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Entr'acte: For Arstists And Critics, Pride And Prejudice
by Alan Riding, International Herald Tribune
In reality, while critics are meant to be informing the public at large, their most avid readers are usually those they are writing about.

How Frugal Is Gourmet?
by Laura Shapiro, Slate
A practical new cookbook from the famously extravagant magazine.

NBC Blows A Golden Opportunity
by David Bianculli, New York Daily News
Everything that's wrong with television these days, and with NBC in particular, is reflected in tonight's stunning disregard for TV history, tradition and quality.

The Sky Is Always Falling
by David Ritchie, New York Press
As the world awaits the passing — or crashing — of planetold Toutails, thoughts on the doomsday tradition and our own end-times culture.

The Director's Director
by Jamie Wolf, New York Times
Wong Kar-wai makes emotionally exquisite, formally adventurous films that other filmmakers can't help cribbing from — even if his method borders on madness.

Fear And Laptops On The Campaign Trail
by Matthew Klam, New York Times
The bloggers covering the presidential race are maverick, funny, mostly partisan and always hypercaffeinated. Are they ruining political journalism or recharging it?

The Politics Of Funny, Or Vice Versa
by Jesse McKinley, New York Times
Work-a-day comedians in shows all across New York City are making hay with political jibes.

Food Fright
by Sara Dickerman, Slate
Today's pregnant women are afraid to eat sushi, tuna, peanut butter, aioli, coffee, bologna, and more. Was it always this way?

The Endangered Status Of The R.S.V.P.
by Annie Groer, Wasington Post
They don't write. They don't call. What's a partygiver supposed to do?

Cool Hand Lau
by Lesley Chow, Salon
Will American moviegoers fall for the slyly seductive Hong Kong star of "Infernal Affairs"?

As All-American As Egg Foo Yong
by Michael Luo, New York Times
A new exhibition at the Museum of chinese in the Americas in Chinatown offers the ultimate road map to the Chinese restaurant's extraordinary trek across the American landscape.

Old Media And New Media
by Jesse Walker, Reason
Like it or not, they're partners.

You Say Prosciutoo, I Say Pro-SHOOT, And Purists Chringe
by Stacy Albin, New York Times
The Italian spoken by many New Yorkers or New Jerseyans make Italian teachers, the purists who love the language just as Dante wrote it, wince.

Not-So-Light Reading
by Linton Weeks, Wasington Post
Giant-size books are a feast for the eyes — but tough on the back.

Party Line
by Bill Thomas, Wasington Post
A decade after capitalism began, descending into Moscow's Metro is like entering a subterranean time warp, a shadowy network of stations and tunnels that crisscross the city like a communist catacombs.

$28.95 For That?
by Brian McGrory, Boston Globe
Crab ravioli? Sablefish? Spaghettini? This ain't your grandfather's Boston when it comes to dining out. Boston is officially a foodie's paradise, for better and for worse, because as our hungry writer discovers on his culinary tour of the city, the plates have gotten bigger while the portions have gotten smaller, all great meals for two suddenly cost at least $100, and understanding menus requires multilingual reading skills. Just who are these chefs trying to impress?

Cultivating The Cape's Famous Oysters
by Andrea Pyenson, Boston Globe
The more you talk to oyster connoisseurs, the more you hear the language of wine experts.

Obsoletely Fabulous
by Christopher Muther, Boston Globe
Its fashion equal may be the polyester leisure suit, but the 8-track stays in play with collectors who love its quirks.

Mall's Finite Space Holds Infinite Dreams
by Jacqueline Trescott, Wasington Post
Is there any space left on the Mall? The officials in charge of Washington's main savanna have hoisted a "No Vacancy" sign. Advocates of pending big museums beg to differ.

He'll Always Have Paris
by David Shaw, Los Angeles Times
A recent trip to Frane leaves a restaurant lover longing for more affordable times.

I'm Cooking As Fast As I Can
by William Grimes, New York Times
I have a new, nonnegotiable demand. I want solid, one-star dining in my home. That means a respectable two- or three-course meal, with dessert every night. And I don't want to spend a lot of time preparing it. As it happens, there is an entire industry catering to home cooks like me.

