Daily Bafflements

• Look what we found in a bagel shop in Brooklyn!

• Relatedly: after yesterday’s news that Kim’s Video will be closing its last NYC location this summer, we heard that the late great and also-shuttered Bleecker Street Records is going to be a Starbucks.

• Nepal collects $3.5 million annually in Mount Everest climbing fees, reports the AP. After the recent avalanche, the families of the sherpas who died were told that the government would pay them $415 for each lost loved one. The surviving sherpas and families are demanding more.

• Write your own lede for this article: Performance art is ________ and _______ and if you are wowed by it you are either _______ or ________.