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Good news for old-school New Yorkers: the new 2nd Ave Delicatessen is expected to open sometime next week in its new Murray Hill Location on 33rd Street, near Third Avenue. Lovers of the deli’s famous matzo ball soup and pastrami sandwiches were devastated last year when, after a half-century in business, the 2nd Ave and 10th Street legend was snuffed out. The closure came in the wake of a bitter rent dispute between deli owner Jack Lebewohl and the landlord over rent increases; the soul was promptly siphoned from the site and turned into a Chase bank (though the Yiddish theater “Walk of Fame” on the sidewalk remains).

, isn't the standard memoir. It's not about getting addicted to drugs and going to rehab or about living on the streets and selling her body. It's about what happens when you start doing stand up for ten minutes every night at the dinner table when you're eight because you don't want your adopted parents to send you back to the adoption agency because you didn't provide the "hours of entertainment" that they expected and never stopping, not when you're meeting Jon Stewart on your first day at the Daily Show, not when you're going through a divorce, and not when you meet the friends and family of your live in boyfriend for the first time after the death of his wife. For this reason, Weedman's memoir is non-stop funny and provides "hours of entertainment". And she'll be reading at McNally Robinson on October 10th and the UCB Theater on October 11th.

It must be the warmer weather: there’s been a lot posted on Gothamist this week about drinks, from limey gin fizzes to detox smoothies; from aguas frescas to wine made in Queens. Today, as part of our continuing summer beverage coverage, we present some strange and fancy sodas.

Puppy Bowl III (Sunday, 3:00 p.m., 6:00 p.m., 9:00 p.m. Animal Planet) Puppies from shelters drink water, pee, and play for three hours is someone's idea of something to go up against the Super Bowl.

READING: The New School's wonderful public lectures and reading series are back in swing as the school year revs up, and tonight, the ethereal Mary Gaitskill will discuss her book (a National Book Award finalist) with moderator Jeffrey Renard Allen. - Krissa Corbett Cavouras

Figures, just when we start getting the hang of this whole Sommelier thing, the Japanese have to come along with some fancy robot to out do us. This 2ft. tall robot (wine-bot) developed by NEC System Technologies and Mie University, uses infrared light to identify different tastes. "The infrared light is fired through the sample, and the robot can differentiate between different types of food and drink by determining the different wavelengths of light that are absorbed." Wow, fancy. Strangely the bottle of Yellow Tail analysized in the photo is coming up as Diet Coke. (oh, we kid, we kid).

Sampaist is on the scene in São Paulo beginning this week to become the only ist south of the Equator. Editor Leandro M. Pinto leads the paulistanos down there.

The New Yorker has a Talk of the Town piece about the new street furniture the city hopes to roll out over the next few years. Last fall, the city signed a billion dollar deal with Cemusa for new newsstands, bus shelters and public toilets, and the designs are definitely sleek and futuristic. Which raises the New Yorker's question.

But what of the newsstands? Like a man’s beloved—and ripped, and stained—football-watching chair, the corner newsstand as we know it, stuffed to the point of bursting, and jerry-rigged with duct tape, milk crates, Igloo coolers, bungee cords, and dangling light bulbs, has never failed to provide homey comfort, whether on Sunday afternoon (you got your Post and your Doritos) or Monday morning (your Journal, Diet Coke, and some eyedrops). By comparison, the new, standardized fleet, built of modular stainless steel and aluminum—“so you won’t see the institutional browns and dark greens that you tend to see now,” [new street furniture designer Duncan] Jackson said—are straight from Ikea.

Ikea - ouch! Sleek and stainless steel could be awesome in the kitchen, but Gothamist thinks we prefer the overloaded newsstand. One newsstand vender lamented the new designs because there's less room for candy and no ability to hang magazines from binder clips. Hear that magazine publishers - there's limited space for your magazines to be displayed. No more rogues' gallery of celebrity breakups news, no more excessive Maxim/FHM pinups...wait, is that a good thing or a bad thing? Anyway, it'll be interesting to see how the newsstands are maintained or modified given the market demand (cardboard box extension, anyone?).

Rachel Sklar, co-editor and writer of FishbowlNY

Bex Schwartz, Writer/Director/Comedian

Greg Allen

The best thing about the Gruner+Jahr vs. Rosie O'Donnell trial is that with a comedian (comedienne?) as one of the litigants, there are great soundbites. Rosie editor Susan Toepfer claimed that Rosie said "As a lesbian, I'm uncomfortable being on a magazine cover holding another woman or touching another woman" regarding a proposed cover photograph that featured O'Donnell in between Lorraine Bracco and Edie Falco, which seems to be the latest in the crack G+J legal team's strategy of trying to make sure Rosie seems super gay and therefore incredibly insane. Rosie told reporters outside the courthouse, "I have never in my life said, 'As a lesbian, blah, blah, blah.' 'As a lesbian, pass the salt! As a lesbian, give me a Diet Coke!'" O'Donnell claims her problems with the cover photograph stemmed from the fact that it was unflattering. On this one, Gothamist has to side with Rosie. It's not so great.