Video Digest: October 27, 2006
Hell House: Right-wing haunted houses, where hell is real; Tim Curry lighten Halloween; Slight deflation for “The Wire”; Cost-efficient costumes.
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27 October 2006
Violence against women in Iraq, Somalia, Afghanistan increases. Wall Street workers hard-working, hard-drinking, therapy-adverse "Ice Men." Not to put on any labels. Emilio Estevez totally, like, crushes on Tony Blair. South Park perhaps "too soon" to mock Steve Irwin. It could be a
iPod Etiquette
We have something important to discuss. Are you listening? Oh, seriously, will you take out your earphones? Yes, both of them.
Bring Me the Head of Mickey Rooney
Staff changes are announced at the world’s most famous magazine, and Drew is handed the axe and told to swing it.
26 October 2006
We'll assume he's making that face because it's his evil twin brother. A profile of the Seigneur of Sark, the "last independent feudal state in the world." Photos: South African women wearing traditional shwe shwe textiles. Comme c'est choquant: French
As Reviewed by My Mother
We occasionally invite guests to review the best songs we’ve discovered that week while surfing around the mp3-blog universe. This week, I invited my mother. Ann Baldwin loves music new and old but doesn’t pay much attention to what the PR people are shilling. As she told
25 October 2006
New York's High Line no longer to include a Dia gallery at the bottom of the steps. Already we have one very good reason to be excited for Christmas in New York. New NFL plan means teams play one game overseas every eight years, for what that'
Ghostly Ruins
Harry Skrdla has a wistful eye for old mansions and giant hospitals that have fallen on hard times. Here he tours a country of ruins in the making.
24 October 2006
Pretty brilliant: Headlines & News. A look at Japan's right-wing uyoku movement, who blast rhetoric from loudspeaker-armed trucks all hours of the day--and night. (Photos here.) In South Africa, where 83 percent of the population is religious, and one in five adults are living with
Closed Heart Surgery
Going under the knife is an arduous, lonely experience, and anyone who will share your pain is welcome. But Donald Rumsfeld? Finding an unlikely medical companion in the Defense secretary.