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Alexys Fermaintt, 30, yesterday confessed to the Queens stabbing death of Michael Pecora, 38, telling prosecutors that he acted in self-defense after Pecora attacked him with a knife in a dispute over Fermaintt’s escort fee. Fermaintt told authorities that he had met Pecora online and had agreed to have sex and spend the day with him for money. Fermaintt is …

Keith Haring’s 1986 handball court mural can be viewed from the eastbound lanes of Harlem River Drive, which is where I grabbed this shot from as we crawled along in Sunday traffic. The mural’s popularity prompted the city to rename its location the Crack Is Wack Playground.

About 6am at the Black Party, my buddy Nick and I noticed a young man lying on a bag of trash just off the dance floor. We watched him for a few seconds and when it appeared that nobody was looking after him, we went over and got him to his wobbly feet. “Are you OK?” Yes, yes. “You sure? …

Following up on proposed California bill to legalize marijuana, Nate Silver notes that public opinion is now almost evenly divided on the issue. We all know that Michael Phelps was on something. But perhaps he was also onto something. Three recent polls show that Americans are more sympathetic to the idea of legalizing marijuana than ever before. The first poll, …

Openly gay California state Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-SF) has introduced a bill which would make California the first state to legalize the recreational use of marijuana. The proposal would regulate marijuana like alcohol, with people over 21 years old allowed to grow, buy, sell and possess cannabis – all of which is barred by federal law. Ammiano, a Democrat in …

I don’t know if this is related to the economy or not. Based on reports from police forces, the Home Office said that cocaine is now being sold for as little as £20 a gram in some parts of the country. The most common price for the drug is £40 per gram. Home Office figures for 1998 show the average …

Best NYC tabloid headline: A-Fraud or A-Roid? You decide. (Via – Gothamist) UPDATE: I knew I should have waited for the Post.

Here’s the first portion of Grant Haas’ appearance on Michelangelo Signorile’s show in which he talks about his first meetings with Ted Haggard. A partial transcript: Immediately Pastor Haggard’s eyes light up and he became very concerned. He insisted that I take his personal cell phone number and give him a call Monday morning so he could take me to …

Today on Michelangelo Signorile’s show on SiriusXM OutQ, Grant Haas, Ted Haggard’s latest accuser revealed that….oh, I’ll just let Pam Spaulding tell you. Haas said that Gayle Haggard knew a whole lot more about what kind of kinky gay Ted activity was going on than she publicly admits to. When Haas asked about her knowledge of these things, Ted told …

British tabloid News Of The World has published a photo of Olympian Michael Phelps smoking from a bong and claims that Phelps’ handlers offered them “extraordinary incentives” not to run the story. THIS is the astonishing picture which could destroy the career of the greatest competitor in Olympic history. In our exclusive photo Michael Phelps, who won a record EIGHT …

Geez, this is a shocker. The Alaska State Troopers’ union says that “political meddling” delayed their arrest warrant against Sarah Palin’s co-grandma, Sherry Oxycontin Johnston, until after the November election. Palin’s office denies it all, of course.

Australian scientists gave cocaine to bees and discovered that while high the bees acted just like human cokeheads. “When foraging honeybees discover a particularly good source of pollen or nectar, they fly back to the hive and perform a symbolic dance for their nest mates,” said Dr Andrew Barron. “This is a specialised form of communication to tell their nest …

Wasn’t Bristol Palin supposed to have a baby ten days ago? She’d better hurry because the baby presents are piling up. According to an interview with her grandfather, Bristol and the baby have already received thousands of presents from around the world, in fact he estimates they’ve gotten over 100,000 packages and letters. Seriously. Meanwhile the details of the drug …

Openly gay pop superstar George Michael was arrested for possession of crack cocaine on Friday night near London’s infamous Hampstead Heath cruising ground. Police released him at the station with a “caution.” Michael, 45, was cautioned by the Metropolitan Police for possession of Class A and Class C drugs after being arrested in public lavatories near the heath, in northwest …

The National Enquirer continues their quest to dig up dirt on the Palin family, today revealing that daughter Bristol smoked pot on film and that her high school dropout boyfriend Levi dealt (and smoked) Oxycontin and shot up steroids. Last week the Enquirer reported that Track Palin also regularly smoked Oxy and broke into cars to support his habit. None …

Leave it to Broadway and Pushing Daisies star Kristin Chenoweth to make crystal meth addiction hilarious. Funniest thing I’ve seen in weeks. So many great lines and totally totally totally NSFW.

Purple Drank, every gangsta rapper’s favorite cough syrup-laden grape drink, is now on sale in NYC. Only without the actual cough syrup. Get ready to “slow your roll” New York; the mass-produced version of “Purple Drank” will hit shelves in Manhattan and the Bronx this week. According to Wikipedia, the homemade version of the beverage is “a recreational drug popular …

“The vast amount of human activity ought to be none of the government’s business. I don’t think it is the government’s business to tell you how to spend your leisure time. I cannot think there are many people who are in favor of using limited federal resources in law enforcement to arrest people because those people decide to smoke marijuana.” …

The Second Circuit Court, which covers New York, Connecticut, and Vermont, has issued an apparently precedent-setting ruling that if you are caught with illegal drugs and admit to having shared them with others, you can also be charged with dealing. Ricky P. Wallace argued that he should not have been convicted of cocaine distribution because he merely shared the drug …