In case you've Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind'd yourself, here's a dire reminder for all non-punkadelic fans to avoid Central Park tomorrow: the Black Eyed Peas are playing a free concert in the park in the evening, bringing along Taylor Swift for a benefit to fight poverty ("Concert 4 NYC"). And even though Will.I.Am may only show up in holographic form, the show has already wrecked havoc upon the MTA! more ›

Did Park Slope break up Jake Gyllenhaal and Taylor Swift? The two dated briefly, but now People reports that they've already called it quits. We blame their decision to take the relationship to the Park Slope level a bit too soon. The neighborhood has traditionally been filled with celebrity couples that are really there, you know? A Jennifer Connelly and a Paul Bettany, a Maggie Gyllenhaal and a Peter Sarsgaard... these are couples who are ready for Park Slope. The strollers, the brownstones, the Co-op... there's a lot of pressure there, this is grown up stuff! more ›

The 20-year-old Taylor Swift (set to play JFK's Terminal 5—a la Sarah McLachlan—this Wednesday) has been spotted around town this week with 29-year-old Jake Gyllenhaal. more ›

Maybe Kanye West just wanted to draw attention to his new single on his blog, but he's been Twittering up a storm this morning about everything else from Taylor Swift and his unfortunate VMA's moment, Twitter's Biz Stone and Evan Williams, the musical Wicked (so is he really sampling "Popular"?) and Anchorman. Here's a sampling: more ›

Thank goodness for TMZ, because now we have audio of President Obama saying that Kanye West was a "jackass" for interrupting Taylor Swift's MTV Video Music Award speech and saying that Beyonce's video was way better. Barry said, "I thought that was really inappropriate... He's a jackass." Obama is then heard asking, "Where's the pool?" which TMZ analyzes, "Presumably, he was worried the joke would go wide. He noted the last time that happened, he got burned for killing a fly." Obama also added, "C'mon guys. Cut the president some slack. I've got a lot of other stuff on my plate." White House spokesman Bill Burton told the press, "Look, I'm not going to get into what the President had to say in an off-the-record conversation. But you should see what [White House chief of staff] Rahm [Emanuel] said about it." In other news, West apologized to Swift, who said he was sincere. more ›

Nightline co-anchor Terry Moran isn't getting an Obama scoop any time soon! Yesterday, he prematurely Tweeted, "Pres. Obama just called Kanye West a 'jackass' for his outburst at VMAs when Taylor Swift won. Now THAT'S presidential." Prematurely because it turns out the President's remarks were off-the-record and Moran deleted the Tweet (but it's still here). ABC News then told Politico: "In the process of reporting on remarks by President Obama that were made during a CNBC interview, ABC News employees prematurely tweeted a portion of those remarks that turned out to be from an off-the-record portion of the interview. This was done before our editorial process had been completed. That was wrong. We apologize to the White House and CNBC and are taking steps to ensure that it will not happen again." On the upside, Kanye probably thinks he was a jackass, too. more ›

Barely 24 hours after causing a stir for dissing Taylor Swift—while she was accepting an award—at the MTV Video Music Awards, Kanye West appeared on The Jay Leno Show. West was a musical guest, along with Jay-Z and Rihanna, but agreed to speak with Leno before the performance. The rapper seemed very contrite, saying he felt terrible for hurting someone, it's “extremely difficult to deal with the fact that I hurt someone and took something away from a talented artist." more ›

Last night, the MTV Video Music Awards returned to New York City with its usual mix of spectacle and a heavy dose of nostalgia (mostly Michael Jackson-related, with a remembrance from Madonna, then a performance of Scream by Janet Jackson). However, the whole thing was upstaged by Kanye West's antics—the rapper decided to storm the stage when Taylor Swift was the surprise winner for Best Female Video with her song "You Belong With Me." He took the microphone from the 19-year-old to declare Beyonce's "Single Ladies" "one of the best videos of all time." Here's video: more ›