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Public transportation: always an adventure! As can be expected from a universally accessible service, a ride on the bus or the subway often involves exciting interactions with deranged loners, unique new smells, and mystery puddles! All in all, it's the kind of thing that really makes you want to take your pants off. Check out NYC's no pants subway ride HERE and LA's version HERE.

Public transportation: always an adventure! As can be expected from a universally accessible service, a ride on the bus or the subway often involves exciting interactions with deranged loners, unique new smells, and mystery puddles! All in all, it's the kind of thing that really makes you want to take your pants off. At least, that's the contention of the thousands that took place in the international No Pants Subway Ride, which went down yesterday in cities across the world, including right here in L.A. More»

Summer has arrived, and the calls and Facebook messages have started to roll in. Everyone and their mother wants to visit you in New York. Beyond the mild annoyances that come with any house-guest scenario, you’re saddled with the extra-special burden of traveling around the city. This year, instead of letting “little” things go until you lose patience, help your friends and loved ones prepare with this guide to appropriate New York travel etiquette. More»

By now, you've probably heard about Mayor Bloomberg's ridiculous assertion that "there aren't very many panhandlers left" on the the subway. If that were really true, we'd pretty much know for sure that the world was ending. Indeed, a retired MTA worker is one of the driving forces behind the May 21 Judgement Day frenzy. More»

NASA discovered life on other planets, some dudes recreated a frat box and call it "art," and we dissected James Franco's bookshelf. Also, why goth is the new hipster, why delusional marriages are most the most likely to succeed (whaa?!), Mardi Gras from NOLA, and what Frank Falcinelli baked me for my bday. Plus! Someone with tons of money please buy the Gatsby mansion before they tear it down ok? More»

Subway franchise takes over the skies. Literally. [NYT]
Four seasons can't even get fake Rothko paintings. [WSJ]
Designer Julien Macdonald calls plus-size models a "joke." [NYDN]
Han Solo and Ally McBeal just got married! [TMZ]
The best Chinese restaurant menu misspellings. [Village Voice]

Next year, new Whitney Museum will be built in the Meatpacking District. [NYT]
The men in blue will be providing 24-7 protection to the Jersey Shore cast. [TMZ]
In case you haven't heard, the Superbowl is here in 2014. Start stocking up on body paint and foam fingers. [Post]
Good Samaritan rescues woman from subway train, then promptly disappears. [NYDN]
Duchess Sarah Ferguson swirled through NYC yesterday in a cloud of financial panic and disgrace. [Post]
Bryant Park has its own sex guru. [WSJ]

COSMOPOLITRAIN A Moscow subway car is transformed into a moving museum featuring reproductions of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts’ watercolors. (Photo: Andrey Smirnov / AFP-Getty Images via the San Francisco Chronicle)

In a test of whether the economy is hot or not, two floors at 666 5th Avenue are now on sale for between 600 and 700 million. But let's keep our eye on the prize here: All we really care about is that the address is a devilish 666. Is Satan helping push that price up? More»

Hours before it announced plans to fire over 1,000 employees, the perpetually doomed M.T.A. said it would spend $700 million restoring dilapidated subway stations across the city. Is it me, or is the timing of these announcements as screwed up as the G train's? More»

When I heard about Taco Bell's "drive-thru diet" ad campaign, I assumed it was an attempt at viral marketing humor, like cavemen or talking babies or Domino's claiming to have edible pizza. But it's legit! Chalupas are the new horse tranquilizers. More»