• A bartender at The Four Seasons doubles as a portrait artist who sells his paintings for up to $14,000. [NYT]
• The owner of Red Hook’s F&M; Bagels misses the cast of The Real World: Brooklyn, who spent lots of money at at his store. [NYO]
• Manhattanites can now order their Subway foot-longs via text message. Life is so much easier now. [IntoMobile via Consumerist]
• The Tuscan town of Lucca has banned all new non-Italian restaurants within the city center, ostensibly to protect traditional cuisine, but possibly as a form of “culinary racism.” [AP]
