New York’s currently: spores in the air conditioner
Hurricane Charley devastates Florida, leaving thousands homeless, a half-million without water, and over a million without electricity. And this is only the beginning of an active hurricane season.
Julia Child, 1912–2004: Julie Powell of Julie/Julia says goodbye to the chef who transformed our culinary landscape, and the one who changed her life; 1976 New Yorker profile.
U.S. places increased pressure on Pakistan to find Osama bin Laden before November elections.
Dream team creamed: U.S. men’s basketball team downed by Puerto Rico in Olympics. [Apologies for the NY Post-y headline.]
A handy primer on your basic Icelandic pop music.
Interviews with the cast of Office Space, five years on.
Where are we, really, in stopping the production of weapons of mass destruction?
Silliness, the good kind: Don’t let it get your cursor!
The chemist is where you’d go to buy pharmaceutical drugs. Americans call it a straight drugstore, which implies to Brits that you could just buy Class A narcotics over the counter. English words with American meanings.


