Twelve Years ago, Joe Torre became the manager of the New York Yankees and guided them to the pinnacle of the baseball world in only his first season at the helm.  When Charlie Hayes made the final out in Game 6 of the 1996 World Series, the Yankees won the world championship for the first time in 18 years.… Click to read more

THE BAND: The Strokes

HOMETOWN: New York City

THEIR DEAL: This indie rock band has been gaining attention for almost a decade now. From having songs on the radio to a drummer with a famous ex-girlfriend (Drew Barrymore), they’re a spotlight favorite.

THE DIRT: That said drummer, Fabrizio Moretti, can’t quite just get his fill with The Strokes.… Click to read more

In light of the news that New York Mets closer Billy Wagner will undergo surgery that will cost him at least one full year, the Mets find themselves without a closer at the back end of one of the most vulnerable bullpens in the league.  Surely, they must shore up this position in the off-season if they wish to improve upon their recent success and enhance their fu… Click to read more

If you haven’t already heard, a 5.4 magnitude earthquake hit just outside Los Angeles yesterday, not causing much damage other than shaking people up a bit. But it did interrupt the filming of Judge Judy. Luckily for you the camera men were wise enough to not get the f**k out of the building like the rest of the audience, capturing the whole thing on tape.… Click to read more

Ashley Dupre, of Eliot Spizer-screwing and Girls Gone Wild fame (her DVD comes out this month), is rumored to be moving from New York to Los Angeles to start her (inevitable) reality TV career. (Haven’t we had enough reality from this woman already?) Though her management denies she’s landed a television deal, a source tells E! that there̵… Click to read more

Fresh off her community service sentence in 2007 for beaming her maid’s face with a diamond incrusted blackberry, Naomi Campbell is back in the courthouse. Apparently, she unleashed the fury on a couple of people after an airline lost her bags.
From CNN.com:
The Supermodel has been sentenced to 200 hours of community service after pleading guilty to… Click to read more

Boys Like Girls used their explosion on the PureVolume“unsigned band” chart to land a major label record deal that has resulted in hundreds of thousands of records sold of their critically acclaimed self-titled album. Just two years ago, Boys Like Girls were playing small venues in the Boston area.  Today, they are gearing up to co-headline a… Click to read more

According to the Associated Press, a massive blaze ignited around 5:15am [PST] this morning at the Universal Studios New York sound stage in Los Angeles, CA, and has spread from there. The flames have already burned one building to the ground and “as many as three blocks of movie facades were destroyed. No one is reported to have been injured in the blaz… Click to read more

Anyone can have a baby these days and that includes a still-not-out-of-the-closet American Idol star, too. That’s right. In case you haven’t heard, pop star, Clay Aiken, is going to be a babydaddy.
But who? How? What?
Yeah. We were wondering the same thing, so here’s the scoop:
Clay has got this record producer/best friend named Jaymes F… Click to read more

Southland Tales is an ensemble piece set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Boxer Santaros is an action star who’s stricken with amnesia. His life intertwines with Krysta Now, an adult film star developing her own reality television project, and David C… Click to read more