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Staten Island's Pride & Joy: The Budos Band gets horny at Slope Street Fair. Holla!

Meanwhile...



• Swarms of Cicadas Emerging in Midwest: Coming soon: Brood XIII. It sounds like a bad horror movie. But it's actually the name of the billions of cicadas expected to emerge this month in parts of the Midwest after spending 17 years underground. The red-eyed, shrimp-sized, flying insects don't bite or sting but they are known for mating calls that produce a din that can overpower ringing telephones, lawn mowers and power tools. They don't harm humans, although they are clumsy and might fly into people. Birds, squirrels and pets, especially dogs, love to eat them, and they are high in protein. Atkins friendly!
  

• Creed crooner, Scott Stapp, locked up for beating his wife, ex-Miss New York. We're hearing he threw a half-empty Orangina bottle at her.
  
  

• Angela Jolie's new flick; plays the widow of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in "A Mighty Heart".
  Check out the trailer here.
  
  

• Famous Mermaid Statue in Copenhagen Draped in Muslim Dress.
  
  

• Will the Gentrification Locomotive Spoil the Birthplace of Hip-Hop?
  
  

• The Jesus & Mary Chain Leads the Reunion Parade
  
  

• In the 1920s, Hollywood studios were riding high. There was skepticism when a new technology came along that would let movie audiences hear actors talking. But Warner Brothers took a gamble and wired theaters for sound. Ben Shapiro has the story of the rise, and fall, of the Vitaphone short films.
  
  

• M Ward, Neko Case, Kelly Hogan & Jim James (My Morning Jacket) on Conan O'Brien. Brooklyn Vegan's got the video.
  

• Rapper 50 Cent's 53-room Connecticut estate – once owned by Mike Tyson – is on the market