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- From the Gothamist Newsmap: a bank robbery on 5th Ave in Brooklyn, a barricaded EDP on Grand St in Manhattan, and a hostage situation on 68th Drive in Queens.
- Mayor Bloomberg donated $150,000 to the State Independence Party--the man sure knows how to say thanks for help with his never-realized presidential campaign.
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will be coming back to NYC for this fall's U.N. General Assembly. Quick, SNL writers, come up with another digital short!
- Two septuagenarian friends took a roadtrip--on their scooters--across the U.S. along the Lincoln Highway. It took a month to travel the 3,400 miles.
- Those trying to bike down Prince Street this weekend were met with an obstacle, albeit a delicious obstacle -- still, shame on you Mr. Softee!
- NPR is canceling its Bryant Park Project broadcast. The NY Times reports that the last broadcast is expected to be on July 25th, and that it was "an expensive failure — the first-year budget was more than $2 million — and comes at a time when NPR is facing the same financial constraints."
- Rocker Brian Chase of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs branches out into food criticism with a long meditation on what makes Di Fara's pizza so "worthy of genius status."
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I won't miss the Bryant Park project. It seemed so shoddy, with uninspiring questions and a real inability to interact with the guests (anyone remember the infamous Sigur Ros interview?) I hope they can put the money to better use.
Unfortunately, the NBC legal slugs pulled that original Ahmadinejad vid from the Tube.
It's on Hulu: http://www.hulu.com/watch/16771/saturday-night-live-snl-digital-short-iran-so-far
The problem with Bryant Park Project was apparently that it was trying to compete with Morning Edition. Which is just not possible! I liked BPP (was even on it once), but wondered why I never heard it. Well, now I know why! Because it was on while I was listening to Morning Edition!
Also hopefully soon to be cancelled is NPR's other attempt to compete with its own programming: The Takeaway, which sucks so bad that even when I don't realize I'm listening to it, I start wondering why my radio has suddenly gone so mediocre and annoying. Then I realize I've got the damned Takeaway on, and switch to FM till its over. Or AM. Depending what time I wake up. WHat's up with that attempt to sound vaguely funky and vaguely Seinfeldy with that music? Lame lame lame.
The flattest "banter", the constant fluffing of their lines, the stupidest attempts at relevance, just plain bad: it's like some high school version of a news talk show. Gad.