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SNL Natalie Portman Rap Skit: Shittier Than Actual Rap?

Ellen Page Lesbian Sketch: What Does it Mean?

NBC's Dateline Airs Misleading UFO Footage

Fork in the Road Loves Bussaco in Spite of Herself

"Drunken Negro Face" Cookie Post-Mortem

  Nobody in the neighborhood seemed to notice, and the nannies continued to sweep into the bakery for cookies and milk with their young charges, just picked up from Greenwich Village's P.S. 41 next door. But Lafayette Bakery--which has rather grandly called itself a "French Baker ... More >>

Girls Paid $10/hr to Take Pill, Sleep in Museum

Normally you have to crush it and put it in their drinks when they're not looking, but the New Museum of Contemporary Art is offering to pay local women to take a sleeping pill and crawl into bed for six hours. Per the job application, participants must be between 18 and 40 years of age, and willing ... More >>

Kings Features Some Queens!

NBC's upcoming melodrama Kings--about intrigue and romance in a modern civilization--has a major character who's gay, according to a buzzy buzzy website I've found. He'll even have a big old boyfriend and they'll go to big old gay bars. Don't be a princess--read about it and learn.

76:50 — The lifespan of the anti-Jim-Gray website

NBC's upcoming melodrama Kings--about intrigue and romance in a modern civilization--has a major character who's gay, according to a buzzy buzzy website I've found. He'll even have a big old boyfriend and they'll go to big old gay bars. Don't be a princess--read about it and learn.

Teaching a New Generation of Reporters to Capture Events on Film

Dying news industry? Just shoot it.

Don't Miss USA

Dying news industry? Just shoot it.

Remote Patrol

Dying news industry? Just shoot it.

Our Way to Fall

Are You There, God? It's Me, TV Critic

Tune in to Discover the Unlikely Superstars of the New Games

Are You There, God? It's Me, TV Critic

That '70s Show

'Saturday Night Live' in the post-Tina Fey, YouTube unknown

The Chopping Block Gets Axed

Apparently, we aren't the only ones who can't make ourselves care about NBC's The Chopping Block. After just three episodes, the axe has dropped on Marco Pierre White and his chef'testants. The rub? The network is replacing CB with Law & Order: Criminal Intent reruns. Ouch. [Eat me daily]

Hey, Did You Notice That Was a Matt & Kim Song in the Promos for the NBC Fall Comedy Community?

Just about fell off the couch last night, when parked in a post-Siren stupor I heard Matt & Kim's "Good Ol' Fashioned Nightmare" wafting from the TV. But there it was--the stadium-bleacher foot-stomp, Matt's soaring Ahhhhhhhhhhs, the joyous piano tinkling--scoring a 30-second spot for the upcoming ... More >>

Kerik Moved Out of Mental Health Unit of Jail

Or, as NBC has it, "Kerik is Sane, Judge Rules." Guess he's okay, then. His admission to the Mental Health Forensic Unit of Westchester County Jail 10 days ago was described as voluntary, and examining doctors have found him no threat to himself or others. NBC provides the letter. Kerik was jailed ... More >>

Bloomberg Wins

With less than ten percent of districts reporting, NBC called it for Bloomberg, so hey, why not. The Post with 22 percent of the vote has it neck and neck. We'll take the risk. "Upbeat mood at Bloomberg Hq," says Michael Harris. The Mayor will probably appear soon to receive their plaudits and gi ... More >>

Pregnant Padma Guests on 30 Rock

Padma Lakshmi demonstrated her acting skills once again on NBC's 30 Rock last night. "Men always tell me I'm very funny," she confesses to Jack Donaghy. So, whatever happened to those sitcom plans?

Hark, Another Food-Based Reality Show: The United Plates of America

​NBC is unleashing another food-based reality show upon the viewing populace, and thanks to the title alone, it's already a groaner.

Jawbox Played Jimmy Fallon's Show, And It Was Pretty Rad

Way way more on this later, but let's just say NBC studios hosted an impromptu D.C. punk reunion yesterday, both for Jawbox's actual performance of "Savory," above, and the coupla bonus tunes they played at a super-awesome, super-weird lunchtime sound-check, below. Way more on this later.

Under the Toque: Daniel Boulud to Man a Food Truck (For a Day); The Real Deal Behind Celebrity Chef Hotel Restaurant

​Christina Tosi, the pastry chef for the Momofuku empire, was named as one of T Magazine's Nifty Fifty, a roundup of "America's up-and-coming talent," for such creations as her signature cereal-milk panna cotta. [T via Eater] Why are so many celebrity chefs opening hotel restaurants? Apparen ... More >>

Jay Leno Takes Over Tonight Show: TMZ

TMZ stakes it, and the world reverberates: Jay Leno is moving to 11:35 on weeknights on NBC. That makes Leno, by the ancient rules of television, the host of the Tonight Show, which has heretofore been Conan O'Brien's job. As O'Brien has refused to change his time slot, barring a coup of angry Cocoh ... More >>

The Award For "Widest Disparity In Quality Between Two Musical Performances On The Same Episode Of Saturday Night Live" Goes To Jay-Z

So this "Betty White on Saturday Night Live" thing -- a rousing success, no? The "Depends" joke you knew was coming was pretty great anyway, right? And then there was Jay-Z, giving one fantastic performance and one fantastically awful one. Dude's got range.

