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Few tween guardians were left unscarred by the great Hannah Montana tour bust of 2007 (at least until the 3-D concert movie somewhat democratized the Montana experience), whether hit in the pocket shelling out hundreds for hard-to-get Montana tickets in the secondary market or in the heart when failure to procure seats left the ingrates-in-training snubbing them for the rest of the year. But folks regularly dragged to family-friendly events within New York City limits may now have some recourse against sinister Internet-aided technology thanks to a local politico proposing another one of those pesky laws to potentially smack down ticket brokers. The most amazing takeaway from this story, however, is that people are actually paying $200 and up for tickets to see the My Little Ponies frolicking live on stage. Admittedly those are NYC prices, but then again, looking at pictures of the in-person Pony extravaganza, I'm not sure I wouldn't pay that much in the 'burbs. [NY TImes/Photo: AP]

Because her young life hasn't been warped enough, Miley "Hannah Montana" Cyrus has "[extended] her hugely popular concert tour with 14 more performances in January," by which we're assuming the AP means "her handlers at Disney are milking this thing until the kids get distracted or Cyrus drops dead." And for all the hullabaloo about the Hannah Montana tour immediately selling out, purportedly earning Cyrus the highest-grossing-tour for 2007 in the scalpers "secondary" market, Cyrus is currently in sixth place when it comes to U.S. ticket sales—behind a bunch of crusty oldsters. More »