The latest craze for professional athletes is to intern in media. Ranger forward Sean Avery is headed to intern at Vogue this summer, while Giants linebacker Antonio Pierce spent today interning for the Howard Stern show. Bababooey! Stern and his crew put the pro football player through the paces: Answering phones (many with crank calls), towel snapping, trying to teach some of the producers how to throw a football and discussing his fiancee. Pierce is......

Long Island Lolita Amy Fisher has been happy to talk about her sex tape, her DJ-ing career, and her current life to pretty much any and all press. But throw in a question from the daughter of Joey and Mary Jo Buttafuoco, you don't get Amy. Fisher was a guest on Howard Stern's Sirius radio show when Jessica Buttafuoco called in. AMNY's Pet Rock blog reveals "Fisher said she did not want to talk to......

A dwarf bowling tournament planned for Staten Island bar Big Nose Kate’s has been cancelled after an unidentified scold alerted the media to the event, which was to be hosted Saturday by d-list celebrity dwarf minstrel Beetlejuice (pictured), an occasional guest on the Howard Stern show. In dwarf bowling, players take turns rolling a dwarf (wearing protective gear) on a skateboard down makeshift bowling alleys toward small pins. In exchange for his dignity, the dwarf/bowling......

Controversial publisher Judith Regan dropped a 70-page lawsuit on her old bosses at Harper Collins and News Corp yesterday. The $100 million defamation suit claims she was the victim of a smear campaign in order to protect Rudy Giuliani's presidential bid (read: Rupert Murdoch's political agenda). She states they asked her to lie to federal investigators about her one-time lover and former police commish, Bernard Kerik (who at the time was working with Regan on......

In a city whose mayor has made gun control one of his signature issues, it's no surprise that the number of registered gun owners has gone down. The Post reports that there are now 36,169, versus 38,000 last year. Permits that allow one to wear a gun on a holster (concealed) also dropped to 2,555, which the Sun says is almost 50% less than the 2004 number. Of course, there's now way to estimate illegal......

Tom Snyder died today, at age 71, after losing a long battle with leukemia. There are many videos with footage of his long career, because just about everyone wanted to talk to him (especially on "The Tomorrow Show" which aired after Johnny Carson in the '70s and '80s). Throughout his career he interviewed Kiss, argued with Howard Stern and Cosell...and if you watch this video you'll see plenty of others who found themselves sitting across......

If there's one NY Times Weddings & Celebrations write-up you read this week, read the one for Claire Israel and Oren Silverstein. Not only did the couple get married at Cupid’s Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas (but they'll have another service in Brooklyn next month), they also described how their initial online courtship had its roadblocks:When the couple met online in April 2005, Ms. Israel was as concerned about where Mr. Silverstein lived (New......

Radio shock jock Don Imus was suspended for two weeks by CBS, which owns WFAN and Westwood One (the radio outlets his show is broadcast and syndicated on) and MSNBC, which broadcasts a televised simulcast of the radio show, over remarks he made towards the Rutgers women's basketball team. MSNBC announced that Imus would be suspended first, then CBS announced a similar suspension. The suspension will begin on Monday, as Imus has a series......

The 22nd Annual April Fools' Day Parade is today. Did you go? We hope not, because this is a long running joke itself. During its 15th year the press was fooled and showed up to find no parade. From the Museum of Hoaxes: In 2000 a news release was sent to the media stating that the 15th annual New York City April Fool's Day Parade was scheduled to begin at noon on 59th Street......

A year after moving his show to the station, Howard Stern received a bonus worth nearly $83 million (22.1 million shares) from Sirius Satellite Radio today ("for surpassing subscriber goals set in a 2004 contract that had already turned heads with its $500 million compensation package"). Not a bad deal at all. Sirius, along with its competitor in the satellite radio market, XM Radio, are growing rapidly. Each are losing money, however, by trying to......

Last Thursday, we watched Late Night with Conan O'Brien with Howard Stern as guest. Howard, who you probably remember more when he was on 92.3FM was the guest, was doing his best to pimp Sirius Satellite. And how did he do that? After giving Conan (but not the whole audience) a Sirius Satellite radio, he mentioned that he had Martha Stewart on his show and she revealed she used a vibrator (The Thumper, though she......

Let's take a look back at a week that raised this Zen koan: if Kevin Federline got into a wrestling ring with a wrestler, who would you root for? Austinist was in an entertainment state of mind as they covered the dickens out of the Austin Film Festival, depicted all the Big 12 football coaches as South Park characters, and interviewed Jose Gonzalez. Chicagoist talked about the passion as they bid adieu to Bell......

A year ago, CBS 2 reporter Arthur Chi'en was fired for swearing on camera after an Opie & Anthony fan used an "obscene gesture" while Chi'en was reporting on Metrocards, and Chi'en, not realizing he was on air, yelled, "What the fuck's your problem, man?" And CBS 2, reeling from various FCC snafus, pulled the trigger and fired the Chi'en, leading to outrage, Save Arthur Chi'en petition and Chi'en Revolution shirts on Cafe Press. Chi'en,......

