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Amazon Abandons Plans for Massive Headquarters in Long Island City After Residents Tell Them to Go Away

Amazon will not be coming to New York's Long Island City in Queens. We will have to go out to the corner and buy...

A Media Era Comes to An End: Jann Wenner Totally Out of Rolling Stone as Penske Media Buys Up Rest of Company

Jann Wenner is out. It's been 51 years since Wenner started Rolling Stone as a broadsheet from San Francisco. It used to fold in half...

(Exclusive) Fyre Festival Dueling Documentaries : How Much Was Con Man Concert Producer Billy McFarland Paid to Be in One, and How?

All the rage this week: watching dueling documentaries on Netflix and Hulu about professional con artist...

Hollywood Awards Circuit Below the Line: GBK Gift Suite Gives Small Vendors, Entrepreneurs Chance to Shine with Celebs

The Golden Globes are over, the Critics Choice Awards have passed, ...

Friars Club Scandal: Director of Club Pleads Guilty in Federal Court to Tax Fraud, US Attorney Says: “No Laughing Matter”

I told you two years ago that the Friars Club was a cesspool of trouble. Today the director of the club, Michael Gyure (sounds like...

Pop Music: A Year After Columbia Records Named New Chief, They’ve Had No Hits at All, With the Exception of Bruce Springsteen on Broadway

The first of the year will mark the anniversary of Ron Perry taking over as president of Sony's Columbia Records. In that time, the...

Kanye West Wants to Shut Down Soho Street After Christmas for Sneakers Launch: Community Board Vote Tonight

Do you care if Kanye West shuts down Greene Street in Soho the weekend after Christmas? If the answer is YES, then head on...

Donald Trump May Have Broken IRS Law By Not Distributing Any Percentage of Funds He Placed in Tax Free Charity

EXCLUSIVE "Donald Trump may have broken the law..." I know, you're thinking, how quaint. But the Donald Trump Foundation-- now under investigation by NY State...

Kanye West Finally Makes a Wise Choice: Postpones His “Yandhi” Album for Second Time

Someone has talked sense into Kanye West. He's postponing his twice schedule "Yandhi" album. First it was going to drop in September, then on...

Exclusive: Hearst Considering Closing Seventeen Magazine as the Company Loses One More Publication to Digital Revolution

The word is that Seventeen magazine may be closing, as early as this month. Calls to Hearst Publications and emails have gone unanswered. Sources...