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There's an excellent Vows column in this week's NY Times Weddings & Celebrations. It's the one for Fran Boyd and Donnie Andrews, two Baltimore residents whose difficult lives were the basis for the HBO dramas The Corner and The Wire. Boyd and Andrews were featured in a page one story in the Times last week, and the Vows column explains more of how they met and how they supported each other during prison sentences, while overcoming addiction, and as they tried to put their lives back together.

Last night (a little less than a month after the release of his latest album Emerald City) we met up with John Vanderslice, who has been playing a unique brand of blog shows for a while now. The world wide (web) tour consists of filming, in collaboration with different blogs, his songs in different cities. For his New York stop, we took him up to the roof of the Hotel Chelsea where he performed one of his songs...

Lots of Times Weddings Announcements today!

Jessica Kirson, Comedienne

There's a whole wide world out there, and here's the proof:

If you had to guess which public or private University in America had the most Jews, you might be tempted to guess Yeshiva University uptown, or perhaps Brooklyn College-- but you'd be so so wrong. The real answer is NYU! Yep, it turns out that our homely downtown alma mater has more Jews than any other school in the country-- so step off, University of Maryland! Washington Square News has the report:

, slim week for Weddings at the Times, might we point you towards this nice article about the significance of marriages in the Year of the Dog? Bonus, you might recognize a name or two in there...

Chilly and windy tomorrow. It won't get too cold tonight in the city because of the wind, but don't expect tomorrow's high temperature to go much above 40. A good day for hot chocolate. Sunday is looking better, with a high in the mid-50s if you believe AccuWeather or weather.com, but slightly if you're a National Weather Service fan (the Weather Underground merely repackages NWS forecasts). All three forecast outlets raised their maximum forecasts by several degrees from the beginning of the week.

Team USA finally got a breather on Monday and brought up memories of the good ol' days of 1992 as it crushed overmatched Angola 89 - 53 and assured themselves a spot in the quarterfinals of the basketball competition. Tim Duncan led the team in scoring with 15 points in just 13 minutes of playing time.

According to today's Times, the Assistant U.S. Attorney in N.Y.C. has begun an investigation of Jayson Blair: Prosecutor Seeks Information on Resigned Times Reporter. What could they possibly charge him with? Maybe some variety of fraud? Unlikely: it'll be hard to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that he was intentionally defrauding people or just being sloppy and lazy. And if sloppy, lazy journalism is now fraud, a lot of people should be worried, including Fox News, NY Post, USA Today, and um, Gothamist.