Let the record show that last night the Manhattan media crowd descended on The Box to see a youth from Wasilla receive a silver dildo for showing his penis. Photographs by the wonderful Nikola Tamindzic and Hee Jin Kang.

Someone at the New York Times is clearly keeping up with the British media, where there hasn't been a single features department in the past week that hasn't tackled the trend piece du jour: Everyone's got tattoos! The Guardian served up a piece about how chicks can be tattoo artists too. (Glad they cleared that up!) The London Times revealed—shock!—that lots of celebrities have tattoos? For its part, the Telegraph took the opportunity to remind readers that body art isn't usually all that clever and you'll probably end up regretting it. But Kate Torgovnick at the Times outdoes everyone with her Styles piece about Jews and tattoos, which explodes the widespread myth that you can't be buried in a Jewish cemetery with tattoos:

Joanna Angel

In their ongoing Kushnerian effort to get more readers in the coveted Kidz These Days demo, the Observer is doing all kinds of wild things. Such as: going to Brooklyn! Also, going to visit pornographers in Brooklyn! We hear that preppy low-hanging chinos nerd cute web desk reporter David Foxley is deep in an investigation of Williamsburg alt-smut peddlers Burning Angel. He's wanting to "meet with [co-CEO] Joanna [Angel] for a short time, to learn more about the industry and her role therein." We hope he'll bring a similar throbbing intensity to the story, which should run next week.