9 January 2006

  • New York's currently: feeling weird with somebody else's words in its mouth
  • U.S. copter crash in Iraq kills 12.
  • Growing rapidly, diabetes claims 800,000 New Yorkers, now considered an epidemic.
  • Cheney retaining fluids.
  • Turkey considers smoking ban in a country where smokers include 60 percent of men, 20 percent of women, and 11.7 percent of schoolchildren.
  • Ten informed takes on Sharon, e.g., tragic O.J. Simpson figure, or revered like Thomas Jefferson.
  • Bubbling among evangelical Christians, "philo-Semitism," or "Love those Jews!," a concept Jews are wary about.
  • Evangelicals just wish Pat Robertson would shut up.
  • Guantánamo Bay hunger strikers are force-fed through tubes, says camp's chief doctor.
  • Two Iron Age bog bodies, beheaded and dismembered, tastefully remembered.
  • Taping two pennies to your envelopes is discouraged.
  • Cinematic fantasies of disaster feel more flippant than ever. Anthony Lane on the year in film.
  • Walking tour of scuzzy downtown Manhattan, circa 1974-84.
  • New David Byrne radio stream.
  • Brownstones (listed by Corcoran) in Park Slope now average $3.35 million.
  • New Yorkers: in case you missed "Mulchfest," you can recycle your Christmas tree until Saturday.
  • Father of LSD, which he calls his "problem child," worries we're losing touch with nature.
  • 76-year-old performance artist arrested after attacking Duchamp's "Fountain."
  • Funniest food videos of the past year, and the 200 books that sold best.
  • Dedicated to DFW, how to kill a lobster.
  • The public JT Leroy officially unmasked, though the part of "writer" is still up for grabs.
  • Video: French maids explain how to video podcast.