16 October 2002

  • New York's currently: gloomy
  • Virginia sniper left clues this time, was noticed by witnesses; Pentagon to deploy surveillance planes.
  • Illinois Prisoner Review Board starts back-to-back clemency hearings for many of the state's 159 death row inmates.
  • Attention wedding planners: Etiquette allows for the bride's father to dress like Darth Vader, because it will be funny.
  • Aperture mounts citywide celebration for 50th anniversary (visit the official site).
  • Arthur Andersen to be sentenced today.
  • Modern Humorist to run un-seen TV at the Knitting Factory this month, mostly pilots that never made it on-air, with writers like Conan O'Brien, Dana Gould, Judd Aptatow, and Ben Karlin.
  • Governor candidate Golisano wants medical marijuana legalized in New York.
  • Cute: Traumatic Halloweens. [via ds]
  • Related to yesterday's story, a review of The Fourth Star, a behind-the-scenes take on NYC restaurant Daniel, reveals restaurant uses hidden cameras to track customers.
  • Organic products go official on Monday, with two labels: 'certified organic' and 'made with organic ingredients.'
  • Chekhov will survive the adulation of his admirers, and the limitations inadvertently placed on him by such homage direct our attention to the gigantic range of his intelligence. Valentine to Chekhov as genius, beyond range of biographer.
  • Former Imitation of Christ designer and founder calls the label a one-trick pony, now DJs with, you guessed it!, Paul Sevigny.
  • It was unlike anything the village of Emmonak had ever experienced: All over town salmon berries, blackberries and blueberries were disappearing from freezers. 'We knew something fishy was happening,' said Darlene Andrews. Berries go traded for pot. [via ir]
  • Will someone please just go ahead and send Kevin to college?