5 December 2002

  • New York's currently: enjoying its first real snow
  • Presidents Washington through Bush may have lied about key matters.
  • World's most expensive cocktail goes for $64 at the top of the new Trump World Tower. Investment manager, after sipping drink, comments, 'In New York, you don't think of expense.'
  • Surprise to Americans, Jamie Oliver was a mockney gobshite at home until his new show re-won U.K. hearts.
  • Difficult task: Afghanistan's Karzai to build a national army over the next year.
  • Shopping still a hot topic in contemporary art, especially when featuring the Hermes Crispy Chicken Deluxe.
  • U.S. becoming less popular around the world. Related: Palestinians switch from Marlboro to Gauloises, but keep drinking Coke.
  • U.K. woman uses sheep to create poetry and explain quantum mechanics.
  • Pleasantville cop cleared in wife-killing case after forensics shows she died from bleeding in her coronary artery, not his hands.
  • Laurel Nakadate's show 'We Are All Made of Stars' opens tonight, featuring videos of her and strange men. Read her four-day diary on putting together the art and the show.
  • L.A. district attorney wants Wynona to do community service, stop using aliases like 'Emily Thompson,' allow cops to search her house at any time, and probably cut down on the painkillers Ms. Thompson requires.
  • We are what we wear, and we prefer to wear uniforms. On a personal note, we'd like those uniforms to soon exclude mesh-backed caps worn at a not-so-rakish tilt.
  • Bill Moyers guns after Bill O'Reilly with a newspaper ad.
  • Full-screen diving.
  • VICE's don'ts are still very funny.