8 May 2003

New York's currently: packing emergency galoshes

'I don't know, Bono said lots of nice things about me.' Smoking ban, increased transit fares, rising rents: Mayor Bloomber's approval rating plummets.

Georgia's state flag, a perennial controversy, replaced for second time in two years.

Massapequa, Long Island, High School baseball players suspended after hitting a strip club in Florida on Spring Break.

Roger Moore collapses on New York stage.

Booyakasha: Maureen Dowd has an Ali G transcript and little else.

Inferno blazes next to Coudal office, while Metafilter discussion roars firey breath alongside.

Real-live British caped crusader steals our childhood dreams. (And our hearts.)

How to design a really good Satanic Web page.

Roger Dean, Yes album illustrator, is an extraordinary architect who we hope will one day build us a summer home. Related (sort of): Tony Blair likes King Crimson.

Andrew Womack's take on The Secret of Elena's Tomb, the new EP from ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead.

I hated you. Not as much as the customers who threatened to come and twat me when the doors were opened, but I still hated you. Crappy jobs, collected.

One Love Story: the Oasis-Stone Roses conspiracy theory. Related: a more condensed version.

Adam Gopnik on the rebel comedians of the late-'50s and early '60s.