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Extra Extra: What's more annoying than dog poop and going to the dentist?
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Emily Nadal
Published Jun 13, 2024
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It’s Thursday afternoon in New York City where some business owners who were shut down during the cannabis enforcement blitz are suing the city.
Here’s what else is happening:
- A few weeks ago, a bunch of people came out to Union Square Park to watch a masked man eat a giant jar of cheeseballs. If you saw this and thought “I have to hang with this guy,” now is your chance.
- Why does Mayor Eric Adams like commenting on people’s bodies?
- The fact that many people think hold music is more annoying than the dentist or dog poop should be enough motivation to remix what we’re used to. But turns out, it’s not.
- The Metropolitan Opera's ticket sales have rebounded closer to pre-pandemic levels (perhaps we can thank the Gilded Age for a renewed interest in the opera house?)
- Who wants to be a millionaire? If you live in New York City, then you’re already on the right path.
- A Hamptons beach ranked as one of the top 10 in the country for dangerous levels of enterococcus, an indicator of how much fecal matter is in the water.
- A new exhibit dedicated to Taylor Swift has just opened in a Jersey Shore town where the pop star used to spend her summers as a child.
- And finally, out fishin':
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