50 Cent Gets Real(ity)

While Kanye West—50 Cent’s one-time rival—makes headlines for his actual music, Fiddy seems content to bask in the comfy glow of reality television (and tie-in consumerism). According to a press release on Nah Right (via Idolator), it seems MTV’s “50 Cent: The Money and the Power” (set to premiere on November 6) Read More

Morning Memo: Sex Stars Tune-Up; Obamas Just Like Us

Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis have both reportedly paid a visit to the doctor shortly after Sex and the City‘s release, opting for a breast augmentation surgery and a varicose vein removal, respectively. [P6]

Barack and Michelle Obama appear on the cover of Us Weekly this week with Mrs. Obama depicted as a Read More

Green Day: March 14, 2008

Read Steve Cohen’s take on the “greening” of the new Mets ballfield and a new green software-helper for Major Leage Baseball. [Steve Cohen]

Johnny Depp, Snoop Dogg, Harrison Ford, and 50 Cent join forces to free Lolita from imprisonment. No, it’s not an action-adventure movie; it’s a benefit concert to free a whale from Read More

The Transom

Who Didn’t Shoot 50 Cent?

On Monday, Nov. 21, a bulky, soft-voiced black man in a brown hooded sweatshirt named Jon Ragin sat in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn. He was offering testimony about one of hip-hop’s most notorious shootings, the May 24, 2000, attack on superstar rapper 50 Cent. The incident—in which 50 was Read More

WOOD WAR XXIII

Who’s winning the battle of the front pages?

The Daily News makes testimony about 50 Cent’s shooting sound like one of those Parade magazine “How I Overcame My Goiter” celebrity profiles. But even a fuzzy and boring Fitty treatment beats blowing out the front page for a house ad for the Post‘s Scooby-Doo promotional comic Read More

This New House. And This One. And This One!

Apparently, once you purchase a $27 million penthouse, completing a massive renovation loses its luster.

Early this year, Alan Meltzer (at left in picture), co-founder and chief executive of

Instead of re-listing the entire apartment as a triplex, Mr. Meltzer put the raw space at 944 Park Avenue on the market with a $7.9 Read More