• Making fun of ugly people will always be funny. Especially when Jay Leno does it. [MSNBC]

• Because nobody can afford fun in the East Village anymore, young people are risking their lives in Bushwick — just so they can smoke inside and see a band. [NYT]

• Vanity Fair is apparently an authority on fashion these days. Fran Lebowitz? Really? [Page Six]

• “I don’t want to be working for money because then you are no different [from] a prostitute." Natalie Portman on why paying rent is for whores. [The Scoop]

• Imagine that — David Bowie and Sting are opening a burlesque club together. Yeah, ok, we were pretty sure they already had one, too. [NYDN]