4 June 2003

New York's currently: handing out demerits

Is the city making up for its fiscal shortcomings by issuing more tickets? Yeah, probably. Will you quit jaywalking? Yeah, probably not.

Martha Stewart expected to be indicted today.

New Yorkers self-medicate with a range of pharmaceuticals.

Embattled Field Day festival in Long Island may now change venues.

Joshua Allen and Kevin Fanning go soda, pop, and Coke with a beverages blog.

Chloë Sevigny's onscreen blowjob notwithstanding, Vincent Gallo's Brown Bunny roundly disliked at Cannes. Roger Ebert: 'The worst film in the history of the festival.' Gallo: 'They booed me because I'm willing to be unpopular.'

This weekend's barbecue better not wind up like this: 'with the repeated stabbing of one man in the bottom with a skewer.'

Dallas’s Highland Park welcomes its first African-American family.

'In this environment they are not going to make it because there are too many good little restaurants on every corner that offer better food than these places.' They obviously haven't had Red Lobster’s Cheddar Bay biscuits: Family-style fast-food invades Manhattan.

Teaching condors raised in captivity how to behave.

Bachelorette party mistakes police officer for stripper. [via os]