Back in the summer of 2009 , the Tony Awards got dangerous when Poison lead singer Bret Michaels was clotheslined by a descending piece of scenery. Cut to present day—Michaels and the Tonys have agreed to settle his lawsuit out of court. And the video of the clotheslining is still as good as it was in 2009 (see below). [ more › ]

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Bret Michaels Settles Over 2009 Clotheslining Incident At Tony Awards

Last week Sunny Bak held the opening for her new show at the Ivy Brown Gallery on Hudson Street in Manhattan, about eight blocks from her old studio, where her friends the Beastie Boys filmed their video for “Fight For Your Right (To Party)” (add 876 Broadway to the walking tour ). The show, Solid Gold Hits: A Tribute to the Beastie Boys , is a collaboration with Cey Adams , who did a lot of the band’s design and artwork, one of the first being the lettering that spelled out Beastie Boys on the album cover of the 1983 release Cooky Puss . The opening party for their show was held on May 3rd, and sadly, at 9 a.m. the next morning , Adam “MCA” Yauch succumbed to the cancer he’d been battling for three years. [ more › ]

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Beastie Boys Photographer Dusts Off Decades-Old Photos For NYC Art Show

It’s fair to assume that the “most kick-ass fucking roommate that ever lived” has had a long and prosperous nine months. As you recall, he’s the 25-year-old who put out an F-bomb-laced Craigslist ad looking for a housing share in San Francisco last August. Calling upon his experience as a “professional marketing agent with experience at bad-ass companies in New York Fucking City,” the MKaFRTEL, as he shall henceforth be called, extolled a long list of selling points to prospective roommates: “I’ll fry green tomatoes, cover them with marinated crab meat and smother that shit in bearnaise. EVERY. GODDAMN. NIGHT.” He also demonstrated his racism-less worldview: “A lot of people ask me, ‘Hey, you’re from Alabama. Are you racist?’ And, the answer to that question is, no. I’m not racist or judgmental at all. I love everyone. I’m a secular humanist. I FUCKING LOVE PEOPLE.” Anyway, it seems humor site Funny or Die has found the MKaFRTEL. Watch the parody below. The Video: The Best of Craigslist Vol. 4: Best. Roommate. Ever. – watch more funny videos · “Most Kick-Ass Fucking Roommate That Ever Lived” Seeks Home [Curbed National] · The Best of Craigslist Vol 4. Best. Roommate. Ever. [Funny or Die]

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Craigslist Chorales: World’s "Most Kick-Ass Fucking Roommate," Now on Video

In the video, Shadow program director Susan Murphy—who was probably like the 1980s version of NY1′s Jamie Shupak —says the “catchy traffic lingo” of the time was: bumper to bumper (“that’s a biggie”), bottlenecks, and residual delays. So little has changed… one might say it seems like catchy traffic lingo has been at a standstill for decades. [ more › ]

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Video: A Look Back At NYC’s Shadow Traffic In 1980

Yesterday, JP Morgan Chase chairman Jamie Dimon had excruciating calls with analysts, admitting that a series of April trades—by a mysterious person nicknamed the “London Whale” —had resulted in a $2 billion loss for the investment bank. Bloomberg News says the loss “jeopardiz[es] Wall Street banks’ efforts to loosen a federal ban on bets with their own money.” [ more › ]

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$2 Billion Of "Grievous" Trading Mistakes: JP Morgan Chase Takes Huge Loss

Yikes: The Buffalo Police Department released this video of an 18-year-old man being struck by a hit-and-run driver, and it’s pretty intense. It shows Victor Jerez and two other men walking in the street; they see a car coming, so they rush to the sidewalk. But the driver comes barreling onto the sidewalk, hitting Jerez and sending him flipping through the air. [ more › ]

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Crazy Video Of Speeding Car Striking Pedestrian, Sending Him Flying

Today in mindblowing: Polish architects Irek Glowacki and Marek Rozhanski have built an upside-down house in Western Austria. Not only does the place look inverted from the outside—let’s face it, that’s nothing new —but all the contents (furnishings, lamps, rugs, accessories, rugs, kids’ toys) are arranged in reverse. The floor’s on the ceiling, the ceiling’s on the floor, and so on. Obviously nobody actually lives in it—although could you imagine?—but rather the architectural marvel was designed as a tourist draw. Watch the video below. The Video: · Austria – in an upside down house [YouTube via Gizmodo ]

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Video Interlude: Come Take a Tour of This Crazy Upside-Down House

[UPDATE BELOW] Over the weekend, many musicians, artists and other notables shared their remembrances of the late great Adam Yauch , the musician and filmmaker known worldwide as MCA. The Mets walked out to Beastie Boys songs before Friday night’s game, and there was a beautiful Yauch tribute on the MSG scoreboard during yesterday’s Knicks game. And yesterday comedian Neal Brennan, who co-created and co-wrote the Chappelle Show , shared this video that never aired, from the series’ aborted third season. It features Beastie Boys performing “The New Style” on a boat in New York City’s East River. Earlier today, the video was taken down for violating Viacom’s evil sensibilities, but now it’s back up… for now. [ more › ]

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Beastie Boys Perform On Boat In East River For Previously Unseen Chappelle Show Clip

In case you were wondering what Charles Grodin thought about Post columnist Phil Mushnick’s Jay-Z-Brooklyn Nets musings (“Why the Brooklyn Nets when they can be the New York N——s? The cheerleaders could be the Brooklyn B—-hes or Hoes.”), today is your lucky day. The actor writes in his Daily News column , “I know Phil Mushnick. He is a friend of mine, and he is the opposite of a bigot. He is a satirist and satire can easily be misunderstood.” [ more › ]

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Charles Grodin Defends NY Post Writer’s Racist Column, Claims It’s Satire

The former cop who was found guilty of sexually assaulting a teacher was just sentenced to 75 years to life in prison. According to the Post , this means that Michael Pena “must serve at least 75 years before even seeing a parole board.” [ more › ]

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"Gunpoint Rape" Cop Michael Pena Sentenced To 75 Years To Life In Prison