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Damn, Standard Hotel : we were this close to enjoying your presence in the Meatpacking District , which needed some legitimate spicing up. Your exhibitionist-friendly windows were all in good fun, until you decided to relocate a Gay Bear/Leather Parade downtown. Villains! Basically, Andre Balzas and Co. decided that they didn't want to deal with a bunch of leather-clad gays walking up and down the street in front of their hotel, because, well, it'd inconvenience their business. And after Robert Valin, executive director of the West Village Leather and Bear Street Fair, got "unanimous approval" from the neighborhood's community board, the city decided to shut it down, anyway. Via The Villager : ...The Mayor's Office recently informed them that W. 13th St. was "not an option," because the Standard Hotel doesn't want the festival there...Valin said the Standard doesn't feel the flagellation-friendly fest "fits the image of the hot...

Facepalm-worthy: this ad for the L.A. County Fair, seen on the L.A. Times homepage. There's not much to say about how badly this will make you cringe besides the fact that these chicks will probably be ground to dust , soon. Published by Original source : http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gawker/full/~3/cT7x6dOg...

Here's a prediction of how land is going to change as oceans rise over the years. A tipster helpfully points out a submerged Greenpoint, thus relegating serious contingencies of Brooklyn's hipsters to a Waterworld -like existence. The big difference: water. [ BoingBoing ] Published by Original source : http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gawker/full/~3/65Y9ZJTU...

Talk about A-Yo Technology. Page Six recently discovered people on Facebook! Being mean to celebrities! Meaner than them , even. Unfortunately, the people hating celebrities on Facebook aren't funny. Also, they've clearly never read comments on D-Listed . Next: Twitter! [ Page Six ] Published by Original source : http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gawker/full/~3/aFEB7f0H...

The Los Angeles Times is losing its online managing editor to CNN.com, editor Russ Stanton confirmed in a staff email, reprinted below. The departure marks the further dismantling of a team that relaunched the site starting about five years ago. As the New York Observer notes , Artley follows in the footsteps of our own Richard Rushfield, who was LATimes.com entertainment editor up through July, and in the wake of the head of the Times ' online advertising, Juliana Jaoudi, and the head of online entertainment advertising, Jennifer Van Hook, both let go in the past week. Formerly editor of IHT.com, Artley was part of a team of outsiders general manager Rob Barrett brought in after he was hired in 2005 to remake the site. Her departure, then, could lead to greater control by the newspaper's print side of the heretofore relatively independent website. Published by Original source : http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gawker/full/~3/Wwnxgm3d...

[ A ferris wheel swirls in the sky last night at a state fair in Timonium, Maryland. Image via Getty ] Published by Original source : http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gawker/full/~3/7f910pBa...