I've been searching on MTV.com today for some new stuff I can post to keep this board up todate and I found some stories I thought I might post. I'll try to update everyone on the news once or twice a week. Feel free to post your feelings or thoughts on these stories and if you see anything I missed Post it here please .

Great idea, Mary!

Ok...this man has issues!

At the American Music Awards two weeks ago, Justin Timberlake was pretty secretive about his upcoming concert plans. But now that his touring partner Christina Aguilera has spilled the beans, Timberlake feels justified to start yapping about the summer extravaganza.

"It was an idea that both of our managers concocted," he said. "When it came to me I said, 'It sounds really interesting. It would be fun to be on tour with somebody who's that talented' " (see "Timberlake, Aguilera Will Team Up For Summer Tour").

Although some folks have raised an eyebrow at the idea of Justin touring with a supposed rival of Britney Spears, Timberlake wants to downplay any potential controversy, and is quick to sing Aguilera's praise.

"She's got one of the most amazing voices I've ever heard," he said. "That homegirl can sing. She can release a song like 'Dirrty' and get everybody talking, and then release a song like 'Beautiful' and say, 'Look, this is why I am standing here.' She's bad. That's the Christina that I met on the TV show that we did ['The All-New Mickey Mouse Club'] , and that's the Christina that will be around 10 years from now."

One of reasons Timberlake is eager to hit the road with Aguilera is because he's confident enough in his abilities as a singer and performer to not worry about being upstaged. Once he starts specifically talking about his show, he starts to sound like a self-aggrandizing WWE wrestler.

"I'm gonna make an arena feel like a club," he boasted. "I want people to feel like they're a part of the show and it's a party. Anybody who sits down during the show will get kicked out. If you sit down, once I find you, you will get booted."

Before Timberlake and Christina hit the road, Justin will re-enter the studio to tinker with new material. And next month he'll shoot the video for "Rock Your Body," the next single from Justified. A director for the clip will be chosen in the coming days.

If he's looking to ruffle feathers with the video, he'll have a tough time topping the audacity of "Cry Me a River," which depicted a heartbroken Justin watching a Britney look-alike getting in another man's car. Then Timberlake breaks into her house and leaves a tape of him groping another girl running on her TV (see "Justin And Britney At War, Magazine Cover Story Declares").

Naturally, the footage provoked a flood a commentary from fans — which was actually Timberlake's goal. He said the clip was his way of commenting on the way the media has portrayed his love life, and he doesn't regret having filmed it.

"I knew what I was doing," he said. "When you become a product of the media's rumor mill you kinda get this 'thing' about you. It was a chance for me to use it and do a little reversing. To go, 'Now I've got all of you in the palm of my hand.' "

Since Timberlake released Justified, many critics have stopped talking about his love life and started focusing on his music. For him, being taken seriously as a musician is one of his greatest achievements, and it makes it easier to stomach the rumors that circulate like buzzing flies and the reporters that still want to dig for dirt.

"Regardless of what you do, rumors are gonna be around," Timberlake shrugged. "I'm sure when Eminem goes to do an interview they still wanna ask him about [ex-wife] Kim and his mom. And I'm sure he don't wanna talk about it just like I don't wanna talk about all this bullsh-- either. But it's just part of what we do. Unfortunately it's entertaining for people. They want to know about what you do when they don't see you."

—Jon Wiederhorn, with additional reporting by MTV Europe

When Britney Spears drops her new album this fall, don't be surprised to find a little reminder of her relationship with Fred Durst.

The Limp Bizkit frontman is among the producers working on Spears' as-yet-untitled new album, due in October, according to a Jive Records spokesperson. Durst has produced one unnamed track thus far, but it — as well as everything else that has been done for the follow-up to 2001's Britney — is not guaranteed to wind up on Spears' fourth LP.

Durst found time to helm the Spears tune while working on Limp Bizkit's new album, tentatively titled Less Is More, due in April. According to the band's Web site, www.limpbizkit.com, they've just about completed the new LP, their fourth, which is expected to include songs called "Build a Bridge" and "Crack Pipe," the latter having already been tapped as the first single (see "Durst Talks Bizkit LP, Which Now Includes A 'Crack Addict' "). Durst wrote in a post that 18 songs were completed, but only 10 or 12 will make the album's final cut.

