Over the weekend, a group of street artists took advantage of New York’s desolate, snow-caked roads in order to paint a crude memorial honoring David Bowie. Unfortunately, the tribute is bad and makes no sense.

Above is the headline accompanying Billboard magazine’s review of David Bowie’s Blackstar, which was released just days before he passed away from cancer. You can understand why the headline is different online but, honestly, they nailed it the first time.

Here’s the set-up for a deeply fascinating bit of reality television: Tiffany “New York” Pollard of VH1 fame is on Celebrity Brother in the United Kingdom, along with Angela Bowie—ex-wife of the late David Bowie—and David Gest—ex-husband of Liza Minelli.

David Bowie’s perpetual stylistic reinvention (don’t call him a chameleon) became a standard many pop stars would come to adopt. To put his visionary genius in perspective, we assembled a reel of ‘70s and ‘80s TV clips, highlighting the ways in which Bowie’s shape-shifting tendencies were marveled at, questioned, and explained by the man himself.

It’s official. David Bowie will never perform in Rochester again, in part because he is dead, but also because he never went back after he and Iggy Pop were arrested there for possession of marijuana in the 1970's.

The legendary David Bowie died early Monday, 18 months after having been diagnosed with cancer, according to a post on his official Facebook page. His son confirmed the news on Twitter. He was 69.

Canadian astronaut Cmdr. Chris Hadfield is best known as the first man to cover David Bowie's "Space Oddity" while actually in space. But the video of Hadfield's performance, seen 22 million times and counting, will vanish from YouTube today due to copyright complications.

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield has spent the past five months as the commander of Expedition 35 aboard the International Space Station. While in space, he's made sandwiches, washed his hands, and wrung water from a wet towel. But on Sunday afternoon, Hadfield provided the internet with his most amazing video yet: a cover of David Bowie's 1969 classic, “Space Oddity.”

Both David Bowie and Justin Timberlake, you may recall, announced (or coyly hinted at; it still might just be a Myspace party) the release of new music earlier this week, which is very exciting.

Today may be David Bowie's 66th birthday, but it's his fans who are getting the gifts.

Congratulations, Jessica Simpson! Jessica Jr. will have plenty of great music to listen to when he or she enters this world. Here's some of it.

A gleeful Chris Brown galavants around town after breaking Good Morning America's window. 50 Cent gives Chelsea Handler a backhanded compliment. Hugh Hefner's fiancee may already be cheating. Wednesday gossip shakes its haters off.

Well, this is something you don't see... ever. Here's a video of a (presumably) homeless man, holding two Kermit the Frog puppets, performing a lip dub of Queen and David Bowie's classic tune, "Under Pressure." Watch the unlikely occurrence inside.

Bond No. 9, which has been marketing the smells of New York for years, announced that it's distilling the essence of the High Line. So what's New York's newest park going to smell like?

The New York Daily News reported over the weekend that none other than David Bowie may be coming to financially strapped celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz's rescue by buying her Rhinebeck, N.Y. estate.

• Guy Metcalfe sold his apartment at 15 Central Park West last May for $11 million. Now the co-head of Morgan Stanley's real estate investment banking group and his wife, Lisa, have picked up a new, slightly more modest abode. The couple has paid $6.125 million for a 12th-floor, four-bedroom apartment at 90 Riverside Drive. [Cityfile, Corcoran]
• Iris Marden, the ex-wife of retail heir James Marden and a broker at Stribling, has sold her penthouse at 7 Hubert Street. The three-bedroom apartment, which once appeared on the cover of Architectural Digest and first went on the market for $14.5 million in January 2009, sold for $11.5 million. [Cityfile]

David Bowie turns 63 today. Fashion designer Carolina Herrera is turning 71. Everyone's favorite British theoretical physicist, Stephen Hawking, is 68. Robert Kelly (or R. Kelly to you and me) is turning 43. Sean Paul is 37. Baseball players Jason Giambi and Carl Pavano are 39 and 34, respectively. Actress Sarah Polley is 31. Wolfgang Puck is turning 61. DJ Clue is 35. Susan Berresford turns 67. Composer David Lang is 53. And legendary game show host Bob Eubanks turns 72 today. A few weekend birthdays are below.

Two great musicians get together and make a great song. Too bad the banter in the beginning of this music video leans more towards forced-and-boring than natural-and-cute.