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A look at some noteworthy television this week:

-- In Park Slope new owners mean no more bottles of beer on the wall at two bodegas.

FAIR: Tom of Finland Foundation is holding the 6th Annual New York City Erotic Art Fair all weekend. Thousands of works of Erotic Art by artists worldwide will be for sale, or just for looking at (pervert). This includes all media, gender & sexual orientation. There will also be life drawing workshops. The opening reception is tonight, so get the first peek.

The Times mentions how the incident is giving some edge to Mayor Bloomberg's term: Apprentice wannabe Nick Warnock complained to Mayor B, "'You know, New York's getting better, and cleaner, and safer, but it's losing its character.'" The Mayor disagreed, and then went to his car to see an email about the treesome. He went on his radio show with John Grambling to say that the stunt took away time and resources from the NYPD and EMS, but also added it was "very New York." The couple were charged with misdemeanors.

Shocking arborists everywhere, ecologist Jillian Gregg found that saplings in New York grew faster than their country cousins. According to her findings in Nature, the excess of ozone near the ground in rural areas is greater than in cities, and as ozone is harmful to flora and fauna...Newsday reveals that it's the nitric oxide in the city that erases some of the ozone. Yay, pollution has its perks. Too bad, as a Parks Department official says, that the trees in the city will live half as long.

With the speculation about Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf's sexuality percolating [Spectator, via Gawker], Gothamist feels it's the perfect opportunity to discuss how Sahaf is a cult favorite in the States.