Those familiar with Durst's posts on the Bizkit site know that he had been fawning over Spears earlier this month, claiming, among other things, that "he had never felt this way [about anyone] before"

—Joe D'Angelo

On "In Da Club," 50 Cent rhymes about wanting the fans to love him like "they love Pac," and pretty soon, everyone will get to hear a dream pairing of the two headline magnets.

A yet-to-be-titled collaboration between Queens' king of the streets and Tupac will be hitting the mixtape circuit in a couple of weeks, courtesy of DJ Whoo Kid.

"We're still working on it, trying to make it a club banger," said Whoo Kid, who was one of the first DJs to consistently feature 50 on his mixtapes and has since been DJing shows for the G-Unit. "It's the old Pac, going crazy. We're going to drop it when 50's album [Get Rich or Die Tryin'] is coming out [February 11]" (see "50 Cent Says He's Capitalizing On Arrest, Doesn't Mind Being Bootlegged").

Whoo Kid said on Thursday he got the unreleased Tupac vocals from Snoop Dogg and Daz and decided that his friend 50 would be the best person to rhyme with the icon.

The DJ was also behind last year's pairing of 50 and Notorious B.I.G. on "The Realest," which infiltrated airwaves after getting love underground. "It's the biggest illegal street hit ever," boasted Whoo Kid, who admitted receiving the DAT of Biggie's vocals from a thief. "All the radio stations are playing it. I know if Biggie was alive, he would do a song with 50. People loved Biggie so much, now they love 50 just the same. [I knew] the combination would make history."

Like "The Realest," Whoo Kid said that the 50 and Tupac song probably won't be cleared to be on anybody's album — it will just be another mixtape classic for collectors to scoop up.

"That's how crazy I am," the DJ laughed, sitting in a Los Angeles studio working on a track for his upcoming album with Ludacris. "I just do street viruses. Pac and 50 is gonna be another street virus. It's sick!"

I haven't even read the story cause I'm not really interested in Justin but the way you said that was just hillarious! Now I have to go back and read it.

Yup I read it. I don't really care for either of them though.

I know exactly how you feel. I used to actually like Justin, he's kinda annoying now but Christina really gets to me. I don't know how she can let her talent to go waste like that.

Hey...I've heard that Justin and Brittany were possibly back together.

At least 95 people were killed and authorities expect the number to rise as they investigate a fire that engulfed a Rhode Island nightclub Thursday night. More than 180 people suffered injuries that ranged from smoke inhalation to severe burning.

The Station, in West Warwick, about 15 miles southwest of Providence, caught fire at about 11 p.m. as a result of a pyrotechnic mishap during the first song by heavy metal band Great White, best known for their 1989 hit "Once Bitten Twice Shy." A spark or flame apparently ignited foam soundproofing or insulation on the wall behind the stage and spread throughout the venue within minutes, leaving little more than one wall standing by the time firefighters extinguished the blaze a few hours later.

At least 187 people were taken to local medical centers, many with severe burns and others injured as a result of being trampled as they attempted to exit. Twenty-five of those dead were found near the front door, and dozens were unaccounted for in the early morning hours after the fire.

"They were completely burned," West Warwick resident Michelle Craine told the Associated Press. Craine was one of the many people still awaiting news on missing friends feared dead in the blaze.

A witness told The Providence Journal about 300 people attended the concert, though authorities said the Station was not at capacity. Among those who were still missing in the hours immediately following the disaster were Great White's guitar player Ty Longley and a local radio DJ who introduced the band onstage. The exact number of people in the club is still being determined.

"It went up like a Christmas Tree," Great White singer Jack Russell told The Providence Journal. "I was trying to put it out with a bottle of water. I turned around and the building was engulfed. My soundman is injured. I'm on my way to the hospital."

Approximately 100 people were ushered out of the club by rescuers. Bodies were still being discovered and taken away more than 12 hours after the fire started, as pieces of the collapsed structure were removed piecemeal.

The Station disaster is the worst loss of life to occur at a U.S. rock show, far eclipsing the stampede that occurred at a 1979 Who concert in Cincinnati, which claimed 11. There have been other nightclub disasters, however, that have been worse: Four hundred ninety-one people perished in 1942 when the Boston club Cocoanut Grove caught fire, and 167 died in 1977 at the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Kentucky.

Although fire officials estimated that the blaze swept through the club in just three minutes, lives may have been saved had people immediately recognized the danger. When the wall behind the performing band caught fire and flames crept toward the ceiling, many members of the crowd thought the display was part of Great White's stage show. Only when a significant portion of the wall was ablaze did panic ensue.

