The reliquary containing the tibia of St. Mary Magdalene.A relic of Mary Magdalene tours the U.S. for the first time.

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Former NASA astronaut Lisa Nowak pleaded guilty to reduced charges yesterday and avoided jail time for her infamous 2007 cross-country pursuit and attack on a romantic rival. Nowak, 46, apologized to her victim, former Air Force Capt. Colleen Shipman, before being sentenced to a year of probation. "I am sincerely sorry to cause fear and misunderstanding," Nowak said after the judge told her to face Shipman. Nowak was arrested on Feb. 5, 2007, after she drove from Houston to Orlando International Airport and assaulted Shipman with pepper spray. Shipman was dating astronaut Bill Oefelein, with whom Nowak also had a relationship. Shipman and Oefelein later married. -NY Post

Malcolm X was bisexual. Black History Month should help break down homophobia by celebrating the sexuality of black heroes such as Malcolm XHad he not been murdered in 1965, Malcolm might have eventually, like Huey Newton of the Black Panthers and the black power leader Angela Davis, embraced the lesbian and gay liberation movement as part of the struggle for human emancipation. Instead, to serve their homophobic political agenda, for over half a century the Nation of Islam and many black nationalists have suppressed knowledge of Malcolm's same-sex relations. It is now time for Black History Month to speak the truth. Malcolm X was bisexual. -Peter Tatchell

Sandra GuzmanThe New York Post fired editor Sandra Guzman after speaking out against a cartoon depicting the author of the president's stimulus package as a dead chimpanzee has sued the paper. And as part of her complaint, Sandra Guzman levels some remarkable, embarrassing, and potentially damaging allegations. Guzman has filed a complaint against News Corporation, the New York Post and the paper's editor in chief Col Allan in the Southern District Court of New York, alleging harassment as well as "unlawful employment practices and retaliation." As part of the 38-page complaint, Guzman paints the Post newsroom as a male-dominated frat house and Allan in particular as sexist, offensive and domineering. Guzman alleges that she and others were routinely subjected to misogynistic behavior. She says that hiring practices at the paper -- as well as her firing -- were driven by racial prejudices rather than merit. -Sam Stein

Let's get this out of the way: MANSON: The Musical is not for everyone. You've got to have a pretty twisted sense of humor to appreciate a singing, dancing Manson Family — and with tunes like "Put My Dick in Your Hand," and lots of simulated sex, it's a raunchy song and dance, too. But for plenty of us, it's hilarious. From Linda Kasabian to Sharon Tate and Bugliosi, the gang's all here. And they're irreverent and funny as hell. – Leah Taylor, Flavorpill

Bernard Madoff's riches are up for auction. The auction, conducted by Gaston & Sheehan Auctioneers, starts at 10 a.m. ET this Saturday at the New York Sheraton Hotel & Towers in Manhattan. Items include this glamorous Alixandre mahogany mink coat has a 36" length and a 48" sweep. -USA Today

D.C. Sniper's Last Day. With his final appeal rejected by the Supreme Court on Monday, the mastermind behind the D.C. sniper attacks is scheduled to be executed Tuesday, barring a last-minute commutation of his sentence from Virginia Governor Tim Kaine. John Allen Muhammad, working with his young accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo, killed 10 people in the D.C. metro area in 2002 in a series of sniper attacks that terrorized the populace and garnered national interest. The two were captured on October 24 of that year at a Maryland rest stop. Some relatives of Muhammad's victims plan on watching the execution, while Virginia activist group Virginians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty has planned statewide vigils. Muhammad's lawyers have appealed to Gov. Kaine for a commutation to life in prison on grounds of mental illness. -DBeastFILE -This 2004 file photo from the Virginia Department of Corrections shows the execution gurney at the Greensville Correctional Center's death row in Jarratt, Va. Convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad is scheduled to be executed Tuesday evening, Nov. 10, 2009 for the murder of Dean Harold Meyers in Oct. 2002. (AP Photo/Virginia Department of Corrections)

