Nowhere to go: Britain’s Toilets Find New Uses as pubs, cafes, offices and theaters. Fans of urban regeneration have long admired the Victorian edifices and wanted them preserved, but as loos or something else? Washington Post

Pro-toilet forces boost them as tourist attractions; here‘s the Loo of the Year award site.

A bit belated but: R.I.P. Steve Allen, Television’s Font of Wit . Washington Post critic Tom Shales quotes Steve Allen’s wife, Jayne Meadows, who said of her marriage: “I live polygamously with eight men: a published writer of earthy prose and poetry; a deep thinker; a comedian; a pianist; a composer; a crusader; a motion picture star, and a tender father.”

Europe told there is no choice but to adapt

to extremes of climate

which will cause new deserts in the south

and floods and wind storms in the north,

according to a new report before the

European commission. The Guardian