TMZ is reporting that pop songstress Christina Aguilera was arrested in West Hollywood this morning, but it was not for ruining the National Anthem again. The gossip website says, "Christina was popped for public intoxication and her boyfriend was arrested for driving under the influence." more ›

Staten Island native Christina Aguilera is sorry for botching the national anthem, okay everyone. Calm down. She says, “I can only hope that everyone could feel my love for this country and that the true spirit of its anthem still came through." And Fergie, who totally wet her pants that time and whose band gave an even worse performance at the Super Bowl last night, wants you all to back off, saying she's only "human." She also admits that her own performance last night was not perfect (noting it was "pitchy"). But hey, she's just human! She's just a human getting paid absurd amounts of money to sing well! more ›

Everyone is talking about Christina Aguilera messing up the lyrics to the national anthem at the Super Bowl last night. The video is below, where she belts out: "Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, what so proudly we watched at the twilight's last gleaming." The correct lyrics are: "Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming." more ›

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Staten Island needs some cheerleaders every once in a while, especially after their ice cream flavor was named after their landfill. The NY Times has a piece on the borough's historian, "Brooklyn has Walt Whitman to sing praises of its 'ample hills.' Manhattan has Woody Allen to capture its outsize style and neuroses. And Staten Island? Well, Staten Island has Thomas W. Matteo for a borough historian to chronicle its glories, its goofs and, yes, its landfill." more ›

It's not just venues closing down these days, the latest real estate casualty is still music-related, however. AMNY reports that Sony BMG is closing its Hell's Kitchen studios. more ›

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a stabbing at the 41st Precinct House in the Bronx, a homicide on Parkhill Ave. on Staten Island, and a double shooting on East 113th St. in Manhattan.
• Forget aluminum bats, a Staten Island mom is suing her son's former Little League coach for not teaching the then-12-year-old how to slide correctly.
• The Daily News interviews Jeffrey Hill, the track worker injured by the train that killed his co-worker Marvin Franklin.
• The cops beat the firefighters 20-10 in their annual NYPD vs. FDNY football game.
• The Queens security guard who was hit as he tried to stop a speeding getaway van succumbed to his injuries yesterday and died.
• Female solidarity on the political front as songstress Christina Aguilera and porn star Jenna Jameson endorse Sen. Clinton for President.
• The two cops arrested in NJ for planning a robbery have quit the NYPD.
• People get crazy with string as they intertwine 21,000 meters of yarn at McCarren Park in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Before we begin, we'd like to extend our deepest sympathies to the family of James Kim. We are not, by any means, trying to discount that tragedy by juxtaposing posts about the Kims with more light-hearted posts. It's the nature of doing a compilation such as this one: we're trying to give a full slice of the goings-on in the Ist-a-Verse: the good, the bad, and the ugly. more ›

A look at some noteworthy programs this week: more ›

A look at some noteworthy programs this week: more ›

Expect a lot of hubbub around Rockefeller Center this morning - an 88 foot Norway spruce is arriving from Ridgefield, Connecticut to be the official Christmas Tree. Owner Rob Kinnaird told reporters how he grew up with the 9-ton tree ("My sandbox and glide ride [jungle gym] used to be next to the tree.") and that he was excited for the tree to will be in New York. more ›

After last year's mess of an awards show and this year's joke of nominations (where is love for Lauren Graham, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences?), we were going to swear off this year's Emmys. But then we realized Conan O'Brien was hosting, so we must watch and liveblog. And there's the hope of a good Steve Carrell bit, not to mention awkward reaction shots of Candy and Tori Spelling during the Aaron Spelling tribute. more ›

IFP’s Drive-In Movies Series at Rockefeller Center returns to showcase some of the best new films before their theatrical release. Each night this week at 9:00 PM, you can catch the free movies on the 40-foot screen above the ice rink (between 49th and 50th Streets, off 5th Avenue). Remember when your friends went to see Garden State at Rockefeller last year? They kept yapping about Zach Braff and the trailer’s Frou Frou song was stuck in your head, yet you had to suffer in curiosity for another month till the movie came out? Yeah, you can avoid that this year. more ›

Semi-related: The Christina Aguilera Virgin Mobile ad that won't run in the states. more ›

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See Fred on SNL this weekend, with host Christina Aguilera (expect a lot of singing, possible Britney and Kelly Osbourne spoofs) and musical guests Maroon 5, whose lead singer sounds like Jay Kay from Jamiroquai.
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And Sting, Dave Matthews, and Vince Gill were like the bad Beatles cover bad at the crappy bar mitzvah. The best moment was Andre 3000's short and sweet acceptance speech for best rap album. more ›

Felix Salmon at Memefirst suspects that the "trademarked Eggers High Ironic" he reads in an article about best of lists comes from Ben Greenman. After thinking, "what on earth is the most venerable magazine in the world doing appropriating a prose style which was cool for about ten minutes in 1997," Felix almost goes over the edge when he discovers the author is Louis Menand. more ›

"I can't believe Christina said that about me."
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And Mr. T's "Conan O' Brien will be pitied not be me as a fool, but by fools as a superfool." more ›

Plus, take a look at our new Events page which can help you plan at least four possible options for the first part of the evening and at least five more for the later half; thanks to editor Mindy and editorial assistant Willa Paskin for a great first week. more ›

The Sun's Victoria Newton grades the various outfits Christina Aguilera wore when hosting the MTV Europe Awards. One of her favorites is when XTina donned a nun's habit and robe. Newton also gives the skinny on the feud between XTina and Pink which put MTV producers and their publicists' nerves to the test, as Pink was overheard saying, “If that bitch mentions my name once I’m not going on stage — and I’m not kidding.” And XTina's wrath extends to Kelly Osbourne, who famously mocked her singing on an episode of the Osbournes. (This was before Kelly's own mockable singing career.) Yet another one of those extremely stupid but ridiculously fascinating celeb beefs that can help one pass away a lazy Sunday morning.
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So Christina Aguilera is going to be in the new Versace advertising campaign. This looks like a picture of Donatella with a Mini-Me. Well, it's not like there's originality in fashion or music. more ›

, but they're just doing it 25 years earlier.
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