For those of us on the East Side, the subway can be a bit frustrating with only one line running down Lexington Avenue. While Bloomberg is in his office banning us from drinking big sodas, who is worrying about those poor 1st Avenue pedestrians? The East Side Access is the long-awaited answer to that problem, but we expect more delays on this then Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby. More»

Men have gotten a bad rep for considering the superficial before the intellectual, or basically, thinking with the wrong head. While women like to think they look past the brawn and at the brains. Well, the numbers don't lie and according to a recent Australian survey, the stereotypes do. More»

• President Obama and the First Lady are featured on the Kiss Cam as they attend USA Basketball's pre-Olympic tune-up game against Brazil. [Newsday]
• Charlie Sheen pledges to donate 1% of his total earnings from his new "Anger Management" show, and no less than $1 million, to the United Service Organization, which is "the largest single contribution the USO has ever received from an individual." Being a Tiger-Blooded Space Warlock clearly pays well, but joking aside, nice move, Charlie. [TMZ] More»

• An attempted robbery by an ex-employee of a Marina Del Rey medicinal marijuana dispensary turned into a thorough whupping when the martial-arts trained owner opened a can on the would-be robber and his friends. [LAist]
• Looking to answer the successful buzz of Google's recently-shipped mid-sized Nexus tablet, Apple is reportedly looking to come out with a smaller-sized (7.85-inch, according to the report) model of the iPad to supplement (but not replace) their full-sized, 9-inch screen models. [NYT]
• Think Lakers fans are excited about Steve Nash coming to town? Check out these videos (taken both from Nash's perspective and the other car's) of some ecstatic fans passing a can of Keystone Light to a taxi-riding Nash at full speed on the freeway. There's some skepticism that it's viral marketing for Keystone, but that would suggest that they have a marketing budget that can accommodate famous people. [LAist]
• Occupy LA representatives assert that the clashes that occurred with police during last week's DTLA "Chalk Walk" amount to police brutality and misconduct and claim to have videos to support their claims. [LA Weekly]

• Admitting that they're unable to meet payroll, San Bernardino becomes the third California city this month to file for bankruptcy protection. The City Attorney admits that 13 of the last 16 budgets presented to the mayor and city council were falsified to intentionally understate the situation. [LAT]
• L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca is forced to recall 200 "City Official L.A. County" badges reportedly handed out to favored politicians after an embarrassing photo of a Cudahy Councilman's (assumed) girlfriend posing with the badge and guns leaks online. [LA Weekly] More»

The unexpectedly quick divorce settlement between Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes? You can thank little Suri for that. Apparently both sides were gearing up for legal war when it was impressed upon them how damaging the whole thing would be to their daughter. Give them credit for that. [TMZ]

• Now that the 13-day cleanup sweep of Skid Row has completed, the numbers are in, and they're pretty crazy: five tons of trash, hundreds of hypodermic needles, and (feel free not to read the rest of this sentence if you're eating) multiple five-gallon buckets full of human waste. [LAT] More»

• Port Of San Diego officials apologize for completely botching this year's "Big Bay Boom" 4th Of July fireworks event, and are reportedly attempting to investigate why, exactly, they accidentally set off ALL OF THEIR FIREWORKS at the same time, 5 minutes before the show was scheduled to start. Oops. There's video at the link. [LA Weekly]
• The Biebs gets the cops called on him (by an L.A. City Councilman) for weaving through traffic at 90+ mph on the 101, but he claims that he was merely trying to escape a team of paparazzi cars that were aggressively harassing him. Maybe this is why teenagers shouldn't be allowed to drive $150,000 custom electric sports cars; my first car couldn't even get up to 90 mph. [TMZ] More»

-Carly Rae Jepsen has released her new single with Owl City. Is it as catchy as Call Me Maybe? [Buzzfeed]

-LeBron James...I mean the Miami Heat finally won a NBA championship last night. Dan Gilbert congratulates LeBron. Well not really. [SBNation]

-In case you SOMEHOW missed it, Twitter was down for almost an hour yesterday due to a cascaded bug. There's already a parody account @cascadedbug [Mashable] More»

- In the latest episode of The Conversation With Amanda de Cadenet, Miley Cyrus comes off surprisingly deep, even articulate. [HuffPost]

"I've lost my sense of self a lot. There's times you hear what you should be so much that you lose what you actually are, and that's really hard," she said.

- Photographer Rania Matar captures teenage girls in their most sacred space—their bedroom. Let's just say I'm more than happy she wasn't around during my *Nsync phase. [DailyBeast] More»

• What's Frank McCourt's reward for running one of the most beloved baseball franchises in America into the ground? How about a billion dollars? That's the (cash!) profit he's estimated to make from this week's $2.15b purchase of the team by a group of investors led by Earvin "Magic" Johnson. [LAT]
• Clayton Osborn, the JetBlue pilot who flipped out on a Wednesday JFK->Las Vegas flight and had to be restrained by passengers, has been charged with "interfering with a flight crew," which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250k fine. [KTLA] More»

• Darth Vader wants Earth cash. Confidential to bank robbers: stop trying so hard. [NYDN]
• Mario Batali being sued for stiffing Babbo waiters out of their tips. [Post]
• #changehearttobuttsongs will never get old. Related: twitter makes us all think we're funnier than we are. [Voice]
• Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church were no match for the Comic Con superheroes. Slideshow is epic. [ComicsAlliance, via Boing-Boing]
• Rigging big man in 2008 crane collapse acquitted. [NYT]