Be a Happier Pig
My fellow blogger Mark">http://blog.hometheatermag.com/markfleischmann/">Mark Fleischmann has taken his Happy Pig's Hot 100 New York Restaurants online. The listings are available by neighborhood, alphabetically, or by type of cuisine.
Beating Swords Into Plowshares—Literally
Buy a Kalishnakov, let a Sierra Leone blacksmith turn it into farm tools. Buy a tank, keep five blacksmiths busy for a year—and give 100 families the means to feed themselves.
Because Nothing Says "Merry Christmas" Like Schoenberg
Kyle">http://www.artsjournal.com/postclassic/2006/12/merry_christmas_from_ahn… Gann has posted Schoenberg's Weihnachtsmusik for our Christmas bliss. If you think Arnold never wrote a melody you'd like, take a listen to this gorgeous setting of "Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming."
Because She's Huge In Spirit
Bagheera may only weigh six pounds, but she can keep two (relatively) normal-sized humans perched on the outer edges of a queen-size bed. It's hers by dint of occupation—and she defends her space like it was a trademark.
Become a Brain Donor
No, it isn't a joke. Hey, if you're here, it's not like you're using the one you've got.
Becoming Carlos Acosta
"When the news reached my father's ears that I was running around the streets with gangs, he said to my mother, 'We have to do something, Maria, otherwise we're going to lose the boy.' Our neighbour Candida, whose nephew was one of the principal dancers with the Cuban National Ballet, had a suggestion: 'You say he likes dancing? Why don't you send him to ballet school?'
Bed Panther
Bagheera is convinced that her ancestors on the savannah hunted the colossal wooly queen-sized bed.
Beer Here!
What's the Fourth without beer? Here's a gallery of microphotographs of the world's most famous beers. I think they're beeyootiful.
Beer in the Headlights
Sales are flat!
Beer: Midwife of Civilization
Damn straight! Hic!