Jennifer Lopez's Mom"If I can be as great a mom as she is, then I will be all right." – Jennifer Lopez on The Late Show with David Letterman
Jennifer Lopez appears at the 1997 Academy Awards with then-husband, now-defendant, Ojani Noa.Thanks to a first husband she cannot seem to shake, Jennifer Lopez has found herself embroiled in sex-tape scandal over steamy footage the former lovebirds shot on their 1997 honeymoon -- which ex Ojani Noa now wants to cash in on. The sultry singer/actress filed a $10 million lawsuit against Noa, claiming that he breached a confidentiality agreement and was also peddling the sexy home videos. And yesterday, a Los Angeles judge ordered Noa to put the wraps on the intimate footage -- at least for now. The hot footage, which reportedly also includes scenes of an embarrassing, ugly argument between J.Lo and her mom, is allegedly part of a movie titled "How I Married Jennifer Lopez: The J.Lo and Ojani Noa Story." The kinky material includes: A sizzling scene of Lopez checking herself out in front of a bathroom mirror, clad only in a bra and panties. Lopez, wearing skimpy underwear, being spanked in bed by Noa. An immodest J.Lo jumping on a motorcycle in a short dress and no underwear. -NY Post

"I plan on fucking a lot." -Rod Stewart

The Everleigh ClubSisters Ada, left, and Minna Everleigh opened The Everleigh Club that became the best bordello in Chicago and, for a time, one of the best known in the world.

"Bitch please. I should be number one." -PrinceHenry Diltz (American, b. 1938). Tina Turner, Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles (detail), October 1985. Chromogenic print. © Henry Diltz

High Glitz: The Extravagant World of Child Beauty Pageants

Marsha M. Linehan, Ph.D.

Steven Tyler
Michael Putland (British, born 1947). Mick Jagger, Philadelphia, 1982 (printed 1990s). Gelatin silver print. Collection of Michael Putland

Halcyon Days
Not from successful love alone,
Nor wealth, nor honor'd middle age,
nor victories of politics or war;
But as life wanes, and all the turbulent passions calm,
As gorgeous, vapory,
silent hues cover the evening sky,
As softness, fulness, rest, suffuse the frame,
like freshier, balmier air,
As the days take on a mellower light,
and the apple at last hangs
really finish'd and indolent-ripe on the tree,
Then for the teeming quietest, happiest days of all!
The brooding and blissful halcyon days!
-Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

Martin Heidegger and Philip Johnson

"Death of God Guy Dies." John T. Elson, who passed away on Sept. 7, was a journalist best known for penning the story behind Time magazine’s wildly controversial cover in April 1966, which asked, in bold red letters over a black backdrop, "Is God Dead?" The issue became one of the best selling in the magazine's history and sent American religion spiraling into an identity crisis. His article represented the zenith of what may be the last theological craze in history, the mortal gasp of a time when academic theology still qualified as headline-worthy. It announced the "death of God" movement, a group of rambunctious young professors who made it their business to turn Nietzsche's proclamation of the deity's demise from frightful blasphemy into the basis of a new kind of faith. They had media savvy that today's theologians have long forgotten, save for the megachurch superstars; one of them, William Hamilton, even had his own TV show on CBS. He considered all the hype and brash rhetoric part of the movement's necessary "journalistic phase," which would shake the foundations of the culture, clearing the way for their subtler ideas to transform it. By the end of the 1960s, the revolution started to look more like a fad. The flower-power counterculture went in other directions. Reacting against all that the death of God represented, conservative religion rose in the following decades and overshadowed it. Still, those years allowed for what was certainly recent memory's most audacious attempt to contemplate the peculiar prospect of the Almighty's end. The New Atheists of today, like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, have replicated something like the movement's scandal, but they offer nowhere near its captivating mixture of morbidity and hopefulness. And, says a housewife in Elmira, New York, "At least he's out of his misery."
-Nathan SchneiderJerry Fuchs -- A drummer for a popular indie-rock band, !!! (pronounced "chk, chk, chk"), plunged to his death after trying to leap from a stuck elevator at a fund-raiser, police said. The musician's mom, Joy, said, "He touched lives. His gift for music touched many lives." The Georgia-born drummer had been attending a benefit for The Uniform Project, designed to help the children of India's slums. -NY Post

Please Try To Forgive Nidal Malik HasanArmy massacre fiend Nidal Malik Hasan attended a Virginia mosque at the same time as two of the 9/11 hijackers -- and the FBI is now investigating whether there is a connection between the men, an official confirmed yesterday. Maj. Hasan -- the Army psychiatrist accused of fatally shooting 13 people and wounding 29 others at Fort Hood in Texas on Thursday -- had held his mother's funeral at the Dar al Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Va., in May 2001. -NY Post

