Eight Items or Less: Weiland Fired, Greenwich Hotel Afraid of Snark and Steve Lewis Blogs

1. You're fired! Velvet Revolver front man Scott Weiland has been sent back to the Stone Temple Pilots.

2. Popular hotel blog hotelchatter.com had their room reservation for tonight's grand opening of Robert de Niro's Greenwich Hotel canceled when the power's that be figured out who they were and didn't want to risk the amateur photos or potentially snarky viewpoint.

3. Speaking of hotels, we hear that there were some problems at the opening of the Gansevoort South in Miami last week during the Winter Music Conference with several celebrity DJs checking in and immediately departing for the Tides.

4. Check out nightlife veteran Steve Lewis' new blog goodnightmrlewis.com. Lewis is also interviewed today on downbythehipster.com.

5. Two PAPER people (Kim Hastreiter and Carlo McCormick) are featured in a new documentary on the life of artist Keith Haring. The film, The Universe of Keith Haring, was directed by Christina Clausen and is screening at the Tribeca Film Festival in May.

6. Thursday, April 3, is New York nightlife promoter Chip Duckett's birthday and he is celebrating it at PINK (199 Bowery).