Rebecca Haithcoat

For more photos, see "Rihanna at Staples Center." WHO: Rihanna, J. Cole WHERE: Staples Center WHEN: 6/28/11 Keytars. A giant bubblegum pink cannon and plastic guns. Dancers in Kriss Krossified fireman uniforms, and Rihanna in denim panties. The only discernable themes for Rihanna's "Loud Tour" are little clothing and lotta......

If you're still mackin' on MySpace, we have some bad news: Not only will the site issue massive layoffs this week, it also will probably be sold for the price of a few bacon-wrapped hot dogs. As Gawker reported yesterday, the social media site that News Corp. paid $580 million......

Apple pie and baseball? Nah, what's more American is good ol' fashioned political beef. We'd rather splash around in the we-know-why-it's-tepid kiddie than that cesspool, but Tom Petty supposedly issuing a cease and desist letter to Republican candidate Michele Bachmann over her use of "American Girl" is too juicy. Bachmann......

As just reported by Dennis Romero on our news blog, The Informer, James "Jimmy Henchman" Rosemond was apprehended this morning in New York. Rosemond was collared this morning after a foot chase near Park Avenue and 21st St., a federal official told the Weekly. The man who manages L.A. gangsta......

The Hundreds, a skate shop off Fairfax, is a shoe box of a store, and like a figurine in a dollhouse, Kreayshawn seems swallowed up by it. She's wearing black jeans and swimming in an oversized hoodie. The only traces of the cartoonlike doll of a creation that took the......

On November 30th, 1994, Tupac Shakur was shot in Manhattan's Quad Studios. The night sparked the East-West coast feud that left legends Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G. both dead less than three years later. Now, on the eve of Tupac's 40th birthday, Dexter Isaac has confessed to being the shooter......

"Interview" by Rebecca Haithcoat and Gustavo Turner. R. Kelly is a god-level genius and he's coming to town this week. He puts on some of the most amazing performances we've seen, with a kind of old-school showbiz know-how rarely seen these days outside of old Sinatra or James Brown YouTube......

Former White Stripes singer Jack White and his wife, Karen Elson, are more mature than you. The two are getting a divorce. But there'll be no "there's a tear in my beer, 'cause I'm cryin' for you, dear," country classic to come out of the split, because they are throwing......

Phil Varone, the drummer for Saigon Kick, Skid Row and Prunella Scales, is unleashing his sexy on the world with his XXX movie Phil Varone's Secret Sex Stash (sorry, we just gagged, too). In the highly NSFW teaser, alongside which appropriately features a photo of Varone with "Star of VH1's......

All you do is win, win, win, no matter what. And every time you step up in the building, everybody's hands go up- and they stay there. Well, tonight at least. We're throwing a party for the Los Angeles Web Awards tonight. Wanna see the rock star winners who'll be......