Do The Right Thing was shot on one block of Stuyvesant Ave. between Quincy and Lexington St. During the filming set designers painted the brownstones bright shades of red, orange, and yellow in order to reinforce the sense of blistering summer heat. One of New York’s oldest black neighborhoods, in the past, Bedford-Stuyvesant was known…

“I think that those of you that regularly exercise . . . you’re the people getting injured. You’re the people showing up at the hospital with busted knees and tendons and skin cancer and ankle sprain. All you exercise freaks, you’re the ones putting stress on the health care system,” radio political commentator Rush Limbaugh…

“10lbs. 197kts. Very very real I don’t know what fake feel like. $410,000. Hola señor recession proof,” music artist T-Pain wrote on Twitter of his “big ass chain,” which he purchased last week. “‘Remember when we sold the best player in the world, and it made us stronger?’ No, because that never happens. Never has…

From the Washington Post: The only African-American woman headlining the cast, Turner, 42, is also the only ‘Housewife’ with much connection to local politics. Her husband, Jason, worked in D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty’s administration, but left amid political drama in the parks department. The two have also hosted fundraisers. She’s a Howard University grad and…

“I’m going to get you in the locker room for that; you don’t know me,” tennis player Serena Williams said to her opponent, María José Martínez Sánchez, during a French Open match last Saturday in which Williams accused Sánchez of cheating by playing the ball off her arm. “Obama…does not get paid that much,” New York…