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Good Friday afternoon in New York City, where the Black Comic Book Festival is returning to Harlem.
Here's what else is happening:
- WKCR, Columbia's student radio station, has been broadcasting live from the campus protests.
- New York (accidentally?) gave a legal weed-selling license to a Queens dispensary called Budega that had previously been operating as an illegal cannabis shop.
- Yankees legend and accomplished classical guitarist Bernie Williams had his debut performance with the New York Philharmonic this week.
- Celebrity-friendly private nightclub Zero Bond., a favorite of Mayor Eric Adams, is trying to open an outpost in East Hampton, and locals are not happy about it.
- A New Jersey teen who took a long NJ Transit commute to a private high school for four years wrote about it for Business Insider.
- Aaron Sorkin said he's writing a movie that's the spiritual sequel to "The Social Network."
- The iPad kids are fine, worry about something else...
- ...like that pimple.
- And finally, Theragun mode:
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