We think NYC area hospitals should be on alert: TMZ reports that Britney Spears is headed to NYC. Well, if not NYC, something close:"Spears left Van Nuys Airport at 4:00 PM PT this afternoon. We're told Brit Brit, Adnan and one other male passenger were on the plane. The plane is about to land at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey. Next stop ... unknown."Coupled with earlier TMZ reports about Spears apparently needing treatment for "severe......

Courtney Love wished us all a belated Merry Christmas today via her MySpace blog (which we don't normally check in on, but thankfully Curbed was on the ball). What did Santa bring her? An apartment in the West Village! So really, it's like a present for us all. She stated, in perfectly readable English:i think/hope we foundteh PERFECT plaCE, its a w village 4 floor house 2 floors are being rented by the owners, itllcost......

Courtney Love Performs at Hiro, Doesn't Cause a Scene After GBH announced that Courtney Love was to play a free show at Hiro Ballroom, the biggest question besides what she'd sound like or how badly would Hiro screw up the crowd control, was what type of raucous scandal would Love cause during the set. Would she be trashed? Would she get into a fight? Would she show at all? Well, to the pleasant surprise of......

MUSIC: Courtney Love makes her return to the New York stage tonight for a little birthday celebration show at Hiro Ballroom. The rocker turned 43 on Monday of this week, and there's only one way to see if she's acting her age! Last time she got a little crazy at a suprise show at Plaid, and when she turned 40 she took a trip to Bellevue. 10pm // Hiro Ballroom [371 W 16th St] //......

As we heard last week, Doc Martens released upon the world a new ad campaign starring some familiar faces: Kurt Cobain, Sid Vicious, Joe Strummer and Joey Ramone. The deceased musicians were depicted wearing the shoes in "heaven," but there was no approval for using their images. Courtney Love promptly issued a statement, the ad company was fired and Doc Martens - though apologetic - looked really, really bad. Now Joey Ramone's brother, Mickey......

Courtney Love (who recently sold some of her own stuff on Ebay) has announced she'll be putting almost all of Kurt Cobain's belongings up for auction at Christie's. Love told AOL's Spinner, "I'm going to have a Christie's auction, (My house) is like a mausoleum. My daughter doesn't need to inherit a giant ... bag full of flannel ... shirts. A sweater, a guitar and the lyrics to '(Smells Like) Teen Spirit' -- that's what......

The -ists this week had politics on the brain. And what goes better with politics? Partying-- that's two great tastes in one. Oh, and Kevin Federline...can't forget about Kevin Federline. That's three great tastes in one. -Chicagoist celebrated the election news but cried in their Beer of the Week as Da Bears lost for the very first time. And in continuing with our theme, previewed an actual K-Fed show! -DCist caught the President stumped......

This year, the Today Show's tradition of testing its hosts' fortitude by giving them nutty Halloween costumes did not disappoint. Matt Lauer and Al Roker were Jack Sparrow and Captain Davy Jones from the Pirates of the Caribbean. Yes, that is Al as Captain Davy Jones - he is squidalicious! In years past, Matt and Al have dressed as famous pairs, like Siegfried and Roy, Batman and Robin, and J.Lo and Puffy. We're surprised......

- Streetblogs has Mayor's Bloomberg vision for the city in all its PDF glory - Three cops are accused of falsely claiming a massage parlor was part of a prostitution ring... - ...while authorities closed down some brothels using Korean sex slaves that were part of a national chain - The Avenue Q guys will be writing songs for a musical episode of the TV show, Scrubs: "The fourth one is a song about......

- A study in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine shows that the lungs first responders to the September 11 attacks had the equivalent of 12 years of aging. The study continues to bolster constant claims that the World Trade Center's toxic dust had a deleterious effect on firefighters. amNew York reports the president of the Uniformed Firefighters Association as saying the city needs to help September 11's first responders: "There......

- The off-duty cop who was beaten at White Castle and then shot by a responding officer died today when his family took him off life support - Blacklisted renters may not be as blacklisted anymore! - We feel bad for this NYC public school student who was somehow thrown from the bathroom of a field trip charter bus and landed on the shoulder of the Thruway - If Courtney Love is doing well......

What if Seattle rock legend Kurt Cobain had married a local Pacific Northwestern Phil Collins-loving waitress instead of Courtney Love? And what if the Cobain-esque rock star had left behind one special song when he died, so special that his widow clings to it, not sharing it with the world, and prompting freak groupie types to try to do anything to get their hands on it? Playwright Christopher Shinn (Four, Where Do We Live) runs......

