Doing the Date
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week we come to the aid of a confused, heartbroken Romeo with a story of her someone else’s troubles in dating.
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Bootlegging
Those DVDs you see all over New York, the ones the guys sell on the sidewalk – with the Xeroxed covers and all that – the ones you walk by and wonder, How do they already have Starsky & Hutch on DVD? You know those. They work, you should know. Bet that
18 March 2004
New York's currently: frozen green puddles NATO troops head into Kosovo as violence swells again. Related: The region's history of Serbian-Albanian conflict during the late '90s. Car bomb levels Baghdad hotel, 27 dead. Deeming the U.S. occupation of Iraq a 'fiasco,'
All the King's Men
The king of Albania always has a seat at Sam's Place on 39th Street, which is more than he can say for his home country.
Mixmaster
Wow! I totally agree with what that no-name singer said about Liz Phair! I feel the same way! I was basically as good as Beck in the early ‘90s. Sure, I wish I’d written ‘Loser,’ but it’s not like I used distortion on my guitar or anything.
17 March 2004
New York's currently: on a three hour tour, a three hour tour U.S. gives $5,000 and apologies to families of civilian casualties in Iraq. Members wavering, Bush pleading, Iraq coalition threatening to come undone: Netherlands, Honduras, El Savador, Guatemala may pull troops after June. Ski resorts
That's All I’m Going to Say for Now
An ill-planned duck hunting trip sours under the media scrutiny. Justice Scalia makes a firm statement, and our writer tails him through a day of saying not much else.
16 March 2004
New York's currently: snowing in the face of spring Whether Al Qaeda or not, Madrid bombers employ same tactics; is Spanish PM-elect Zapatero's vow to withdraw Iraq troops a form of appeasement to terrorists? Yet, one year into Iraq, coalition forces otherwise unchanged. Spain identifies
The Elected, Me First
The Elected makes a kind of beautiful, traditional pop music that jumps deep into your heart and lives with you, maybe forever, with delirious Beatlesque melodies, all heavily rouged with Elliott Smith-ness. (An interesting side-note: The band recorded the album on leftover, free time at Smith’s Van
Francesca Delbanco
It’s easy for twenty-somethings to believe their lives are monumental and truly complex, but what if it’s true? A conversation with first-time novelist Francesca Delbanco about the pleasures of Los Angeles, solidarity in friends, and going nuts in Montana.