Shouting to 10,000 mud-soaked fans who shouted her lyrics right back at her, Karen O thanked them in gasps of Mandarin: “Xie xie ni!”

WHAT follows is, in brief (well, not so brief), the curious tale of how a handsome black man who can also look an awful lot like a beautiful black woman, except with better legs than most and a beard, happened to end up on the November cover of French Vog

Eight thousand miles from Manhattan, barefoot, shirtless, whip-thin men rippled with muscle were forging prosaic pieces of the urban jigsaw puzzle: manhole covers.

Hawthorne Heights guitarist Casey Calvert passed away Friday (Nov. 23) on the band’s tour bus in Washington, D.C. He was 25. The cause of death has yet to be announced, although early reports suggest it may be related to acute asthma.