New Kids on the Block News

They started when they were teenagers. Now the New Kids on the Block are in their 40s, but that's not stopping them from touring and playing arenas across the country.

Yesterday may have been Father's Day, but EW's social media all-star Nika Vagner and I were the ones who received the greatest gift of all - a triple bill of boy-band hotness, courtesy of New Kids on the Block's cheekily named The Package Tour, featuring 98 Degrees and Boyz II Men.

With over twenty five years in the biz, New Kids on the Block are still thrusting their hips at screaming fans -- also twenty five years older -- and "Hangin' Tough" on their latest Package Tour with 98 Degrees and Boyz II Men .

"We're here to repay you for the first 25 years. Now let's do another 25!" exhorted Jordan Knight, a member of New Kids on the Block, the boy band that jigged and gyrated through the late '80s and early '90s to the screams of young women around the world.

They say that what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, but Boyz II Men had to get out, just for a couple of months.

"This one goes out to all the sexy married women here tonight! I know there's a lot of you."

In celebration of Father's Day, the Crystal City Business Improvement District is revving up its inaugural Father's Day Auto Festival titled Crystal Car this Sunday.

Dion Magee, hailed as an artistic visionary whose combined skill, creative talent and outstanding ability have made him a pioneer in the social events and corporate events arena.

Friday: Twenty-five years after their sophomore album, "Hangin' Tough," turned five boys from Boston into crush-worthy international pop stars, the New Kids on the Block are still capitalizing on a strange mix of lust and acid-washed nostalgia, never mind that their core audience is women now old enough to worry about mortgages and crow's feet.

This Sunday, everybody's favorite boy band template New Kids on the Block take the stage at Barclays Center for their tour with 98 Degrees and Boyz II Men.

Back in the boy-band craze of the 1990s, having New Kids on the Block, 98 Degrees or Boyz II Men on your stage meant virtually an instant sellout.

In this Dec. 7, 2012 file photo, members of One Direction, from left, Liam Payne, Zayn Malik, Harry Styles, Niall Horan, and Louis Tomlinson perform at Z100's Jingle Ball 2012 in New York.

That, the old song tells us, is the hallowed law of Toyland. In theory, it should be even more true of Boyland - that happy place, just east of Nowhere and west of Orlando, Fla., where all the boy bands come from.

The Canada Border Services Agency says it was not responsible for the delay that caused the postponement of the New Kids on the Block last week.

The last time the former boy band from Beantown, - New Kids On The Block - were in Toronto, they was sharing the stage with their unintentional protégés, Backstreet Boys, in 2011.

A generation of grown women relived their childhood at Scotiabank Place on Wednesday as New Kids on the Block led a triple bill of boy-band fare from the 1990s.

All the performers gather on stage at the end of the evening's performance performs during the Boston Strong: An Evening Of Support And Celebration, including Jimmy Buffet, Doug Flutie, James Taylor, Steven Tyler, Donnie Wahlberg, Steven Tyler, J. Geils Band, New Kids on the Block, Boston and Extreme at TD Garden on May 30, 2013 in Boston, ... (more)

The New Kids on the Block, 98 Degrees and Boyz II Men concert tonight at Scotiabank Place has been postponed until Wednesday after the tour buses and equipment trucks were detained at the Canadian border.

Damn, Canada, get it together! First you give us Justin Bieber , then you think Dan Aykroyd killed someone , and now you're depriving people of New Kids On The Block , surely breaking the hearts of at least dozens .

Blame Canada ... a New Kids on the Block concert tonight in Ottawa has been canceled ... after several trucks carrying equipment for the NKOTB tour were held up at the Canadian border.