Extra, Extra

-- Nothing kicks off the weekend like a touch of the 'thrax! Luckily, it looks like the "beige" powder found at the Times today is harmless.
-- New owner says it's "highly doubtful" he'll turn the Park Slope Pavilion movie theater into a residential building. Our bet: tenants move in by late August!
-- Interesting spotlight piece on Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest rules: "a competitor will be disqualified if the effluvia hits the table."
-- More Stephanie Adams related-insanity over at BlogNYC: next week, discovery!
-- Attention Brooklynites-- consider entering the Top of the Rock photo contest-- top prize is a trip to Manhattan!
-- New York State may hate gay marriages, but New York businesses love domestic partnership benefits!
-- Curbed brings us up to date on the East Village rezoning plans; bottom line: if you want to build a 50 story monument to ego and hubris, better do it now!
-- Don't forget, Critical Mass Brooklyn starts tonight at 7pm from Grand Army Plaza!
-- Gawker captured some great pix from a cat-fight at SoHo house last night-- and surprisingly, Nick Denton was not involved!
-- And who says child-abuse can't be funny?
-- The NYTimes has the history of the townhouse that got Bartha'd earlier in the week.
-- And in international news, globetrotting chef Tony Bourdain is trapped in Lebanon! Yikes.

Images from Aaron Krach's "Shorter Periods of Happiness project"-- in which he hired Go Poster to put up 1500 copies of this flower poster all around town. Look for it!