-- Yikes: Mena Suvari has really grown up!
-- Famous Italian trouble maker (and Upper East Side resident) Oriana Fallaci has died.
-- Speaking of Italians, the San Gennaro festival has begun! It's open for the next 10 days on Mulberry Street south of Houston.
-- Yesterday we walked by the "Lactose Tolerance" campaign HQ on Broadway. We were hoping it was going to be a real organization fighting for lactarded rights, but it turned out to be a Nesquick promotion.
-- Check out this crazy video of Angelo Ferrer grinding around escalators, fences, and highway railings in Queens.
-- NYU is trying to curb underage drinking. Frat boys and lecherous date-rapists all over the city are already plotting opposition rallies.
-- It doesn't get much cuter than this pile of kids petting a dog. Ok, maybe it does. Ok, it definitely does.
-- Not NYC, but still cool: pix from the Banksy Los Angeles show [Via Animal.]
-- Has Park Slope's Smart Mom let her micro-stardom go to her head?.
-- "WHERE can anyone buy pieces of Art, Learn about history and have portraits of famous people and even cartoon characters! And send them to folk, just by licking them? Post Office!" Amen!

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