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Extra, Extra: FLOTUS Tells Kids 'Be Best,' Drugs Worst


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Published May 7, 2018

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  • The "Can't Stop The Feeling" music video is way better without the music.
  • Who's winning the self-driving cars race?
  • The New Yorker FINALLY covers vaping and Juul, which teens have turned into a new kind of bad habit.
  • Transparent will end after season five.
  • Read an acid-fueled '60s Paul McCartney anecdote.
  • Rick Moranis is briefly coming out of retirement for The Goldbergs.
  • Melania Trump unveiled her "Be Best" campaign, which may be beyond parody.
  • Here’s why humans love babies in glasses.
  • The Pagans and the Hells Angels may be beefing in NJ.
  • Bruce Springsteen toasted to Stevie van Zandt and his many scarves at the NJ Hall of Fame ceremony.
  • Brooklyn is apparently turning into the Bitcoin capital of the country.
  • And finally, the piggies are going shopping:

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Ben Yakas was born and raised in New York, and has worked for Gothamist for over a decade, and WNYC for four years, covering literally everything. He has hung out with Dan Smith (who will teach you guitar), but still has yet to have a guitar lesson with him.

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