5/11: Morning Communique

CITY PAGES BLOGS AND NEWS

Thursday's audio clip at Complicated Fun is a 55-minute radio broadcast from 1963 of Pauline Kael attacking the auteur theory.

The City Pages Store has reopened for business.

THESE DAYS

The United States has the second worst newborn mortality rate in the developed world, according to a new report.

Australian prostitutes, strippers, and lap dancers can claim tax deductions for adult toys and lingerie, as the Taxation Office issued a list of deductible items for the sex industry.

On December 31, the U.K. will pay off the last of its World War II loans from the U.S.

MINNESOTA BLOG OF THE DAY

Check out Chris and Qualler's Pop Culture Blogulator before it jumps the shark - oh, too late!

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TIME WASTERS

Photos from the 2006 World Mustache Championship

City Pages's MySpace page

To protect CEOs and other VIPs from climate change, our friends at Halliburton have concocted the Survivaball!

FREEDOM OF SPEECH

"It's a tough business. It's a difficult thing to be right all the time."

-- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, at a Tuesday press conference stating "wrong" intelligence on Iraq should give one pause when evaluating the credibility of intelligence information coming out of Iran