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The Waffle Stop in Sarasota, Florida: Elvis ate here in 1956…and had three eggs, two orders of toast, three strips of bacon, pan fried potatoes and three glasses of milk. (Photo by C-M.)

• Breakin’.
• The art industrial average is down: London’s Frieze Fair prepares for financial chill (via A.J.). But rich Russians and Chinese could help keep it afloat, says a German management consultant Roland Berger.
• Nicholas Baume of Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Arts curates the home of Miami collectors Debra and Dennis Scholl.
• Art profile the day: “Martin Kippenberger seems to have been a bit of an asshole.” (Via Modern Art Notes.)
• Eleven art world “luminaries” talk about issues in art in Paper Mag. (Via World’s Best Ever.)
• Video of Alexander Calder’s Circus. Read the story here.
• Photo Essay: Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster’s oversized installation in the Tate’s Turbine Hall. Stories here and here.
• Trippy: The 7,500 shiny, floating, silver discs installed by ROSO in an English courtyard. 
• Stephen Kaltenbach’s Time Capsules.
• A profile of Robbie Conal, related to his retrospective at Track 16 in Santa Monica. See the photo essay.
• Graff of the Day: SEK in Brooklyn.
• Architectural street art by Truth.
• Peruvian spraypaint.
• “Venice architecture biennale is like nerds talking about sex.” And the kicker: “The 2008 biennale is the year that the avant-garde finally disappeared into its own darkest recesses. Let’s hope the recession finishes the job.” (Via Life Without Buildings.)
• Princess Zaha, denied: The architects of a high-density housing project in Cambridge, England beat out starchitects for the Stirling Prize. More here and here.
• The day in relevant architecture books: After the Crash: Architecture in Post-Bubble Japan.
• Fascinating: The Clarence Schmidt House.
• Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House to be restored.
• Patriotic gifs for stoners.
• Your moment of Mack the Knife, Italian lite-jazz edition. (Thank you, Mlle. Connasse, for the sublime ridiculosity.)