Tracey Emin “Only God Knows I’m Good”

Tracey Emin palled around with Kate Moss, spending nights on the town that would make Amy Winehouse blush; she once caused a drunken scene on live TV after the 1997 Turner Prize awards dinner; and her artistic oeuvre includes a urine-soaked bed, watercolors inspired by her own abortions, and a tent in which she stitched the names of all her past lovers. Her work is still hyper-sexual (and hyper-personal, for that matter). But the neons, drawings, embroideries, sculptures, and film on view at Lehmann Maupin feel quiet and introspective, much like Emin herself these days. A video projection downstairs animates this imagery to squirm-inducing effects. Emin confesses that while the animation is based on her body, it’s not her masturbating, per se: “I wish it was,” she says, almost somberly. -Rachel Wolff
Tracey Emin - No More Mirror, 2009

Nadya Suleman and Kate GosselinLevi and Jon, perfect together. Levi Johnston, the ex-boyfriend of Sarah Palin's daughter, and Jon Gosselin of "Jon & Kate Plus 8" fame posed for photos on Sunday night in Times Square. -DBeast

If looking good is the best revenge, Stephanie Seymour is winning her divorce battle with polo-playing Peter Brant. The supermodel -- who posed for Playboy twice -- proved she's still hot at 41 by getting naked for photographer Mario Testino for the latest issue of Vanity Fair. The text reveals the mouth-watering mother of four has been suffering since they split earlier this year because Brant, 62, cut off her cash allowance of $2,500 per week -- a lot of sugar, daddy! -Page Six, NY Post

Jason Rodriguez, suspected of killing one person and wounding five at an office in Orlando, was buried under a mountain of debt at the time he allegedly began his shooting spree. According to the Associated Press, Rodriguez told a bankruptcy judge that he owed some $90,000 in debts while making only $30,000 a year working at a Subway franchise. Rodriguez had been let go at the engineering firm Reynolds, Smith, and Hills, where the shooting occurred, in June 2007 and told reporters he went on a rampage because "they left me to rot." The firm's general legal counsel and chief financial officer, Ken Jacobson, told the AP that Rodriguez's anger was "a mystery to us" and came without warning. "It's been 2 1/2 years," Jacobson said. "We don't know where he's been or what he's done." -DBeast

U.S. Government Stages Fake Coup To Wipe Out National Debt

Fort Hood Soldiers provide tour to more than 45 area Boy Scouts

The 1st Battalion, 21st Field Artillery Regiment, 41st Fires Brigade, sponsored more than 45 Boy Scouts for a tour of Fort Hood and a fishing derby Saturday. Trophies were awarded for largest fish, smallest fish and most caught. 1st Class Scout Ryan Fritz caught a 17.5” bass, taking the largest fish category. Life Scout George Thompson caught a .17 lb. brim for the smallest fish and Tenderfoot Evan Taylor caught eight fish for the most caught. -Chris Haug, Fort Hood Sentinel Editor, Photos by Bruce Weber, courtesy Patrick McMullan

The First Annual Art AwardsRob Pruitt, the organizer of the awards with cohosts Downtown DivasLinda Yablonsky, Artist of the Year winner Mary Heilmann holding her trophy, and James FrancoRyan Trecartin won the best prize for Best New Artist.

Tami Nichole Farrell, Miss Oregon Teen USA 2003Artist Cindy Sherman and musician David ByrneFashion designer Duro Olowu and Studio Museum director Thelma Golden

The First Annual Fleshbot AwardsLas Vegas, which hosts the Adult Video News Awards each year, can't have all the fun. New York is getting its own porn awards show courtesy of Gawker's sibling sex site, Fleshbot. The first Fleshbot Awards will be presented Wednesday at The Box. Levi Johnston, the father of Sarah Palin's illegitimate grandson, will be honored as Crossover Star for having agreed to pose nude for Playgirl magazine. He'll join "Obama Girl" Amber Lee Ettinger, porn queens Belladonna and Ryan Keely. - PAGE SIX, NY Post

Pino Pascali 1964

Gallerist Jeffrey Deitch with Kembra Pfahler, dressed as her alter ego from the Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black.

