28 August 2002

New York's currently: gleaming the cube

Michael Skakel to be sentenced today in Norwalk. Related: 'Behind the Scenes: The Skakel Trial.'

Andersen will pay $40 million to Enron shareholders.

'We didn't want to come in right away, so we just put it in a bag in a bucket. It'd been out there awhile. What's a couple of hours?' Human head fished out of Atlantic by Florida anglers. [thanks kn]

'N sane! Looks like 'N Sync's Lance Bass will really be 'n space 'n two months! 'N conceivable!

A history of Williamsburg, Brooklyn’s, McCarren Park. [thanks rb]

CBS is bringing back The Beverly Hillbillies – as a reality show. Will they still have to call the pool the 'cement pond?'

A crusade against S.U.V.s from Car Talk’s Click and Clack: 'Everyone knows that S.U.V.s are big, they block everyone's view, they get five miles to the gallon, they roll over and kill people, and when you get hit by one the bumper comes right in your window and takes your head off.'

Of U.S. cities, New York and San Francisco win finalist spots for 2012 Summer Olympics. Great Lawn at Central Park would probably make a perfect shot-put course fairway.

New York band of destruction Black Dice grow wiser, develop their sound, and love cats.

German scientists find traces of substance in coffee that some say causes cancer.

You've seen Twenty-Four Hour Party People, now read a brief history of Joy Division.

What Dennis is currently listening to.

The only war being fought is within the GOP.

No tears, no tears, Apple users: but the 'Happy Mac' icon is gone.

It's like a really well-appointed, well-decorated version of Melrose Place: Nicole Kidman buys a West-Village condo: …her neighbors – a hard-to-impress residential crowd that includes domestic defendant Martha Stewart, Calvin Klein, Rita Schrager (ex-wife of hotelier Ian), chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten…