Holi, NYC24.org, Alexandra Huddleston's New Site, Best Wishes on a Purnima

Yes, I've been gone for a while. I have an awful lot of work to do. Just a few quick notes.

Happy Holi! If you're in the Bay Area, I'm about to make a rare and unusual plug for a Stanford event. Please consider buying tickets for one of Asha's 2004 Holi Celebrations. All proceeds go to supporting a great cause--literacy in India--and it should be a lot of fun. May you have a colorful and festival weekend, and a beautiful spring.

Check out www.nyc24.org, the new home of Columbia Journalism's web magazine, NYC24, staffed by yours truly among others. In particular, please check out this week's new Food issue, and a story on Comfort Food by yours truly and Jennifer Esty.

Alexandra Huddleston, one of my class's most talented and prolific photojournlists, has launched her new site. She has some great pictures there.

Vrinda Normand, a friend of mine, wrote this article for San Jose's Weekly Metro paper about the marriages in San Francisco.

I feel the need to point out a TalkingPointsMemo post and an Electrolite post.

A note to those in the know, with best wishes for all: It's the full moon of the month of Phalgun. Here's to the well-being of the world. Happy 518.