Today's tale of Kafkaesque bureaucratic absurdity comes to us courtesy of the NY Post, which finds a kindly old insurance salesman who faces $48,000 in fines for putting up fliers advertising a moving company. Not his moving company, of course, but a company that advertised its services with a phone number traced to him by the city's flier police. Levy Zelishovsky, 72, says, "All my life, I'm in the insurance business. I'm a senior citizen, and I can hardly move myself." Yet somehow the Department of Sanitation sent him 643 in summonses totaling more than $48,000 in fines. more ›

In the wake of U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales's resignation last month, President Bush will nominate former U.S. District Court Judge Michael Mukasey for the position. Mukasey, who was born in the Bronx and educated at Columbia and Yale Law School, was "appointed to the federal bench" by Ronald Reagan and has presided over terrorism trials, such as the trial of Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman. more ›

A look at some noteworthy television this week: more ›

The Law & Order t-shirt we want, an Evening of Law & Order, the Law & Order coloring book, and our thoughts about a spin-off with just Lennie Briscoe. more ›

Some things to do this weekend: Check out Bruce Davidson's Subway exhibit at the Hermes Gallery and hang out in Chinatown for the New Year. more ›

The recent release of Claire Denis' Vendredi Soir, a languorous film about a one night stand, has provoked some questioning about what makes a great movie sex scene. Is it fantasy or realism? Anticipation or the act? The Guardian looked at two lists of "hottest movie scenes" from Premiere and Playboy. more ›