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John Theissen Needs Our Help
The John Theissen Children's Foundation has been helping people on Long Island for over 21 years, and now John needs our help himself. The John Theissen Children's Foundation Fun Center suffered severe damage from Hurrican Sandy and the February blizzard. The Wish Room and Art and Crafts Room were partially ...
RIP Disney Legend Annette
While Britain mourns the Iron Lady, we mourn a mouseketeer. Annette Funicello died yesterday at age 70 after a long battle with multiple sclerosis. Whether you watched her on the Mickey Mouse Club in the 50s, in the Beach Party movies in the 60s, or Skippy Peanut Butter commercials in ...
SNL Takes on the Rutgers Basketball Scandal
The very funny Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids, Identity Theft) hosted Saturday Night Live this week and satirized the Rutgers basketball scandal that cost coach Mike Rice his job for abusing players in practice. In a very funny skit, McCarthy played tyrannical women's basketball coach Sheila Kelly at fictional Middle Delaware State ...
Roger Ebert's After Life Review of "Human Existence"
Iconic film critic Roger Ebert died yesterday and in typical Ebert style the first thing he did when he got to heaven was to send down his review of human existence. http://youtu.be/TwJExYWhRSU But instead of filing the report with his long time newspaper home, The Chicago Sun Times, it was published in ...
Billy Joel Comeback?
It's been 3 years since Billy Joel toured and he told Rolling Stone magazine that he's contemplating hitting the road again. http://youtu.be/YPXUI1YkEDI Billy's testing the waters by playing a few festival gigs, but he told Rolling Stone, "I'd like to do more songs that weren't hits. I got tired of ...
It's Official Leno's Out Fallon's In
http://youtu.be/YS0jVU8fLc4 After weeks and weeks of rumors, NBC made it official yesterday, Jay Leno will wrap up his 22-year run as host of the Tonight Show in spring 2014, and Jimmy Fallon will replace him. But wait a minute, haven't we been through this before? In search for a younger ...
Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora at War!
http://youtu.be/TPmCv8U8dBo According to TMZ this morning, Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora didn’t leave the “Because We Can” tour to go back into re-hab (like he did in 2011) sources close to the band say the Jon and Richie just don’t get along! TMZ says Jon treat Richie “like crap” and ...
It’s Official: The Stones are Comin’ Back for More!
Unfortunately, they’re not comin’ back here! Not yet anyway. The Rolling Stones, announced today that their “50 AND COUNTING” tour will return to North America beginning in Los Angeles at the STAPLES Center in May (Date TBA pending NBA/NHL playoff schedules), followed by performances in Oakland, San Jose, Las Vegas, ...
Paul McCartney Returns
Macca's back! Paul McCartney has been announcing his "Out There" tour stadium dates a few at a time. He'll perform three dates in Brazil in May, and headline the Bonnaroo Festival in Tennessee in June, and it's just been announced that he'll return to Fenway Park in Boston on July 9th. Tickets for the ...
Bon Jovi Bombshell!
Bon Jovi is 20 dates into their "Because We Can" tour and JBJ guitarist Richie Sambora has dropped out of the tour, at least for the time being. It seems like the band is trying to play down the announcement by posting this simple two line statement on their website: "Due to personal issues, Richie Sambora will not be ...
Today is World Autism Awareness Day
Actually the entire month of April is Autism Awareness month, but today has been designated World Autism Awareness Day. Autism affects 1 in 88 children, 1 in 54 boys, and if autism hasn’t affected your immediate family odds are you know a family that it has affected. I have met ...
Remember the Soaps? 50 Years of General Hospital!
Iconic TV soap opera General Hospital premiered on ABC 50 years ago today, and is still going strong! It wasn't too long ago that the daytime soaps were an endangered species, but according to blogcritics.org "The show is better than ever thanks to Executive Producer Frank Valentini and Head Writer Ron Carlivati. Excitement, ...
Baseball's Back!
Yay! It's been a long winter, but all is right with the world today (for a little while anyway) 'cause it's opening day! Now play ball! Check out USA Today's top ten list ofthe best things about openeing day here. George Carlin explains the difference between baseball and football. ...
Watch Heart and Jason Bonham Perform Stairway to Heaven for Led Zeppelin
Heart and Jason Bonham performed Stairway to Heaven together when Led Zeppelin received their Kennedy Center honor last December. The performance is remarkable and brought tears to Robert Plants eyes. Jason Bonham said one of the best parts of the whole thing was the fact that Robert, Jimmy and John ...
Car Lovers Porn
It's like porn for car lovers, The NY International Auto Show opens to the public today at the Javits Center and runs through April 7th. It features 1,000 vehicles plus the latest in tech, safety and innovation in nearly 900,000 sq ft. Cars making their debut at the show include: ...
Check Out Jon Bon Jovi's Amazing NYC Apt
Jon Bon Jovi is selling his New York City apartment for $42 million dollars. It's a 7400 square foot duplex penthouse in Soho witha private elevator and features 5 bedrooms, 5 1/2 baths, 2 fireplaces, 2 kitchens and not one but THREE terraces. Judging from the pictures it looks like ...
Van Halen Working with David Lee Roth is Like an "overwhelming sense of coming home"
Van Halen will perform at the Stone Music Festival in Sydney, Australia next month, and Eddie and Alex talked with Australian radio station Triple M. When asked if it’s good to have singer David Lee Roth back in the group, Alex responded, "It's like you walk into the studio and ...
Free Lunches Good for GnR
On this date in 1986, starving LA artists Guns N’ Roses inked a deal with Geffen records. Former GnR bassist Duff McKagan spoke to the Vh1 Radio Network about that time 27 years ago. “The funny thing about leading up to getting signed was there became this bidding war. Like ...
On the 40th Anniversary Here’s 40 Fun Facts About Dark Side of the Moon
Sure it’s iconic and it shattered all records for years (forget weeks) spent on the Billboard charts, but did you know that “Dark Side of the Moon” is not Roger Waters favorite Floyd album? He prefers The Wall, while David Gilmore favors “Wish You Were Here.” Did you know that ...
Ramone Alone
C.J. Ramone is making some rare Long Island appearances with his band this weekend. He’ll be at Sinclair’s Pub, 419 Great East Neck Rd in West Babylon tonight (3/22) and at Do You Want To Dance, 2628 Gerritsen Avenue in Brooklyn Saturday night (3/23). Guests with him are Steve Soto ...
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