Just 48 hours after reopening, Jay-Z’s 40/40 Club in Manhattan has been shut down due to numerous health code violations. The New York Post reports the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene issued the 40/40 69 violation points, including violations for workers using their hands to prepare foods and poor refrigeration. The violations ranged from hot food being let out on the counter … to a refrigerator being kept at 60 degrees instead of 41 … to a worker seen mixing salsa with his bare hands.

“If you have a walk-in place with food like this, you put a hell of a lot of people at risk,” an anonymous source said. “A night of dinner and dancing should not include the risk of contracting food-borne illness.” The club literally just reopened last week following significant renovations … and hosted a huge, well attended reopening event that was crawling with celebrities.

“Underworld Awakening” is the new #1 film in America.  It made $25.4 million over the weekend, which is the second best opening of the four “Underworld” movies.  (–Here’s a chart detailing the performance of the films in the series . . .)

–The George Lucas produced World War Two film, “Red Tails”, took second place with $19.1 million.  Here are this week’s Top 10 movies . . . (more…)

Wactching this may cause seizures.

The latest joint from KNSCRY titled ” Good For It ” produced by Oktober1st ..Releasing Monday January 23  2012 from the forthcoming project ” Righteous EP 

“Red Tails“  (PG-13)  (Trailer)

Cuba Gooding Jr. and Terrence Howard star in this World War Two movie about the black pilots of the experimental Tuskegee training program.  Method Man, NeYo, and “NCIS: Los Angeles” minx Daniela Ruah are also in it.

–The Tuskegee Airmen were the first all African American aerial combat unit, and they got their chance to prove themselves during the middle of the war, when all the white pilots kept failing to protect the few allied bombers we had left.

(–Here’s executive producer George Lucas discussing why he felt this was an important story to tell.  And you can listen to some of the original Tuskegee Airmen talk about painting the tails of their planes red here.)

“Haywire“  (R)  (Trailer)

MMA hot chick Gina Carano makes her acting debut as a CIA operative who’s double-crossed by Ewan McGregor and framed for murder.  She does most of her own stunts, and they didn’t use special effects for any of her fight scenes.

–It also stars Michael Douglas, Michael Fassbender, Antonio Banderas, and Channing Tatum, and it’s directed by “Traffic’s” Steven Soderbergh.

(–You can watch the first five minutes of the movie, which includes her full fight scene with Channing Tatum, here.)

“Underworld: Awakening“  (R)  (Trailer)

Kate Beckinsale returns as the vampire Selene, who’s been held captive by humans for 12 years.  They know about lycans and vampires now, and are hunting them down while experimenting on Selene to find a way to prevent “infection.”

–A little girl helps her escape, and Selene hooks up with the surviving vampires to fight her human captors.

–This is the fourth “Underworld” movie and the first to be shot in 3D.  Selene was the star of the first two movies, but the third was a prequel, so she wasn’t in that one.  (–You can watch a trailer which recaps the events of the first three films here.)

“Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close“  (PG-13)  (Trailer)  It had a limited run over the Christmas holidays, but this is its official wide release.

A nine-year-old boy finds a key his dad left for him before he died on September 11th, and searches all over New York for the lock it opens.  Tom Hanks is the dad, Sandra Bullock is the mom, and the kid is “Teen Jeopardy” winner Thomas Horn

If you could take a simple blood test that could accurately predict whether you’d live to 100 or not . . . would you take it?

–Scientists at the Boston School of Medicine say they’ve created a test that can actually do just that.

–They’ve identified 281 genetic markers that are associated with long life.  And basically, if you’ve got those genes, you’re probably going to live a long time . . . even if you smoke, drink, never exercise, and regularly eat full sticks of butter.

–This blood test looks for that genetic data.  In a clinical study, the scientists were able to predict who would live past 102 years old with 71% accuracy, and who would live past 105 years old with 85% accuracy.

–That’s pretty accurate for a test that measures something so volatile and unpredictable.

–The team says the test isn’t ready for the public yet, but it could be one day soon.

(Daily Mail)

Shout out to the Brown Bag All Stars. Me and Bodega got a chance to rock with them last week in NY. (They are collectively dope as fu#k!) Anyways, Koncepts latest project dropped tuesday via Soulspazm records featuring guest shots from Royce the 5″9, Soul Khan and more. . Cop it.

The Chitown / LA connect get nice off this leak joint from BJ’s upcoming “Pineapple Now & Laters” album droppin Valentines Day.

B.J. The Chicago Kid – His Pain (Ft. Kendrick Lamar) by illRoots

Estelle is the shit as usual. This is a break up joint, Peep the story. Cop the album.
Estelle’s “All of Me” arrives on February 28th.

For the first time in seven years, the Grammys will have an official host.

–It’s LL COOL J . . . who’s hosted the live Grammy nominations concert every year since 2008.  The last Grammy host was QUEEN LATIFAH in 2005.

–The Grammys will pop off Sunday, February 12th.