We Didn’t Start the Fire
The winter 2006 tour journal of the Piano Men, North America’s only five-member Billy Joel tribute band.
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Me Write Book
It’s not easy being the world’s favorite frigid hominid, especially when your existential problems are worse than most college sophomores’. Me Write Book, It Bigfoot Memoir, by TMN favorite Graham Roumieu, is a very funny and wonderfully illustrated little book, reminiscent of The Very Persistent Gappers of Fripp
6 February 2006
New York's currently: got the face on--even when it doesn't mean to Two die in Afghan cartoon protest; Protesters torch the Danish embassy in Beirut. Annie Proulx: Film can be more powerful than the written word. ABC cancels Acting With The Stars. Feudal schism between
Would You Like Havarti With Those Freedom Fries?
Embassies have been torched, several people have died, ignorance flows from all corners—all for a few cartoons less intelligible than your average “Cathy” strip.
3 February 2006
New York's currently: crushing on its mayor Militants issue threats, Muslim anger erupts over Muhammad cartoons--which newspapers continue to reprint. Q&A: Why you're not supposed to depict Muhammad in a cartoon. Two car bombs explode in Baghdad market, killing 16 and wounding 90.
Way to Go
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we have your answer for the next time somebody asks you how, when your number is finally up, you want to go.
The New World
Terrence Malick’s The New World isn’t for everyone, but if you liked The Thin Red Line or, for that matter, Koyaanisqatsi, you’ll appreciate this very strange, very beautiful film. Newcomer Q’orianka Kilcher is beguiling and breathtaking as Pocahontas-cum-Rebecca, and Colin Farrell, as John Smith,
2 February 2006
New York's currently: toasting world peace, always Remember Sharon? He's still in a coma, and now he has a feeding tube in his stomach. Kenya's government has spent more than $12 million on new cars since 2002. Profile of Johnny Dang, Houston's
One Possible Outcome of Super Bowl XL
The predictions have been made, the spreads have been laid. So who will reign supreme on Sunday? Anything is possible.
Blur, “Blur”
When Blur effectively defeated Oasis in the Britpop wars, it was because of its self-titled album. In the years leading up to its 1997 release, the two bands had traded numerous barbs in interviews—criticizing each other’s for-realness, letting loose accusations of having repackaged yet another era