--More cross-dressing criminals! Dr. Richard Sharpe, the dermatologist who liked to play dress-up and who shot his wife to death in 2000, is going on trial Monday for trying to hire a hit man to kill the prosecutor who sent him to jail. Sharpe thought that if he could take out Essex County prosecutor Robert Weiner, he might have a shot at an appeal. This isn't the first time crazy thoughts have floated through Sharpe's......

Trevor Corson will read from The Zen of Fish: The Story of Sushi, from Samurai to Supermarket at Harvard Book Store, tomorrow, Wednesday, June 13, at 6:30 pm. Trevor Corson couldn't have timed the arrival of The Zen of Sushi any better, at least where Boston is concerned. With the arrival of Daisuke Matsuzaka, Hideki "Hero in the Dark" Okajima, and their media entourage, Bostonians who previously eschewed sushi might be giving the raw-fish treat......

Some of the coolest stuff at South By Southwest Interactive takes place after the convention center's shut tight. One of the most interesting things this week was 20x2, an annual get-together where 20 speakers, from all corners of the Web and the tech world, get two minutes each to answer one very open-ended question. This year, "What's The Secret?" The answers were as varied and off-the-wall as you could expect. Some took the question very......