Phoenix, Feb 5: Jasmine Rae Pickner, of Mission, S.D., of the Crow, Creek and Sioux tribes, performs her hoop dance at the Heard Museum World Championship Hoop Dance Contest. (Image via AP)

• Model turned cookbook author Sophie Dahl is getting her own cooking show on BBC 2. Dahl says her show will cover on the "emotional" side of food. "It's cooking with an anecdotal thread, irreverent, unpredictable and not without flaw." [Sun]

Barack Obama's already left Berlin, but the pictures remain. The last time I personally saw the Victory Column, I was 20 and in the midst of Berlin's enormous gay pride parade. Watching young men puke in the bushes while people passed by in front of a stone column was way less impressive than seeing a…