Photograph of trader Al Young sitting as the bad news keeps coming by /Richard Drew/AP The Dow plummeted 358 points to end at 11,453, after bad news about brokerages and the ever increasing price of oil. Bloomberg News summed it up this way:U.S. stocks tumbled, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average to its worst June since the Great Depression, as record oil prices, credit-market writedowns and a slowing economy threatened to extend a yearlong......

The food world can be a rough place. Restaurants and markets come and go with the blink of an eye -- your favorite place can be there one minute and belly up the next. This week, we've got good news and bad news, take your pick. The Good News - Dirty Bird to Go -- we couldn't be more excited to taste the latest from Alison Vines-Rushing, who wowed us at Jack's Luxury Oyster Bar.......

- Suddenly under a storm of bullets, a 13-year-old Brooklyn boy threw himself over a 10-year-old girl in an attempt to keep her safe (he got shot twice in the back, she was hit on the arms). The kids, who were getting their hair braided on a stoop at 2 a.m. when the shooting occurred, are in stable condition and security tapes are being reviewed. - Newsday has a nice piece on a general manager......

How good are the Nationals at home? Besides being the best home team in baseball, the last time they didn't win a home series was against the Phillies in late April. How good has Livan Hernandez been? No losses since April 19th. Both streaks ended last night as the Mets beat the Nationals 5-3. Of course, this doesn't mean the Mets are anything special, just that the Nationals and Livan Hernandez are pretty damn good.......

With the Tony nominations announced yesterday, everyone is buzzing about Wicked (this year's uneven and "quirky" Tony story; will Kristen and Idina cancel each other out?), Bombay Dreams (a little Andrew Lloyd Webber Schadenfreude), how Puffy wasn't nominated but the three other actresses all were (when you get "meh" reviews, what does he expect - this isn't the MTV Video Music Awards) and how hunky Hugh Jackman is...and they talk about how the Times's public......

Derek Jeter is so sad over losing to the Marlins, Gothamist started to think about some movies various members of the Yankees organization should watch in the off season. Derek Jeter: A League of Their Own and Rushmore. There's no crying in baseball! And when you find something you love, you keep doing it. Roger Clemens: The Rookie. Hideki Matsui: Mr. Baseball. Tom Selleck playing baseball in Japan - it's the Lost in Translation......