Did You Read About Cbgb R Kelly And Nicolas Cage

 Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, alarm, amuse, or inspire us. 
       
      Hey, did you read:

• That CBGB is reopening as a restaurant at Newark Airport? —Robin Amer

              • Or watch R. Kelly’s contentious interview with HuffPost Live? —Jake Malooley

                       • That Chief Keef’s label, FilmOn, filed a lawsuit against Keef’s associates? —Leor Galil

                       • Or see the New York Times‘s year in pictures? —Robin Amer

                       • Flavorwire’s picks for the best literary criticism of 2015? —Kate Schmidt

                       • This analysis of the icky fanboy celebrity profile? —Aimee Levitt

                     • That Nicolas Cage has agreed to return a stolen dinosaur skull to Mongolia? He’d bought it off the black market for $276,000, outbidding Leonardo DiCaprio. (Yes, this is a real story.) —Ryan Smith

 • About “the first quasi-experimental evidence that air pollution affects violent criminal activity” presented by a study of Chicago crime data in combination with meteorological data to compare “neighborhoods with themselves, on days when they are and aren’t downwind” from major roadways? —John Dunlevy