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You saw the YouTube video of Steven Tyler, right? No, not the video of his shoulder-cracking fall. The video of him shopping at Pembroke Center Liquors and looking like a frail elderly woman. The fall at Sturgis earlier this month, and his physical appearance, is causing concern about the 61-year old rocker to a degree that the rest of Aerosmith is united against Tyler in a passive-aggressive fued that screams rock star, at least that's what the nameless sources allegedly connected to the band tell the Herald's Inside Track.

• Will people pay to read the Boston Globe on the Internet? We may find out. [Boston Herald]

• James Aloisi, the Mass. Transportation Secretary, suggested the MBTA may no longer need a general manager at all after Daniel A. Grabauskas "resigned" on Thursday. [Boston Globe]

Aerosmith's often acrobatic frontman Steven Tyler fell from a stage at a Sturgis, South Dakota concert and suffered head, neck and shoulder injuries on Thursday. Tyler, 61, reportedly was awake and joking with a pyhysician while being loaded into the helicopter to be taken to Rapid City (S.D.) Regional Hospital hospital. Spokesmen for the Buffalo Chip Campground, the site of the concert, and the Mitch Schneider Organization, which represents Aerosmith, couldn't confirm how serious his injuries are. Tyler was in Sturgis to promote his Dirico Motorcycles line and play at Buffalo Chip. Aerosmith's next concert is in Canada on Friday.

HarperCollins imprint Ecco has landed Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler's autobiography for over $2 million. Keith Richards, by contrast, got $7 mil from Little, Brown for his own autobio. None of this should be construed to mean that the rock stars will do any actual writing.

No, Steven Tyler--don't walk that way! HubArts reports that Boston's favorite big-lipped rocker has entered Las Encinas Hospital in Pasadena. Las Encinas is where Dr. Drew (from Loveline!) practices, and where Celebrity Rehab (with Dr. Drew, natch) is filmed. Could this mean that Tyler has chosen the celebreality path? We hope the answer is "dream on."

Bluesman Weepin' Willie Robinson, the man who was rescued from a Jamaica Plain nursing home yesterday, has since died. An earlier report mentioned he went into cardiac arrest, but he was also burned by the fire, which started when he smoked in bed.

It's a good week to take the whole week off. Well, is there such a thing as a bad week to take off? Grilled meats will be invading your pores for the first time in such a heavy dose since Memorial Day, which was only about a month ago. In addition to this weeks picks for some of the great shows creeping up on us in Boston we'd like to point you over to a little fifty state musical roundup on the internets. Trees lounge has gotten 23 states done in the 50 state project. Celebrate your independence my checking out some Massachusetts themed tunes (some of them are pretty borderline on the whole "theme" but we'll cut him some slack for finding 60 songs with MP3s to download)

The rains come again this weekend and there's something that will keep you busy inside. VH1 and MTV won't be showing you non-stop videos like they once did. MTV2 doesn't even seem to have that type of programming – but the internets is not killing the video star. If anything the flame has been reignited (we haven't watched so many videos for years). YouTube plays host to myriad videos; live and production. Everything from Gnarls Barkley's Top of the Pops performance to Boston's More than a Feeling and just about everything in between is out there if you look for it. There have been a couple compendiums made of the available music videos, though none seem to be quite as addictive as the "I Love the 80's Music" list you'll find here. 1,500 videos from the eighties – you'll be busting out your fluorescent headband and rocking big socks pulled up over the cuffs of your jeans in no time. Well, that or watching Shannon sing Let the Music Play, the USA for Africa collaboration of We Are the World, Weird Al Yankovic's Fat, Wilson Philips and…oh, let's leave it at that, it's hard to stop once you’ve started.

One of the questions posed to Bostonist at the party on Saturday night was “how come you guys don’t have gossip on the site.” Our response was rather simple, we don’t have gossip on the site because we focus on Boston. While the occasional Val Kilmer sighting on the Green Line or a Ben Affleck/Matt Damon encounter on Newbury St. might have us dropping an email to a friend, it isn't something we feel is...

There’s the Duck Tour, the Trolley Tour (we’re not talking Green Line), Park Service Docents, the Freedom Trail, and dozens of biking and walking tours of the city. Steven Tyler may be local, but Bostonist has already seen the Old State House and we can’t be wasting our precious cell phone minutes to listen to him talk about it. With our attempt to find out some of those local hidden historical markers, we were very happy to find this “Hidden Historical Mania-in-a-can.” When Bostonist once again welcomes the parents to town for the Holidays this year, we’re sending them out, bundled up, for our new favorite tour of Boston. AudisseyGuides, produced by Robert Pyles. An intrepid, Boston-native, twenty-something entrepreneur, Pyles has pulled together a 27-stop tour of historic downtown Boston for sites we’ve passed by a thousand times and, now, will never think of the same way again.

Wednesday night marked the launch of Boston Common magazine with a blowout, star-studded event at the Boston Center for the Arts’ Cyclorama in the South End. Perhaps “star-studded’ is a stretch, but by Boston standards, it was an impressive showing. Celebrities included: Steven Tyler (Boston Common cover star); Christopher Reid (event MC, and yes, Kid of Kid ‘n Play fame); Daniel Sunjata (actor, FX’s Rescue Me); Doc Rivers (Boston Celtics head coach); Todd English (celebrity...

You don't need to have a podcast that old to be considered old school. The Boston Globe Bizcasts started way back in June, long before iTunes threw their hat into the ring. The Bizcast is great as it is always exciting to see businesses take a chance on a new technology as a way of bringing content. At first Bostonist thought it was odd for the business section to be the only section with a podcast but after noticing it's run by DC Denison, who is the technology editor under the business section umbrella, it all made perfect sense.

The 47th GRAMMY Awards aired last night on CBS and while Bostonist was hoping for something exciting to happen, like a wardrobe malfunction for example, nothing out of the ordinary really occured. Ray Charles was the big winner with the his collection of duets (completed a few months before his death), "Genius Loves Company" winning Best Album and "Here We Go Again," a duet with songstress Norah Jones, picking up Record of the Year. Charles...