[Lights demarcating where the twin towers of the World Trade Center used to stand glow through the New York skyline in preparation for the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11th attacks tomorrow. Image via Getty]

No matter how good they are, musicals are always pretty cheesy. So how's the country going to deal with Clear Blue Tuesday? The new rock movie gives the song-and-dance treatment to the most sanctified event in recent American history: 9/11.

Both supporters and opponents of the "Ground Zero" "Mosque"—a proposed community center—held rallies in lower Manhattan today. Can you guess which side started chanting "no mosque here" at a black guy wandering through the crowd?

"If we let 'em build it, well can't you see, they'll turn 9/11 to a mockery," sings Trade Martin in this anti-Ground Zero Mosque song, cleverly titled, "We've Got To Stop The Mosque At Ground Zero." Yes, this is real.

[Workers examine the remnants of an 18th century ship found 20 or 30 feet below Ground Zero during construction. The ship is 30 feet long and believed to be from the mid-1700s.] (Pic Getty)

NBC and CBS yesterday (wisely) rejected a demented National Republican Trust PAC ad called "Kill the Ground Zero Mosque." But did the PAC really intend to buy air time, or was it a stunt to raise money online? Doesn't matter.

[A woman takes in the view of Ground Zero from the 20th floor terrace of the World Center Hotel, the first new hotel to overlook the World Trade Center site since 2001. Image via Getty]

A Manhattan Community Board will back a plan for a Muslim community center near the WTC site. Angry people gathered to protest the Muslim plot to provide a "500-seat performing arts center, a culinary school, [and] a swimming pool." [NYT]

In September 2001, miscarriages for male fetuses rose 12% over the average across the country, possibly due to "communal bereavement" and stress over the World Trade Center attacks. There is basically nothing that 9/11 didn't just utterly mess up. [NYDN]

It's been such a long wait for all of us! But at last, the World Trade Centre is nearly ready for its opening day. In just a few months, it will be a proud day for all of us in Bahrain. How will this World Trade Centre be different from, um, New York's?

This may be what we'll be talking about for the next ten years: "Condé Nast Publications chief operating officer John Bellando said Friday that the company may construct a new office tower at Hudson Yards in Manhattan." They're in with Vornado and the Durst Organization, which owns the 1.6-million square foot 4 Times…

Architect Lebbeus Woods on his 1999 drawing of a dammed and dug-out Lower Manhattan: "Le Corbusier was totally misunderstood by New Yorkers who thought, oh, our buildings aren't tall enough—we've got to go higher! Of course, he wasn't interested at all in their height—more in their plan relationship.... New York is…

For various reasons, we got lost in the Gawker archives last night. So what happened on this day in years gone by?

This weekend's Financial Times contained an absolutely mammoth article about Larry Silverstein, and the developer, who took over a 99-year lease on the Twin Towers a scant two months before they were brought down, could not have hoped for a more glowing profile.

Found in the local store: These nifty "deluxe filter masks," made in China and designed, we assume from the packaging, for when the World Trade Center falls down again. That will come in so handy! (I bought all of them, so guess you're all screwed.)