After Bjork repeatedly yelled, "Tibet!" during a concert in Shanghai last week, Chinese officials decided to "tighten its controls over foreign singers and other performers." Yelling "Tibet" broke a law, and so the Chinese people can no longer have nice things such as concerts. [Reuters]

Yes, sadly, it's that time again. Time to stare into the lifeless abyss that is the Swan Dress. But Bjork's legendary snafu has friends! Like Celine Dion's Backwards Suit, Gwyneth Paltrow's Saggy Boob Goth Gown and Corey Feldman's Hammer Pants. All have appeared at one Oscars showdown or another, and all are here for your enjoyment once again.

Bjork is the pixieish Icelandic pop star who continues to defy musical conventions and dress codes.

Britney Spears, by meekly obeying a photographer whose agency is making money off photos of her meltdown, may have succumbed to a celebrity version of the Stockholm Syndrome. The troubled pop star is one of those hostages who develops a loyalty to her captors. No such risk for Icelandic singer-songwriter Bjork. Pictured, here, a New Zealand photographer who tried to take Bjork's picture as she arrived at Auckland airport, after his shirt was torn off by his reluctant subject. (And, after the jump, a reminder of quite how wild the slight warbler can be: a clip from another airport, Bangkok, when she attacked another shooter.)

"The Rest Is Noise," New Yorker classical music critic Alex Ross's history of the 20th century, is now all printed up. (The book will be released on October 16th.) And what's this we see on the back cover? Blurbs from the likes of lit critic Louis Menand and the author of The Oxford History of Western Music and... BJORK?! Not to be a geek-nerd-spaz, but you probably couldn't win more points in the Great Blurb Competition that is our modern age if Nina Simone had blurbed the book from beyond the grave.

• The Guðmundsdóttir-Barneys anchored their sleek black yacht off Long Island City. Of course. [Page Six]
  

Did Björk take a swipe at her hubby in yesterday's Times?