Josh’s Creepily Prescient Oscar Picks
It’s Oscar time again. But before you drop your paycheck in the office pool on who will snag Best Supporting Whatever, peruse these dead-on predictions for the winners.
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Three Observations on the Way to Lunch
1. Leaving the L train, up through the station, I nailed the smell. Winter smells like winter. Enough. It’s the same everywhere I’ve lived, and after four years of college in central Maine, I had it figured out: like leaves or branches burning but suppressed by cold, so
25 February 2003
New York's currently: fishing and spooning U.S., Britain, and Spain ask the Security Council to say Iraq missed its chance to disarm, now go looking for votes. France, Russia, and Germany ask for more time. North Korea fires a short-range missile into the Sea of Japan,
What Lies Beneath
New York and Washington have their differences, but the greatest disparity (at least to someone who just moved from Manhattan) is in their subway systems.
24 February 2003
New York's currently: carrying its dogs in blankets White House seeks exemption for Pentagon's missile defense system (in all previous versions, deeply flawed) from testing before putting it into production. Earthquake in northwest China kills at least 242. Mob-tied firm wins $80 million contract from
Cool 2B Real
The initiative: The cattle industry wants to promote beef to teenage girls online. The result: “Cool 2B Real.” Our reporter sneaks into the boardroom and tells us how it really happened.
Sure Shot
My in-laws’ relationship with basketball has been touched on before, but when the future father-in-law sinks 8 free throws in 30 seconds during a halftime contest at a recent U.N.C game, beating out the competition for the $100 prize, you can be damn sure I’
21 February 2003
New York's currently: glad to be stuck on a familiar island 39 killed in Rhode Island club fire, after Great White pyrotechnics show ignited the ceiling. White House blueprint for ruling Iraq post-war includes civilian in top position, plus creation of a 'representative' Iraqi government.
Slush
Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week, following the largest snowstorm ever, we explain how to travel to work without ruining your shoes.
Red House Painters, Retrospective
Mark Kozelek is arguably one of the greatest songwriters of all time. And most humorously self-effacing. Which may be why this two-disc retrospective of his band, the Red House Painters, features – not one – but two cover versions of KISS’s ‘Shock Me.’ I mean, whoa. But Retrospective will