I stopped in for a slice at Pizza Gigi recently, which has been named as one of the city's best pizza purveyors by Now Magazine.

"I guess you guys must be getting pretty conceited, now that you're one of the city's best pizza joints," I said with a smile.

"That's what they call us!" said the counter guy, who was obviously very gratified by the designation. He's normally a pretty taciturn guy, so the huge smile was especially telling.

If you're a meat eater, try the pepperoni with capicollo sausage. Veggies might like the spinach-and-four-cheese pie, although there are lots of choices.

Salon's Rebecca Traistler reviews NYT columnist Maureen Dowd's new book Are Men Necessary: When Sexes Collide, and finds much to both slag and recommend in it.

The Village Voice's Sydney Schanberg makes an argument for greater transparency in the practice of journalism.

An NYT editorial on the call by some Republican senators into the source(s) of a Washington Post story on the CIA's network of secret prisons.

Earlier this week, the Italian public broadcaster RAI ran a documentary which claims the U.S. military used phosphorus weapons on civilians during the the Battle of Fallujah in November 2004.

Robert Fisk, veteran correspondent for the Independent, speaks with Democracy Now!

CBC's As It Happens had a terrific interview Wednesday night with Michael Ignatieff, the Carr Professor of Human Rights Practice and director of the Carr Centre of Human Rights Policy at Harvard University.

He thinks practices like rendition, torture and secret prisons put western democracies at risk of losing the war on terror.

Coming home from work Tuesday night, some guy got on the subway car with some kind of foil-wrapped sandwich, which he then proceeded to eat.

This thing smelled like sun-ripened liverwurst with a garlic chaser.

Two women got on and sat right behind this guy. One put her hand over her mouth and started both giggling and gagging. They moved to another part of the car.

Question: What joint around Broadview station might possibly sell such a malodorous sandwich?

The goodbye letter of Judith Miller, who has "retired" from the NYT, is available on the newspaper's website.