There’s something strangely amusing about the fact that as we write this the “Film Festival” episode of South Park is playing on TV, something amusing but not actually meaningful. We’ve had yet another quiet night in (it’s now that we realize that the reason most publications have people who cover the parties and people who cover the films is that one person just can’t do both) but we do know as usual there were several......

Used to be that a greasy spoon diner was content being your standard greasy spoon diner. There were three condiments: ketchup, salt, and occasionally pepper if the place wanted to be fancy. The cook would look at you suspiciously if you ordered your eggs any other way than scrambled. (Asking for eggs Benedict would, not infrequently, get you run out of town on a rail. I am led to understand the rail was only......

Houstonist reports on cross-dressing thieves and undressing educators this week. A Peeping Tom defends himself with a papaya and an outraged onlooker asks Ken Lay, "TATER TOTS OR FRIES?" Also, FEMA wants it's money back. LAist are a bug bunch of geeks. They're Star Trek geeks, David Duchovny geeks and Frank Gehry geeks. During their Cochella preview their readers reveal themselves to be Depeche Mode geeks. Seattlest saw their basketball team preparing to leave for......

There's a whole wide world out there, and here's the proof: DCist revels in The University of Maryland's basketball triumphs, marvels at Metro's security strategy, and applauds DC local Katie Couric's new gig. Phillyist is all about the Philadelphia Film Festival. OK, not all about -- they still have time for loitering, underage sex, and random wacky news. LAist would have to send a camera around the world to get shots as bizarre as Katie's......

Sharp-eared correspondent Ann on the Street (or, in this case, on the subway) overheard a healthy, happy, well-dressed, and all-round extremely non-drug-addicted-looking teenage girl talking to a friend about her new favourite candy on the TTC in the west end this morning. Girl: So I'm, like, totally jonesin' because I just started getting into this new stuff. It's crack-heroin. It's not crack and it's not heroin, it's like somewhere in between.......

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