12 January 2005
By The Morning News
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New York's currently: home to people besides Pete Hamill
15 confirmed dead from storms in California with a dozen still missing in La Conchita.
Indonesia invites foreign advice to help solve 28-year rebellion in disaster-hit Aceh region--but will the military permit foreign intervention?
AirTrain to JFK is a big hit with fliers, not so with airport workers.
I hope you kill every man, woman and child in Iraq, down to the lizards. Borat from Ali G entertains a rodeo, almost gets killed.
Abu Ghraib detainees describe torture.
The hunt for banned weapons in Iraq has quietly stopped; September report contradicting nearly all prewar assertions to stand as final census.
Essence begins 12-month campaign to protest misogyny in hip-hop (see artists' and executives' comments, frankly missing the point).
Alert to audiophiles: Reel-to-reel tape is dying! Secure as much Quantegy tape as possible!
In Most Likely To Succeed, Anne Curzan, editor of the Journal of English Linguistics, nominated crunk. Linguists gather, select word of the year.
Wonderful New York photos by Peter Hujar, at Matthew Marks.
Women in their mid-30s freeze their eggs as an insurance policy, though the thawing-out process is still in development.
Turn any iPod into an iPod Shuffle, though bear in mind there are different rules for Brits and Americans.
(Some) Italians feel (some) New Yorkers' pain as national smoking ban is enforced; man fined for "normal" cigarette after coffee.
The next year of film festivals in New York.
Sneak preview--on Mahler and Strauss--of Alex Ross's forthcoming book on 20th-century music.
Engineer who will build Christo's "Gates" is a bundle of nerves; wife complains sex comes second to conceptual art.
