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Sundown: China Urges North Korea to the Table

Plus Israeli electric car manufacturer runs of gas money?

by
Adam Chandler
May 24, 2013
(Wired)
(Wired)

• In uncommonly blunt language, Chinese Premier Xi Jinping told North Korea to stop futzing around and return to nuclear talks. [NYT]

• Better Place, which let countless Americans drive their electric cars ecstatically around their compound, is filing for bankruptcy in the coming days. [ToI]

• A victory for Texas in the War on Christmas: Governor Rick Perry is expected to sign the “Merry Christmas Bill” after state lawmakers passed the measure, which allows religious symbols to be displayed in schools and public places. [HuffPo]

• Intrigue swirls around the recent rash of layoffs at the Tenement Museum on the Lower East Side. [BoweryBoogie]

Grub Street profiles Maimon Kirschenbaum, the Robin Hood of New York City restaurants, who has brought some of the city’s most famous restaurants to court for not paying their staff properly. [NYM]

Adam Chandler was previously a staff writer at Tablet. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, Slate, Esquire, New York, and elsewhere. He tweets @allmychandler.