Early Addition: SoHo Is Now The Ultimate Wellness Industry Zone
June 11, 2019, 12:04 p.m.
Because SoHo is a giant wellness pop-up, check out today's midday links: Radiohead 'OK Computer' sessions, Woodstock 50 woes, rattlesnake town, Universal Studios fire, de Blasio disliked, and dog outsmarts training course.

<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/samsebeskazal/48038180392/in/pool-gothamist/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dennis fraevich's flickr</a>
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- Mayor de Blasio's doomed presidential campaign has raised awareness of how disliked he is in New York—in fact, he is somehow even less liked than Trump in the state.
- Former city prosecutor Linda Fairstein defended her dwindling reputation in an op-ed arguing that Ava DuVernay’s Central Park Five miniseries is an "outright fabrication" that is "full of distortions and falsehoods."
- After 18 hours of OK Computer session tapes were leaked online, Radiohead has now made them officially available with all proceeds going to Extinction Rebellion, an international climate change activist group.
- The NY Times published a big feature on a fire that swept through Universal Studios Hollywood backlot in 2008, destroying decades’ worth of master recordings from Nirvana, Steely Dan, Sonic Youth, Louis Armstrong, R.E.M.,Duke Ellington, Tom Petty, Ella Fitzgerald, Charles Mingus, and dozens more.
- Vice President Mike Pence defended the Trump administration’s barring of rainbow flags from being flown on flagpoles outside U.S. embassies during LGBTQ Pride Month, calling it "the right decision."
- David Berman pines for his lost love in the new music video for Purple Mountains' "Darkness and Cold."
- This article about an upstate New York town with a thriving rattlesnake population would have been better if it named the location so I could avoid it forever.
- Watkins Glen International has pulled out of Woodstock 50.
- Stereogum counted down the 50 best albums of 2019 so far.
- When did SoHo turn into a giant wellness industry pop-up?
- And finally, this guy gets it:
work smarter, not harder
(sassycorgis IG) pic.twitter.com/yAsUMLcrvy— Humor And Animals (@humorandanimals) June 8, 2019