Photograph from yesterday's International Yo-Yo Competition by dietrich on Flickr

• From the Gothamist Newsmap: An accident on East 5th St. and Avenue D in Manhattan, a sexual assault on 137th Ave. & 169th St. in Queens and a fatal shooting on 652 W 160 St. Manhattan.

• The Sunday NY Times has a piece on the Upper West Side as a singles paradise for Orthodox Jews.

• A kayaker ends his 1700-mile journey in New York after leaving Chicago nearly two months ago.

• Billy Joel writes to a newspaper and lays the smack down on a rock critic who pretended to be pals with him only to call Joel's later work "sentimental rubbish."

• Rapper Yung Berg arrested in New York for marijuana possession after a limo driver turned him in to cops.

• Did someone tip off Gawker almost a year ago about the John Edwards affair?

• Awkwardness for Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn: Smartmom on the Birds and the Bees talk