Nicki Minaj, Alicia Keys, Lady Gaga, Coldplay & More Headline 1st Annual iHeartRadio Music Festival

On September 23rd and 24th, Las Vegas will host the first annual iHeartRadio Music Festival.The two-day festival  will include  Lady Gaga, Coldplay, Black Eyed Peas , Nicki Minaj, Alicia Keys, John Mayer, Jennifer Lopez, David Guetta, Bruno Mars, Carrie Underwood, Kelly Clarkson and more. Fans in attendance will also get a special guest performance from Usher and Sting. Tickets go on sale to the public this Saturday, July 16th via Ticketmaster at 1pm EST, with details on a special pre-sale available now over at iHeartRadio’s Facebook page.The event takes place at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, hosted by Ryan Seacrest. Check the full lineip here. After the jump watch the official announcement for the festival.

[Watch] ‘We Got The Jazz’ Recap 2011 Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival,

Brooklyn Bodega: We Got The Jazz from BrooklynBodegaTV on Vimeo.

6/16, Club Europa in BK – Brooklyn Bodega presents We Got The Jazz, an official showcase of L Magazine’s Northside Festival.

Headlined by The Stuyvesants, with special guests ScienZe, Naturel, Tanya Morgan, Che Grand & Fresh Daily.

Also, performances by Adrienne Mack-Davis, Progress, Sophia Urista, Kooley High & Phony PPL.

Hosted by The Company Man.

Make sure you check out Phony PPL at the 2011 Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival, and the Stuyvesants at the BHF After Party.BrooklynBodega.com
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A Fare Slice (I.C. NYC Episode 3)

In 1980, New Yorker Eric Bram noticed that for twenty years the price of a subway token had tended to match the price of a slice of pizza. Thirty years later, his hypothesis still holds true. The question we wanted answered is WHY. Are the MTA and the various supposedly independent pizza shops involved in collusion – or who’s taking their pricing cues from who? And what about the dollar pizza spots that have been popping up all over Manhattan recently — could these be predicting a lower cost transit authority appearing in our future?