There are some photographs a really skinny-looking Madonna leaving the Kabbalah Centre in Midtown. The Daily News calls her a "funereal girl...gone from glamorous to cadaverous" while British tabloid The Sun thinks she looks plain odd, wondering if a vacuum sucked "out most of her face." The Material Girl is turning 50 next month, and the Sun also reported that she and Guy Ritchie will renew their vows in England around that time. Her Sticky......

The Post learns that Alex Rodriguez and Cynthia Rodriguez are looking to avoid a public "slugfest" in their divorce proceedings. The source said, "They're going to try and arrive at a settlement so they don't have a very public dispute." Wait, does that mean we won't get any more "details" about A-Rod visiting Madonna to learn about Kabbalah or C-Rod's supposed relationship with Lenny Kravitz? Did they learn something from the Christie Brinkley-Peter Cook divorce......

Alex Rodriguez was spotted at the 40/40 Club not with a purported gal pal but Shaquille O'Neal! Rodriguez and O'Neal are both superstar athletes who are used to the glare of the spotlight--and they happen to share the same divorce lawyer, Ira Elegant (though it's unclear how Shaq's divorce is progressing, since he was seen with his estranged wife recently). A-Rod was hosting a party at the club, and TMZ says the DJ played Madonna......

Cynthia Rodriguez finally broke her silence and decided to present her case to gossip columnist Cindy Adams, who writes, " Cynthia Rodriguez loves her man. Cynthia Rodriguez has no malice...Ask again, you mean she's saying she really still loves her womanizing husband and what comes back is, Cynthia Rodriguez is 'not out to mutilate him.'" Basically, C-Rod wants to fight rumors that she spent $100,000 while in Paris (she says, "I did not spend one......

The breakup of Alex Rodriguez and Cynthia Rodrigeuz's marriage took another nasty turn after she filed for divorce yesterday. The Yankee third baseman's friends told the Daily News that C-Rod spent $100,000 during her trip to Paris. This comes as one of Cynthia Rodriguez's divorce lawyers called A-Rod's much-rumored affair with Madonna "an affair of the heart." Friends for both sides of the couple have been trying to win over the public by leaking......

Cynthia Rodriguez filed for divorce from Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez today in Miami. According to the papers, she claims A-Rod "emotionally abandoned" her and that the marriage is "irretrievably broken" due to his "extra-marital affairs and other marital misconduct." She is looking for primary custody of their two daughters, child support to "maintain the existing lifestyle of the children," and their $12 million home in Coral Gables, Florida, plus paying attorney's fees. Notably, she......

Alex Rodriguez's ex-trainer tells the Post that the superstar athlete is totally besotted--or something else--by Madonna, "Alex, God bless him, is lost...I think he got pulled in by the dark side, if you can say that nicely. He's totally brainwashed." Dodd Romero, his wife, and their daughter spent the past few days in Paris with A-Rod's wife Cynthia, and his revelations supported the "Cynthia thinks Madonna brainwashed A-Rod" line previously mentioned by the Daily News,......

Maybe Cynthia Rodriguez did need a break. The Post spotted the long-suffering wife of Yankees All-Star Alex Rodriguez in the City of Light "beaming with smiles" and looking good, "wearing black, open-toed, high-heeled shoes, tight-fitting blue jeans and a gray hooded top." However, she was not wearing her engagement or anniversary rings. Cynthia Rodriguez, aka C-Rod, has been staying at friend Lenny Kravitz's $10 million Parisian residence. Kravitz has denied that he is having an......

Cynthia Rodriguez might be the most suffering Yankee baseball wife these days (well, this side of Debbie Clemens). According to the Daily News, C-Rod told her friends Madonna is "using Kabbalah to brainwash Yankee star Alex Rodriguez into believing they are 'soulmates'." A friend told the News Cynthia really believes A-Rod and Madonna are involved; C-Rod apparently said, "I feel like Madonna is using mind control over him. I don't recognize the man he's become.......

First, there was talk that Madonna had engaged a divorce lawyer. Then there were rumors Madonna's potential split with Guy Ritchie was due to an affair with Yankee superstar Alex Rodriguez. Now, things have gotten really crazy with suggestions that A-Rod's wife Cynthia has left him for...Lenny Kravitz! Sources told Perez Hilton A-Rod is not having an affair with the Material Girl but he's actually the one being cheated on. The Rodriguezes' troubles have......

The OK! Magazine article which points a judging finger at Madonna and A-Rod's "friendship" is now in print and online (well, partially) for all of those suspect of the pals. NYMag points out the juiciest quote from US Weekly, however, in which a source says the Yankee has been seen heading into Madonna's Central Park West apartment regularly for the past several weeks, staying "as late as midnight." All the doormen are talking, they say!......

Could Yankee and lover of "well-toned, muscular" women, A-Rod, be the cause of the alleged marital problems between Madonna and Guy Ritchie? Radar reports that the issue of OK! Magazine hitting newsstands tomorrow claims the two are having an affair. The pair did go to the same gym last year and share a manager, after all; further proof in the article, Radar assumes, will be given through various "close friends."......

After reports that both Madonna and Guy Ritchie have spoken to divorce lawyers, the Post now says Ritchie will be in NYC this weekend to try to save their marriage. Madonna has been rehearsing for her upcoming tour, and a source says, "It is make or break time for Guy and Madonna...they are both trying to rescue the situation....M has shown a willingness to patch things up [and] he has now decided to fly out......

The Times of London reports the Material Girl has spoken to a divorce lawyer fueling speculation the superstar is ready to dump husband Guy Ritchie. The lawyer, Fiona Shackleton, represented Prince Charles and Paul McCartney in their divorces. Notably, McCartney only gave up about $40-50 million in his divorce settlement, from his $1 billion fortune; Madonna's worth is estimated to be around $600 million--and she may not have a pre-nup. Now, will Madonna come back......

Madonna, who recently stated that NYC gives her the zzz's, was stirring things up in town for an intimate performance last night. Her Madgesty took the Roseland Ballroom stage in front of 2,200 fans, for a show which demanded die-hards wait in line for what turned out to be 60 hours, just for a chance to get into. Fanatics? No. One of them, a Brooklynite, swears, “I’m not fanatical. But I do collect Madonna magazine......

The 2008 Tribeca Film Festival begins April 23rd and runs through May 4th, with over 200 feature length narrative films, documentaries and shorts from around the world. This year also features discussions with filmmakers, music events, a family film series, an ESPN Sports Film Festival and other special presentations. Check out last week's preview of some of the narrative feature films in the festival, or brave the entire program of films.) American Express cardholders have......

Coming to a newsstand near you this Wednesday: Madonna's hate mail to New York City. Well, sort of. In this coming month's issue of Vanity Fair the material girl says New York has lost its magic."It's not the exciting place it used to be. It still has great energy; I still put my finger in the socket. But it doesn't feel alive, cracking with that synergy between the art world and music world and fashion......

AP Photo/Jason DeCrow Oh, to be a confused, sweaty fly on the wall at the Waldorf Astoria last night, when Iggy Pop sang Madonna songs at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Pop and the Stooges covered "Burning Up" and "Ray of Light" in a tribute to the pop queen, who was inducted along with Leonard Cohen, John Mellencamp, The Ventures, and The Dave Clark Five. Introduced by Justin Timberlake, who......

The Columbia University community is currently divided over the controversy involving a professor's possible plagiarism, which has escalated to racial politics. After an investigation, Teachers College administration found plagiarism charges against Madonna Constantine were substantiated and sanctioned the tenured professor of counseling and clinical psychology. Further heightening tensions is last year's still-unsolved incident, where Constantine found a four foot-long noose affixed to her office door. Constantine denies the plagiarism allegations, suggesting she's actually the victim......

This past week things got stirred up at celebrity hotspot Socialista with a bit of a a Hepatitis A scare. Amongst the hundreds urged to get vaccinated were celebrities who attended actor Ashton Kutcher’s 30th birthday party at the bar; those on the Hepatitis A-list included Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow. When health officials checked out the joint, they found no traces of soap, meaning the infected bartender was handling garnishes and glasses to the patrons......

