Who Says?: A top KGB officer claims...

Who Says?: A top KGB officer claims the Soviet intelligence agency knows absolutely nothing about executed American spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. The KGB’s new director says the agency doesn’t even have a file on the famed couple, who were convicted in 1951 of passing American atomic bomb secrets to the Soviet Union. “I have no material about them. No files,” says the director’s spokesman in Moscow. But one U.S. expert doubted the KGB line. “They could have destroyed the files,” said author Ronald Radosh.

Off Key: A choir member threw liquid drain cleaner in the face of another choir member during a Sunday church service in Lexington, Ky., causing serious burns, police said. Demetrius Moore, 27, was in good condition Monday at a hospital, and Naomi Parker, 32, pleaded innocent to first-degree assault. Choir members were marching to the sanctuary for an opening hymn, but Parker and Moore remained in the vestibule arguing over who had sung off-key during an earlier rehearsal. Parker pulled a bottle of drain cleaner from her coat and splashed Moore. The service continued.

Picture This: “Gonzo” journalist Hunter S. Thompson traded his pen for a paintbrush to create a 12-piece series of artworks in Aspen, Colo., including a poster of former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover riddled with bullet holes and splashed with red paint. Titled “The Director,” the poster is among several doctored depictions of well-known personalities Thompson has on exhibit at the Aspen Art Gallery. Other subjects include Ernest Hemingway, Jane Fonda and Ronald Reagan.

Put Your Foot Down: If one company has its way, as soon as you step out of bed, the lights go on. How? Slippers with headlights. Step into the Nitemates and tap your heel, and wide-angle beams of light are projected from the toes of the terry cloth comfies. And even with the two AA batteries, Innovative Design & Marketing says their product only weighs 13 ounces. Dark rooms--and Christmas shopping--will never be the same.