17 May 2011: Morning By The Morning News — 17 May 2011 In LA, hybrid vehicle drivers won't be allowed to drive solo in carpool lanes after July 1. New York's six Lexus hybrid cabs don't outearn their Crown Vic counterparts, and their drivers don't care. First the crabs find you, then maybe a shark: What happens when you're buried at sea. Texans fight for the right to catch catfish by hand. John Wayne is a meaner son of a bitch in Red River. The 10 best Texas films. How to make baseball more fun: Schedule a fan to get drunk and run onto the field. It was wise of Major League Baseball to combine this sort of sentimental moment with mass speculative litigation. The creative marketing behind international touring orchestra names. Rapper Earl Sweatshirt wants fans to stop harassing his mom for not letting him be in Odd Future. For real narrative power, Philip Graham chooses Rube Goldberg machines over the classic triangle. This 1891 Atlantic profile of Tolstoy reads like an Austen chapter. Amazonian rise of unpublished adult children's book, Go the Fuck to Sleep, raises questions of piracy, publicity, and pre-sales. What your literary tote bag says about you. Endangered New York storefronts for a Tuesday morning.
