Party All The Time

How do you make a boring tech convention interesting? Hire Flo Rida to spank Kate Upton on stage.

Here's how it went down ... Samsung threw a "Spring 2013 Launch Party" yesterday at the Museum of American Finance -- SNORE -- but before everyone fell asleep, Flo Rida took the stage to perform, and Kate joined him in a sexy blue dress.

Convention saved.

And you gotta see what happens when Flo raps his famous lyrics ... "She turned around and gave that big booty a smack."

Lindsay Lohan says everyone jumped the gun by saying she went to a Hollywood nightclub just hours after being sentenced to lockdown rehab.

You saw the photo ... LiLo allegedly arriving at AV nightclub Monday night, shrouded in a sheet, inside the back of an SUV emblazoned with the Mr. Pink Energy Drink logo.

Lindsay just tweeted, "Guys relax, that was NOT me at AV or in the @Mr. Pink SUV. I'm taking this seriously and focused on the road ahead."

BTW -- Mr. Pink is the company that foot the bill for the private jet LiLo flew to L.A. late Sunday night. We're told LiLo obligated herself to attend events at clubs on Pink's behalf to pay off the debt.

But Lindsay says she was a homebody Monday night: "I stayed in last night, after a pretty long day ... and ordered sushi to my hotel."

And there's this: "Don't believe EVERY little thing you hear, unless you hear it from me. The support I have gotten, has been great and means a lot."

Lindsay Lohan clearly took her latest rehab sentence to heart last night ... Absolut-ly ... she was back on the nightclub circuit.

Lindsay went full camouflage as her SUV pulled up to the AV Nightclub in Hollywood. With a blanket covering her face, she clearly did not want to be seen. Problem was ... there was a gaggle of photogs she couldn't shake, so a frustrated LiLo beat a hasty retreat without ever entering the club.

As you know ... a judge essentially told Lindsay she had a big fat substance abuse problem and ordered her to spend 90 days in lockdown rehab.

Didn't take long for Julianne Hough to come down with a case of post break-up hotness ... 'cause Ryan Seacrest's ex-GF was SMOKIN' during a night with girls this weekend ... and TMZ has the footage.

Hough -- along with her brother Derek and former old "Dancing with the Stars" pal Maksim Chmerkovskiy -- kicked it outside Beacher's Madhouse at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood this weekend ... just days after calling things off with Seacrest.

Judging by her tight, short dress ... it seems Julianne is on a mission to rebound.

The owners of the nightclub where Chris Brown and Drake brawled last year are doing whatever they can to get out of paying Tony Parker for his injuries ... saying the two rappers should cut him a check if he wins his lawsuit ... and not them.

Parker, an NBA star with the San Antonio Spurs, was one of several people who claim they were injured in the June 2012 melee that went down at W.i.P. and he filed a $20 million lawsuit against the club shortly thereafter.

But the owners of W.i.P. (who are facing several lawsuits) filed docs last week in New York saying Parker's beef should be with Brown and Drake ... claiming they were the ones who "contributed to, instigated, participated and/or engaged" in the fight.

The club wants any and all damages awarded to Parker to come from Brown and Drake.

The case is still pending.

Belinda Carlisle says she definitely feels Lindsay Lohan's pain ... 'cause the Go-Go's frontwoman says she was JUST LIKE the troubled actress when she was younger ... only there weren't as many people taking pictures.

54-year-old Carlisle just made the comments to PopDose.com ... saying, "Back in like 1981 and 1982, I was like the Lindsay Lohan of that time, actually. Honestly. I just didn’t get photographed."

She continued, "I would never ever ever have been able to survive what I can imagine that she goes through. I see a lot of myself in her, actually."

After infamously partying her career away, former actress Tara Reid made a triumphant return to the Hollywood nightlife scene ... and staggered barefoot out of a club and into the street last night.

Unable to stand on her own power, the shoeless 37-year-old patron saint of party girls everywhere was escorted out of the Emerson Theater with the help of a handsome seeing-eye friend.

Luckily for everyone, the "Taradise" star had enough sense left in her bloodstream to make it safely into a taxicab.

Bye, bye Miss American Pie.

The ghost of Dick Clark is on double secret probation ... because TMZ has learned the legend earmarked $1 MILLION of his fortune for his college frat ... and that's a lot of beer.

According to legal docs filed by the Clark Estate trustees, Dick gave the loot to the Delta Kappa Epsilon Foundation in New York, which handles finances for the frat's chapters around the country.

Dick passed away last April ... and various money issues are still being hashed out.

FYI, Clark was a DKE bro while he attended Syracuse University from 1947-1951.

Other famous Dekes include George W. Bush, Teddy Roosevelt, Joe Paterno, and George Steinbrenner.

