Helmer Toro, owner of H&H Bagels, was indicted for tax fraud yesterday. He pled not guilty to charges of withholding over $360,000 in payroll taxes. Surely the owner of the self-described “largest bagel manufacturer in the world” wouldn’t risk an enterprise that promising just to get out of paying some taxes?

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A couple in Staten Island have recently decided to call it quits after being together for over three years. The real victims in this kind of tragedy are always the little ones who get caught in the middle. In this case Benjamin, the innocent in question, is only a year old and yet he has to bear the burden of a bitter custody battle between two hurt ex-lovers. Right now the police are siding with Audrey Hesselberg because hers is the name on Benjamin’s official certificates. Mark Granquist, her ex, isn't going to take that lying down, and is threatening to take her to court. He says Benjamin belongs with him because he bought him for $700. Benjamin is a pug, by the way.

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On Friday we reported about a male erotic massage demonstration in the windows of The Chelsea Blue we knew would surely draw a crowd. Well we were right—though it doesn’t take a genius to figure out nearly naked men massaging each other in a store front might catch an eye or two. Not only did the event attract the attention of passersby, but also that of the boys in blue, who shut down the man-on-man masseuse show!

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As a member of the famed downtown dance troupe The Dazzle Dancers, Cary Curran (aka Cherry Dazzle) spends much of her time celebrating the semi-nude human form in all its gyrating glory. It's not shocking, then, that Curran decided to make a photo of her pregnant body (decked out in little more than gold pasties, a thong bikini bottom and a liberal sprinkling of gold body glitter) her Facebook profile picture. The surprise came when Facebook shut down her account as a result.

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In the confusion and shock of having her wallet, cash, credit cards- and probably a wrap dress or two- ganked on the streets of Madrid this weekend,  Diane von Furstenberg kept her composure and used her phone to inform....her Twitter followers?

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Kids these days and their weird outfits! Girls are running around thinking leggings are an acceptable substitute for pants. Guys let their pants hang down so low that everyone has to see their underwear. Guys wear skirts that go way to far above the knees, leaving absolutely nothing to the imagination... Wait a minute!

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Just in time for the Grateful Dead light show at the Empire State Building, the Justice Department has decided that it's uncool to harsh the mellows of people using marijuana for medical purposes.

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In the far-off kingdom of Staten Island, Method Mad surrendered to authorities today on tax evasion charges. This moment of clarity did not stop him from flipping the bird to all of the reporters standing in front of the courthouse. Check out the video from the SI Live after the jump.

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“I think it may have something to do with the joint I smoked…” Madonna said on Late Night with David Letterman, when confronted about her behavior from a prior interview and now coming out about smoking pot is trendy.

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Showtime will premiere a new docu-comedy TV series that shows what really goes on in a gun shop located in Denver, Colorado, later in October. Lock 'n Load may appear to be something that should only appeal to gun fetishists and gun haters, but we are always reminded of the gun idiots of all stripes that surround us. There's currently a BB gun "sniper" shooting at innocents in Alphabet City. Nothing like the all-too-real gun violence that occurred last month on Avenue A, but also something people should be alarmed about. Is this just some kid's idea of a bad joke? Or are these warning shots of someone who needs to feel like he has a little power over his mad, mad world? 

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