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Extra, Extra: The Cube May Be Back At Astor Place This Spring
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Ben Yakas
Published Jan 8, 2016
Modified Jan 8, 2016
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- The Simpsons goes '80s for their latest couch gag.
- If you haven't already, listen to the excellent new Kanye West songs here.
- Vanity Fair have a great piece about a celebrity surgeon who almost scammed an NBC producer into marrying him.
- A cabbie allegedly cursed out a bus driver and pants'd him.
- Vice have a big profile on Michael Alig returning to the NY nightlife.
- Asbury Park police chief takes an un-permitted road trip to Florida in a city car, pops a tire, doesn't report it, and tries to intimidate reporter looking into it.
- The NY village of Whitesboro will vote on their "offensive" seal, which depicts a white man choking a Native American.
- Before he was a Stormtrooper, John Boyega was a stock photo model.
- The Cube might be back at Astor Place by springtime.
- The city will pay $3.75 million in a settlement to a man who was wrongfully convicted in a Bed-Stuy shooting in 1997.
- Elvis, Nixon, Michael Shannon, Kevin Spacey—yes, this is a real movie.
- And finally, nothing can come between a man and his pet bear:
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