China is the newest country to join in on the anti- Da Vinci Code hysteria, banning the film in all provinces to appease Catholic protestors.

Kabbalah enthusiast Madonna is reportedly demanding that Britney Spears return the expensive Zohar she gave her as a wedding gift, after Spears publicly rejected Kabbalah. It seems the Kabbalah Centre can't heal thin skin. See also: Kabbalah in Marin

This week's isue of Vanity Fair will take on the story of fiction write Lewis Purdue, whose books seem likely to have inspired the Da Vinci Code, and his ongoing David Vs. Goliath plagiarism claims.

A story about raids on marijuana farms in Florida degenerates into a half-hearted attempt to paint Santeria as the preferred religion of pot growers, even to the point of describing altars and religious displays as designed to ward of police. (note: adoption of the Saints by Yoruban slaves was not "purely a ruse" as the reporter states, but a deliberate mingling of parallel religious symbolism)