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Tonight: A One-Gloved Prospect Park Run for Jackson

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By Brian Ries

| Tuesday, Jun 30, 2009 | Updated 7:12 AM EST

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Tonight: A One-Gloved Prospect Park Run for Jackson

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One-handed and two-shoed, Jackson runners prepare to tackle Prospect Park.

Get your morning scoop on a one-gloved Jackson tribute, a new Obama deli, a twittering view of the Brooklyn Flea, P.S. 1's new summertime clothes and a Carl's Jr. Craigslist ad in today's local blog round-up.

Lace up your walking shoes and that one, white glove for the One-Gloved Run, a tribute to Michael Jackson tonight at 7:30 p.m. in Prospect Park. Costumes, wigs and makeup are encouraged as runners will be running in mind and in tune to boom boxes blasting MJ's greatest hits. Meet at Prospect Park West & 9th Street. [Kensington Brooklyn Blog]

A new deli in Clinton Hill promises breakfast, cold beer, juices and a heaping dose of change as its chosen name lets us assume. The Obama Deli & Grocery, open 24 hours of course, joins the ranks of a few other popular and/or hated area establishments and ideas like Obama Fried Chicken and Hop Obama. [Clinton Hill Blog]

The organizers of the ever-popular Brooklyn Flea took a sampling of the chatter around their weekly fire sale of homemade goods, and no surprise, the tweeple loved the food! [Brownstoner]

Gothamist got an early look at P.S. 1's summertime design set-up, built this year by the architectural firm MOD for the Long Island City museum's Young Architect's Program. They say, "it suggests something out of the 1968 movie 'Planet of the Apes,'" built of "towering hut-like structures" that not only look cool but somehow cool you down in the process. [Gothamist]

The corporately hip viral overlords at Carl's Jr. and Hardee's burger chain are looking for videos of 18-30 year old girls eating burgers. It's all part of an upcoming marketing campaign that promises $1,000 and a trip to Vegas, alongside all that potential Internet fame that could come along with the side of fries. [Craigslist; Eater]