Hotels were created so people had a place to do all the weird stuff they couldn't do at home: world leaders can canoodle, impromptu "best-ass contests" can be held, and of course, celebrities can have "booze-and-blow" binges. And to that end, a new lawsuit contends that boxing legend and noted women's neglige aficionado Oscar De La Hoya threw just such a booze-and-blow fueled sex party at The Ritz-Carlton on Central Park South, complete with cross-dressing, veiled threats, and unnamable sexual positions. “It was beyond kinky. Things that I don’t even know how to explain were done with him,” model Angelica Marie Cecora told the Post. more ›

We thought it was bad enough that some cab drivers have been robbing sleeping passengers; it turns out, even if they didn't rob you, they may try to extort you, as one "Good Samaritan" taxi driver did recently. more ›

In its recap of Glee, Arts Beat wrotes, "Chris Colfer’s recreation of 'Le Jazz Hot' from 'Victor/Victoria'... was a daring moment for the show and one of the bolder bits of transvestism since Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani popped up in that same musical." Which brings us to the NY Times' coverage of that 1997 moment: "No one was fully prepared for the sight of New York City's brawling Mayor as he tottered onto the New York Hilton stage Saturday night in high heels, a full-figured spangled pink gown, a platinum-blond wig and several pounds of makeup..." more ›

The story of the Park Slope man who dressed like his dead mother for six years to cash her Social Security checks and collect other benefits has captivated the world, with Google showing the Thomas Prusik-Parkin Psycho tale popping up as far afield as Turkey and Russia. Perhaps there's something about the story that resonates with humanity's deep-seated Oedipal urges—or maybe Prusik-Parkin has just tapped into our universal fantasy to live on the dole without our moms' nagging us to get a job. Either way, it gets creepier: The Daily News reports today that Prusik-Parkin kept a casket in his living room. more ›

Yesterday, police announced that they arrested Jamarr Brown on Sunday night, a day after he stabbed in 2-year-old son in the head. Brown had allegedly been trying to aim for his son Jaden's mother, but hit his son instead and then fled as the paramedics were called. The Post reports that an anonymous tip led the cops to Brown, who was in Bed-Stuy at Pulaski Street and Marcy Avenue: "To their surprise, Brown was decked out in women's clothing -- a disguise to avoid being arrested... A clean-shaven Brown, who was charged with attempted murder and assault, was wearing a black, shoulder-length wig, a brown coat with fur on the collar and wrists and jeans." A police source told the Daily News, "He was trying for the Tina Turner look but it didn't work." Jaden is in serious but stable condition; his uncle (and Brown's brother) said, "He's doing all right" and that other family members were glad Brown was arrested. more ›

Guido Salvador Carabajo-Jara had turned 26 years old on Tuesday, but when he was crossing an Queens street on Wednesday morning, he was struck by a SUV and then dragged 20 miles into Brooklyn by a van. His sister, who lived with him and had seen TV news reports of a man being dragged from their neighborhood but didn't realize her brother was the victim, and cousin went to the morgue. Cousin Felix Jara said, "Then I saw the body; he looked like he was sleeping then I start crying." more ›