The Green Ghost of Sleepy Hollow
The Kinderhook area of New York is famously haunted. Though is it only by our own thoughts, or from something altogether different? Memories of home turn up the family spirits.
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25 October 2005
New York's currently: soggy In Baghdad, three car bombs detonate near hotels popular with foreigners, but fail to get past barbed wire. White House seeks to create loophole, wants CIA employees exempt from new measure to cease inhumane treatment of prisoners in U.S. custody. Bush names Ben
Lamb’s Pride Wool
Practiced knitters work one season ahead, planning spring sweaters in February and summer shrugs in April, which is why I’m making mittens in October. The best thing about fall knitting is wool, and my new mittens are going to be made of Lamb’s Pride wool from Nebraska’s
Semester’s End
It’s Elisabeth Eckleman’s first year of college, and she has a lot of tough choices to make. In this installment, Elisabeth is hit with some unexpected news, and she’s faced with her most important decision yet.
24 October 2005
New York's currently: singing happy birthday Wilma comes ashore in southwestern Florida at 125 mph, a Category 3 storm. 15,000 people left homeless by the storm in Mexico. Counterterrorism experts confused by White House "top 10 foiled plots" when serious threats are neighbors to half-
Preview of What Is It?
I have now watched the Quicktime preview to Crispin Glover’s self-made, low-budget movie What Is It? at least a dozen times. Crispin is dressed like a chorus member from a high school musical version of Lord of the Rings, there are more naked women in masks than
21 October 2005
New York's currently: squeezing in all the tennis it can get U.N. says top Syrian and Lebanese officials killed former prime minister Rafiq Hariri (click here for PDF report). Congress finally gives the gun industry a giant shield. Derogatory stereotypes banned at school, including offensive images of
Lone Star Statements
The praise of professional critics hardly matters to the book-reviewing readers at Amazon.com. A compilation of the best of the worst... about the best.
Carl’s Cars
Carl’s Cars is a “magazine about people,” but hey, aren’t they all? What makes this Norwegian publication different is hard to nail down. Sure, there’s a fashionable streak of one-upmanship about it—with winsome girls folding skinny legs into the crushed velour interiors of cars built
New York Changing
How much do the faces of New York City—the buildings, the bridges, the stores—change in 70 years? An interview with photographer Douglas Levere, who rephotographed Berenice Abbott’s pictures of 1930s New York, plus a gallery of startling images.