An Online Magazine Published Weekdays Since 1999
Headlines for 14 June 2004

New York’s currently: all BBQ’d out

 At least 11 killed in Baghdad car bombing adds to toll from bloody weekend in Iraq.

 Abu Ghraib interrogators began reporting allegations of prisoner abuse last November.

 Justice Department memo says torture “may be justified.” Also, document by Bush’s lawyers allowing laws against torture to be overlooked; and, Bush has disturbingly gray answers about torture.

 Differences between the IAEA’s ElBaradei and the Bush administration, and what each thinks about Iran’s nuclear powers.

 TMN’s Choire Sicha on Paris Hilton and her Best Friend Forever’s appeal to crazy-quilted America.

 Story of Iraqi teen informant, turned on his father, faces dangerous future.

 How to draw a cruise ship that hasn’t been built.

 Why we wish Lars von Trier was going to direct Wagner’s Ring cycle.

 Terror tactics: Details of insurgents’ targeted killings to undermine new Iraqi government.

 Guide to cinema’s least erotic moments.

 Interview with TMN’s Danny Gregory.

 You go from having nothing to lose to having everything to lose. Joan Acocella on writer’s block, particularly due to fame.

 Seatguru.com: Find the best seat for your next flight.

 Manhattanites surprised by folded-up body—but not the luggage it came in—found on 13th street.

 Ten Thousand Receipts in all The Useful and Domestic Arts. The Household Cyclopedia, from 1881. Related: 66 (Unflattering) Things About Ronald Reagan.

 Reviewing Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza in light of its successful withdrawal from Lebanon.

[?]

We have got no beef with the weekend’s TMN-backer who put a large pork shoulder on the grill

Recently Published
Headlines for June 2004
S M T W T F S
    1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28 29 30      

« May 2004 | July 2004 »


This Week at TMN
Longing for the Sad Bastards

Part One

Sean Wilentz

Gender-Bending Grade-Schooler Attracts Notice

Covenant Schmovenant
From the Attic
Yesterdays People
Yesterday's People Where does the journalist stop and the documentary photographer begin? De Morgen’s globe-trotting photojournalist Tim Dirven shares his thoughts and pictures about shooting in some of the world’s most remote corners.

The Non-Expert: Term Paper Experts answer what they know. The Non-Expert answers anything. This week Andrew Womack heeds the call from a forlorn student and explains how any term paper can be stretched to meet its page quota. To meet its page quota. To meet its page quota.

Forever and a Day: Songs for Summertime After a weekend of heavy research, summer expert Tobias Seamon gives us his survey of music for surviving the heat, and your drunk friends.

Sympathy for the Deviled Eggs Christmas has its fans and foes, but the tanenbaum-crazed, decked in holiday sweaters, are a different story. Leslie Harpold comes to terms with her love for the Yule.
Click to read our fashion series