On Friday night—11/11/11—the Corduroy Appreciation Club held its "Grandest Meeting" at the Desmond Tutu Center. Occurring on the date most closely resembling corduroy in our lifetimes, the sold-out event drew hundreds of corduroy-lovers for a night of, well, corduroy loving. The sixth-annual meeting featured a keynote address by Amy Sedaris, a wedding of two lovers who met through the Club, and the crowning of the Corduroy Messiah, a girl who turned 11 on 11/11/11. more ›

Happy 11/11/11 to everyone... after all, today isn't just for corduroy lovers. It's for doomsday lovers, and numerology lovers, and astrology lovers, and people who just like to believe in a little bit of good luck. It might also be for the Mayans. But this day has happened before, in 1911, and The NY Times was ON IT. That day, the paper wrote... more ›