Extra, Extra

- Here's one for charter schools: Their students do better on state reading tests than other students in regular public shcools
- Lynne Stewart apologizes to the judge who is sentecing her for carrying Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman's messages to his followers, but blames it on being a lawyer
- Testimony begins in Nicole duFresne's murder trial; her fiance, Jeffrey Sparks, said, "She was looking up. Her eyes were wide open. I knelt down and held her head. I said, 'Please, please, please hold on. Please stay with me."'
- Jessica Coen leaves Gawker to be Vanity Fair's online editor and to make sure Krucoff never enters the Conde Nast building
- Who knew lentils were so coveted? We must look into lentil futures!
- The Villager speaks to friends of Josh Crouch, the man killed while walking across the West Side Highway last week
- Are lesbians being edged out of Park Slope (aka "Dyke Slope")? A lesbian Windsor Terrace tranplant from the Slope tells Brooklyn Papers that a scene at the Tea Lounge freaked her out, “Everyone looked like they were part of the same photo shoot, posing with a laptop or a baby."
- And some of the most gorgeous New York City photograph we've seen are from Arnold Pouteau - here are his pictures on Flickr

Photograph of lower Manhattan from the Brooklyn Bridge by Arnold Pouteau