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JetBlue's T5 still has that new terminal smell to it, and it just keeps getting better. On top being so pretty, the airline has now teamed up with some music and marketing folks to bring their Live from T5 event to travelers. The six-month, 12-date live music concert series at their JFK outpost "takes place on select Fridays throughout the year, will feature hand-picked emerging artists from around the U.S. as well as bands chosen based on public votes in a national online competition." The series kicks off tomorrow with Nicole Atkins, and other upcoming acts include Alberta Cross and Justin Townes Earle. Maybe on-air live performances are next?

An NYPD sergeant may have been catching up on Law & Order reruns via DirecTV while a real life crime was being committed on her at the Terminal 5 baggage check. A JetBlue baggage handler has been arrested for breaking into a suitcase and stealing the gun of the sergeant, who was on her way from New York to Orlando on th emorning of April 22. After first breaking into the sergeant's suitcase, 21-year-old Tamarcus Hines then was able to open a locked gun box within it, taking an unloaded 9mm handgun, ammunition and a gun holster. When the sergeant noticed her bag had been tampered with and weapon missing upon arrival, police were able to connect the crime to the baggage handler. Hines admitted to the theft and led cops to a Queens sewer where he had tossed the gun. Queens DA Richard Brown said yesterday, “It is upsetting that a passenger who buys an airline ticket and lawfully checks her luggage...has been subjected to having her belongings stolen. This case is, however, especially egregious in that the defendant is alleged to have brazenly stolen a 9mm handgun that had been properly secured by its owner, a sergeant with the New York City Police Department.”

Holiday traveling season is fast approaching, as are inevitable, soul-sucking delays, and there’s a very good chance you’ll end up by yourself at the airport re-reading about Clay Aiken’s Magic Birthday Miracle or honing your Sudoku skills. But if you're stuck waiting for Jet Blue at JFK, such a fate might actually be a blessing in disguise. Jauntsetter has obtained a copy of the master wine lists at JetBlue’s new Terminal 5. Prices “range from a pragmatic $7.25/glass to $2,400/bottle,” so while Terminal 5’s food offerings might already be experiencing some mild turbulence, know that an extra $20 will help make sure you’re adequately lubricated before facing your family.

Jet Blue invited a thousand people out to JFK yesterday to play pretend passengers on ten mock flights they staged at the $743 million terminal that they'll open in October. Passengers in Terminal 5 got to sample sushi and French cuisine from some of the upscale restaurants that will be a part of the terminal in the fall. Jet Blue assigned each of the volunteers an identity and travel itinerary. Carol Weinberg, aka "Mrs. Cattest," was excited that she and her husband were "flying" to Las Vegas because they had never been. "It's on our bucket list," she said. The volunteers did not leave empty handed as Jet Blue sent them home with (actual real) duffel bags with JetBlue mementos like playing cards, luggage tags and baseball caps.

As if you needed any more reasons to choose Jet Blue over other airlines, Grub Street got their hands on renderings for the dining and drinking areas of the airline's renovated Terminal 5 at JFK airport, scheduled to reopen October 1st. While it does give one pause that the design is being done by ICRAVE, the same firm that unleashed Crobar upon our fair city, their vision is certainly a cut above most airport dead zones. Seen here is the rendering of the Deep Blue bar and Asian fusion joint, which doesn't seem like such a bad place to sit out an interminable flight delay.

Workers are almost done dismantling the 317 feet long, 23 feet wide stained-glass exterior to the American Airlines’ vacant Terminal 8 building. The red, blue and white wall, comprised of 900 panes of glass, was designed by artist Robert Sowers and was completed in 1960; at the time it was the world’s largest stained-glass window and the first to heavily incorporate stained glass in a secular building, an aesthetic that soon became fashionable.

Jaunted took a jaunt over to the new Terminal 5 (not the music venue) at JFK. The terminal, with design by Gensler, will house JetBlue and is set to open in September of this year.