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Microsoft Cofounder Paul Allen Is Putting Out an Album of ‘Blues-Based Guitar Rock Nuggets’Teenager Ruins Perfectly Good Sleepover By Destroying Friend’s Roleplaying Account And Lo, Twitter Has Finally Granted Us Two-Factor Authentication

PolitickerNY

Queens Councilman Tells Anthony Weiner to Drop Out Not Everyone Is Returning Anthony Weiner’s Calls Anthony Weiner Says He Can Win Gracie Mansion

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‘Dirty Looks’ Film Series Plans Second July-Spanning ‘On Location’ Festival Shandaken Project Announces 2013 Summer Residents Reagan Correspondence Withdrawn From Auction in Accordance With Presidential Records Act

Media

Last Night at the Webby Awards, Patton Oswalt Tried to Give David Karp a Wedgie Celeb Stunts Turn Williamsburg Into the New Times Square The CLIO Awards: What's The Big Idea?

Real Estate

City Selects Developer For Affordable Housing Slated To Rise On Architectural Graveyard In Williamsburg Nice Apartment If You Can Get It: Gershwin Heir Sells $5.4 M. Central Park West Pad On the Market: Poverty Surges In New York's Suburbs; Housing Court Rules To Evict Aldon James; Massive Outlet Mall Is Getting a Makeover

Culture

Cannes: Kristin Scott Thomas is Saving Grace in Only God Forgives and Robert Redford Puts the Oscars on Notice Celeb Stunts Turn Williamsburg Into the New Times Square His Life (All of It) as a Man: Karl Ove Knausgaard's Rambling New Volume of 'My Struggle'

Opinion

I Like Bike Hate Crime in the Village Silver: Stay and Deliver

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5WPR Inks Deal for 39,075 Square Feet at Minskoff’s 1166 Avenue of the Americas Morning links NYC Retail Heat Map

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By Caroline Bankoff 9/09/08 1:36pm

Morning Memo: Paris Hilton Defends the Jonas Brothers; The Eldridge on Facebook; Paris Hilton Thinks Virginity is ‘Cool’

Paris Hilton is defending the Jonas Brothers’ decision to wear promise rings, saying virginity is "a cool thing for a kid to keep." [

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