1 May 2006

  • New York's currently: grape crazy!
  • Deadline for Darfur peace agreement passes with no accord.
  • Kadima signs up Shas for coalition government in Israel (by leaving evacuating settlements off the table).
  • White House plan to lower gas prices won't do much, says White House.
  • Even Limbaugh feels whored by Republican $100 coupon plan.
  • Candid camera catches Dennis Hastert ditching hydrogen-fueled car for his SUV.
  • Pissed off about gas prices? Blame your rich trader buddies.
  • Who decides when the flag should go half-mast? You do.
  • Due to bugle player shortage, Pentagon purchased hundreds of "Taps" emulators.
  • Bush reserves the right to be above 750 laws.
  • Video: Black person visits Aspen. See also, Colbert visits the Correspondents' Dinner.
  • Whether choking on chicken or saving lives, celebrities have an alarming amount of Heimlich moments.
  • Rocks in Your Head record store no longer able to afford Soho rent, moving to Williamsburg.
  • The history of the proverbial "little guy."
  • Packer: If only the logic of desperation--a period of separation between groups, perhaps?--for some wisdom in Iraq right now.
  • Free Berkeley classes on iTunes; MoMA podcasts to guide your art walks.
  • Robots as included in fine art.
  • So the joke goes: Eighty people in royal blue polos walk into a Manhattan Best Buy.
  • Details behind the brother-on-brother civil war to succeed in Hasidic Williamsburg.
  • Texas Ranch House hits the airwaves tonight.
  • The truth behind Opus Dei's Manhattan headquarters: it's a non-campy frat house, they swear.
  • Sedaris: Being dead for 300 years, there's a lot a skeleton doesn't understand.
  • In the '80s, this sport had a very serious cocaine problem--and that was a pretty consistent pattern. The incredible, terrible chronology of Steve Howe's life.
  • Video: Top 10 ping pong shots.