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While The Beatles' performance on The Ed Sullivan Show was an iconic TV moment, their 32-minute performance at Shea Stadium on August 15, 1965 truly demonstrated how popular they had become. With a capacity of over 55,000, screaming fans filled the stands, with screaming that perhaps has only been heard in 1969 and 1986 since (and we're not sure the screaming during those World Series years approached the Beatles fans). People say the fact that they filled Shea Stadium paved the way for acts to perform in bigger venues - and for music labels to think different about their popular acts. So Gothamist recommends you go home, play a Beatles tune and let out a primal scream - it's much easier in this cooler weather!

Gothamist received the latest Design Within Reach catalog, and we, as we always do, lusted over various Le Corbusier and Mies items we would love after we graduate from our current cobbled together decor. [And after we actually earmark the "better furniture savings fund," which somehow gets shortshrifted by the "useless tcotchkes slush fund."] So Gothamist was seriously amused by Design Without Reach, a resource for you to copy Design Within Reach designs. Got that? For example, the DWOR version of the $250 Nelson Ball Clock utilizes lollipops, a salt container, and clockworks. Brilliant. [Via kottke]

Hello, nurse: It's the Age of Fey and Poehler, as they are the first all-female Weekend Update team on Saturday Night Live. Tina Fey and Jimmy Fallon had a nice chemistry - you know, sharp, caustic and riffing on how Jimmy was stupid and pretty and Tina was slutty and angry - but we were feeling Fallon Fatigue, as he couldn't really keep his shizzle together during skits, especially ones with Horatio Sanz. So Gothamist was terrifically excited to see Amy Poehler's blond, twinkling yet semi-maniacal eyed. face next to Tina behind the desk. And, for the boys (and girls), there is the promise of lots of lesbian flirting this season.

Matthew Kenney's Big City Cooking: Recipes for a Fast-Paced World

While most New Yorkers know and love the Union Square Greenmarket, which has been a downtown fixture for the past 34 years, not everyone knows that there are plenty of other Greenmarkets throughout the five boroughs of New York. Some are open year-round, while others close for the winter.

Jimmy, Inwood

Bush's hair get kind of thatchy at times, though it's still a far cry from Don King's coif.

It's going to be an okay day, once the rain passes through. Should be gone by around 3PM. High of 72.

Mostly cloudy with a high of 80. The thunderstorms will roll in overnight / tomorrow AM (Weather.com says you can expect them around 7 in the morning).

Clyde Haberman's Times column earlier this week looked at a few reality show ideas for NY, what with The Restaurant and tonight's premiere of The Apprentice. Some are very apt:

Jen managed to tackle the Blaster virus a few weeks ago and Gothamist deletes hundreds of SoBig emails everyday, but today, our computer woes hit a new low: Jake's computer is fried. So Gothamist is asking our readers for their recommendations about computer stores, PC repair specialists, hard drive retrieval in New York City. The problem:

Fifteen year old industry, Hilary Duff, is featured in the second item of the Observer's New York World column. Why? Because her breasts are stopping men in their tracks. There is some debate about whether or not they are Duff's breasts, but the killer quote is from Elisa DeCarl: "My guess is that they are going for that all-important Humbert Humbert demographic," she said. "The audience will be 90 percent preteens and their parents, 10 percent shifty-looking older men in raincoats." Gothamist thinks shifty-looking older men's ages will start at, oh, 24.