It's not as big a deal as Perth Amboy (yet), but a shrine to Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto in the Bronx has people visiting it for the healing powers of the tap flowing city water.

Frank Moore, artist, co-creator of the Red Ribbon, and member of ACT UP and Visual AIDS, died on Sunday. Here is a page of some of his works.

I will email PlanetOut and ask about the weird sentence:

Moore's paintings, several of which were featured in New York's Whitney Biennial in 1995, reportedly mix art and politics, and many focus on themes of bioethics or environmental decay.

Check this out. The weblog of an openly gay cheerleader at the University of Central Arkansas!

As I was browing Amazon.com today, I came across an interesting list of books about
Southern Italy, one of my favorite places to visit.