"I don't think this is supposed to be like that," one employee of the club told another. "We need to leave."

Thick black smoke then consumed the room and the lights went out, causing a chaotic rush toward the one exit most patrons used to enter. Although fire officials noted that all four of the venue's doors were working, many people attempted to climb through broken windows in order to escape. The band fled through the back door.

"I ended up walking out the back door, by the kitchen door," the employee also said. "I thought [my co-worker] was right with me, but she wasn't."

Crews were still dousing the flames at 1:50 a.m.

Hundreds of firefighters and police officers, and dozens of EMS workers from neighboring areas as far as Massachusetts, rushed to the scene, and rescuers were pulling injured victims to a makeshift triage area set up across the street from the venue. From there they were taken to one of at least six hospitals by buses and ambulances, and the more severely burned were transported by helicopters.

Eighty-one people sought treatment at Rhode Island Hospital in Providence; 10 of which were transferred to Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. Of the 71 admitted, 25 were in critical condition. Eighteen patients had to be intubated and put on a respirator to assist breathing. The severity of the burns ranged from two percent of a victim's body to 50 percent. Nearly all those treated suffered from smoke inhalation.

Five firefighters received medical treatment and were later released.

In a press conference Friday afternoon (February 21), hospital surgeons said those in the worst condition had a 50 to 60 percent survival rate. As of Friday afternoon, no one had died in a hospital.

After the initial burn treatment of cleaning the damaged skin area and re-hydrating the patients to prevent kidney failure, doctors will be administering antibiotics and watching for infection, a dangerous and possibly deadly repercussion of any major burn. Rehabilitation for some victims may take months.

Identifying the victims and notifying their families is the primary directive for authorities. Police have been examining the license plates of nearby parked cars for possible clues to those still missing.

Great White's Russell told reporters on the scene that the band's use of pyrotechnics was approved by the club.

"My tour manager deals with that. We always have permission because we never just go into a place ... We only do it when it's safe. If he says, 'Yeah, it's safe,' then we'll use it. If he says, 'No, you can't use it here, the walls are flammable or the ceiling's flammable,' then we won't use it. It's not a big deal."

The Station's owners and a stage technician, however, claimed to be unaware that any such special effects would be employed.

"At no time did either owner have prior knowledge that pyrotechnics were going to be used by the band Great White," read a statement issued by Kathleen M. Hagerty, Esq., an attorney representing the Station owners. "No permission was ever requested by the band or its agents to use pyrotechnics at the Station and no permission was ever given."

Great White performed at New Jersey's Stone Pony on Valentine's Day, and in a press conference on Friday, owner Dominic Santana said the band used stage pyro without permission.

"Not once were we told that there were going to be any pyrotechnics whatsoever," Santana said. "I was in the back office [when the flashpots and sparklers] went off, and heard through the radio communications, 'What the hell is going on?'

"So we did not know that they were going to have pyrotechnics or we would not have allowed them to have pyrotechnics."

A multi-agency investigation involving state and local police and fire marshals, and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, is underway, in the hopes of finding why the fire occurred, and who, if anyone, is liable. Rhode Island Attorney General Patrick Lynch said the culprit(s) may face criminal charges.

"You had no business setting off pyrotechnics in that building, as far as I can say," observed Governor Donald Carcieri, who arrived on the scene from Florida Friday morning, upon receiving news of the incident. "So somebody made a bad decision, and we don't know whether they were permitted to or not."

Venues require a certificate of competency and a permit to use pyrotechnics indoors. A fire official told CNN that the Station applied for a permit to use pyrotechnics, but it had not been granted.

"People were here to dance and enjoy themselves," said Fire Marshall Jesse Owens. "Somebody made a decision to set off those pyrotechnic displays, and it started the fire. It didn't need to happen. It shouldn't have happened."

The Station was not equipped with sprinklers, though West Warwick Fire Chief Charles Hall said that based on the venue's square footage, sprinklers were not required.

Family members can call (401) 462-7111 for victim information.

The tragedy struck just four days after a disaster in a Chicago club, E2, left 21 people dead and more than 50 injured. That incident was the result of a mass rush to flee the nightclub after a security guard used pepper spray to dispel a fight.

[This story was updated on 02.21.03 at 5:49 p.m. ET.]

—Joe D'Angelo