At The Gift Shop: Souvenirs Of Buchenwald
by Andreas Tzortzis, New York Times
In a move that aims to confront the challenge of passing the solemn lessons of the Holocaust on to future generations, the Buchenwald Memorial began working with design students at Bauhaus University in Weimar last spring to create what until now had been taboo: concentration camp souvenirs.

Picasso's Buried Treasure
by Barbara Tannenbaum, Salon
Using X-rays and Silicon Valley technology, conservators have discovered a previously unknown painting behind the artist's "Rue de Montmartre."

Three Cheers For Reality TV
by Heather Havrilesky, Salon
Pundits can tut-tut all they want, but reality shows rule television for a simple reason: The best of them are far more compelling than the worn-out sitcoms and crime dramas the networks keep churning out.

Sure, It's Real! Real Fake.
by Daniel Williams, Washington Post
In the edifice of art, copies forge a niche.

Bookworms
by Susanne Althoff, Boston Globe
When authors want to uncover secrets from the lives of John Adams and other notables, they make a trip to this Boston treasure trove.

The Lessons Of Classroom 506
by Lisa Belkin, New York Times
What happens when a boy with cerebral palsy goes to kindergarten like all the other kids.

Growing Up Grieving, With Constant Reminders Of 9/11
by Andrea Elliott, New York Times
All of the children of Sept. 11 are bound by at least one thing: the burden of mourning a private loss that is, at least for this country, historic in stature.

Will Power
by Adam Gopnik, New Yorker
Why Shakespeare remains the necessary poet.

The New Trend In Spending
by Virginia Postrel, New York Times
Listen to the jobs debate carefully, and you might get the idea that the problem with the economy is that Americans just are not materialistic enough.

The Homework That The Student Ate
by Matt Lee and Ted Lee, New York Times
As the members of Generation X deliver their firstborn children into the school system, some resourceful parents have conspired to keep the bag lunch on the school grounds.

Homes Of The Stars
by Paul Goldberger, New Yorker
A high-profile suburb for the Hamptons.

A City Grasps At The Last Traces Of Summer
by Damien Cave, New York Times
The summer, escaping with every passing minute, would not be released without a fight.

Even In An Age Of Terrorism, Towers Are Sheathed In Glass
by David W. Dunlap, New York Times
Defying concerns after the attack on New York three years ago that post-9/11 construction would be dominated by brute concrete bunkers, the designers of significant new public and private buildings in the city are turning again and again to glass facades.

The New New York Skyline
by Nicolai Ouroussoff, New York Times
For the last three years, our collective focus has been on ground zero. Meanwhile, some of the world's most prominent architects have been quietly pressing ahead with plans that will remake the city's skyline on a level not seen since the World Trade Center was built in the 1970's.

Check It Out!
by Cari Shane Parven, Washington Post
Libraries are looking for readers, the younger the better.

Safe And Sound
by Andre Aciman, New York Times
Rituals are magical. Riding a bike through Central Park every summer morning while listening to Maria Callas on my iPod, then coming back two hours later along the sunswept trees of Riverside Drive and finding Callas exactly where I'd left her. Listening to Brahms's intermezzos at Satrbucks every afternoon while indulging my new addiction, iced grande skimmed lattes. Such rituals give greater luster to random things I already love.

'Airline' Reality TV At BWI
by Meredith Cohn, Baltimore Sun
On your average day, not a lot of Southwest Airlines' passengers are particularly unruly, unkempt, drunk or romantic — in other words, hardly worthy of a reality TV show. But consider the material.

Hearts And Minds
by Paul Gustafson, Washington Post
Will a group of Arlington teenagers renounce the siren call of pizza, PlayStation 2 and the Internet after witnessing bypass surgery and learning the risks of coronary disease?

The M Line And The Hemline: Miniskirt Protocols
by Jennifer Medina, New York Times
When hemlines that fall just centimeters below one's bottom became all the rage this summer, young women who dared found a way.