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[UPDATE BELOW] Today, former president Bill Clinton met North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il. Clinton made the surprise trip to the isolated Communist nation to discuss the release of two American journalists, Euna Lee and Laura Ling, who were sentenced to 12 years in labor camps for illegally entering North Korea.

Jen Kirkman does it all. Hilarious stand up, talented improviser, and a terrific writer. She's in town to do some stand up and to perform at UCB's 9th Annual Del Close Marathon and Gothamist sat down with this triple threat from LA to discuss growing up on a golf course, the pursuit of fame, and sassing customers.

Quality of Life, the graf film that explores the legitimacy of "street art" and laws that criminalize it, hits New York streets April 6, or more specifically...the Pioneer Theater.

Whoa-- busy Sunday night! Yesterday we told you about Charlie Todd's No Pants 2006 Subway Ride-- one of his more famous ImprovEverywhere projects. The plan for today was to ride from Brooklyn Bridge to 125th Street on the 6, and then turn around and come back down. Sadly, the fuzz busted the event up and nabbed six of Charlie's agents at 59th Street! Presta Cottage Industries has the details:

Tonight at midnight Al Gore's TV network, Current TV (not to be confused with the reincarnated A Current Affair), is set to debut on channel 103 on Time Warner, 366 on DirecTV. Intended to be "the television homepage for the internet generation" the new channel has gotten a lot of press since it was announced mostly because of Gore's name. The format for the new network is apparently a series of "pods" (ugh, they mean clips of five or so minutes) created by professionals and amateurs who upload to the Current site. Every half hour there will be a news update based on the most popular news searches on Google.