It would seem that Courtney Love has a private Twitter account ( @cbabymichelle ) reserved for things that should probably actually be reserved for a diary or personal phone call. Like this thing last night when she accused former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl of hitting on (and possibly sleeping with) Frances Bean, the daughter of Courtney and the late Kurt Cobain. The two are about 24 years apart, and the age difference is actually the least creepy thing about this, if it’s true. Grohl first knew Frances Bean as a newborn baby, and once her father died one would imagine that anyone close to the family at that time would take on a more family-type role? [ more › ]
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Courtney Love J’accuse! Did Dave Grohl Sleep With Frances Bean Cobain?
A six-year-old boy was killed yesterday in Salem, Connecticut after he was pulled into a wood chipper while helping his father clear out brush. The Hartford Courant reports that Jeffrey Bourgeois became entangled around 8:45 a.m. after he picked up a branch and attempted to load it into the machine. His two older siblings witnessed the incident, which a state policeman called, “a horrible, tragic accident.” [ more › ]
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Connecticut Boy Killed After Being Pulled Into Wood Chipper
Even when failing a test—with a score of 55%—still meant passing, 44% of New York City high school students still managed to flunk the Global History Regents exam last year. The statewide exams, first issued in 1865, are administered to gauge student achievement and college preparedness. This year the passing bar has been raised higher , from 55% to 65% and educators fear that the higher test-score expectations could result in lower graduation rates. [ more › ]
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Harder-To-Pass Regents Has Educators Fearing Mass Failure
Actor Clint Eastwood has sued Evofurniture for producing and selling products bearing his name, such as the “Clint 47″ entertainment center. It may sound like Eastwood’s just flattering himself, but the furniture company marketed the piece with: “makes your family room alone look like you live in a perfect world of a million dollar baby.” [The Hollywood Reporter via Apartment Therapy ]
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Here’s another reason why college newspapers should probably leave the satire to the professionals : a satirical piece titled “What about the good things Hitler did?” which appeared in a Rutgers paper has sparked a boatload of controversy. The fake opinion piece was published in The Daily Medium —a snarky, satirical paper which bills itself as the “Entertainment Weekly of Rutgers”—and it was attributed to Aaron Marcus, a Jewish student activist whose relatives died in the Holocaust. “To say anything praiseworthy of someone like Hitler and to have people actually believe it was coming from me, even in a satirical manner, is just really painful for me and my family,” he told My9TV. [ more › ]
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Satirical Hitler Piece In Rutgers Paper Accused Of “Mainstreaming Anti-Semitism”
60 Minutes veteran Mike Wallace, a pioneer in the form of broadcast journalism, has died at the age of 93. According to the Times, Wallace died in New Haven Connecticut, and CBS’s Bob Scheiffer said “his family was with him.” Wallace had been ill for several years, and underwent triple bypass surgery in 2008. [ more › ]
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60 Minutes Journalist Mike Wallace Dies At Age Of 93
Click here to view the full photogallery. The notoriously loose-tongued 60 Minutes broadcaster Andy Rooney raised his family in Rowayton, a wealthy section of Norwalk on Connecticut’s Gold Coast. Now the 2,400-square-foot four-bedroom that he and his wife, Marguerite, bought in 1950 is on the market for the first time since Rooney’s November death, the Wall Street Journal reports. Of course the listing, asking $749,500, doesn’t shy away from its famous former owner: “JUST WHAT YOU WOULD EXPECT ANDY’S HOME TO BE,” it shouts, “LARGE ROOMS, HIGH CEILINGS, FULL OF NOOKS AND CRANNIES.” (Because Rooney liked to play hide-and-seek?) There’s also a kitchen fireplace and a woodworking shop down below. Despite the obvious updates needed there appear to be some nice bones, but surely Rooney, ever the ranter, would offer the lion’s share of acerbic bon mots about the place if he were still alive today. · Andy Rooney’s Rowayton, Connecticut Home Goes on the Market [WSJ] · 254 Rowayton Ave., Rowayton, Conn. [Prudential CT Realty]
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On the Market: Andy Rooney’s Connecticut Family Home Hits the Market
This afternoon, the family of Shereese Francis, a 30-year-old woman with a diagnosed mental illness, held a press conference at 1 Police Plaza demanding accountability for her death at the hands of police officers on March 15th. A disoriented Francis suffocated in her Jamaica, Queens home as officers attempted to handcuff her—they had been called to the home by her family, who had requested medical attention. Francis was apparently frightened and confused when officers arrived at her home and pleaded for them to leave while threatening to “call the cops.” [ more › ]
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Did The NYPD Suffocate A Mentally Ill Woman To Death While Trying To Cuff Her?
Have you been laying awake at night wondering if the smell of bacon was still torturing the East Village residents living by IHOP’s newish 14th Street location? Might want to try some Ambien, cause folks over there are still sizzling like a thick slab of pork over a hot grill regarding the “stench.” [ more › ]
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East Village IHOP’s Bacon Smell Still A "Problem" For The Locals
And the award for silliest criminal of the young week goes to—drum roll, please—21-year-old Marques Hoskins, who is accused of stealing a woman’s cellphone and then, when she reached out to it with a text message, trying to hit her up for a date. Also, cash. [ more › ]
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Cops: Silly Thief Offered To Return Phone For A Date, Cash