11 April 2006

  • New York's currently: hoping some kid and her friends are reading this, thinking, man, we can do better than that
  • Man believed to be Sicilian Mafia chief arrested after 40 years on the run.
  • Bush dismisses the report, but according to Hersh, war is very much in discussion to stop Tehran, and it could include nukes.
  • Considering the theories for war given Hersh's bombshell.
  • Fallows: A military strike against Iran would be our worst option.
  • Iranian lawyer describes reading her own death sentence.
  • ABC puts some shows--e.g., Lost and Desperate Housewives--online for free.
  • A remarkable story of rehearing Mahler's ninth and much more.
  • Electronica for Passover.
  • Video: Chaiyya Chaiyya.
  • Twenty-five percent of married Syrian women have been beaten.
  • Wal-Mart applies--for the fourth time--to open its own bank.
  • Chavez's people's militia: defending Venezuela against a U.S. invasion, or protecting Chavez from his own army?
  • Day in the life of a New York coke dealer.
  • Profile of the Museum of Natural History's diorama chief.
  • Long the satellite office of many New Yorkers, the Public Library's main branch has a new bag policy.
  • "Prius backlash" faces L.A. hybrid drivers going slow in the carpool lane.
  • Today in the ToB: Zombie-fun as Womack decides between Lipsyte and Smith!
  • Talking set design and graphic arts with Rachel Thomas.
  • Graphic sex gets Brokeback Mountain banned from Massachusetts prison.
  • Mailbag: Al Qaeda may not take Peck.
  • Zines, catalogued.
  • Video: Glass removed from doors, people seem confused.