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Inside CBGB’s. (See it big.) Photo by joe holmes.

• Another sign of the impending apocalypse: CBGB’s to be replaced by a Chase bank. Update: My bad. CBGB’s will actually be converted into a John Varvatos boutique. CB’s Gallery will be housing the Chase Bank. It’s all just a slightly different shade of doom.
• In praise of the Manhattan Bridge.
• The day in double negatives: Elton John’s Nan Goldin photo is not indecent, says a British court.
• Biting off of Murakami: Chanel has asked several artists, including Sylvie Fleury, Sophie Calle, Yoko Ono, and Stephen Shore, to create works based on the company’s signature handbag.
• Anaba goes rooting around Roberta Smith’s deep, dark past. If you really want to dig deep, light up a fat one and listen to La Smith talk about the George Seurat show at MoMA. It’s so very soothing.
• Francesco Vezzoli’s public play at the Guggenheim: Not so public.
• The Hillotype: when artists hoard their methodology.
• When Gummint Bureaucrats Attack: The city of Dallas has launched a campaign to stop young men (read: African-Americans) from wearing saggy pants by commissioning a song that implies that saggy-pants wearers are gay. How come no one is writing songs telling the drunk, white sorority sisters who have taken over NYC to pull up their pants so I don’t have to gaze at their overused Cosabella thongs? Now that would be a public service. (Via Complex.)
• For people who like watching paint dry: Graffitifilms.tv. (Via Ekosystem.)
• In London: Swoon, David Ellis and Monica Caniloa are putting together a show at the Black Rat, opening tonight. Get the info and see pix from the installation here.
• In Miami: Glexis Novoa at the Bernice Steinbaum Gallery.
• In NYC: Quisqueya Hénriquez at the Bronx Museum of Art.
• Trend of the minute: chocolate art.
• Doug Aitken’s Sleepwalkers tailored for Miami’s MAM.
• Better (and cheaper) than Bush’s Star Wars missile defense program: ThinkGeek’s three-tiered cubicle defense. (Via Complex.)
• Lap Dance Nation: Gridskipper has a comprehensive guide to NYC strip clubs.
• In a related story: someone has come out with Halloween-themed condoms.
• Visual Nuggets: The work of Conor Harrington.
• Almost forgot: The Guggenheim Bilbao turned 10. Petulant adolescence is now fast approaching.
• Just because.