28 July 2003
By The Morning News
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New York's currently: smokestack lightning
Bob Hope dies at 100.
New York City opening the first high school for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender students.
Brooklyn gains renewed interest as a tourist attraction.
For second time in three years, Straphanger's Campaign ranks 5 train the worst in the city.
London temple dig finds sealed Roman cosmetics, still bearing the fingerprints of the last person who used them.
13. 'We are not welcome in French Restaurants.' Why should we be? We are supposed to eat in army messes. Every meal we might eat in a French restaurant would use up just that much food from the Frenchmen's limited supply. '112 Gripes about the French,' published in 1945 by the U.S. Occupation Forces in Paris to combat complaints harbored by Americans about the French.
The Saturday morning TV schedule in 1974 because, well, why not. Including The New Adventures of Gilligan, should you need coaxing.
Updike on Emerson.
And because it could be done: A cake decorated to look like a hamburger.
Scallops and redheads, apparently.
Literary bar jokes, for the Joyce in you and the drinkers that are your friends.
