Go to a Broadway show these days and, no matter how dreary the production, you can usually count on the vast majority of audience members slavishly leaping to their feet for a standing ovation, as if it's a responsibility that comes along with their ticket purchase. So let's be clear: It's not. In fact, as far as we're concerned, during the curtain call it is well within every theatergoer's rights to boo to their hearts' content. But today the genteel NY Times isn't quite so sure if it is. more ›

So the Knicks might not have beaten the Mavericks last night, but sports fans still managed to make something of the game. See, tween heartthrob Justin Bieber was in attendance and apparently Knicks fans aren't "Baby" fans. In the third quarter the Biebs mug was splashed on the big screen and met with... boos. Well, ok, there were apparently a few cheers and a few crying girls as well (we are talking about Justin Bieber). But also booing. more ›

We've already heard of Mayor Bloomberg's post-MLK speech gaffe, but those present say that his speech at the National Action Network's annual Martin Luther King Day event didn't go so great either. He was booed so much when he made his entrance that the beginning of his speech as inaudible, and about a dozen people continued heckling him throughout his speech. (The Wall Street Journal thinks it's residual blizzard anger, ABC 7 thinks its about Cathie Black.) However, he reportedly turned those raspberries into lemonade by the end of the night. more ›

No one will ever know for certain how many of the 60 hours David Blaine actually hung suspended upside-down for. Many spectators witnessed him standing upright, being suspended horizontally and basically just slacking off on his mind-exploding magician duties. A collective "yawn" was heard throughout the city as the 60 hours went on, and last night ABC aired the grand finale: the Dive of Death. more ›

An American Airlines flight from Miami to LaGuardia Sunday night was canceled due to the passengers' collective rudeness. Fox 5 has it that a flight crew was so late getting to the plane that upon arrival they were greeted with raucous booing from the impatient passengers. So the crew decided to teach the rabble a lesson in manners and refused to work the flight for the “hostile mob.” more ›

Let's hear it for a dog named Boo! The 8-year-old mixed-breed Labrador retriever is a therapy dog at a Putnam County school, where he's helping kids come out of their shells. more ›