1. PAPER is coming! No, not us, but the Swedish punk/pop trio. They're playing at Cake Shop (152 Ludlow St.) on March 4, 5 & 6. They've been described as "the missing step between Joy Division and New Order." (via Brooklyn Vegan)

2. We live in public (part 2). To celebrate the opening of their new store, Diesel (685 Fifth Avenue at 54th Street) is hosting a series of "dinners" in the windows overlooking Fifth Avenue. Tonight (February 10) you can watch Richie Rich and friends Kenny Kenny and Amanda Lapore feasting on food from Le Cirque from 8 to 10 p.m. Later on in the week you can watch various New York Giants, Ford models, Bravo reality stars and New York It Girls (Including Elise Overland and Arden Wohl) chow down.

3. A 28-year-old transsexual was rejected from the Spanish army because of the lack of a penis.

4. LA Weekly reports that the Health Department shut down a performance by Sly Stone and George Clinton after five minutes last week in Silver Lake.

5. Carl Hiaasen on Steven Gaines' new book about Miami, Fool's Paradise: "It's not the fault of Gaines that [his book] is overpopulated by characters straight out of central casting. Just because a place is shallow, corrupt and infested with phonies doesn't mean it's dull." (via NYT Book Review)

6. Rooftop Films is screening Full Battle Rattle tonight at Chelsea Market (75 Ninth Avenue) at 7 p.m. The film is a documentary about life inside the US Army's Iraq simulation in California's Mojave desert. Free admission, free Radeburger beer and free music by Buke & Gass.