Only Vaguely Journalism Related (The Onion is Involved)...

[From NYTimes' "Urban Eye" Newsletter]
Big Gulp
Think Sonya "the Black Widow" Thomas or Eric "Badlands"Booker are tough? Brace yourself, and your gag reflex, fora whole new class of competitive eaters. Tonight is theVending Machine Challenge II, in which contenders fromsuch upstanding civic institutions as MoMA, AM New York andThe Onion attempt to consume the contents of a vendingmachine in its entirety. Go to see who's left standing inthe Doritos dust - or to hear what kind of punny cracks thehost, Murray Hill, will make with pork rinds and Lay's. 8p.m. tonight. Register at LVHRD.com for information aboutlocation; $22, or $11 for members.

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