1. The spire at the top of the new World Trade Center was installed today. (City Room, photo by Josh Friedman)
2. A look at the phenomenon of musicians re-recording their hits (which we recently discussed with Tom Petersson of Cheap Trick, the rare act whose re-recordings might trump the originals). (Slate)
3. David Drake's prize-winning one-man show The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me will be reimagined as a ensemble show for its 20th anniversary. The show benefits Broadway Cares/Fight AIDS and a lot of famous gays (André de Shields, Anthony Rapp, B.D. Wong) will be in it.
4. The Times has a great slideshow on Mercura NYC, the one-of-a-kind sunglasses company run by sexagenarian sisters Merrilee Lichtenstein Cohen and Rachel Cohen-Lunning.
5. Deadpan British band Art Brut has released an iPad app to showcase the album art for their new best-of compilation. (via Press Release)
6. "Are Beer Drones the Future of the Music Business?" (Also, why does a South African music festival have a "district 9 campsite"?)
