• 90,000 indie kids are here for the CMJ festival. Countless fashionistas are here for Fashion Week. Now a bunch of visual arts kids come to town for the Res Fest. Can everybody go home already? We liked New York just as it was, thank you very much. [flavorpill]
• That said, so much CMJ goodness today it'll knock your beat-up Converses off. Paper offers up their selections for tonight. [Paper]
• Jay McInerney, James Frey, A.H. Holmes, and other literary folks take part in Housing Work's Walking Words, part of a campaign to get world leaders to exert their political will to stop the AIDS epidemic. Last we checked, President Bush couldn't even exert his free will to use the restroom on his own. Baby steps. [Housing Works]