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Since John Lennon and Yoko Ono documented much of their daily life, there is plenty of footage - and Lennon becomes the narrator of his own story. MSNBC says we get a "softened perspective on the musician-turned-activist-turned-icon" with this film, while Ono says this is an accurate portrait of her late husband.

Clicking through the Times online this morning, we spotted this great Flash piece all about Brooklyn demographics. We sort of remember seeing it back in June, but this time we spent some real time looking through it, and learned some interesting facts about our home borough:

A few NYC politicians lashed out against Hot 97 for playing a controversial song mocking the South East tsunami for four days. City Councilman Robert Jackson called Hot 97 "sick." Councilman John Liu noted that morning personality Todd Lynn said disturbingly "I'm going to start shooting Asians" and is working with others to have the FCC throw down its weight on Emmis Communications, owners of Hot 97, and prompt the firing of Miss Jones, the morning show host - essentially, do more than apologize and simply ask its morning show staffers to donate a week's salary to the tsunami cause. Councilman James Gennaro emphasized the need to go after Hot 97's advertisers.