1. American Media head David Pecker takes out full-page NYT ad, trumpeting Star's figures over Us Weekly. I'm sure Jann appreciates the sentiment, but if you're going to spend 150K to wave some pecker in his face, it had better be a little prettier than that.
2. "Literary critic" Dale Peck gets hated on during BookExpo in Chicago. Why should Chicago be any different than any other town?
3. V Steakhouse: poor Jean-Georges, from hot to not in weeks.
4. A recovering Phish fan reminisces.
5. Maybe Daniel should get made over as Alec at the Baldwinization Center.