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Today's featured article Costello's, c. 1940 Costello's (also known as Tim's) was a bar and restaurant in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, from 1929 to 1992. The bar operated at several locations near the intersection of East 44th Street and Third Avenue. Costello's was known as a drinking spot for journalists with the New York Daily News, writers with The New Yorker, novelists, and cartoonists, including the author Ernest Hemingway, the cartoonist James Thurber, the journalist John McNulty, the poet Brendan Behan, the short-story writer John O'Hara, and the writers Maeve Brennan and A. J. Liebling. The bar is also known for having been home to a wall where Thurber drew a cartoon depiction of the "Battle of the Sexes" at some point between 1934 and 1935; the cartoon was destroyed, illustrated again, and then lost in the 1990s. A wall illustrated in 1976 by several cartoonists, including Bill Gallo, Stan Lee, Mort Walker, Al Jaffee, Sergio Aragonés, and Dik Browne, is still on display at the bar's final location. (Full article...) Recently featured: Album covers of Blue Note Records Gedling Town F.C. Mells War Memorial Did you know... Cannonball in Milwaukee, 1966 ... that despite being an ordinary commuter train, the Cannonball (pictured) was known for its Friday-night parties? ... that Jeya Wilson invited New Zealand prime minister David Lange to debate the moral indefensibility of nuclear weapons at the Oxford Union? ... that the music producer of Barney & Friends considered it ludicrous that its theme song was used in torture at Guantanamo Bay? ... that the Xinwen Bao was first published during the Lunar New Year to take advantage of its competitors being on hiatus? ... that psychologist Sonya Friedman recommends that women create a totem, a collection of objects that represent important turning points in their lives? ... that the FCC canceled a permit to build a Florida TV station, finding that "the most prominent facility completed within the studio building appears to be a toilet"? ... that a renovation of 240 Centre Street was delayed by several months because a street map was incorrect? ... that with the exception of one day in 1941, the Kaunas Carillon stopped playing music for sixteen years due to the Soviet and German occupations of Lithuania?

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