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Local
· Well-connected, naive college students open a gallery for the summer [NY Sun]
· Brooklyn Urban Arts Market survived a wet first weekend [Brooklyn Paper]
· Not your average jewelry auction: 'Hip Hop's Crown Jewels' at Phillips de Pury [FWD]
National
· Ikea may sell solar panels [Unplggd]
· Poor Americans taking a break from shopping [NY Post]
· 'World's most famous transsexual' Amanda Lepore releases cosmetics line [Styledash]