-- If you like your operas free, the Met will be giving away tickets to Anthony Minghella's Madama Butterly tomorrow starting at 10am at the box office.
-- Eater on getting reviewed by the Times: "I can’t sleep. The most powerful food writer in the country has just left my restaurant. The electron microscope of the New York Times is trained on my back, looking at every little detail of my work. I have bad dreams."
-- Mayor Bloomberg's new strategy for fighting poverty: paying the poor.
-- Seven New Yorkers won $500k MacArthur fellowships today. A friend of ours explained that the MacArthurs are "like the lottery for smart people".
-- Interesting fact: trains will break for dogs. For people, not so much.
-- That is one nice moustache.
-- If you break into a schoolyard and then get electrocuted, is it right to sue the Department of Education for negligence? In NYC, hell yeah.
-- Rachel Ray's true enemy has finally shown her face. That's not a good thing.
Mets clinch the division, by JoshBousel on Flickr.
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