January 10, 2008
Extra, Extra

- Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a pedestrian struck on Woodward Ave. and Cornelia St. in Queens, a burn victim on West 52nd St. in Manhattan, and a carjacking on 141st St. and Riverside Drive in Manhattan.
- Chaka Khan joins the cast of the Broadway musical The Color Purple. I feel for you, ticket holders.
- Tomorrow is your last chance to register for voting in New York's February 5th primary.
- Using handheld computers to identify rodent hotspots and exterminate rats.
- Four teenagers were arrested in the toppling vandalism of approximately 500 headstones at a Jewish cemetary in New Brunswick, NJ. Law enforcement officials don't suspect that it was a bias crime.
- New York City is cloning its favorite trees from Central Park to populate city streets. Robotic squirrels still under development.
- The Bay Ridge Blog points towards a Daily News article about a black market among mothers trafficking in unpasteurized milk.
- Fight Club: The Broadway Musical. Sometimes even David Fincher leaves us speechless.




Chaka Khan
Chaka Khan
Chaka Khan letmerockyou that'salliwannado
Repeat if necessary.