Great movies in children’s hands: Convincing Jaws made by 12-year-olds; “Star Wars” doctored with other James Earl Joneses; Spiders in the hands of narcotics; Pierced water balloon convinces you you’re the one on drugs; Drunk driver pulls Fosse steps; and some jumping ducks, just because.
In apparent terror attack, a rocket explodes inside the U.S. embassy in Athens. U.S. officials confirm no top terror figures were killed in Somalia raids. Negroponte: Al Qaeda is rebuilding in Pakistan. It acknowledged failure, though it dodged accountability for that failure by the standard device of assuming
Artists to console Canadians by memorializing the 26 victims of a notorious serial killer. It's about time for Muslims to laugh at themselves. Little Mosque on the Prairie debuts in Canada. Cheap nosejobs should probably be avoided in Cairo. Eleven-thousand Indian constables soon to be trained by
University of Michigan drops affirmative action in the middle of the admissions process for next year's freshmen. The road to college football starts at the U.S. Army National Combine. D.C. construction worker fell four stories to his death. Authorities unclear on why he was naked. When
Bush to boost troops in Iraq by 20,000 for a fight that's not "open-ended," yet not a sign of "stepping back." Bush on Iraq is either resolute or delusional, but he only has one new idea. One small note: Bush vows to
Our story thus far: editor Drew Barrymore, who has been in an on-again, off-again relationship with reporter Vince Vaughn, is friends with copy editor Keira Knightley (who is smitten with sportswriter Matthew McConaughey)—that is, until a night of tequila shots.
Somebody is bugging American defense contractors' pocket change, but we're not pointing fingers, Canada. Brilliant: The Feltron 2006 Annual Report. Ten percent of the population experiences heart palpitations when the creator of Lost talks about the new Star Trek movie he's filming. The vaginal photoplethysmograph
Four short memories of youth inspired by music randomly selected from the Hype Machine’s most popular tracks, January 10, 2007: “Black Wave, Bad Vibrations,” the Arcade Fire I left for college determined to be a new person: smarter and more interesting. Behind me I’d leave the corpse of
How we think about an increase in the minimum wage depends on whether we're the ones paying it or the ones being paid--and the answers aren't so obvious. "The East Coast... did not warm nearly as much as rest of globe over the 20th
Our man from the north country toasts the new year by conversing with the novelist and editor about her thoughts on the state of therapy, storytelling, and the novel.
