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Woot! A little bird gave me the head’s up that Billboard magazine is reporting that 90′s band Letters To Cleo are reuniting this Fall for a short mini-tour that will bring back the core group of original band members for a few West and East Coast shows. Folks may recall that Letters To Cleo had a big radio hit with their song Here and Now and enjoyed a pretty successful string of albums in the mid-90′s. As a fan of the group (and of lead singer Kay Hanley‘s subsequent solo career), I am very excited by this news:

Boston-based rock outfit Letters To Cleo will reunite after an eight-year hiatus for four shows this fall. Original members Kay Hanley (vocals), Greg McKenna and Michael Eisenstein (guitars) and Stacy Jones (drums) will join forces with Joe Klompus (bass, replacing original bassist Scott Riebling) when the gigs get underway Nov. 8 in Los Angeles. The reunion follows a brief impromptu performance last year during a Boston benefit, which featured the hits “Here & Now” and “Awake.” Says Eisenstein, “We were excited, the crowd was excited, and from that point on, it just seemed like we should try to find a time to do it for real.” Letters To Cleo sprung from Boston on the strength of the 1993 album “Aurora Gory Alice,” which featured “Here & Now.” The group disbanded in 2000, with Hanley moving onto a solo career and such projects as the Disney Channel’s “My Friend Tigger and Pooh” and voicing Josie in the 2001 film “Josie and the Pussycats.”

This is awesome, awesome news for fans of the group. Stacy Jones left LTC to join Veruca Salt around 1997 and then went on to form his own band American Hi-Fi (remember Flavor of the Weak? That was them). LTC put out a couple more albums and then Kay, as the Billboard article states, did her own solo thing after the band broke up in 2000. Kay provided the singing voice on the Josie and the Pussycats soundtrack (which was full of amazingly fun pop songs and is deffo worth checking out) and has put out a couple albums on her own for sale on her official website. Yes, the LTC kids have been very bizzy on their own … but this reunion tour (Nov. 8: Los Angeles – Roxy, Dec. 8-9: Boston – Paradise Rock Club and December TBA: New York -venue TBA) is really amazing news. I know that I will be deffo be at the LA show fo’ shizzle. I am very much looking forward to welcoming back Letters to Cleo to the performance stage :)

[Source, thanks Little Bird]

This past Monday was the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah (Happy Belated New Year to all my Jewish peoples) and Madonna, being the good Kabbalist that she is, made sure that at least one of her kids and she attended services together at the Kabbalah Centre in NYC. Here are a few ADORABLE photos of Maddy with her young son David Banda (who was rockin’ a pretty spiffy yarmulke, if I do say so myself) making their way into and out of the Kabbalah Centre this week:

Madonna whisked her Malawian son David off to worship at a Kabbalah centre while on a break from her Sticky and Sweet tour in New York last night. The three-year-old, dressed in a white outfit, clung to his superstar mother as they arrived for a service at the temple. The 50-year-old, dressed in a floral print frock and long black cardigan, was also accompanied by her manager Guy Oseary. Across the globe, husband Guy Ritchie was enjoying a night out with the couple’s son Rocco, 7, at London’s Cipriani restaurant. Madonna made no secret of her plans to raise her youngest son as a follower of Kabbalah when she first took over as his carer, but insists he is free to be a Christian like his biological father when he’s older. The singer, who began studying the mystical offshoot of Judaism in 1996, has raised her biological children Lourdes,11, and Rocco, 7, as Kabbalists with the help of husband Guy. David regularly wears a red Kabbalah bracelet on his wrist and Madonna has previously said: “I believe in Jesus and I study the Kabbalah, so I don’t see why he can’t too. If David decides he wants to be a Christian, then so be it.” Madonna is gearing up to perform four dates in Madison Square Garden, New York this month and will end the tour will end in Sao Paolo, Brazil, on December 18.

So cute … I think the yarmulke really suits little David, don’t you? It’s impressive that while Madonna is currently consumed with a world tour of pretty epic proportions she still manages to carve out vacation time and worship time for and with her children. Madonna is proof positive that you really can have it all if you work hard enough. Love it.

[Photo credit: Splash News; Source]

Okay … so Blake Lively was snapped filming a pretty interesting scene for an upcoming episode of Gossip Girl where her character Serena van der Woodsen is filming a kissing scene with a boy in Times Square … but it surely isn’t the boy you’re prolly thinking it is:

So as not to spoil this future ep any further, I’ll keep all speculation and conjecture behind the cut. After the jump, see a bunch of photos from the filming of this scene and find out who Blake/Serena is swappin’ spit with …

Daniel Radcliffe has confessed to writing steamy, sexual notes to one of his Equus co-stars in order to “wind up” the person … but it’s prolly not the co-star you’re imagining. No, it’s not theater veteran actor Richard Griffiths, it’s not even his female co-star Anna Camp … no, Dan has confessed to writing these sexy notes to 31 year old Lorenzo Pisoni, who plays the horse Equus on stage:

Daniel Radcliffe sends sexy letters to his ‘Equus’ co-star. The ‘Harry Potter’ actor is currently starring alongside Lorenzo Pisoni in the Broadway production of the play – in which Daniel bares all for his role as a horse-obsessed stable boy – and has revealed he gave the 31-year-old actor a series of raunchy notes on the show’s opening night. Daniel said: “We’re getting on very well indeed. I’ve written some really, really deeply sexual things on some of the cards I’ve given him for opening night. But just to wind him up, you know.” The 19-year-old star added he is in awe of Lorenzo, terming him “cool” and “gorgeous” before claiming he would even consider marrying him if he was gay. He said: “He’s great. He’s a truly remarkable man. If I was gay or a female I’d just want to marry him. He’s gorgeous, and he’s really cool bloke as well.”

Well then, isn’t that lovely. I must say, I am quite impressed that Daniel would have no qualms about saying these sorts of things about his very handsome co-star. Surely many people will take this revelation as proof that Dan is gay or even questioning but I honestly believe the opposite. It takes a person very secure with who they are to say things like this in public without fearing any reprisal. Sure, these comments may come back to haunt him but I’m pretty sure he’s OK with whatever anyone has to say about him. It’s impressive. That being said, I’m dying to know what sorts of “raunchy” things he wrote to Lorenzo … just curious ;)

[Source, Source]

Britney Spears spent another fun day in NYC yesterday, making sure she stuck to the activities that would most likely keep her out of trubs. In the afternoon, Britters went out for a short shopping excursion in the SoHo district of NYC … she popped into a few stores and even spent some time trying on a few outfits:

After picking up a few things around SoHo she glammed herself up to take in a Broadway musical last night. Here are pics of Britney‘s arrival and departure from the Tony Award winning Best Musical 2008 show In the Heights last night:

I understand that Britney went out for dinner after the show but managed to be back at her hotel, safe and sound, at a reasonable hour. I have to agree with the Pink reader who commented that it’s a shame that Britney can’t go out and party like any other 26 year old girl because of the way it would be perceived by the public. True, if Brit was snapped even entering a bar or nightclub, tongues would start wagging of a relapse. I suppose it can be argued that Britney partied enough in the past couple of years for an entire lifetime, so it’s prolly a good idea that she just stay out of any perception of trubs at all. I really do trust that she is on the right track these days … even if she does indulge in a little bit of fun, I’m fairly certain she can do so safely — at least, I hope she can. At any rate, as long as she sticks with the shopping and show seeing, there’ll really be no cause for concern at all :)

[Photo credit: INFdaily; X17]