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Extra, Extra: Manhattan Girls Just Want To Have Fun
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Ben Yakas
Published Sep 25, 2011
Modified Sep 26, 2011
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Published Sep 25, 2011
Modified Sep 26, 2011
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- Jay-Z is rumored to be playing the Barclays Center next fall.
- Music legend Sly Stone is homeless and living in a van in L.A.
- Ew: a man groped a little girl at a Queens clothing store.
- A Daily News photographer on being a Boardwalk Empire extra.
- Checkout this graphic designer/photographer/railroad enthusiast, who loves Metro-North much more than you do.
- The 3-D re-release of Lion King beat Moneyball to win the weekend box office.
- Family pleads for hit-and-run driver who killed woman to turn him/herself in.
- Lady Gaga dedicated a song to the bullied teen who committed suicide this week.
- Manhattan gals are just going to have to take care of themselves.
- And finally, why did Elijah Wood make some a strange drunk video challenging a fellow hobbit to debate the merits of World of Warcraft?
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