How Could The A-Team Movie Be So Loud, Yet So Boring?

So this "Betty White on Saturday Night Live" thing -- a rousing success, no? The "Depends" joke you knew was coming was pretty great anyway, right? And then there was Jay-Z, giving one fantastic performance and one fantastically awful one. Dude's got range.

Fired General Stanley McChrystal Gets a New Job at Yale

​General Stanley McChrystal has a new high-falutin' academic gig! After that whole whoopsie over the Rolling Stone article in which he was quoted making disparaging comments about President Obama and other White House leaders -- and then fired from his post as commander of the Afghanistan war ... More >>

NYC Is the Most Bedbug-Ridden Place in the USA!

​As Rosie mentioned last week, maybe it's time to accept the bedbugs as our overlords. Personal anecdote: This very blogger walked down 2nd Street on Sunday and saw no less than 6 mattresses waiting in the rain for garbage collectors. Since it's neither the last nor the very first of the month ... More >>

How Did 4Chan and Gawker Get Chris Hansen "Arrested" for Child Molestation?

​Chris Hansen -- the host of NBC's infamous child sex scandal exploitation show To Catch A Predator -- was not arrested for child molestation. Yet "chris hansen arrested for child molestation" is a "volcanic"-level trending Google search, currently ranked in the top spot. How did this happen a ... More >>

Manhattan Pier on Fire

​Manhattan's Pier 97, located at West 57th St. and 12th Ave., lit up on Saturday afternoon, according to NBC News. Though no injuries were initially reported, the three-alarm fire was being battled by 138 firefighters and a Marine 6 fire boat from the river. NBC New York has a live-feed, bec ... More >>

Drunk Pilot Yanked from Delta Flight; His Passengers Could Probably Use a Drink

​A Delta Airlines pilot about to fly from Amsterdam to Newark today was removed from the plane after getting a .023 percent on his blood alcohol level test, which is just over the legal limit in the Netherlands. In the U.S., where the pilot is from (Woodbury, New Jersey, to be exact), drunk dr ... More >>

Week of Media Shitcanning Madness Continues: CNN's Jon Klein, NBC's Jeff Zucker

​Locally, we've seen some pretty intense media cannings take place, specifically at the New York Daily News, which also goes without mentioning Katy Perry being booted off Sesame Street. Well, this morning, news went wide of two more big ones: CNN president Jon Klein is out, and NBC-Universal ... More >>

New TV Fad: Bagging on Public Education

After the "Race to the Top" results caused so much buzz this summer and the release of Waiting for Superman seems to have parents fuming this fall, NBC news has been the latest outlet to get on the education bandwagon, with its sprawling "Education Nation" mutli-platform line-up. NBC has already ... More >>

Hiram Monserrate in Trouble Again: This Time, It's the Feds

​Hiram Monserrate, the already scandal-scarred former Queens pol who spent much of last year as a defendant in the assault case against his girlfriend, is headed back to court today to face corruption charges. The Daily News and NBC NY are reporting that the ex-state senator, ex-city councilm ... More >>

MSNBC to Sub-In for Olbermann With Nation Editor Chris Hayes...Who Should Also Be Immediately Suspended! (UPDATED)

​The New York Times' Brian Stelter just Tweeted that Keith Olbermann will be replaced tonight on MSNBC by The Nation's Washington editor Chris Hayes, who has been a guest host on MSNBC previously. On that note, Chris Hayes should probably be suspended. UPDATED.

Jenn Sterger Really Doesn't Want to Sue Brett Favre; Royals Attacked!; Jim Morrison Gets Posthumous Pardon

​• Jenn Sterger, who allegedly received photos of Brett Favre's penis by text, would simply like him to be punished, and won't sue if the NFL will "implement a program" to prevent such unwanted advances as those she faced by cell phone. Oh, honey. These are professional athletes we're talkin ... More >>

New Yorkers Eating Worse, With More Denial; Sidewalk Sinkhole on Delancey; Fires Break Out in East Village

​• New Yorkers (and Americans in general) are eating worse than they think they are, according to a new Consumer Reports poll. 90 percent said their diets were healthy, and yet ate a bunch of crap. And then there are those of us who know full well our diets are not healthy. Two slices of col ... More >>

