Tenor Roberto Alagna bolts the stage at La Scala after being booed.
Messiah overload.
The top-selling classical album of 2006 was Songs From the Labyrinth, by Sting.
A Toranto theater company cancels a planned production of the controversial My Name Is Rachel Corrie.
Dying in late December, when you're too late to be honored in all the year-in-review issues.
Philip Glass's overbearing score in Notes on a Scandal.
Census data show people are leaving New York State, apparently to move elsewhere and then visit NYC as tourists.
Michael Crichton exacts revenge on a critic by writing him into his novel as a child rapist.
Dear U.S.A.: Please adopt Boxing Day, and get rid of Go Back to Work Right After Christmas Day.
"Lips of an Angel," the ballad all of America is listening to every six minutes.
Giants.
The ultradumb Identity.
The BMW ad with the screaming kid opening his Christmas present.
Miss Nevada is dethroned after lurid photos appear on the Internet, thus tarnishing Nevada's spotless reputation.
Trump vs. Rosie.
Shock magazine shuts down, unlamented.
The haunting balloon lanterns launched in Thailand to mark the anniversary of the tsunami.
Pina Bausch's sexy, innovative, and often hilarious dance-theater piece Nefes at BAM.
The Rockefeller Center ice rink turns 70.
Spring Awakening's "Totally F--ed," the awesome anthem with the unprintable name.
Mos Def kicks off Lincoln Center's "American Songbook," January 17.
Michel Gondry solves a Rubik's Cube with his feet on You Tube.
A brilliant detective debunks Gondry's feat on You Tube.
Barackoblogga.com. Tracking his every move, so you don't have to.
Cuckolded Bill Nighy in Notes on a Scandal.
The French-brothel scene in The History Boys.
Gerald Ford, 1913-2006.
James Brown, 1933-2006.
Jets.
Nas's excellent, self-disproving Hip Hop Is Dead.
Public Enemy gets a comic book.
Willitblend.com. Especially the iPod-in-a-blender film.
One: Cut a hole in a box.
Two: Put your junk in that box.
Three: Make her open the box.
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