There was a crazy brawl at Plaid on East 13th Street over the weekend - and Courtney Love was not involved! This recipe for disaster seems to be a bunch of men, probably a lot of alcohol (it happened at 4AM), disagreements, and a knife. The Daily news reports one of the injured "was dancing when he found himself in the midst of a brawl. He did not know that three of his friends were......

Downtown resident and rocker Lenny Kravitz is being sued for causing over $300,000 of damage to his neighbor's apartment - after Kravitz's toilet was backed up! One of the toilets in Kravitz's 30 Crosby Street duplex became "blocked, clogged, and congested with various materials." Now, the New York Region > Singer Sued After Toilet Overflow" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/23/nyregion/23toilet.html">NY Times and the Daily News do not divulge what was in the toilet, probably because the lawsuit doesn't detail......

Everyone's favorite yet sad example of a rock chick widow, Courtney Love, pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct for an earlier incident where a concert goer was hit in the head with a microphone she flung off the stage. Love has to pay damages to Gregory Burkett, who suffered cuts, and must stay clean and out of trouble for the next year. Gothamist kind of loves that she asked what would happen if she got arrested......

As the news of recent Emmy winner Cynthia Nixon having a girlfriend these past 10 months, after splitting up with her longtime partner and the father of her two children, Gothamist wants to chip in our two cents: We love you and want you to be happy, Cynthia. [We do have a caveat of "happy means not hurting people in a Michael Jackson-Courtney Love-Robert Blake kind of way."] Cynthia has been acting for a long......

Following up on MX's arrest in June, Gothamist shook our head as we read about his court appearance. DMX and a friend had been arrested for impersonating federal agents and trying to carjack someone's car at JFK. They didn't manage to steal the car, but were arrested when they exited JFK parking without paying, and police found weapons and drugs in the car. Nice one, DMX. So, back to the present, yesterday when DMX was......

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Martha Stewart was sentenced to 5 months in prison, 2 years probation, and a $30,000 - plus a home confinement period with electronic bracelet (Stewart chose her Bedford, Maine house). Pundits are saying that this is a "downward departure" from the estimated 10-16 months many were thinking she would get. Apparently the judge showed "compassion." The funny thing is that pundits wonder if this is "a win" for Martha. The lady was found guilty is......

Courtney Love took turning 40 to the next level, by being hauled out by the EMT in handcuffs, after what the Post calls an "abortion" drama. The Post says that a woman called 911 from Love's apartment, saying there was a miscarriage; earlier, Love was saying in her lobby "today is my birthday and I had an abortion." Love allegedly babbled to a Post reporter a few days ago that she was pregnant, but who......

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Courtney Love will be coming to town to play SummerStage on June 28. Tickets go on sale today; if you go, you may want to wear riot gear. More SummerStage details here. Courtney Love told reporters after a court appearance (where she plead guilty and agreed to go into drug rehab) that Marc Jacobs gave her lots of clothes. Marc Jacobs also dressed Winona Ryder during her shoplifting trial (Gothamist loves lies.com's analysis of Winona's......

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Kurt Cobain died ten years ago, and a decade gives people enough time (and evidence) to consider his legacy and think that Courtney Love really killed him. There's a Dateline segment transcript of authors Max Wallace and Ian Halperin contending Courtney Love had more to do with Cobain's death, with an excerpt of their new book, "Love & Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain." The excerpt os of a private investigator who Love hired to......

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Whatever one says about Courtney Love, Gothamist must say she makes good copy. After her antics Wednesday night in New York, the local papers have fun. The Times' Sheila K. Dewan gives great dimension to the story: The drama began during the day on Wednesday when Ms. Love invited the paparazzi to photograph her in the window of her SoHo apartment, where she strummed the guitar like a tranquilized Rapunzel.Dewan also wrote that the whole......

While Law & Order effectively killed off Courtney Love in a Kurt-and-Courtney inspired episode from 2002 (TV Tome description: "Investigating the death of a rock band singer who had large amounts of cocaine and heroin in her system, the detectives question a former boyfriend who was a disgruntled band mate of her late husband"), Gothamist can only hope that another Love-incarnation will arise after her nutty antics last night and early this morning. Our logline......