Lily Allen & Jay Jopling
Lily Allen -Fag Hag

Taylor-Wood to marry teen actor
Artist and film-maker Sam Taylor-Wood, 42, is to marry her 19-year-old boyfriend Aaron Johnson. Johnson is the star of Nowhere Boy, Taylor-Wood's first feature film as director, which tells the story of John Lennon's early life. A spokesman for the Turner-nominated artist said: "Sam and Aaron are engaged and very happy." The pair were seen this week walking the red carpet of Nowhere Boy's London Film Festival premiere.
Taylor-Wood praised Johnson for his "perfect" portrayal of an adolescent John Lennon. "When he came for the audition at the beginning I knew he was perfect because he just had the intensity, the focus and the charisma to pull off such an iconic role," she said. "I saw 300-odd people and he was the only one that stood out." Taylor-Wood and her first husband Jay Jopling, the art dealer, divorced last year but they remain on good terms. Following the break-up Jopling had a brief relationship with singer Lily Allen, who is 22 years his junior.

Sebastião Salgado.

To combat falling domestic merchandise sales and increase Mickey Mouse’s relevance amongst children, Disney has undertaken a quiet, albeit full-blown revitalization of the character. Fans can expect changes in the way Mickey Mouse looks, talks and acts. These upgrades will be seen across the media spectrum, featuring upgrades to Mickey’s house at Disney World, changes to his presence on the Disney Channel, and changes in how children are able to engage with the character online. One of the first hints about Mickey’s upgraded look and feel will be on display in a new video game being released by the Walt Disney Corporation early in 2010. The game will feature an upgraded, more aggressive Mickey Mouse that aims to recapture some of the irreverant attitude the character displayed upon his debut in “Steamboat Willie” in 1928.- PFSK (via NYT)

Military officials were starting Friday to piece together what may have pushed an Army psychiatrist trained to help soldiers in distress to turn on his comrades in a shooting rampage that killed 13 people and wounded 30 in Texas. The suspected shooter, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, was on a ventilator and unconscious in a hospital after being shot four times during the shootings at the Army's sprawling Fort Hood, post officials said. In the early chaos after the shootings, authorities believed they had killed him, only to discover later that he had survived. -APRIL CASTRO and DEVLIN BARRETT Associated Press

Bonhams Sale 17534 Lot 118 James E. Bama (American, born 1926) Portrait of a Model in a Pin Stripe Suit sight: 27 x 17 1/2in Estimate: $3,000 - 5,000

Bonhams Sale 17534 Lot 106 Howard Pyle (American, 1853-1911) Politics in the Olden Time 11 1/2 x 17in Estimate: $15,000 - 20,000

Bonhams Sale 17534 Lot 45 James Henry Beard (American, 1812-1893) " 'll yer gimme some? say!" 27 x 22in Estimate: $5,000 - 7,000

Bonhams Sale 17534 Lot 24 Marjorie Organ (American, 1886-1930) Robert Henri in Bed sight 10 x 8 1/2in Estimate: $1,500 - 2,500

Tank Jones

Is Levi Johnston getting cold feet about his upcoming Playgirl appearance? We hear that the father of Sarah Palin's grandson has been telling folks at the magazine he is worried about how his manhood may look during the shoot. And to make matters worse, one location for the shoot is a chilly ice rink. But Levi's manager, Tank Jones, tells Page Six, "We haven't had any discussions of that nature at all," and refused to confirm whether Johnson would go full-frontal during the shoot. -NY Post

Former President George W. Bush and John C. Metzler, Jr.

The top official at Arlington National Cemetery claims he was unaware of the most recently reported burial error at the cemetery, possibly, he says, because he was away at the time it occurred. Cemetery employee records, however, show Superintendent John Metzler present and working at Arlington when the cemetery discovered this most recently disclosed burial foul-up, which resulted in digging up and moving the remains of one service member the cemetery had accidentally buried on top of another. -MARK BENJAMIN

Cash-strapped shutterbug Annie Leibovitz is zooming toward a settlement in a $300,000 lawsuit that accuses her of stealing the work of Italian lensman Paolo Pizzetti, according to documents filed in Manhattan federal court. Pizzetti says Leibovitz, who nearly lost her famed portfolio of celebrity photos because she was behind on a $24 million loan, took credit for pictures he snapped of Italy's famed Trevi Fountain and Plaza San Marco for a Lavazza coffee company calendar. -PAGE SIX, NY Post

Hal Spitzer as Judy Garland.
Photo: Julie Glassberg/The New York Times

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