21 May 2004

  • New York's currently: spring and summer cleaning
  • American and Iraqi forces raid former favorite and WMD accuser Ahmad Chalabi's Baghdad HQ in investigation of employee wrongdoing and possible espionage with Iran.
  • The rising and falling political life of Ahmad Chalabi.
  • Survivors of strike that left 40 Iraqis dead say the U.S. attacked a wedding; U.S. claims it was really a smuggling operation.
  • You will know the trail of paper: Memos since 2001 outline ways to circumvent prisoner rights and signed memo from October widened allowable interrogation methods in Iraq.
  • Video, more photos, more accounts, more abuse from Abu Ghraib.
  • Expanded Transit Authority rules may include ban on unauthorized picture-taking in subways, buses, and trains.
  • Oregon lawyer arrested in connection with Madrid bombings released from custody, remains a material witness.
  • Nick Hornby listens to rock music, even if he should be ashamed to be doing that, at his age.
  • 'Well, you can get very pretentious about soup!' Ex-KLF member Bill Drummond and master of the prank now making soup for people.
  • Man fatally shot in the head on a busy midtown street; strangely, Candice Bergen and Lorraine Bracco are on the scene.
  • City shows support for the not-so-famous parks of New York.
  • British spies: female spies not to use sex for secrets and suicide pigeon attacks.
  • Taboo Tunes watches controversy and censorship in music, and has an exhibit of some of the most venomous perpetrators.
  • 'Cue the taxicabs to be flung about like puny toys.' On making a truly great New York disaster film.
  • Photography from Jason Santa Maria: at the Cornell House and spending Halloween in Laurel Hill Cemetery.