27 January 2003

New York's currently: amazed at what's possible in small apartments

U.S. prepared to wage war, alone if necessary, despite results of today's U.N. report., Powell says.

With no help in the White House or Congress, environmentalists find success in the courts.

New York's best comedy theater, Upright Citizens Brigade, shut down in Chelsea. (related: Mirth of a Nation party tonight at Blue Smoke.)

Everybody waited with bated breath for the terror to be over. Then, from the very heart of the band room, the noise began. Marching band fan fiction.

The Atlantic puts together a far more interesting and thought-provoking State of the Union than anything you'll see tomorrow night.

In case you forgot, New York landmarks to have new names with corporate sponsorship.

Marine allowed to postpone duty until service on American Idol is completed.

New Zealand cows cloned to make cheese faster.

Teddy Roosevelt wished Dante had seen the Bowery. Related: 8 short stories about architecture.

The pleasure of marriage is being able to finally stop having sex.

Visits with New York street vendors.

Anthony Lane on Lost in La Mancha and The Guru.

It's sort of the American way to go up and down the ladder, maybe several times in a lifetime. And I've had a real long up--along the way my heels being bitten at for various reasons, maybe perfectionism, or maybe exactitude, or something. And now I've had a long way down. Martha Stewart on a scandal out of her control.

Leave it to the Chicago Tribune: Literature inspired by coldness.