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- Up the aging punx! A senior citizen couple make the case for going to shows forever.
- After five years of plummeting ratings, Viacom is bringing back "Total Request Live."
- State police are reportedly threatening the NYPD cops who arrested one of their own for a DUI.
- PETA wants to ban Tinder Guys With Tigers. No word yet on Bros With Fish
- Vladimir Putin has responded to last week's sanctions by ordering the U.S. to cut its Russian diplomatic staff by 755.
- An Essex University study found that the vast majority of people who take unpaid internships earn less than their counterparts who went straight to work.
- Michiko Kakutani, veritable fiction critic (and sworn enemy of Jonathan Franzen), is retiring from her post as the Times' chief daily book critic after 38 years at the paper.
- Do Teletubbies copulate? An investigation.
- Hamptonites, unhappy with the rise of squalid motels for local workers, fear the growth of "the Appalachia of the Hamptons."
- And finally, here is a dog realizing that the weekend is almost over:
BREAKING: very good boy is forced to leave the petstore
