Barry Ritholtz submits: I was out of the office all day yesterday, so I missed all of the fireworks. This is the 40,000 foot view, once removed, from someone not staring at the screen all day.

Published March 15, 2007 in issue 0611 of the HooK. For a band long obsessed with death and finality, one wonders if the members of Bella Morte appreciate the irony that they themselves might now be staring down the barrel of a gun.

Driving friends across the George Washington Bridge to buy crack cocaine is not a path to Jesus Christ. Luckily for him, Alvin Bush realized that. In 1991, drunk and clutching a 40-ounce bottle of Budweiser in one hand, he surrendered to God, he said.

sleazeroxx.com reports: The family of Brad Delp, the lead singer for the band Boston, said his death was a suicide. "He was a man who gave all he had to give to everyone around him, whether family, friends, fans or strangers," ; the family said in a statement relayed by police Wednesday.

Now in its 25th year celebrating Gaelic gaiety and brotherly binging, Columbias St. Pats in Five Points festival is one of the biggest bashes in the Southeast.

Today's Rumors are sponsored by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, who are the first hip-hop act to be inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame! (Next up: Run DMC or my "boys" ; that like to get rowdy!)

On paper, it sounds like the polar opposite of a box office sensation -- a three-hour ode to the Z-grade cinema of the 1970s, shot in the style of the time with enough sex and violence to satiate any exploitation junkie. But when the creative masterminds behind such a project turn out to be Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez, suddenly, it seems like a Hollywood gold mine.