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Maybe you've received a flier to see a show at Radio City Music Hall called Chinese New Year Splendor, which is promoted as a holiday celebration of China’s diverse cultural riches. But mixed within the traditional Mongolian dancing, orchestral music and Buddhist parables are dramatizations of the Chinese government’s oppression of Falun Gong, a qigong-based spiritual practice that is banned in China. And the show’s political content is prompting audiences to walk out by the hundreds.

We went to May May Food on Pell Street to pick up some steamed vegetable buns when this display caught our eye. Chinese-style tamales?

Last night, a Chinese food delivery man was first robbed and then shot in the eye at a Bronx apartment building. The delivery man for Triple A Chinese Restaurant was robbed somewhere on the second floor, and then went to the building's lobby, saying that he'd been robbed. A maintenance worker told him to call the police, and when the worker (who wouldn't tell the media his name, for fear of retribution) returned from the compactor room, he saw the delivery man yelling at two men from the vestibule, holding the vestibule door in to prevent the men from getting out. And that's when they shot him through the door and ran away.

Okay, now that the link on how to hack an elevator has been on up kottke for a few hours, how many people have tried it? How many floors have you been able to bypass? Or have you noticed many more elevators passing your floor without stopping? Let us know the details and we'll compare notes.

- And another beloved children's character is outed by the right wing