Annie Leibovitz Makes Deal With Colony Capital To Manage Debt, Keep Portfolio Huffington Post | NEW YORK — Annie Leibovitz, the photographer who mismanaged her fortune so badly that she faced losing legal rights to some of pop culture's most enduring images, has reached a long-term agreement with a private investment firm to help manage her debt and market her vast portfolio, both side...
Gossip Girls's Taylor Momsen and Blake Lively arrive on set with pocket pooches in tow The Daily Mail | These uptown girls won't leave home without them. Their dogs that is. | Dog lover's Gossip Girl star's Taylor Momsen and Blake Lively both turned up on the show's New York set with their tiny pooches in tow. | Blake decided to bring her brown maltipoo Penny, a cross between a maltese and a poodle,...
When You're Unemployed and Underage Wall Street Journal | The summer job market for teens has been tough for so long that few people under 25 can remember a good year. | The last time summer jobs were easy to snare for adolescents—a decade ago—today's teenagers were still in elementary school....
Pressed by Charters, Public Schools Try Marketing The New York Times | Rafaela Espinal held her first poolside chat last summer, offering cheese, crackers and apple cider to draw people in to hear her pitch. | She keeps a handful of brochures in her purse, and also gives a few to her daughter before she leaves for sch...
Eritrean pleads not guilty to aiding terrorists The Examiner Comments NEW YORK (Map, News) - Evidence collected by the United States against an East African charged with providing support to a Somali terrorist organization linked to al-Qaida includes lengthy statements he made to authorities, a prosecutor told...
Producer admits to attempted Letterman shakedown The Examiner Comments NEW YORK (Map, News) - A former television producer pressured by debt and riven by jealousy admitted Tuesday he tried to extract vengeance and money by shaking down David Letterman in a case that bared the late-night icon's affairs with staf...
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Ban Ki goes to Hollywood The Independent | The next time you see an action hero save the world and get the girl, he may very well be wearing a blue helmet. That, at least, is the latest cunning plan from the United Nation...
New York Wine Expo and Tasting Huffington Post | Last weekend, winos of all stripes made their way to New York's Javits Center at the New York Wine Expo & Tasting. | Each attendee was handed an empty glass and let loose in a ro...
New York's "Miracle on Hudson" pilot retires China Daily | NEW YORK - The pilot who spectacularly landed a crippled U.S. Airways passenger jet in New York's Hudson River last year is retiring, the airline said on Wednesday. | All 155 pas...
Producer Admits to Attempted Letterman Shakedown The New York Times | Filed at 5:31 p.m. ET | NEW YORK (AP) -- A television producer admitted Tuesday to trying to shake down David Letterman in a case that bared the late-night icon's affairs with staffers, avoiding a long prison sentence by pleading guilty in exchange...
Expansion by Big Ten, Pac-10 could force Notre Dame's hand Toledo Blade NEW YORK — Notre Dame wants to remain independent in football, but that might not matter if the Big Ten and Pac-10 decide to expand and create sweeping changes to major college sports. | “Our preference is clear,” Notre Dame athleti...
Politics on a windshield Newsday | 52 m ago By Carl Corry | Save traditional “Just Married” announcements, car messages emblazoned in windows usually show up en force around high school graduation. And there is the occasional political message. | Here’s exhibit A. ...
Amir Khan fighting for Wild Card revenge against Paulie Malignaggi The Examiner | What started as a back and forth affair on twitter has now erupted into a full blown war of words between Freddie Roach and Paulie Malignaggi. | The fight between Amir Khan and Paulie Malignaggi looked to be in trouble because HBO were offering a limited license fee for the fight, and Khan is guaranteed $1 million per fight with his Golden Boy de...
(photo: AP / Lil Wayne performs at the 51st Annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 8, 2009, in Los Angeles)
Lil Wayne to serve jail sentence without protective custody m&c | US rapper Lil Wayne won't get special treatment behind bars – and will serve his year-long jail sentence with the rest of the inmates at New York's tough Rikers Island prison, officials have revealed. | Celebrites at the Jay Z concert held at Madison Square Garden in New York City. - Asadorian-Mejia/Splash | It had been thought that...
