Extra, Extra

- The Department of Transportation will add more credit card-accepting parking meters; they have been in the Theater District and will soon be added to parts of the Upper West Side, Long Island City, and Forest Hills
- First foie gras, now lobsters - Whole Foods announces the inhumane treatment of lobsters is causing the grocery chain to stop selling them!
- NYC is considering creating job centers for day laborers
- Gammablog has pictures of the new sign at Katz's - and we totally agree that it's just not the same
- Screech needs some cash, so he's selling t-shirts
- A Brooklyn man killed his stepdaughter and then hanged himself; friends say they argued over her dating
- Treehouses make great gag posts on craigslist, but would you really live in one?
- What's going to happen to the glorious Loew's Kings Theater on Flatbush?
- BlogNYC is having a whole lot of fun with Playboy Playmate Stephanie Adams - and by fun, we mean, crazy email fun
- And will you be at the Astor Place Cube at 6:16PM for the Bubble Battle?

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By Jen Chung in Miscellaneous on June 16, 2006 5:14 PM

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SFNY

Interesting that Whole Foods is worried about the inhumane treatment of lobsters during the procurement process but it's not an issue that their customers buy the creatures specifically to boil them to death. Ha ha, guess "quality of life" concerns stops at quality of demise.

Anomalous

No, Dustin and Mike Diamond are not related. This took about three seconds to figure out using Google.

Toby

I am currently working on a "Hindenberg Hood" for rude pyromaniac poluting drug addicts, I mean smokers, who choose to light up in public.

Quite simply there would be an air tight transpartent plastic hood filled with hydrogen complete with and integeral lighter to go over the head. The advantage of this and making its use mandatory is that it would reduce polution from these rude people and discourage smoking.

John Joe

Here I am reading reading the gothamist.org at Bryant Park, enjoying the sun and warm air, then comes this nasty, overweight, wish-she-were-blonde blonde bitch who lights up at the table right next to me and starts puffing away polluting my fresh air and comfort. No consideration whatsoever. Yea I know its a public park but really WTF...we can't even escape these self-destructive walking carcinogens in a public friggin park, much less walking down the sidewalk in NYC. Why don't I just go over and pour my coffe over her head? It's the same thing as her fucking shit smoke putrifying my clothing.

!

So, a former TV star of a long-running show whose brother is a Beastie Boy wants ME to give up some of my never-was-on-TV money? Sorry, guy, I have a Con Ed bill to pay.

That being said, it does seem as if he got the runaround from the financial guy.