Where I’m Coming From
Southerners routinely get trashed up north, where they’re either derided as racists or hayseeds, or the offspring of siblings.
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26 November 2003
New York's currently: on vacation until Monday Capitol Hill remakes Medicare, to cost $400 billion in its first decade, $1 trillion in its second, and perhaps not remarkably, no one knows what's inside the bill. Stroke gives woman British accent. This time: U.N. strongly deplores
How to Cook Thanksgiving Dinner
You’ve got less than two days to prepare Thanksgiving dinner. Is the menu set? Do you have a cooking timetable ready? Uh oh. Sage advice for those whose stuffing isn’t quite ready for prime time.
The Charlatans, Tellin’ Stories
Rob Collins, 1963–1996. That’s what this album meant to a lot of people. That organ sound, it’s what made The Charlatans at the beginning. It’s the sounds that defined them. That organ. And the death of organist Rob Collins signaled what for the band? They’d
25 November 2003
New York's currently: up when you're up Jury hands sniper Muhammad death sentence. U.S. military retracts report of American soldier mutilation in Iraq. At debate, Democratic candidates attack Dean on Medicare. Cell-phone users show up en masse, ready to switch. Macy's to
Part IV, Wedding Tips
Will custom-printed cocktail napkins take this celebration to the next level? No one cares.
So, I Understand You Have a New Book?
Friday evening, November 14, 2003, kitchen ‘Hey there, welcome! Glad you could make it.’ ‘Glad to be here, thanks!’ ‘Well, the pleasure’s all ours, really.’ ‘Think nothing of it. No problem at all.’ ‘Good, just great. So, this little contraption here–’ ‘Yes, that’s my corkscrew.’ ‘Right, so you
24 November 2003
New York's currently: trying out a new haircut Acting Georgian President pledges friendliness with the West, after former President Shevardnadze resigned. Fiscal discipline dashed in GOP bills rushing through Congress, also: Companies spend big money on lobbyists to win back big money in the Medicare bill. The lives
Thriller
The allegations have set a fire in the media and a guilty verdict in the public’s mind. But the reason anyone cares at all in the first place is the music. Writer and once-Michael Sarah Hepola recalls what his landmark album means to her.
21 November 2003
New York's currently: keeping the film rights Arrests made in yesterday's bombing that left at least 27 killed and 450 wounded at the British Consulate and a British bank in Turkey. Baghdad: rocket attacks on two hotels and the Oil Ministry. London demonstrators mock toppling of