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Dear Readers: Send Us Your Worst Valentine’s Day Stories!

Cole Perkins — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:19:32 +0000

It’s February 1st, which means we’re only two weeks away from Valentine’s Day—the perfect day of the year to Facebook stalk former flames, or just load up on carbs and reflect on all the horrible dating choices you’ve made in your life. After reading some particularly inspiring V-Day publicity press releases, we started thinking about the unfortunate things that have befallen us on Valentine’s Days past. So let’s share in the misery together: if you have a terrible Valentine’s Day story, send it to tips@gothamist.com before Feb. 10, and we’ll pool all our miserable experiences into a collage of misunderstandings, awkwardness and rejection. Because Cupid Valentino was wrong when he said everyday is the 14th —love truly does hurt that much more on holidays carefully constructed by greeting card companies. [ more › ]

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Celebrity Real Estate: Buy the Home Where Johnny Cash Spent His Very Last Days

Cole Perkins — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:57:00 +0000

Photo via Zillow Blog While not officially on the market, the Hendersonville, Tenn., home where Johnny Cash lived out his life is quietly available for sale. According to Zillow Blog, the house, built by architect Braxton Dickson, was last listed for $595K and is ripely available to interested buyers. The four-bedroom is located directly across the street from the lake house that’s eternalized in the song “House on the Lake,” written by Cash’s eldest daughter, Rosanne (who, just last year, was petitioning the National Trust For Historic Preservation to save her dad’s boyhood home in Arkansas). June and Johnny lived in the lake house, their true spiritual center, for nearly their entire 35-year marriage, but eventually Johnny moved when the lake house proved too difficult to maneuver with a wheelchair. The 3,100-square-foot ranch he retired to was at one point inhabited by his mom. Ready for the next owner: priceless memorabilia, including the Gold Record for “I Walk The Line.” · Tennessee Home Where Johnny Cash Lived His Final Days for Sale [Zillow Blog] · 185 Caudill Dr., Hendersonville, Tenn. [Zillow] · Roseanne Cash Makes a Plea to Save Dad Johnny’s Boyhood Home [Curbed National]

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Gotti Grandson Caught Driving With A Suspended License

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:20:04 +0000

Remember when Victoria Gotti had a reality show about her life with her three sons called Growing Up Gotti ? Yeah, we barely do, too. But we bring this up because one of her boys, Carmine Agnello Jr., got arrested yesterday for allegedly driving with a suspended license. Oops! [ more › ]

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Culturally Ignorant Bloomberg Should Never Start A Book Club

Cole Perkins — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:35:24 +0000

It is safe to say that our billionaire mayor from Boston will not be following in the footsteps of former mayor Ed Koch when he leaves office. Where Koch has spent almost a decade now reviewing movies as a side gig (see: The Mayor at the Movies ), Mike Bloomberg ” once told a friend he had seen only 10 movies in his life. ” Make that 11— he admitted he went to see Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy . [ more › ]

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Newt Gingrich Lied About Offering Witnesses To Rebut "Open Marriage" Claims

Cole Perkins — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:22:35 +0000

Newt Gingrich’s personal friends who were going to rebut his second ex-wife’s “open marriage” claims were his daughters from his first marriage. [ more › ]

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Another NJ Teacher Accused Of Sleeping With A Student

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:07:16 +0000

Another week, another Bergen County, New Jersey teacher accused of sleeping with a student . Lyndhurst High School football coach and phys. ed. teacher Scott Rubinetti was arrested yesterday and charged with sexual assault, child endangerment and witness tampering. Police say that between 2009 and 2010 he had an inappropriate sexual relationship with a senior girl in his charge. [ more › ]

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Remember Cynthia, The A-List Mannequin Who Hit Up NYC’s Hot Spots?

Cole Perkins — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:38:34 +0000

In 1932 the artist Lester Gaba, not unlike Andrew McCarthy’s character in the 1987 classic Mannequin , created Cynthia , a mannequin for Saks Fifth Avenue. Cynthia was “a 100-pound model who had realistic imperfections like freckles, pigeon toes, and even different sized feet.” Five years later, Gaba posed with Cynthia around New York City for a LIFE magazine spread which supposedly “launched the career of an up-and-coming starlet [and] made Cynthia a household name overnight.” [ more › ]

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Video Interlude: Preserving Jazz Legend John Coltrane’s Long Island Home

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:15:00 +0000

Giant of jazz John Coltrane spent the last years of his life in this simple Long Island home, including the seminal moment when he wrote perhaps his greatest masterpiece, “A Love Supreme.” Fifty years later, the house is still standing, if in dilapidated condition, thanks to the efforts of preservationists like Steve Fulgoni. The Coltrane fan staved off a development that would have knocked the place down and has kept the interiors exactly as they were left following Coltrane’s death, from liver cancer, at age 40. The BBC came to profile the property, and left with interviews with Fulgoni and Coltrane’s son Ravi, who remembers his parents building a recording studio in the basement. The ranch house has recently been placed on the National Trust’s list of Most Endangered homes, so check out the video while the place is still standing. · Saving the house of jazz legend John Coltrane [BBC News]

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Happy Dolly Parton’s 66th Birthday, Everyone: Let’s Celebrate!

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:32:00 +0000

Today Dolly Parton turns a youthful 66 years old. We’re a little bit Dolly-obsessed over here, and the country sensation has conquered a lot in her life so far, so why not celebrate? Here’s how you can do that in New York City—where Dolly just finished up a press tour for her latest movie Joyful Noise , and where she’ll be bringing her life story to the stage in a new Broadway musical . [ more › ]

LI Driver Who Killed Cyclist Says Dead Woman Saved Her Life

Cole Perkins — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:29:00 +0000

A Long Island woman was sentenced to one-and-a-half to four-and-a-half years in prison for fatally striking a cyclist while high on prescription drugs. But before the sentence was officially handed down, a sobbing Nicole Shellard had this to say about victim Kathryn Underdown , “You are my angel. I took your life, Kathryn, and you saved mine.” [ more › ]

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