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• Vietnamese coffee, made from ballsy robusta beans, packs a stronger caffeine wallop than European-style espresso, which is made from effete arabica. It has a slightly bitter taste that usually is offset by sweetened, condensed milk known to rattle tourists' eyeballs.
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• LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Kobe Bryant is no longer a holdout. He's on Twitter.
• With five words -- "The antisocial has become social" -- the Los Angeles Lakers guard sent the first tweet from his account Friday. About 270,000 people followed his verified account, (at)kobebryant, within a few hours and he was up to 365,000 late Friday night as the Lakers played the Clippers.
• Bryant tiptoed into the Twitterverse last week when he briefly took over Nike basketball's account, when he sent out things like a photo of him hanging out with his daughter, an ice bath that he was dreading and even a suit he was wearing to a particular game.
• Bryant says those few days made him consider starting his own account, saying he enjoyed connecting with fans "with no filters."
• Heat star LeBron James has 6.8 million followers, the most of any NBA player.
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• NEW YORK (AP) -- Listening to Supreme Court justices question lawyers doesn't sound like the stuff of great theater. But somehow it is -- in the hands of one of the city's most acclaimed companies.
• Elevator Repair Service -- the group that performed F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" in its entirely over eight hours -- returns this month with a new experiment: Re-enacting the 1991 oral arguments of a high court case about the legality of nude dancing in Indiana.
• The show, "Arguendo," will be one of dozens of independent and experimental theatrical pieces from across the globe being mounted in lower Manhattan in the coming weeks. January in New York is when you can see a play about the Indian deity Ganesh, a one-man "Hamlet" or take in a 24-hour-long concert or 12-hour show.

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