I checked Slate for the first time in years today and was delighted to find photos of the Danube, allowing me to continue my nostalgic Budapest dotting.

Quick reminder: If you're ever in a hotel lobby and they start to play 'The Blue Danube Waltz,' get the hell out...that waltz means that they need to evacuate the building

For you pork enthusiasts out there on the west coast...

Quoted: A Spokane, Washington-based couple have imported Hungarian Mangalica pigs to the States in a bid to introduce the American palette to superior quality meat.

The new and improved DIA finally opened last month. Hoping to check it out soon.

For a thoughtful review of the grand reopening and the city's art scene, see here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/23/arts/design/23detr.html

As if the beings of the universe needed another reason not to visit New Mexico.

Quoted: Instead of highlighting New Mexico's picturesque desert landscapes, art galleries or centuries-old culture, a new tourism campaign features drooling, grotesque office workers from outer space chatting about their personal lives.