According to the singer, the song Friday “was never supposed to be made public, and instead was meant for sharing among friends and family, like glamour shots or a wedding video.” It turned out it was made public. Four years later (which is just about how long it took to get the song out of one’s head), Buzzfeed checks in with Rebecca Black; too famous to be normal and too normal to be famous.

+ When young and hip people started referring to the Lower East Side as The LES, the writing was on the Western Wall for neighborhood companies. In The Village Voice, Britta Lokting takes a look at one such company’s wandering exodus: After 90 years in Manhattan, can Streit’s Matzo reinvent itself upstate?

+ Grantland: The End of the Hoop Dream: A Journey to the Extreme Fringe of International Basketball.