kid Cudi Arrested for Possessing Controlled Substance

andPOP Staff — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 14:50:12 +0000

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Kid Cudi was arrested in New York City Friday for felony mischief and possessing a controlled substance.

TMZ reports the rapper took a woman’s phone and smashed it, and also broke the woman’s apartment door.

When police arrived to assist in the disturbance, they found a glass bottle of a controlled substance

‘Real Housewives’ Star Sonja Morgan Charged with DWI

andPOP Staff — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 16:25:33 +0000

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‘Real Housewives of New York City’ star Sonja Morgan was arrested for DWI in Southhampton Village reports PopEater.

Police pulled over Morgan at 2:16am Monday Morning after failing to stop at a stop sign. She later failed a sobriety test and refused a Breathalyzer.

Mogran had apparently been partying on the East End throughout the Memorial Day weekend.

‘Real Housewives of New York City’ Bethenny Frankel Gives Birth to Baby Boy

andPOP Staff — Sat, 08 May 2010 18:02:41 +0000

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‘Real Housewives of New York City’ cast member Bethenny Frankel gave birth to a baby boy on Friday reports PopEater.

The birth happened a month earlier than was expected. The author and reality star married Jason Hoppy in March.

Fellow cast member Jill Zarin broke the news on Facebook. “Heard Bethenny had a baby boy,” she wrote on Facebook. “So happy for her and Jason. So happy for them.”

Frankel sent a message yesterday on her way to the hospital via Twitter. “Thanks so much everyone. your messages were so thoughtful and sweet. I read every one. I love you guys!”

James Franco Now a Professional Student

Sam Rashid — Tue, 04 May 2010 03:21:08 +0000

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Oh, James Franco and his many roles. He has been a spaced out stoner, a jealous rich boy turned villain turned friend, and a great boyfriend. But, according to People.com, Franco’s favourite role is being a professional student.

“I love school,” Franco said, at the Tribeca Film Festival screening of his directorial debut, the documentary Saturday Night. The screening took place in New York on Sunday.

“I go to school because I love being around people who are interested in what I’m interested in and I’m having a great experience.”

The varied movie star is currently studying filmmaking at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Back in June 2008, he graduated from UCLA with an undergraduate degree in English, and also enrolled in an MFA writing program at New York’s Columbia University.

“I’m studying things that I love so it’s not like it’s a chore,” Franco said.

And with his film completed, Franco is pretty sure he passed and is not worried about his final grade.

“School is a way to take my other pursuits like directing and writing seriously,” Franco said. “I could go out and make movies and direct movies having not gone to school, but being at school I’m in touch with incredible teachers, incredible writers who are in an environment where they are solely focused helping people in becoming a better director, writer. At film school I know that the feedback is real and honest and only makes you a better filmmaker.”

Jay-Z and Beyonce Surprise Fans at Alicia Keys New York Concert

andPOP Staff — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:48:06 +0000

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Talk about one hell of a bang for your buck! All in one concert - Alicia Keys, Jay-Z, Beyonce, Robin Thicke, Melanie Fiona, and Jermaine Paul. Wow!

That’s what New York City fans were treated to last night at the Alicia Keys concert at Madison Square Gardens, reports MTV News. Before Keys hit the stage, fans were treated to Thicke, Fiona and Paul. Then Keys hit the stage appearing in a chain-wrapped cage, amidst the smoke that slowly flooded the stage.

After a few songs Beyonce surprisingly joined her fellow diva on stage for “Put It in a Love Song” that got fans riled up. And if that wasn’t enough, Jay-Z hit the stage later for “Empire State of Mind.” (see clip below)

That’s a lucky group of fans!

Lil Wayne in Jail in NY but Wanted in AZ

andPOP Staff — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:29:59 +0000

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Wow, Lil Wayne really is a career criminal. Although he is currently in a New York jail for gun charges, Arizona wants him for drug charges stemming from a 2008 arrest.

TMZ reports that Yuma County, Arizona has issued a bench warrant for the rapper. Lil Wayne plead not guilty to the drug charges where DEA agents found 105 grams of marijuana, 29 grams of cocaine and 41 grams of ecstasy pills and a 40-caliber pistol on his tour bus.

He was supposed to be in court today to plead his case. It would be a shame if once he gets out of jail, he will be thrown back in.

Lady Gaga’s Lethal Dress

Angelina Irinici — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:27:34 +0000

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Lady Gaga is known for her outlandish fashion sense, but her travelling getup is a hazard – literally. According The Sun, Gaga’s dress made out of black and yellow tape, was so tight that it brought on early stages of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) – a potentially deadly blood clot in a deep vein.

While on a flight from London to New York, the experienced flight crew told the star that if she did not remove the outfit fast, she would risk long-term damage. A DVT can occur without symptoms, but may be painful, swollen, red, and warm and the superficial veins may become engorged.

An airline source said: “GaGa was a high-risk DVT case so she was advised to change out of her clothes. But the outfit was so cumbersome she needed help changing out of it. She was particularly miffed about ditching her heels. She was wearing them in memory of her friend Alexander [McQueen].”