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BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME: The small town of Hibbing, Minn., will always have a niche in pop culture history as the hometown of Bob Dylan.

The town, in northern Minnesota's mining region known as the Iron Range, takes the Dylan legacy very seriously. (There's not much else to do in Hibbing.) This year alone there have been a Dylan Days celebration and a visual arts contest with all pieces reflecting an interpretation of Dylan.

Now the Hibbing library is talking about its plans to open a Dylan museum in 2006.

The library has been putting together a collection of Dylan artifacts for years, the Associated Press reports. The stash includes about 2,000 magazine and newspaper articles; 22 posters; 50 albums; 40 CDs and 45-rpm records in their original sleeves; publicity photographs; sheet music; and scripts.

The prized possession is a 1959 Hibbing High School yearbook (look under Zimmerman, Robert); it's kept in a vault.

Clearly, the Dylan oeuvre has a ways to go before it hits Elvis levels. Hibbing needs to get kitschy to truly lock in the Dylan pop-culture legacy. We need Dylan toothpaste. Dylan hair gel. The Dylan razor that gets you that perfect Dylan stubble. A Dylan voice scrambler to make you unintelligible . . .

AT THE CORNER OF DAVID AND LETTERMAN: The people of Lawrence, Ind., wasted no time in putting up the signs needed for the street corner it is naming for Indiana native David Letterman.

After deciding Monday to create a David Drive to intersect with existing Letterman Road, the Indianapolis suburb erected the new street sign that was needed Tuesday.

It read "Daivd Drive."

"I could sit here and tell you it was all part of the joke, but it wasn't," Deputy Mayor Chuck Ricks said in an AP report.

The sign was repainted and replaced Wednesday, he said.

THE WEATHER PREDICTIONS AREN'T MUCH BETTER: If Vogue intimidates you, the Old Farmer's Almanac offers some fashion trends for 2003. Not that we'd recommend them, but here they are:

Women: Hats, from high, furry beefeaters to leather berets; metal accessories and adornments; the "pajama look" for entertaining at home.

Men: Distinctive details, such as a silk waistband in slacks or a zipper instead of buttons on a white shirt; borsellos, a man's handbag popular in the 1960s.

JUST IN TIME TO SAVE YOU HEARTACHE DURING THE HOLIDAYS: According to a gift-giving survey of about 1,800 men and 2,200 women by jewelry.com:

-- 75 percent of the men said that they had given lingerie as their all-time romantic gift; 2.5 percent of the women said lingerie was their idea of a romantic gift.

-- Barely half of the men said they knew their significant other's birthstone or favorite gem; 80 percent of the women thought their partner knew the former and 70 percent the latter.

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