Concrete jungle

Published 3:05 pm Monday, April 11, 2016

Channel-surfing the vast cultural wasteland: Historically significant parks get the television spotlight tonight, as Channel 9 airs a documentary called.

One of them is Freeway Park in Seattle, which is also profiled on a show called “10 Parks Where You Can Shoot Up Heroin and Nobody Will See You (Well, Almost Nobody).”

Speaking of lists: The Bible is No. 6 on a list of most challenged books in American libraries, according to the American Library Association.

No. 2 on the list is “Fifty Shades of Grey,” which The Buzz suspects is No. 1 on librarians’ secret list of “Crappy, Stupid Books We’d Really Love to See Banned If it Weren’t For that Pesky First Amendment.”

Your chest is the crumple zone: A Latin American car organization gave the Nissan Tsuru, a 1990s-era compact car still being built and sold in Mexico, zero stars for safety in recent testing.

Mexico’s regulations require cars have brakes, rear view mirrors and little else in the way of safety gear, although the Tsuru can be optioned with a hole in the floor for the Fred Flintstone braking system.

— Mark Carlson, Herald staff