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By Drew Grant 12/26/12 9:00am

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Stars Twinkle on Christmas: How the Tweeters, Beaters and World Leaders Rubbed Their Holiday Spirit All Up in Your Face

Forget about the stockings and the giant tree in your living room. Forget about the ham or, if you’re Jewish, the traditional Chinese take-out to be followed by a matinee. (Which at this point has turned into ordering Thai from SeamlessWeb and trying to find something funny on Roku). Forget about how WTF it was that you didn’t get an iPhone or car this year. (That was SO 2011). Read More

By Drew Grant 11/26/12 1:18pm

Big Apple Idolatry

Big Apple Idolatry: Chris Brown Tweets Fecal Desires, Lindsay Lohan Premieres Dick

– Chris Brown wants to poop and fart on lady comedian; deletes Twitter account.

– Charlie Sheen once gave Lindsay Lohan a check for $100,000 to help out with her IRS “debt,” which is one case of the blinded-by-syphilis leading the blinded-by-syphilis. Read More

By Drew Grant 10/03/12 1:02pm

Big Apple Idolatry

Big Apple Idolatry: Rihanna and Chris Brown’s Bathroom Rendezvous, Lena Dunham Makes Girls More Colorful

- Rihanna and Chris Brown were seen making out on the dance floor of Griffin this week before heading into the bathroom together for a steamy session. Guess that restraining order has now been totally dropped? Wonder what she thinks of his neck tat.

- Mariah Carey and Nicki Minaj have caused Read More

By Matt Chaban 9/11/12 4:31pm

Ink

At the 9/11 Memorial, an Appropriate Neck Tattoo

A certain pop star who has no right to be, in light of his outrageous and offensive behavior over the years, recently showed off a neck tattoo of what looks like a battered woman who may or may not be his ex-girlfriend. It is an act that only confirms his sub-humanity, his despicablity, his worthlessness.

Fortunately, there are better people in the world than this. Read More

By Drew Grant 9/11/12 12:29pm

Chris Brown

Chris Brown Gets World’s Worst Tattoo on Neck

Chris Brown is either going through an insane period of self-flagellation, or this is the worst September’s Fools Day prank ever. New photos of the rapper emerged earlier today showing new neck ink that looks suspiciously like the 2009 photo of a badly-beaten Rihanna that was leaked to TMZ.

Is this the star’s way of giving himself a scarlet letter for life? Read More

By Foster Kamer 6/29/12 6:40pm

Re-Openings

Bottle-Fight Famous W.I.P. Nightclub: Back in Business!

After a high-profile shutdown that involved a nexus of outrage gathering local politicians, celebrities, and nightlife, the SoHo nightclub that yielded the thrown bottle heard ’round the world—W.I.P., the site of the Drake and Chris Brown brawl—is on the way to re-opening. Read More

By Drew Grant 6/26/12 5:30pm

Celebrity lawsuits

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Chris Brown, Drake, and the carnage of W.i.P. (Getty/Getty/Twitter)

Who’s Suing Who?: A Visual Guide to the Drake/Chris Brown/ W.i.P Charges

New York’s club scene is still dealing with the aftermath of the Chris Brown/Drake row earlier this month at the SoHo underground hotspot W.i.P. The city has shut down the venue for 14 violations following the fight on June 14th, when a barrage of flying bottles and broken glass rained down upon innocent bystanders. Read More

By Drew Grant 6/22/12 1:13pm

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You won't be seeing this at Barclays' 40/40 Club (Patrick McMullan)

W.i.P.’s Bottle Service Bash: The Fallout

After last week’s glass-shattering fracas between Drake and Chris Brown at SoHo’s W.i.P., New York’s nightclub scene might be seeing a dip in bottle service. Hey, we’re not complaining. Read More

By The Editors 6/20/12 9:46am

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Time Out, New York

New York may need a time-out to sit and think about what it’s done. According to Mayor Bloomberg, who has already made it clear that NYC citizens will no longer be able to sneak smoking breaks in the park or in their own homes (or anywhere else, really), he is now worried that we’re all fat people ferrying prostitutes to and fro. Read More

By Foster Kamer 6/18/12 8:00am

IN THE CLUB

What Rihanna Hath Wrought: Deconstructing the NYPD’s Shutdown of Nightclub W.i.P.

So, what’s it take for a club to get shut down by the NYPD these days? Read More

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Stars Twinkle on Christmas: How the Tweeters, Beaters and World Leaders Rubbed Their Holiday Spirit All Up in Your Face

Big Apple Idolatry: Chris Brown Tweets Fecal Desires, Lindsay Lohan Premieres Dick

Big Apple Idolatry: Rihanna and Chris Brown’s Bathroom Rendezvous, Lena Dunham Makes Girls More Colorful

At the 9/11 Memorial, an Appropriate Neck Tattoo

Chris Brown Gets World’s Worst Tattoo on Neck

Bottle-Fight Famous W.I.P. Nightclub: Back in Business!

Who’s Suing Who?: A Visual Guide to the Drake/Chris Brown/ W.i.P Charges

W.i.P.’s Bottle Service Bash: The Fallout

Time Out, New York

What Rihanna Hath Wrought: Deconstructing the NYPD’s Shutdown of Nightclub W.i.P.

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