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THEATER: Symphony Space presents the 27th annual Bloomsday on Broadway, a reading from the classic Ulysses. This year's event promises the first performance of the “Ithaca” episode’s complete, unedited text in an evening entitled “Mr. Bloom Comes Home.” The night will include readings by actors and avid Joyceans, including Stephen Colbert, Frank and Malachy McCourt, Fionnula Flanagan and Marian Seldes. Fun fact: June 16, 1904 is the most famous fictional date in literature, when Leopold Bloom walked around Dublin in the pages of James Joyce’s classic.

The much ballysomething'd issue of The New Yorker with Target as the only advertiser hit the newsstands and mailboxes yesterday. As reported in the NY Times last week, Target wanted to do something more "breakthrough" to really pay off their "Pay Less, Expect More" mantra, and ended up buying an estimated $1.1 million of media to secure all the ad space in the New Yorker, which is cheap, considering the well-heeled audience and free publicity. But, we must join in the oft-repeated refrain, how about expecting a Target store in Manhattan, instead of just having models walk down Rockefeller Center or docking a temporary store at a pier? After all, if we can live with KMart, surely we can live with Target. [Some of related: The Village Voice on New Yorkers protesting any kind of Wal-Mart in the city.]

Gothamist Reads The Parker Grey Show
Gothamist takes a much-need break from mindless chick lit for an "anti-it girl" book .

According to his blog, William Gibson was stuck in NY during the blizzard.