Toga! Toga! Toga! Toga!

No, that's not a down-on-their-luck homeless Olsen twin begging for change, it's just Ke$ha sprawled out on the sidewalk and drinking a can of beer out of a bag, silly.

As she threw back a cold one on the ground, the 26-year-old "Die Young" singer did her best to blend in with all the other hipster vagabonds tooling around Venice Beach on Tuesday.

Here's 45 hilariously DRUNKEN seconds with "Real Housewives of New York" star Sonja Morgan last night.

We tried really hard to talk to her about Ashton and Demi on the streets of NYC last night ... and she tried really hard to string together some coherent sentences.

Dennis Rodman -- America's unofficial pseudo-ambassador to North Korea -- is already getting a great head start on his career in politics ... hitting up a strip club in Florida just days after his triumphant return from the DPRK.

The photos were snapped inside Dean's Gold last night in North Miami Beach -- where Dennis is a regular.

We're told Dennis came in with a few friends around 8:30pm to watch some sports on TV and hang out with the dancers. He stayed for roughly three hours before leaving.

Wearing matching backwards caps and skinny jeans, "Twilight" pals Taylor Lautner and Kristen Stewart caused quite the hipster scene as they made their way into a concert in West Hollywood on Tuesday.

With Robert Pattinson nowhere in sight, the too cool for school BFFs assembled some of their American Apparel clad finest friends to catch Marcus Foster -- who had a song on the "Twilight" soundtrack -- at the Troubadour last night.

Rapper Jim Jones is figuring out how to deal with Uncle Sam next month, and he's considering deducting expenses on his income tax for making it rain. Well guess what, in theory he might have a fighting chance of winning.

Jones is not alone. Bizzy Bone tells TMZ, "I'm giving charity to females who need their light bills paid. So, of course, that's a write-off. You write off your kids, don't you?"

The Game tells TMZ ... making it rain "is good for business and promotion that comes with the lifestyle of a rapper. They bump our music in a strip club, so me giving the girls a little bit of change to shake their ass -- that comes with the business. Everybody wins."

Daz Dillinger tells us, "Hell yeah. I'm going to see about getting my taxes fixed as soon as possible."

And Lil' Flip tells TMZ he's actually done it ... deducted making-it-rain expenses from his taxes.

So here's the deal ... There are 2 possible ways a rapper could justify deducting strip club tips as a business expense:

1. ENTERTAINMENT EXPENSES. These costs could be deducted if the rapper is entertaining a client, customer or employee and the expense is not "lavish or extravagant." So it might be hard for Drake to justify dropping 50K in a club, but another rapper who lets a grand fly would have a much better argument.

2. ADVERTISING OR PUBLICITY. These expenses could be deducted if they are "reasonable ... and are directly related to [the rapper's] business." Funny thing ... a lot of rappers say making it rain is something they have to do to build their image so people will buy their records, so as crazy as it sounds, they may have a leg to stand on.

But there's another problem -- those pesky receipts. Strippers don't typically take a time-out to pull a receipt out of their G-string.

Chris Brown and Meek Mill are officially cool with each other again -- after facing off in that massive brawl between Drake and CB's entourages -- because they smoked the metaphorical peace pipe in Charlotte over the weekend.

The pics were snapped Friday night at Cameo Nightclub -- the same spot where Drake dropped $50,000 on strippers on Saturday.

It's the first time CB and Meek Mill have been seen out together since the melee at W.i.P. nightclub in NYC last June.

You'll recall, witnesses at the club said Meek was one of the main instigators behind the bottle-hurling brawl ... with CB's crew on the receiving end ... but Meek denied getting involved.

We're told CB and Meek shook hands at Cameo and put the beef to rest once and for all.

These pics are INSANE ... Drake rolled into a strip club in Charlotte, opened a CARDBOARD BOX filled with bricks of cash, and TMZ has pics of the $50,000 rainstorm he unleashed on the dancers.

It all went down at Cameo Nightclub, and by the time Drake was done there was so much cash ... it literally carpeted the floor.

There's been a lot of talk about whether Drake has real street cred ... or if he's just a poser with a privileged upbringing.

We're not saying James Gandolfini inhaled ... we're just saying he's unusually chill when it comes to talking about his recent visit to a famous marijuana dispensary.

TMZ broke the story ... James and a friend were photographed at The Farmacy in Venice, CA.

We're told he was just window shopping, but when we ran into James and his wife leaving dinner at E Baldi in Bev Hills last night -- we had to ask about his trip, or ... tripping.

We asked James if he was "just curious" about the effects of passing the dutch -- and if he's into edibles or tokin' up?

You gotta see his response, and note the giggles.