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- Get to know the jamband world's Velvet Underground.
- A NYC teen was stoned when he drove his car at 100 mph into "Dead Man's Curve" on the Southern State, killing four of his friends.
- A singer from Rochester made his Carnegie Hall debut and then disappeared.
- Some Connecticut jagbags stole a 10-year-old boy's wheelchair ramp.
- Here we have a handy cartoon guide to NYC drinking establishments.
- Sonic Youth's Lee Renaldo is working with Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger on an HBO pilot about the music industry in the '70s.
- Meryl Streep: Nazi hunter.
- The Times pays a final visit to the last Metro-North bar cars, which make their last run tonight.
- And here's some hardcore S&M cat action:

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