IN THE NEWS:
For a guy the internet said was dead earlier today, Jon Bon Jovi appears to be doing quite well.
The 10th anniversary edition of the popular New Jersey festival The Bamboozle will feature headliners Bon Jovi, Foo Fighters and Blink-182.
Jon Bon Jovi celebrated the opening of the Soul Kitchen in Red Bank, NJ, today (10/19). The community kitchen, which is open to all, accepts both cash and volunteer hours as payment.
Jon Bon Jovi sang "America the Beautiful" at a Manhattan firehouse on Wednesday, ahead of the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
The number of concert tickets sold worldwide went down during the first half of 2011, but the actual dollars spent increased to a whopping $1.65 billion worldwide, according to concert industry magazine Pollstar's annual mid-year report.
Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora reportedly has entered a rehab center in an undisclosed location, but the band will go ahead with its upcoming tour dates without him.
Bon Jovi may be thinking of going on hiatus after this year, but in the meantime it's business as usual for the New Jersey natives -- with a twist. On each stop on the band's current "The Greatest Hits Tour," lucky audience members will have a chance to win a spot in the limelight.
Though drummer Tico Torres recently told reporters that Bon Jovi was likely to take a break after this year, the band isn't slowing down its pace just yet.
