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Photograph of Saturday's rainbow by Brunocerous on Flickr

  • From the Gothamist Newsmap: A person shot at Columbus Av & W 90 St in Manhattan, an animal rescue at Butler St & Nevins St in Brooklyn, and a pedestrian struck on Hillside Ave in Queens.
  • After being told not to smoke inside a Queens church, a man tried to burn it down by leaving a bag of smoldering charcoal near a vestibule.
  • Summer camps are getting ready for the possibility of swine flu breakouts.
  • Even though City Councilman Eric Gioia voted against the city's budget, citing concerns over City Council discretionary funding, he apparently has no problem handing out discretionary funds.
  • With Fourth of July national pride beginning to bubble over, the Post calls for your outrage over Manhattan courtrooms that are not hanging their American flags in the proper positions.
  • Midtown Lunch forgives Touch of India because of their new kathi rolls, which are "rolled and fried like egg rolls!"
  • Ballerina Nina Ananiashvili gave her farewell performance from the American Ballet Theater over the weekend; the Times writes, " is extraordinary. Other ballerinas are no less admired, but she, singularly endearing, is singularly cherished."
  • Maureen Dowd needs to learn how to use IMDB: Gawker explains how she messed up a movie reference that SC Governor Mark Sanford made.
  • The Sun revealed results from the second Michael Jackson autopsy—"Harrowing leaked autopsy details show the singer was a virtual skeleton — barely eating and with only pills in his stomach at the time he died."—but TMZ says it's fake!
  • And reality show experts say that Jon and Kate (and their eight) should keep the cameras rolling.
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  • KiljoyWasHere

    "reality show experts"? Really?

  • Clarice City

    Nina Ananiashvili had very painful scoliosis and still made it to the top retiring at only 28 years old. Such a very difficult decision to know when to take your final bow.

    Brava Nina!

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