Not to be outdone by Opie & Anthony, the Archdiocese of New York has signed a deal with SIRIUS to start The Catholic Channel. Launching in the fall, the channel will carry daily Mass from St. Patrick's as well as "feature a modern format with an open dialogue focused on Catholicism in the 21st Century." No news on whether it will cover topics such as marriage for the clergy, homosexuality, and whether HIV can spread......

- Bizarre Kenneth Cole ads get the work over from Animal magazine - Howard Stern says he's staying on satellite radio which means his Sirius contract must be really ironclad - The Village Voice on the Worldwide Marijuana March: "We're here, we're high, get used to it!" the stoners shouted at baffled shoppers. "What do we want? Pot! When do we want it? Now!" - A new tape of the White Castle cop beating......

- The United States has now been in Iraq for over three years. - More from the other bouncer at the Falls. Which reminds: we never want to work at a bar owned by the Dorrian family. - Howard Stern won't shut up about CBS and Les Moonves. We think he just misses having the threat of censorship hanging over him all the time that came with being on FM. - The downside of......

So, Howard Stern is on the air - if you happen to get Siruis satellite. Is anyone listening right now? We saw him on Larry King Live, where he explained why his daughter quit the off-Broadway show she was going to be nude in (Stern's claim - the producer betrayed his daughter by saying he wasn't going to publicize Howard Stern's daughter would be naked on stage) and who his best and worst interviews were......

After a yearlong goodbye, Howard Stern says cya to terrestrial radio today, as he airs his last live show on KROCK (soon to be FreeFM). This ends a twenty-year relationship with his current employer. He is leaving the terrestrial airwaves in great part to the FCC for fining and censoring him in increasing levels for the past few years. Starting in January, if you didn't already know from everywhere he is popping up, he can......

- The Transit Authority paid out $50 million in the past five years to riders injured by the subways - Reverend Al makes a funny while campaigning for Ferrer today - Curbed looks at the insanity that is Governor's Island planning - New York magazine suggests that Mayor take Ground Zero redevelopment by the horns - Brooklyn Bunny Cam! [Via Gridskipper] - Howard Stern gets suspended for promoting Sirius - And overseas, the riots in......

- The Brooklyn Bridge is shut down due to a jumper; nothing on news station websites yet, but expect coverage on tonight's newscasts...or at least as a small item in tomorrow's tabs - Seven white Queens teenagers accused of beating a black man with a pipe have pleaded not guilty - Yes, it's time for your blankie once again - Is kottke.org going all comments? - A bicyclist dies on the FDR while in......

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Gothamist remembers the day well. We were rolling out of bed, late for a meeting and still longing for more sleep. We flipped on the Weather Channel to help us decide what grade of heavy jacket we were going to need for the morning’s blustery walk to work. The clock struck 8 after, and we focused our attention on the “accurate and dependable” local forecast greeting us with a pleasant familiarity. But as the......

While it's always a treat to make fun of the mayor (and he makes it so easy for us), it turns out that many New Yorkers are actually supportive of Mayor Bloomberg's proposed changes to the noise code. The Daily News talks to many residents, who agree that noisy neighbors, barking dogs, and loud establishments are annoying. Even Howard Stern said about Mayor Bloomberg, "I love this guy. This guy is right on the right......

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Oh, thank you, Donald Trump and Mark Burnett - it's just like sweeps night - but in April! Tonight's finale of The Apprentice will not only that someone will get hired but also ensure that The Donald and his questoinable hair stay in the spotlight until next season. (If Donald, George, and Carolyn were basing their decision on hair, they should go with Kwame. As rachelle noted, Bill has to get rid of that flattop.)......

HR was so busy yesterday! Howard Stern was fired from Clear Channel radio stations and then it was the boardroom massacre on The Apprentice. There was nothing better than seeing callow Nick and annoying Amy get canned (at least Nick said thank you - Amy just freaked out and left) - except for feeling validated in thinking Omarosa is an idiot. If anyone could lose a rock star (and, honey, Jessica Simpson ain't a......

Ben Affleck called up Howard Stern yesterday, to proclaim his love for Jennifer Lopez. Why? Stern laid down the gauntlet to get celebrities he's been ridiculing to give 5 minute interviews, and in turn, his radio station, KROCK will donate $10,000 of the charity of their choice. According to the Daily News, B.Aff said he still wanted to marry J.Lo and said that she was an "extraordinary" lover. Plus he "deflected questions about his hair......

Was it wrong for Gothamist to hope, when hearing that there was an MTV Bash for Carson Daly, the act of Carson being bashed on the head with something heavy would involved somehow? But, damn it, he was on the Today show this morning, discussing his roast. It actually looked some funny, as Jennifer Love Hewitt apparently has a moment and if there's anything Gothamist admires, it's when someone dumps the other person via press......