January 7 - Mayor Mike Bloomberg is thrilled that the GRAMMY Awards ceremony has returned to New York after four years in L.A. "My youngest daughter, Georgina, begged me to get her a ticket", he told the sleepy crowd at the (very) early morning press conference announcing the final nominees. Stars like Ashanti, Avril Lavigne, John Mayer, Kenny Chesney, and Justin Timberlake lined up to tell the world who's nominated. Cyndi Lauper just wanted to have fun with hair. "I told my hair stylist I needed something new. It's an animal print," she said of her striped locks. A Recording Academy staffer told us that they had to keep rapper Nelly up all night to get him there so early; "We told him it was a late, late night event." And sure enough, when Nelly took the microphone he said, "Good morning. That's all I'm going to say because I'm sleepwalking" before reading his list of nominees.