• Finally, we can start drinking at 8 am on Sunday morning. How in the world did New York go so long without this law? [ABC]

• We almost recommended checking out this very interesting New York Times article … until we got down to the part where they call the South Bronx "SoBro." Can we please make it stop before we're calling New York NeYo? [NYT]

• What's so special about August 14? Oh not too much — just that Boy George will be sweeping your street. [NYDN]

• Brooklyn is officially a real place in New York. Even tourists want to see how the outer burroughed live. [Newsday]

• Brooke Astor's son Anthony Marshall reminds NYC heavyweights that it's not nice to around telling the papers how badly he's mistreating him. Some people just have no manners. [NYP]

Mostly because it got horrible reviews, generated a ton of buzz than quickly faded, and because everyone has decided Julia Roberts is better left to the lighting and retakes of Hollywood movies than Broadway plays, Three Days of Rain hasn't been doin' too hot.

This is mostly marked, we would say, by brokers dumping tickets to see Roberts on the big stage at at bargains of 25% off or more. And how, the Daily News wonders, do theater goers feel about this?

"I can say I saw Julia Roberts," said Samantha Vernon, 45, of Wichita, Kan. "This was an experience that we weren't going to miss. We've been excited about it for months."

Others, however, were less than thrilled to learn of the discounted prices for tickets.

"I can't believe I could've saved about $200," said Lincoln Sterling, 45, of the upper West Side as he crowded into the theater lobby with his wife and two children. "This had better be the best play we've ever seen."

Case studies in the bitterness of New Yorkers compared to those from Middle America? There's no better way to start of a Monday.

A dismal play date [Jonathan Lemire, Daily News]

Is it because all the really anorexic celebrities live in L.A., or because we've all been eating way too many Second Avenue Deli sandwiches? We can't figure it out, but somehow, a city full of supermodels and people too broke to afford food made this years Men's Fitness list of fattest city's.

Then, we thought, "maybe they're counting the tourists as people who actually live here?"

Baltimore surprised by new title: America's fittest city
Yes, the Numbers Show the Crowds in the City Were Real [Mike McIntire, NYT]