Amy Sedaris Comedy Central series Strangers with Candy was an absurdist deconstruction of after school special conventions, following the wacky travails of 46-year-old ex-junkie, ex-con, ex-prostitute Jerri Blank (Sedaris) as she reentered high school as a freshman student.

Tough Love 
NEW YORK - Lit, a bar on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, could be the prototype for any New York night club: The bathroom floors are sticky, the bar crowded and the average cocktail costs more than the cab fare that got you there. On this late Friday night in October, Lit’s dance floor is crushed with patrons wearing nubby Converse sneakers, technicolor tights and dark swaths of liquefied eye-liner.

Places on the Edge of Language 
Places on the edge of language that the world can’t strip away (By Jerry Saltz)

Mike Pero Mortgages Announces Scholarship Winners 
A Wellington high school student has a $10,000 head start to his tertiary education after being named the overall winner of the 2007 Scholarship Programme, which is part of the Mike Pero Mortgages Foundation.

Jim Snyder - Saving You Money 
Vegas homeowner swears by miracle lawn tonic There are people in Las Vegas making their neighbors green with envy. They’ve got the nicest lawns on the block and you might not believe what they’re feeding their grass to make it green.
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