2 November 2005

  • New York's currently: breezy, cool, and working its tail off
  • CIA operates overseas secret prison system to house and interrogate captives.
  • Dems force Senate into secret session, demanding promised inquiry into prewar intelligence (like Cheney and Scooter's lost papers).
  • Yankees warn A-Rod to stop visiting illicit poker dens.
  • Sudoku fans, be warned: there's a new grid on the block.
  • Pro-China selections from the unauthorized Chinese translation of Bill Clinton's memoir.
  • Legendary L.A. art garage to be torn down (more photos here, plus Curbed LA-style).
  • Man who survived a Golden Gate jump advocates suicide barrier. See also Tad Friend's old, great story.
  • They say I can turn into a bat. I can, but not very well. Jack Handey's personal legends.
  • Paris suburbs roiled by six nights of violence.
  • Newspapers are a daily miracle--in the case of New Orleans and the Picayune, the miracle is rebuilding.
  • Camilla visits Manhattan and catches flak from Diana lovers.
  • New York chefs--joyful Ripert and Ducasse, furious Boulud and Batali--react to Michelin stars.
  • Peter Hertzmann's elaborate method for planning a meal, whether for 200 or six.
  • Daniel Mendelsohn on the disappointments and subtle art of Capote.
  • Everyone Who's Anyone--the Gerard Jones effort to list every publishing and film contact--draws Universal's ire.
  • This week in Nature: Darwin and Einstein's correspondence resembled email; AIDS drugs applied as gel may prevent HIV.
  • BBC cries because Ricky Gervais will now be doing films.
  • I want to do [blank] with the internet--a list of web resources.
  • All's cool until the baby starts to come out.
  • Video: Every Halloween in Lexington, Ky, they recreate "Thriller."