On Thursday night, the newly-minted Top 13 of American Idol had a red carpet party. A celebration before most of them fade back into sad, eternal obscurity. The Roughneck. Megan Joy Corkrey. Potential 13th place finisher? The laboriously hyped Lil Rounds. More Megan Joy (which will totally be her st...

Odetta The All Stars of the Paleo Left — along with a capacity crowd of more than 1,000 that included Woody Guthrie’s daughter Nora and even Jerry Stiller and Ann Meara — turned out at Riverside Church for last night’s memorial service for Odetta, the legendary folk and blues...

Not that charity is ever bad in any form, but Madonna could probably do better than sending old clothes and her own damn children's book to the Malawi orphanage where she found her son, David. Yeah she sent the Home of Hope Orphanage a big box full of David's old clothes, said a source close to the ...

Oh GOD, as if the recession and the layoffs weren't all heart-rending enough, now the poor old geriatric retirees are being forced to shuffle back into the workforce. Why is economic collapse so sad? Now instead of whiling away their "golden" years in a recliner, knitting, while cat hair piles up ar...

A 30-year-old man struggling with heroin addiction committed suicide in Prospect Park last night, after warning in a Facebook status update that it might occur. The onetime aspiring model and actor posted the following message the night before his body was found: Paul Zolezzi is born in San Francisc...

So yesterday's installment of New York magazine's "Sex Diaries" was insane right? It ended in actual domestic abuse. These things used to be kind of filthy fun, but these days they're just scary little downers. If you're unfamiliar with the series, it's basically this: an anonymous person keeps a di...

Entertainment Weekly's recent article on The Reader 's Oscar chances featured a funny/sad quote by Harvey Weinstein, in which he compared himself to Billy the Kid. It's been a popular quote! Because it's very silly. When asked if he was responsible for the anti-Slumdog Millionaire backlash, the "ind...

If you detected an extra pungent smell of Cheetos and Mountain Dew in New York today, it wasn't coming from New Jersey. It's emanating from the Javits Center, home of 2009's New York Comic Convention. Last three from AP, all the rest from Getty...

After two weeks of home treatments, Tobin visited the vet again yesterday for re-testing. I thought we were doing so well with his feedings — two syringes full of food, twice a day, twice the prescribed serving the doc originally suggested! Lately when I hug him, he feels so much fuller and ch...

Have über-socialite Tinsley Mortimer and her hilariously-named hedge fund hubby Topper called it quits? Proving it still has reason to exist, the New York Post's Page Six whispers that it might be so. Wicked! Apparently the couple is separated, but not yet divorced. Tinsley got upset that Topper wa...