Pat’s Picks: Wednesday, June 20

Written by Pat's Papers | UPDATED: Wednesday, 20 June 2012 9:24 AM

  The best headlines, the most interesting photography and conversation-starting articles from today’s newspapers.

Secretariat Gets New Record

Secretariat Gets New Record

There’s some exciting racing news in the Baltimore Sun this morning. Thirty-nine years after Secretariat won the Preakness, the Maryland racing commission has declared that the legendary horse set a race record. Secretariat was originally clocked at 1:55, but a review of the footage showed his time was actually 1:53. That means he now holds race records for all three Triple Crown events.

 
Kristen Stewart Highest Paid Actress

Kristen Stewart Highest Paid Actress

Kristen Stewart might want to try on a smile says the New York Daily News. The “Twilight” star topped this year’s list of highest paid actresses, reportedly bringing in $34.5 million. Cameron Diaz came in second on the Forbes list, with $34 million and Sandra Bullock rounded out the top three with an annual haul of $25 million.

 
Alec Baldwin Attacks Photographer

Alec Baldwin Attacks Photographer

It’s the attack of Alec on the front page of the New York Daily News this morning. Alec Baldwin got fed up with one of the paper’s photographers while trying to obtain a marriage license at City Hall yesterday. So witnesses say he punched him in the face. The Daily News notes it’s the third time Baldwin has punched a photographer in the face—the last time was also in Manhattan, back in 2010.

 
Ultimate Revenge of the Nerds

Ultimate Revenge of the Nerds

The New York Times reports on the “ultimate revenge of the nerds” in today’s paper. Google, it appears, is moving to Venice Beach, long home to a robust body building scene. And one of the buildings it has its eye on is the famed Gold’s Gym. The muscle-bound locals are so upset about the possibility that their local hangout could disappear that they’ve enlisted Arnold Schwarzenegger to stump for them.

 
Pizza Coalition Fights Back Against Menu Labeling

Pizza Coalition Fights Back Against Menu Labeling

A Big Mac is a Big Mac, but a pizza? Well, that could be anything. That’s the message a coalition of pizza chain owners is serving to lawmakers as they try to find a way around a menu labeling law that would force the nation’s chain restaurants to post calorie counts in their stores. Dominos, which estimates that it offers 34 million ways to customize a pie, says they shouldn’t have to invest in a board to post calories when most of their customers order delivery and won’t see the nutritional information.

 
Review: The Chip That Became a Taco

Review: The Chip That Became a Taco

The New York Times takes a look at the run-away success of Taco Bell’s Doritos Locos Taco in what be the most earnest fast food review I’ve ever read. Essentially a taco served in a Doritos shell, the chain has sold 100 million of them in the first ten weeks since the Locos debut. After several tests the paper’s reviewer decides that the stripped down model is better than the Locos Supreme as sour cream “burdens the taco and overpowers the other ingredients.”

 
Maine Island Up For Sale

Maine Island Up For Sale

What does $4.8 million get you? A lot of privacy, says the Portland Press Herald. House Island, which is situated off the coast of Maine, went on the market yesterday.  The 24-acre island boasts five beaches, three cottages, two piers, an 1800s-era fort, and no neighbors.

 

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