NO PANTS PUPIL. Last Sunday's No Pants 2k6 kicked off a week when the ACLU negotiated a deal to allow New Jersey high school student Michael Coviello to also eschew pants...and wear skirts to school. Coviello had been wearing shorts with his knee braces, but he switched to skirts after administrators banned shorts on October 1, 2005. School officials tried to keep him from wearing skirts too, but the ACLU helped smooth things out. Christine Sloan of WCBS-TV covers the story here; from the coverage, it's not clear whether Coviello dressed as Fred or Wilma Flintstone. There's a difference!

Photo, by David Marc Fischer, of likely James de la Vega art work seen outside East Village storefront