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Last night, as hail pelted lower Manhattan, we crowded into the sweaty enclaves of the former basement CBGB, going through a backdoor with a redlight to see Yelawolf perform at our Issue 70 release party. He was wild sweaty and predictably great, as you can see in the above clip of ‘Wolf classic “Mixin Up the Medicine.” After the jump, check a flick of Yela with the old CBGB sign, courtesy FADER publisher Andy Cohn . Read more: http://www.thefader.com/2010/10/12/yelawolf-live-at-the-fader-70-release-party/#ixzz12DAEDTJF

Alabama rapper YelaWolf is having quite the year. He is currently touring with Wiz Khalifa as part of the Wake and Bake tour, performed alongside Big Boi at the 2010 BET Hip Hop Awards, and recently graced the cover of Fader magazine's October/November issue. "I took 'em out to Alabama," YelaWolf explained to The BoomBox in regards to his shoot with Fader. "I took 'em to the Coosa River. I was born off the Coosa River...We just hopped in and did some rope swings. We were actually out there trying to noodle some catfish. We were trying to noodle some catfish, but we couldn't."

ANOTHER REPUBLICAN STAR BORN: RAISES MOST IN HOUSE RACES Leads Drudge:) Noem has raised $1.1 million over the past three months, about twice as much as her opponent, Rep. Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin (D-SD) . And that money will go a long way: South Dakota's media market is one of the least expensive in the country.

Esquire magazine has named former Friday Night Lights actress Minka Kelly as this year's "Sexiest Woman Alive," reports say. The magazine named Kelly to the top spot in its November issue. Kelly is also currently the girlfriend of Yankees captain and all-star Derek Jeter.

Thirteen years after their last interview, Oprah Winfrey sat down with disgraced former LAPD detective Mark Fuhrman to take a look back at the infamous O.J. Simpson case and what went wrong. Fuhrman, who famously lied under oath about using the N-word, which made an already racially-charged case even more flimsy, says that he wishes he'd never picked up the phone on that fateful night in Los Angeles. After Winfrey admits that she frequently dreams about Simpson confessing to her, Fuhrman says that if he could say one thing to Simpson it would be, "I know you didn't mean to kill two people, and you didn't go there for that, and it wasn't a first degree murder."

Los Angeles – Leona Gage, who in 1957 was named Miss USA but had the title stripped the next day when pageant officials learned she was married and a mother of two, has died in Los Angeles, her son said Saturday. She was 71. Gage died of heart failure Tuesday after spending several weeks at a Sherman Oaks hospital. Born Mary Leona Gage in Texas, she appeared as Miss Maryland USA in the competition in Long Beach, Calif. Gage also lied about her age – telling pageant officials she was 21 when she was 18. She told reporters after winning that she didn’t even have a boyfriend.

Racer Shane Hmiel in Critical Condition After Qualifying Crash Shane Hmiel (born May 15, 1980 in Pleasant Garden, North Carolina According to a report by Ashley McCubbin over at bleacherreport.com , USAC officials say that Hmiel somehow managed to flip in turns three and four, bouncing the top of his roll cage off the wall. Initial reports claimed that Hmiel was not responding at the scene Shane was then airlifted to Indianapolis’ Methodist Hospital, where he was then placed in the intensive care unit. An update that came at around 11pm EST, said that Shane was in an induced coma and was undergoing tests and treatment