In your party-oriented Wednesday media column: the NYT launches a nightlife column, Julie Chen prepares to take on The View, ads masquerading as news in L.A., and One Man: Two Identical Letters to the Editor.

Zagat's strategy for its losing battle against foodie blogs and user-generated restaurant review sites: Claiming to be kindreds. Nina Zagat says the Zagat Survey was crowd-sourcing before it was cool. Yelp : Zagat :: Charles Darwin :: Alfred Wallace Russel. Who? Exactly. [HuffPo]

If you're familiar at all with Tracy Morgan's stream-of-consciousness interview style, you're well aware that he is a nonstop comedy machine. Picking the best of his many interview appearances is not an easy task, but here goes.

Here is a video of my future wife, Michelle Trachtenberg, rapping along to "Shake it for Daddy" by Robin Thicke, with a brief cameo by James Van Der Beek. Back off Dawson, she's mine!

Ginger from American EXXXtasy is here, in her biker cap and overalls sans undershirt, to explain to you how you can descramble such films as "New Wave Hookers" and "Sex Crimes 2084." Who could resist her permed glory?

Given Peaches' history with nude scandals and Eli's with disembodied butt pics, it'd be funny if she were. We keep trying to ignore Peaches Geldof, but she won't stop posing with people's private parts, requiring NSFW ass analysis.

Tabloid favorite Courtney Love's band Hole has a new album, and the singer has a new name, since she no longer wants to be referred to by her "oppressive" stage name. What's the new moniker?

Watch "Witches of Oz" actor Lance Henriksen learn the hard way that cats are the star of every scene.

Aaron Jamison has terminal colon cancer and expects to die within nine months. Despite this, his spirits are high; he hands out bracelets that read "Cancer Sucks ... Life is Good ... Choose Joy." And also...good lord...

Before Stephen Colbert and Tim Meadows were teaming up to alleviate tea party protesters' pangs of racism on The Colbert Report, they combated racist students on Strangers with Candy. The clip references the Strangers episode with talk of "nuts."

We have watched the much-ballyhooed all-Madonna hour and we were not unchanged. Neither were the virgins and lovable losers in New Directions. Let's wallow in the afterglow before moving on with our lives, if we can.

Whoopi Goldberg and a studio full of cosmetic products is an odd pair, possibly because the ol' girl doesn't even have eyebrows! But today she crashed the party and kept it classy from her singing entrance to her exit.

Oh, Jill. A tipster has provided us with (admittedly circumstantial) evidence that the red-haired menace has been reviewing her new advice book and flaming detractors under a pseudonym on the Amazon.com message boards. Take it away, tipster!

The costars (and rivals) of Style's Jerseylicious explained their take on "Sloppy Seconds." Good Day's Greg Kelly focused on this all of this "Sloppy Second" business and attempting to fake a Jersey accent.

The Federal Reserve is rolling out new $100 bills. Pity. We quite liked the current design: clean, uncluttered, bold, and crisp on the fingertips (or so we hear). Now it looks like a god damn child's crayon scratch pad.

If you've been trying to catch Dick Van Dyke ridin' dirty, here's your chance- he spits some rhymes on new children's album "Rhythm Train," which also features Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

There are two ways to tackle the Mark Leibovich profile of his old friend Mike "Morning-Winner" Allen, and the Politico celebrity tabloid that Allen composes a newsletter for: how Politico hurts America and how weird Mike Allen is.

When Asylum intern Kyle Moffatt learned that his celebrity crush was coming into the office for an interview, he first panicked, then went home to change into a more alluring nerd outfit.

Or he could be! In a movie. Also today: You Lauren Graham fans will have reason to celebrate, another British TV show gets dragged over to the States, a new food channel, and Curb Your Enthusiasm enthusiasm.

For such a tiny man, Nelson de la Rosa had so much to give. Now dancing with the angels, Nelson and his many moves (humping! grinding!) and moods (flirty! sassy! sexy! Michael Jackson!) are compiled here in a loving tribute.