Cityfile: New York's Most Notable and Influential

Happy Birthday | Model Maggie Rizer is turning 31 today. Dave Matthews is turning 42. Times book critic Michiko Kakutani is 54. Hot 97 host Angie Martinez is 37. Internet tycoon Lockhart Steele is 35. Indie film honcho Michael Barker is turning 55. Earl Graves, the founder of Black Enterprise, is turning 74. Author Judith Krantz is 81. Singer Joan Baez is 68. And Kate Middleton, who stands to become a princess if Prince William ever pops the question, turns 27 today. Weekend birthdays—including that of Jared Kushner—after the jump!More

• People's $14 million purchase of the Brangelina pics worked out nicely in the end. The issue sold 2.6 million copies, making it the mag's best-selling issue in seven years.  [WWD]
• The Wall Street Journal reported today that Barack Obama had picked Tim Kaine as his running mate, then quickly took it back. [Politico]
• CNN correspondents like Candy Crowley and John King will begin writing guest columns for Metro. [E&P]
• Former LA Times editorial page editor Andres Martinez has embroiled himself in a nasty scandal. [Gawker]
• "Why, exactly, did Michiko Kakutani write a profile of Jon Stewart in this past Sunday’s New York Times?" Good question. [CJR]
• Hearst is folding Town & Country Travel. [WWD]
  

When one pictures the New York Times' fearsome literary critic Michiko Kakutani at work, the scene is of a book-lined, slightly dusty apartment, with Kakutani frowning over the book in her lap, perhaps with pencil in hand, getting ready to eviscerate a new novel that disgraces itself in various ways. A TV is most definitely not flickering in the background. But it seems that this image of Casa Kakutani will have to be revised, as she apparently just watched TV for the first time! More