The presidential election will be here before we know it. And we'll know it because we'll have seen a hundred million attack ads from each side! Yesterday, the campaigns of both Senator John McCain and Senator Barack Obama released sharp ads criticizing each other. McCain's camp compared Obama's rock star (Barackstar?) status with that of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. See it below: Obama's spokesman slammed the ad and the Democrat's team unveiled their response,......

Al Gore is a VP again, of Live Earth - an organization/music event that he says "will help us reach a tipping point that's needed to move corporations and governments to take decisive action to solve the climate crisis." On 7.7.07 there will be a global Live Earth concert which will begin in Sydney and continue across the seven continents, concluding with a show in (posterchild for a healthy environment) New Jersey (not that New......

If you haven't showered in a few days, there is a good chance that you're probably waiting on a line trying desperately to score one of the new next generation console releases from Sony and Nintendo. This week brings two very exciting releases for the gaming community. Tonight is the release of Sony's PlayStation3 (PS3; below, left) and Nintendo releases Wii (right) on Sunday, in hopes of both unseating the XBOX 360 who has......

There were amusing musical hijinks at the Daniel Patrick Moynihan U.S. Courthouse yesterday. During the lawsuit trial of NJ group IOF against Ludacris and Kanye West for allegedly stealing IOF's song, "Straight Like That," the judge asked Kanye to recite lyrics from the Luda-West collaboration, "Stand Up." Per the Post: West shot a grin at Ludacris before beginning, "How you ain't gonna f- - -." To which the judge blushed and said, "I'm sorry I......

- Remember the high school student who lost his leg when a car hit him? It turns out a freelance Post photographer helped save him - Hey, two Long Island beaches make a list of top 10 beaches in the country - An amazing and scary scam - a woman posed as a physical therapist after pulling an actual physical therapist's info off the Internet - A Manhattan man tried to auction off his......

Now, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit has used guest star stunt casting pretty well - Amanda Plummer as a disabled rape victim, Matthew Modine as a suspected pedophile, Ludacris as Ice-T's nephew - if the plotlines are over-the-top. But news that Jerry Lewis will appear this fall, as a homeless man suspected of murder who just happens to be Detective Munch's uncle? That is GOLD - we cannot wait for some Munch and Uncle......

DMX made his way back to a court in Queens where prosecutors contended he "violated the conditions" of earlier sentence, but this time, he didn't taunt the security officers with his bling. The judge adjourned his case until October 25, and the media and onlookers seemed to love his posing on the courthouse steps. In June 2004, DMX was arrested for trying to carjack someone at JFK Airport, and then to pass himself off as......

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These Knicks columns are just writing themselves lately. Gothamist was on hand late Friday night along with Jay-Z, Beyonce, and Ludacris to witness Stephon Marbury dribble aimlessly for 20 seconds, then pass to a flummoxed Jamal Crawford with one second on the shot clock and all but gift-wrap a narrow 92-91 victory for the Houston Rockets. When the crowd all expects that you'll find a way to lose, a change is certainly in order. After......

Hundreds of thousands of people will learn how attached New Yorkers are to their area code - especially when it's a 212 area code - when they read Ian Urbina's article on how voice over internet technology New York Region > Area Codes, Now Divorced From Their Areas" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/01/nyregion/01code.html">allows area codes to be anywhere. "For me, it's just a matter of convenience," said Gen Kanai, 31, who signed up with an Internet phone service in......

Bob McKee, Local Music Now...