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After the prison-yard murder of Larry Davis in upstate New York, most City papers noted his infamy and folk- or anti-hero status, but for the most part were content to portray him as a vicious thug, murderer, and all-around lowlife. Davis was shanked multiple times by another inmate at the Shawangunk Correctional Facility in Ulster county New York.

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a shooting on Flatbush Ave. in Brooklyn, a high-angle rescue on West 18th St., in Manhattan, and a multi-vehicle accident on Farmers Blvd. and the South Conduit in Queens.
• Hoboken mayor David Roberts was apparently prescient to ask how many stops his SWAT team made on the trip back north--fearing more embarrassing photos of his police force as they returned from relief efforts after hurricane Katrina. Additional pictures of misbehavior have surfaced, this time featuring the town's police chief cavorting in Louisiana.
• Brooklyn native and former heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson was sentenced in an Arizona court to 24 hours in jail and three years probation for drug possession and DUI.
• The 2nd Ave. subway got a boost from $1.7 billion in federal funding earmarked for the project over the next seven years.
• New Yorkers aren't just cooler and better looking than the rest of the country, they make a lot more money. The average Manhattanite made more than $2,800 a week in the first quarter of this year.
• Former mayor Rudy Giuliani recommended securing the U.S.-Mexico border via a "virtual" system that would alert authorities of crossings.
• The Washington Post has a guide on how to get to NYC that includes more than "practice, practice, practice." It could be valuable for people wanting to get back to NYC.
• A very helpful guide to long- and short-distance runs in Brooklyn from the Brooklyn Road Runners Club.

There have been a few ads in the NY Times weddings section that spoof the real wedding announcements. For instance, we believe we recall a few for divorce services, but less ironically, there have been ads for marriage-related movies, like The Starter Wife. And this week, there's an ad for an upcoming wedding on the ABC comedy Ugly Betty. Of course, the ad is a lot wordier than the usual NY Times wedding announcement, but any mention of Wilhemina assistant Marc St. James is worth the extra ink.

A couple of weeks ago Supreme began a massive Mike Tyson postering blitz downtown. Looks like the campaign hasn't exactly been well received by the locals-- you can find plenty more crossed-out Tysons at Flickr.

Is Dov Charney more than the perverted genius behind American Apparel? Imnotsayin came close to catching the Splasher in action in Williamsburg, when he found what seemed like a freshly pasted Splasher manifesto with paint splashed on it. When he closely inspected the pasted signs, Imnotsayin found that the paint was actually pre-printed on the manifesto and there's an American Apparel ad with a half-naked guy and a paint splash printed onto the poster as well. Here's his theory, which actually makes some sense:

American Apparel IS the Splasher. Their clever marketing department cooked up the original Manifesto and began posting it and splashing prominent Faile, Obey, Banksy, etc works in key AA neighborhoods - the Lower East Side and Williamsburg, knowing it would spark a controversy among hipsters and artists.

Continue reading "Is The Splasher Really American Apparel?"

-- The Village Voice Best of NYC 2006 is out, and chock full of fun! It even includes an interview with our own Famous Fat Dave.

From the way back machine, NJ.com's Always Amazin' (by way of Deadspin) points us to this classic image from 1986. Classic on so many levels. It's never really been the same for any of the people pictured.

Phillyist notes a fistfight between local pols that leaves one man down for the count. Jehovah's Witnesses get a Philly contributor out of bed, things get a little geeky with a film festival and geeky gets taken to a whole new galaxy when they talk with the Dragon Queen of the Dark Kingdom.

- Break out the broom, Yankees sweep.

Some reports about Tyson have him saying that he has actually lived in homeless shelters. "For two years I have been a bum, truly a bum in the streets. I've got nowhere to live. I've been crashing with friends, literally sleeping in shelters." Tyson has made more than $300 million in fight money in his career but is currently $38 million in debt. No reports on whether he's actually the owner of a Bentley or not.

Stay tuned for the NBA Draft wrap-up and check out the week in full.

Boxer Mike Tyson was granted a license to fight in New Jersey yesterday, some six years after the state's Athletic Control Board rejected his last application. However, Gov. James E. McGreevey limited the locations where Tyson could have a match by barring him from fighting at any facility owned or operated by the state.

Does someone have a photo of this: Mike Tyson was spotting riding a Segway Human Transporter in Miami Beach by an NBC producer, as reported by Lloyd Grove. A small crowd surrounded the bipolar boxer and when someone asked if he was Mike Tyson, he replied in his famously high voice, "Nah - people say I look like him, but I'm not." A Segway spokeswoman tells Grove, "Some people have questioned the safety of our product, but at least it doesn't bite back." The NBC producer apparently took pictures, so if anyone has seen them, let us know or, better yet, send them to us, because that'd be a nice middle-of-the-work day chuckle.

Gruner + Jahr, in its breach-of-contract trial against Rosie O'Donnell over their successful-then-sour magazine collaboration, blame Boy George for making Rosie gay up her look and magazine.

- The Do Not Call registry is just for telemarketing - for now

Okay, so Mike Tyson won't give an autograph when you see him at the Brooklyn Marriott. Do you really think the best to do is to follow him, say you have a gun, and attack with him a stanchion? Some drunk knuckleheads tried to start a scuffle with the odd boxer Saturday morning in Brooklyn, and of course Tyson fought back. The idiots, two men and a woman, and Tyson were arrest, and Tyson was recently released on his own recognizance. The Daily News says that Tyson was charged with third degree assault. The other two were going to be charged with "menacing and second- and third-degree harassment," and were pretty badly beaten up; one of them also had an "outstanding New York City warrant for kidnapping." Class.

AdAge AdWeek looks at the ten very bad advertising campaigns. Entries include the Fox Sports "Mike Tyson as baby-sitter" spot and Sony Pictures David Manning debacle. But coming in at number one was the "kiddie porn" Calvin Klein campaign.