Celebrities all over are rediscovering the joys of honest-to-goodness dating, as evidenced by the plethora of power couples (plus whoever that guy Kat Dennings is with) spotted at the Lakers game Tuesday night. Love is in the air! MORE>>

Modern romance—it's so difficult, isn't it? Whereas in the old days, Alex Rodriguez could just saunter up to any strong-jawed women he desired, announce his batting average and annual salary, and then take it from there, the times (and his batting average) have changed. In fact, celebrities all over are rediscovering the joys of honest-to-goodness dating, as evidenced by the plethora of power couples (plus whoever that guy Kat Dennings is with) spotted at the Lakers game Tuesday night. Love is in the air! More»

Lord, why did You make it so hard to be Alex Rodriguez? You make him so irresistibly handsome that he can't even walk by a mirror without feeling compelled to kiss himself. You give him enough talent (and yes, steroids, but did You not invent those as well, Lord?) to be the greatest shortstop of all time, and then You make him move positions so some ancient, herpes-laden dinosaur can limp out the end of his career.  And now we find out that he was involved in the infamous Tobey Maguire Hollywood high-stakes poker ring, and is possibly facing disciplinary action from Major League Baseball? Where does it end, Lord? More»

TMZ opened the morning with some saucy pics of Portuguese soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo either not knowing or not caring about the watchful eye of the paparazzi as he dryhumps his model girlfriend Irina Shayk on a beach that now may or may not herpes. Though you can't hear it, why do I feel strongly that one of his entourage was standing behind them with a boombox, thumping house music? More»

Yesterday, I ran a very even-handed critique of the Black Eyed Peas' Super Bowl halftime performance. Although many people agree that BEP are the worst thing 100 million Americans have simultaneously experienced since Polio, a few have told me that I have some sort of personal grudge against them and am only pretending to hate the show as much as I say I did. That's ridiculous. As proof that I come by my hate honestly, here's a bunch of non-BEP related things that I hated about Super Bowl XLV. More»

• AOL will acquire the Huffington Post for $315 million, with Arianna Huffington in charge of merging all editorial content of both sites [LATimes]
• In what might be an even more egregious career misstep than Burlesque, Christina Aguilera gets the lyrics of the national anthem wrong at the Super Bowl [HuffPo]
• Lindsay Lohan will be charged with felony grand theft as early as today for that stolen necklace incident last week [TMZ]
• A two-day hearing began today to get WikiLeaks' Julian Assange extradited from London to Sweden to face sex crime charges [KABC]
• Cameron Diaz feeds A-Rod popcorn while others text, look bored and more at the Super Bowl. Stars, they're just like us! [PE]

• Laker Shannon Brown reveals he is secretly married to R&B artist Monica [PE]
• Parents complain after nine L.A. schools were on lockdown for up to five hours without food, water or bathroom breaks in response to the shooting of a campus police officer [LATimes]
• Beta software released to developers this week gives some clues on what new features to expect on the iPad 2, set to be released this spring [HuffPo]
• After spending a record-breaking $144 million from her personal funds on a fruitless CA gubernatorial campaign, Meg Whitman is named one of five appointed on the Hewlett-Packard Co. board [KTLA]
• Bill Clinton has was quite the trend whore last night in Miami, first at a steak dinner with Cameron Diaz and A-Rod, then hitting Chad Ochocinco's birthday party [TMZ]

• WikiLeaks' Julian Assange arrested in London on Swedish rape charges, will remain in custody without bail until his extradition hearing [HuffPo]
• Just the thought of Kelly Bensimon being the latest notch on A-Rod's belt gives us the heebs [Post]
• Rumors of Beverly Hills carjackings and shootings in wake of Ronni Chasen's murder aren't true, according to records [LATimes]
• The Jessica Simpson Collection is expected to become the first celebrity fashion line ever to earn over $1 BILLION in retail sales [PE]
• T.I., who still has over 9 months left of his 11-month prison sentence to serve, claims he gets "smarter" the longer he sits in the clink [TMZ]

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New York Yankees player CC Sabathia did it big with Jay-Z for his 30th birthday last night at the rap star's 40/40 Club. Celebrities in attendance included Beyonce, Anthony Hamilton, Talia Coles and model Tyson Beckford. The birthday boy looked great in a light gray casual sports coat, dark jeans and matching sneakers. More»

• What you don't know about your balcony could kill you. [NYT]
• Joan Rivers had a backstage rampage at the Miss USA pageant. And by "rampage," we mean she was wandering around in a tiara and exclaiming things. [Post]
• Cameron Diaz wants you (and A-Rod) to know that she's a marshmallow on the inside. [NYDN]
• Street artist war! Poster Boy scribbles all over Banksy's NY graffiti pieces. Poster Boy, you sound like an asshat. [Gothamist]
• Roosevelt Island's apartments had a pneumatic (!) tube (!) trash disposal system!!!!!!!! [WSJ]