After selling John Lennon’s white suit from the cover of the Beatles’ Abbey Road album for $46K, Braswell Galleries was sued by the suit owner’s former NYC landlord for outstanding rent debt of $21K. That’s what you get for bragging. Whenever you score, everyone wants some money. The memorabilia collector and psychic Biond Fury must have seen it coming.
Responding to rumors that he was briefly kidnapped by Scientologists, scolded or prevented from going on stage after disappearing for over an hour while hosting the Golden Globes, Ricky Gervais posted the following explanation on his blog along with a photo that you’ll just have to click over to see: Read more »
The NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau is investigating cops at the 103rd Precinct in Jamaica for allegedly stealing two guns from their a lieutenant’s office for making them work on the weekend reports the Daily News. The weapons were secured in a locker inside the office, but someone broke in and managed to gain access without cutting the combination lock.
With 1 day to go, the eBay auction for a piece of paper with Banksy’s alleged “true” name reached $999,999 and just got pulled this morning. There were seven bidders with entirely too much faith in a vague reference to tax records and entirely too much money to invest into satisfying their curiosity. Or… this was all a prank. Ha. Ha ha. Read more »
OVERUNDER interior decorates a dilapidated location in Brooklyn with some vandalism. (Photo: overdue undergone/flickr)
For the first time since he was arrested and held for a ridiculous amount of time in prison, dancehall legend Buju Banton returned victoriously to the stage on Sunday night to a throng of very happy fans in Miami. Other reggae greats like Everton Blender, Nadine Sutherland, Freddie McGregor, Gyptian, and Wayne Wonder kicked off the show. Then the man of the hour ignited the adoring crowd. Read more »
A member of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association told Pop Eater’s flacky PR-inspired editor, Rob Shuter, that “Ricky will not be invited back to host the show next year, for sure.” Seriously? Shocking! Especially since the comedian previously said he had no plans on hosting another Golden Globes and therefore promised to push the boundaries, so this really isn’t all that surprising. Read more »
Laurel Nakadate hopped into cars with bloated balding strangers, danced to Britney and played dead in their living rooms, held guns to their temples and strutted in her skimpies on tape. She woke sleeping women and stripped them on tape. She cried, daily, on tape… for art. Read more »
Neighborhood public artist/personality Jim Powers might just be the biggest enemy of the mass reconstruction planned for Astor Place and Cooper Square that will absorb the Alamo cube and its island island and give pedestrians more space to wander and get drunk ‘n’ rowdy. His beloved lamp posts would be clipped and destroyed, but Mosaic Man Jim tells ANIMAL he’s going to fight. (Images: ANIMAL New York and Curbed)
With all the velodromes in England, not sure why Red Bull would even bother building a “mini-drome,” but they did and here’s some footage from one of the events wherein one participant avoids a spill by riding his fixed gear right over another. His name is Chris Akrigg and he ended up winning.
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