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6-time July 4th Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest champ Takeru Kobayashi may not return to defend his title because of contract negotiations. [NYDN]
Russian spies all over New York! [Post]
New Papaya King ruling cabal in place. [NYMag]
Tourists love Forever 21 more than they love the Statue of Liberty. [WSJ]
Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green just got married. That sound you hear is the teary ululation of millions of teenage boys. [TMZ]

Prince Harry was thrown off a horse in Central Park. [Post]
"Play Me, I'm Yours" public art pianos are the newest hot wedding accessory [NYDN]
Bubble Battle in Times Square! [Gothamist]
NY Pols are pot-tastic. [NYMag]
Stonewall riots veteran is quite elderly and super adorable. Then she reminisces about punching people so hard the stones in her rings fall out. [NYT]
Goodbye forever, W train. [WSJ]

Times Square bomber pleads guilty. That was easy. Except it wasn't. Because he almost blew up a car in Times Square. [Post]
Only Attorney General Andrew Cuomo could start out giving a conference on blocking child pornography and blunder into questions about his youthful pot-smoking. Rock on, Cuomo. [NYDN]
Don't shoplift in Chinatown or Flushing, for the punishment's worse than the crime. [NYT]
Tim Gunn dares to talk smack about Anna Wintour. [Observer]
The Mister Softee jingle will never not make Mayor Mike "John Wayne" Bloomberg freak out. [WSJ]
The Naked Cowboy is in a throwdown with the Naked Cowgirl. [Post]

NYU Abu Dhabi plays hard to get with students across the globe. [NYT]
The highest and lowest priced apartments on the UES are both penthouses; you can pay 135 thou or 60 mil. [Post]
Oh no: 70,000 blue balls (ha! We salute you for getting to that first, Daily News) of mozzarella recalled in Italy. [NYDN]
Sotheby's is auctioning an amazing collection of photographs from the Polaroid Connection. FYI: they are not actually polaroids. [WSJ]
The magic of product placement means that Mickey Mouse used to sell speed. No haha, this is real. [BoingBoing]

Catherine Zeta-Jones regrets being "crass" at the Tonys, even though she said something that only our grandma thinks is racy. [NYDN]
Indictment for John Haggerty, Mayor Bloomberg's right-hand man who got handsy with Mayor Bloomberg's cash. [Post]
Blown glass art representations of deadly viruses are controversial. [NYT]
Short-lived Yankees mascot has hidden past, unflattering silhouette. [WSJ]
The Situation wants everyone to know he's a baller, and it's making MTV producers angry. [TMZ]

Marc Anthony wasn't the first choice for Puerto Rican Day Parade King. Also, he had to ride in a little golf cart. And it rained. And everyone keeps asking how he managed to snare J.Lo. It's hard to be Marc Anthony. [Post]
Scarlett Johanssen just won a Tony. Really, guys, really? [NYDN]
Developers love Chinatown, and everyone's. freaking. out. [WSJ]
Albert Trummer, pyro-boss of Apotheke, is in big trouble. [NYT]
New Yorker covers Bonnaroo, mostly complains that "it's very hot here." [New Yorker]

Wanna be Lindsay Lohan's personal assistant? She's hiring. [TMZ]
. . . And Donald Trump may be hiring Lindsay Lohan herself. Or so says Dina. [NYDN]
Colombo underboss John "Sonny" Franzese got into a screaming match with his ex in a courthouse men's room. Classy. [Post]
Obama's pushing a tanning tax, and Snooki thinks he's targeting the Jersey Shore kids specifically. [WSJ]
Bloomberg's cracking down on truancy and the possibility of an end to free MTA student rides looms ever larger. However, students still have their youth, while we withered adults also can't play hooky and always have to pay for transpo. So shut up, kids, and go get us another wine cooler. [NYT]
Lady Gaga freaked out at Citifield yesterday. Whether it was an actual freak-out or performance art remains to be seen. [Post]

Chefs are angry and uncompromising artisans. Don't cross them or they will complain to the Post about you. [Post]
Spike Lee pals around with Brooklyn bloggers, and all in the name of vodka. [WSJ]
If the courts give you victory when you refuse to wear your new ID because it bears "the mark of the beast," don't blow it by dropping the case before damages are awarded. [NYT]
Shady and possibly illegal demolition plans for Bowery historic building [Curbed]
Apparently Bethenny's Real Housewives spinoff sucks. [NYDN]

Sandra Bullock kissed Scarlett Johansson at the MTV Video Music Awards, and everyone was like, "Ahhh! One lady has never kissed another lady before!" [TMZ]
NJ terrorists talk like dim surfer kids. Which, we guess, means that dim surfer kids talk like terrorists. [NYDN]
Anthony Bourdain is still our favorite silver fox/food writer/sassbucket [Post]
For unions, inflatable rat is out, shrill sounds are in. [WSJ]
Bernie Madoff: Prison folk hero. [NYMag]

Bruce Cameron Clark: Bespokenator. [NYT]
The Wall Street Journal wants you to know that when the bad men come to murder you, they will try to use your text messages to confuse the police. Will future bad menget away with it? Not now that the WSJ is on the case!!!!! [WSJ]
Bill O'Reilly says mean things about gay-themed McDonalds ad from France. Breaking: Bill O'Reilly is a jerk. [NYDN]
Hahaha! SI Yankees pitching coach robbed by miniskirted women who visited him when god-fearin' people were in bed watching "Dancing With The Stars." You know, hookers. [Post]
The day you've long feared has come to pass: zombies in Williamsburg. [Village Voice]
The 101 Best Sandwiches List gets easier to integrate into your life. [GrubStreet]

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