Wal-Mart brings back "Merry Christmas" while Best Buy stands firm behind "Happy Holidays." Diagnose your own tone-deafness. Everything you'd ever wanted to know about American women and guns but were afraid to ask. The illustrated history of folding chairs. Italian trains can&
Can warm colors and personal crisis be political? Can drawings cure artist's block? Tom Burckhardt burns, drowns, and mourns the canvas—but never paints on it.
Sarah and Brad Pitt, sitting in a tree: The many faces of Pitt, from “Dallas” to Pringles commercials, with a little “Fight Club” ditty thrown in; Bernal and the girls who love him; Faith Hill turns upset at losing; The perverted history of cinema can’t compete with “Growing Pains.”
Ann Coulter alleged to have voted in the wrong Palm Beach precinct to avoid acknowledging her address. Tungsten addicts--as in, everyone--should hope China never stops exporting. Libel tourism: When wealthy foreigners sue American writers and publishers in England. Your favorite Flak Magazine, now available as Flak radio. It&
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we reveal how George W. Bush will nickname every one of his new, non-Republican buddies in Congress.
It's National Fig Month, according to the Dull Men's Club. From car bombs in Baghdad to food pantries in Brooklyn. Not everybody is giggling at Madonna. He boasted in his memoirs that if he went down in espionage history, it should be for perfecting the use
Who says non-believers can’t get frisky like the faithful? Secular countries may be suffering declining populations, but atheists still have all the fun.
It’s November, and it’s raining in Brooklyn. Unlike almost every other day, music didn’t feel quite right on the way to the subway. At least none of what I scrolled through on my iPod. Of its many extrasensory qualities, something profound about music is its ability to
Rumsfeld resigns, to be replaced by former CIA chief Robert Gates; Montana is called for Democrat Tester. The official "Rumsfeld Rules," pragmatic advice from the man himself on how to survive in Washington [PDF]. The Democracy Now interview with Bernie Sanders, the first socialist ever elected to the
Home to past rock festivals, model villages, and other dinosaurs, this wedge in the English Channel makes for an inviting family vacation.
