- August
- 15
Raise your hand if you’re an Oscar nominee who’s skydived for our collective amusement. (Put your hand down, Judi Dench.)
Shortly after 4 p.m. EST today, Sneden’s Landing resident Bill Murray hopes to add his name to that very short list.
Working with the U.S.O. of Illinois, the Second City native will be doing a tandem jump [...]
Posted by Chris Serico on August 15th, 2008 | Post a Comment »
- August
- 15
It’s like Ed McMahon won his own Publisher’s Clearing House contest.
To borrow his legalese from those old commercials, it appears the former talk-show sidekick “may already have won” freedom from immediate worry stemming from the foreclosure of his Beverly Hills mansion, thanks to Donald Trump.
Although the details were still being worked out, the Westchester real [...]
Posted by Chris Serico on August 15th, 2008 | Post a Comment »
- August
- 14
Music producer icon Clive Davis of Pound Ridge helped Billy Joel, Mayor Mike Bloomberg and others hold a press conference yesterday to announce the November opening of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex in SoHo.
A photographer at the event snapped this Davis photo, which either has no depth perception or showcases a Paul [...]
Posted by Chris Serico on August 14th, 2008 | Post a Comment »
- August
- 14
Yonkers native James Blake needed only two sets to upset Swiss phenom Roger Federer in Olympic tennis earlier today.
It’s his first time beating Federer—the No. 1 player in the world—in nine tries.
Federer, who hocks five-bladed razors with fellow clean-shaven sports celebs Tiger Woods and Derek Jeter, is one of the world’s best athletes about whom [...]
Posted by Chris Serico on August 14th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
- August
- 11
OK, I’ll fess up to this: I only saw the last few minutes of last night’s rerun of the premiere of “I Want to Work for Diddy,” the new Vh1 reality show in which contestants compete for the privilege of being Sean “Diddy” Combs’ personal assistant.
But even with eight minutes’ worth of data, I can [...]
Posted by Chris Serico on August 11th, 2008 | Post a Comment »
- August
- 7
“Project Runway” is educational!
Sometime between watching Tim Gunn’s brave attempts to deliver the phrase “Holla atcha boy” and trying to determine if Bettie Page-lookalike Kenley Collins is really a villain or just a hot girl being made out to be one, I learned last night that Bedford resident Ralph Lauren is designing the Americans’ outfits [...]
Posted by Chris Serico on August 7th, 2008 | Post a Comment »
- August
- 6
As I reported for sister-blog Remote Access late last night, Elliott Yamin—the super-likable “American Idol” underdog alumnus—will be headlining a concert at Playland in Rye tomorrow night.
Perhaps Yamin, who finished third ahead of superstar Chris Daughtry and just behind winner Taylor Hicks and runner-up Katharine McPhee, is headed to the Lower Hudson Valley in attempt [...]
Posted by Chris Serico on August 6th, 2008 | 2 Comments »
- August
- 3
I finish our extensive and exclusive Nick Di Paolo coverage with a SportsCenter-style Did You Know and a link to my full feature article about him in today’s Journal News.
Did You Know the stand-up comedian and Massachusetts native helped captain a Danvers High School football team that included former New York Giants star Mark Bavaro, [...]
Posted by Chris Serico on August 3rd, 2008 | Post a Comment »
- August
- 1
Disclaimer: I’m an avid reader of BestWeekEver.tv, one of my favorite non-LoHud blogs out there these days. So if this quick-hitter format and source material looks familiar, it is, and I’m coming clean with that up-front. Plagiarism kills, kids!
RINGDOM COME: New Scarsdale resident Jay-Z is finally wearing a wedding ring these days. You might have [...]
Posted by Chris Serico on August 1st, 2008 | Post a Comment »
- July
- 31
Special edition podcast this week: In an exclusive interview with Suburbarazzi correspondent Chris Serico (a.k.a. me), stand-up comedian Nick DiPaolo recounts his experiences performing in Afghanistan, explains his move to Westchester and talks about his new radio show on Sirius.
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Posted by Chris Serico on July 31st, 2008 | 4 Comments »
- July
- 30
Judge Judy Sheindlin—and her set—were all shook up during yesterday’s magnitude 5.4 earthquake impacted Los Angeles and its surrounding areas.
Check out the footage via this CNN link. I kept expected the feisty Sheindlin to quip something like, “Don’t throw a banana peel at my feet and tell me it’s an earthquake,” but she apparently cleared [...]
Posted by Chris Serico on July 30th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
- July
- 29
To die by the hand of an enemy must be hard enough, but to be one of eight insurgents to reportedly lose lives at the expense of a bomb signed by Baba Booey? “Embarrassing,” according to stand-up comedian and northern Westchester resident Nick Di Paolo.
While flipping through photographs of his recent USO trip to Afghanistan, [...]
Posted by Chris Serico on July 29th, 2008 | Post a Comment »