The Columbia Teachers College professor who was in the news last year when a noose was found on her office door angrily denied she plagiarized others' work. Madonna Constantine, who the Teachers College sanctioned after a year-and-a-half investigation, will appeal the charges. Constantine, who remains a tenured professor, issued a statement, calling the memo (released to TC faculty) discussing sanctions "premature, vindictive, and mean-spirited," lacking "sensitivity and due process." She wondered "whether a White faculty......

After a year-plus long investigation, Columbia Teachers College has sanctioned a professor for plagiarism. And the professor happens to be Madonna Constantine, the professor who found a noose on her office door last fall. The Columbia Spectator got confirmation that the Teachers' College “found numerous instances in which she [Constantine] used others’ work without attribution in papers she published in academic journals over the past five years: "Prompted by complaints from students and one former......

If you've been following the Julian Schnabel-branded apartment building, Palazzo Chupi, then you might be interested to learn that the remaining two units went on the market today. What's not good enough for Bono and Madonna may just be good enough for you! So if you've had your savings earmarked for that perfectly pink West Village apartment that you can call home, The NY Times has the listing and Curbed has the floorplan; here are......

Confetti, by Swifty at flickr Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a large fight at an election on Eldert Ln. in Brooklyn, a stolen DHL truck on Crown St. in Brooklyn, and a child stabbed on 220th St. and 133th Ave. in Queens. Brownstoner notes that the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce is looking for nominations for the best buildings in Brooklyn. Staten Island Assemblyman Michael Cusick wants 17-year-olds to have the right to vote in......

It's all in an Upper West Side day for the Material Girl! The tabloids have reported that Madonna is suing her co-op, claiming the board blocked her attempt to buy a neighbor's apartment. Madonna has a 6,000 square foot apartment at Harperley Hall at 41 Central Park West - a duplex with hair salon and gym. The summons filed in Manhattan Supreme Court accuses the board and Midboro Management of "breach of contract...and orders......

EVENT: This is pretty...interesting. The Sprinkle Brigade "unveils the future of Urban Beautification. Their upcoming show entitled, 'EQUIPPED' at the Riveria Gallery, focuses on the cutting edge in dog poo decoration." The brigade say the "art form" came about after spending "several years of experience wandering the streets of New York, decorating what most people consider to be the enemy." The opening is tonight and the show runs through the 23rd. Leave the pooper scooper......

The gasps you heard in front of certain American television sets Wednesday were because Project Runway's second episode packed a wallop. After American icon challenges during season 2 and 3, the fourteen remaining designers speculated this year's fashion icon could be Madonna, Britney ("she needs help," according to the severely coiffed Christian, who interned at Vivienne Westwood and Alexander McQueen) or Snow White, it's possible that the actual icon was better than their dreams:......

Pitchfork-approved blog darlings Tokyo Police Club have spent the last year and change transitioning from flavor of the month boy band to reputable musicians with an enviable knack for short, hook-happy hits. On Thursday night these clever Canucks will have the chance to further extend their fan base when they perform at the “Woodie” Awards; they’re nominated for a “Breaking Woodie”. Broadcast on the 24-hour college network mtvU, the award show will feature performances by......

Hundreds gathered for the funeral of Linda Stein, who once managed musicians like the Ramones and later became a real estate broker "to the stars." Stein was found bludgeoned in her Fifth Avenue apartment on Tuesday, and her daughter Samantha Stein-Wells made tearfully shared a promise she and sister Mandy Stein made, "I had to see her one last time. One last time to see what this bastard had done to her. And we stood......

As the NYPD Hate Crimes unit, as well as the FBI and Justice Department, investigates the noose found outside a Columbia professor's office, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly commented about the school's cooperation. Apparently the school only turned over surveillance videos after the NYPD provided a subpoena - three days after the noose was found on Teachers College Professor Madonna Constatine's office door knob. Columbia said that educational institutions require subpoenas, because they are dealing with......