Rep. Peter King Was Mailed a Bloody Pig's Foot

​Long Island Republican Peter King, the congressman behind the disgraceful hearings on the threat of Islamic "radicalization" and a one-time passionate supporter of the I.R.A., was sent a bloody pig's foot in the mail, according to a "Capitol Hill source," NBC is reporting this evening. The pa ... More >>

WNBC Blows The Lid Off The Whole Auto-Tune Story

"From Ke$ha to Indie singer Bon Iver to reality sensations like Rebecca Black and Real Housewife Kim Zolciak," notes WNBC reporter Katie Tur, "artists across the board are using Auto-Tune -- that handy audio tool that makes even the most dreadful voices sound musical -- and other devices to either s ... More >>

Sarah Palin and Donald Trump Will Dine Together in NYC Tonight

​Sarah Palin's top-secret bus tour will include a stop in New York City tonight, where she'll visit her friend and fellow Republican/reality TV-star Donald Trump at his apartment in Trump Tower before heading out for dinner with the onetime possible rumored presidential contender. Ah, to be a ... More >>

Conan O'Brien and the Tiny Violin

​Sarah Palin's top-secret bus tour will include a stop in New York City tonight, where she'll visit her friend and fellow Republican/reality TV-star Donald Trump at his apartment in Trump Tower before heading out for dinner with the onetime possible rumored presidential contender. Ah, to be a ... More >>

Connecticut Woman Bites Off Attacker's Tongue

​A Stamford, Connecticut woman fought off a would-be sexual assailant Thursday night by biting his fucking tongue off. No pepper spray, no Mace, no stabbing with car keys: just nerves of steel and the ability to bite clean through someone's tongue. The woman was attacked around 10 p.m. in an a ... More >>

Rapping Man Climbs Times Square Light Pole For MTV's Attention

via​Forty-fourth Street and Seventh Ave. was momentarily exciting early this afternoon when a man climbed a light pole in Times Square and refused to come down for more than an hour. He sat atop the traffic pole from about 9:30 a.m., the Times reports, until police took him into custody at aro ... More >>

Terrorists Want to Ruin Your Summer Vacation With Body Bombs

That bikini trick may not work this time.​As if you didn't have enough to worry about in life, your TSA pat-downs are about to get even more intimate after new intelligence has revealed that terrorists once again want to put bombs in their own bodies so as to ruin all of our fun this summer. A ... More >>

Bear Bile, Gallbladders Banned in NYC

​Though its passage was largely overlooked because of issues like equality among humans, the New York State Senate also voted this year to ban the "possession, sale, barter, offer, purchase, transportation, delivery or receipt" of bear bile, which is -- along with the animal's gallbladder -- u ... More >>

Man Attempting to Jump Off Roof of 30 Rock Has Been Rescued (Updated)

via @Durrellojello​A man is attempting to jump off the 70th floor of 30 Rockefeller Plaza, the FDNY confirmed. There is currently a fire engine and EMS on the scene. People at NBC have been discussing the situation on Twitter -- including @Durrellojello and Luke Russert. @Durrellojello explain ... More >>

Me Alert! I'm On NBC Today!

Wolfgang Wesener​I'll be on NBC's New York Live, which airs from 3 to 4 PM, talking about my new book (everybody now: Fork on the Left, Knife in the Back). I'll no doubt also touch on celebrity gossip stories and the fact that we just launched into the madcap glitter of Fashion Week and tonig ... More >>

9/11 Memorial Spells Victim's Name Wrong

​Jeffrey Schreier, a victim of the September 11 attacks who worked at Cantor Fitzgerald, had his name inscribed, along with the names of the 2,982 other victims, in the bronze memorial at Ground Zero. His family went there on Sunday to pay respects and grieve, located his name . . . and found ... More >>

Helicopter Has Crashed in the East River Bearing Five Passengers [Updated]

​ According to reports, a helicopter has gone down in the East River. NYPD divers have rescued four people and one is reportedly unconscious -- we haven't heard reports of the fifth person's status. Police spokesman Paul Browne told the AP that the private Bell 206 helicopter plunged into the ... More >>

Person of Interest Questioned in Queens Firebomb Attacks; Surveillance Video Released [Updated]

Surveillance video and a police sketch of the suspect in the Queens firebomb attacks that took place Sunday night have been released, and police are reportedly now questioning a person of interest. The attacks involved Molotov cocktails made from Starbucks bottles; they struck the Imam Al-Khoei Fou ... More >>

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Surveillance video and a police sketch of the suspect in the Queens firebomb attacks that took place Sunday night have been released, and police are reportedly now questioning a person of interest. The attacks involved Molotov cocktails made from Starbucks bottles; they struck the Imam Al-Khoei Fou ... More >>