15 April 2003

  • New York's currently: rethinking that third donut
  • PSA: You are fucked if your taxes are not in today.
  • NBC to develop a movie about Pfc. Jessica Lynch, with or without her permission.
  • Bloomberg's budget plan, to be revealed today, to close the Prospect Park and Queens Zoos.
  • TMN contributing writer Clay Risen reports on Inwood's musicians in the Times.
  • Sting opens home to hedgehogs (fifth item down).
  • City has $100 million plan for developing downtown Brooklyn.
  • John Baldino bears cross along Route 17 for Lent.
  • We frikkin' knew it: Roy Williams leaves Kansas to coach U.N.C.
  • You're free. And freedom is beautiful. And, you know, it'll take time to restore chaos and order. Recent Bushisms.
  • Booklet in Beijing says 'SARS Is Not Terrible,' disease can be avoided by eating right and hand-washing.
  • Profile of the animal rights activist who killed Pim Fortuyn, now off to jail for 18 years.
  • Various and sundry jobs on the railroad.
  • Quitman County, Mississippi, suing the state because its court can't provide defense for the defendants.
  • W.E.B. DuBois's The Souls of Black Folk published 100 years ago this month.
  • Here is one small good thing. And what we need now from people is lots of small good things, because the big things are in a terrible bloody mess. Matthew Branton's new novel The Tie and the Crest available for free as a download. (As to why he's giving it away, see here.)
  • France plagued by dramatic jailbreaks.
  • Christian broadcasters quite excited at chance for conversions in Iraq.
  • National inventory of pub interiors of outstanding heritage interest. [ thanks coudal ]