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This Thing is A Lot Like That Thing: Strike a Pose!

Tee hee! We're all a-titter over this week's Observer cover, although we can imagine Anna Wintour has an enormous bee buzzing in her bonnet right about now. Oh my! Here is this April's cover of Vogue , featuring LeBron James and Gisele Bundchen...

The Stupidest Bike Lane

Last week, Slate's video editor Andy Bowers posted a video of his self-nominated "Stupidest Bike Lane in America," a lane in Western Los Angeles that runs a mere 275 feet before disappearing suddenly and completely amidst busy LA traffic...

Flashbacks: Press under fire, pro-wrestling as a window onto the Zeitgeist, and the Boston-based followers of a Kid Guru

PRESS UNDER FIREce:office" /> 5 years ago March 28, 2003 | Dan Kennedy talked to UVA professor Larry Sabato about the drawbacks of embedded reporting during the Iraq War. " 'I suppose the embedding is useful overall, and occasionally...

SPITZER IMAGE

We dont' really want to encourage just any old T-shirt opportunist, but -- totally without endorsement -- we have to share this limited offer . And on an unrelated, but equally exploitive note, our inside informants report that coming soon to a bar...

The Plus Side of Being a Model?

I'm delighted that the Telegraph decided to feature Crystal Renn, an extraordinarily successful plus-size model, in a feature today . But here's what I don't get. This is how writer Judy Rumbold opens her piece: To be honest, I expected Crystal...