Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam — better known as M.I.A. — is both rebel and scholar, educator and trickster, masterfully courting controversy. She just grabbed headlines by tweeting a New York Times writer's phone number. But what message is she sending?

On Twitter today, Solange Knowles remarked on Nylon magazine's bright-white cover lineup: "Just realizing ive never seen a black girl on the COVER of @NylonMag and its one of my fave mag's EVER! Can we fix that please?" Fair criticism?

Subscribe to Nylon? You won't get issues in the mail anymore, unless you call and ask. You'll get a digital issue. They call this "reducing your carbon footprint," but isn't it really just slashing their budget? [Missbehave]

• Brad Pitt's mom was supposed to move into the Long Island estate where the posse is staying while Angelina Jolie films Salt, but Angelina has reportedly nixed the idea.

• A Brazilian model I've never heard of left her new agency to go back to her old agency and now it's war. Here she is. Fuck, the Peloponnesian broke out over less, right? Or was that one about democracy and self-determination? Whatever; it's on between Elite and Next. [Page Six]
  
• The bitter battle over the rights to …

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