There's an excellent Vows column in this week's NY Times Weddings & Celebrations. It's the one for Fran Boyd and Donnie Andrews, two Baltimore residents whose difficult lives were the basis for the HBO dramas The Corner and The Wire. Boyd and Andrews were featured in a page one story in the Times last week, and the Vows column explains more of how they met and how they supported each other during prison sentences,......

November 18: Gluttony Gotta love an event called "Gluttony," although we were sad to learn there wasn't any food involved. Atlantic food writer Corby Kummer pulls together chefs Mario Batali and Dan Barber (pictured), and James Beard Award winning writer Barbara Kafka to discuss whether the newest high-tech equipment glorifies or destroys the freshest low-tech ingredients. 1:00 PM in South Court Auditorium of The New York Public Library. Arrive early for best seat selection; doors......

Former Mayor Ed Koch is volunteering for the Repubilcan National Convention - seriously! A volunteer effort, NYC2004, has been launched to show Republicans (and the country) how great New York and New Yorkers are. In the press conference yesterday, the Mayor emphasized that job creation the convention will bring, citing the success of other conventions in helping jumpstart summer business, which is usually slower. Former Mayor Koch said, "You don’t have to be a......