There was very little else for Londonist to be concerned with when the threat of a Tube strike became a very unpleasant reality. The inconvenience was extreme: there aren't many alternatives to the Tube in London despite the best efforts of the Londonist team to get everyone from A to B. Brighter news came in the form of the first ever female Yeoman Warder, or Beefeater as the position is more commonly known, and......

The Wind That Shakes The Barley (directed by Ken Loach) Nominated for BAFTAs, beloved at Cannes and ignored by the Oscars, Ken Loach's movies get great treatment overseas but are barely a blip on the radar of American movie audiences. It's a crying shame too because Loach has the ability to elicit almost documentary-like, naturalistic performances from his actors and his working class, social justice narratives are always provocative. His most recent movie, The Wind......

Hot Fuzz (directed by Edgar Wright): The love of a good car chase, a bloody gun fight and the affection between two straight men is not celebrated nearly enough. The team behind the hilarious rom-com-zom Shaun of the Dead, director/writer Edgar Wright and co-writer/star Simon Pegg are attempting to rectify this in their new homage to the cop movie genre, Hot Fuzz. Pegg plays Nicholas Angel, the best officer on the London beat, whose squad......

Today, there's a fascinating Op-Ed by Robert Sullivan about the state of NYC streets. Titled, "The City That Never Walks," Sullivan describes how NYC has "lost [its] golden pedestrian touch." ...yet, here in New York, we even have the debate over bicycle traffic backwards. We focus on drivers’ complaints about the bicycle commuter who races through red lights, rather than on the concerns of the mother biking her child around organic-food delivery trucks that......

Happy Holidays! Chances are, you're reading this the day after Christmas, back at your day job after all-too-short a holiday, and the last thing you want from us is stuff about the holidays. But that's just too bad. Because, see, here in the Ist-A-Verse, we do things ahead of time. It might be December 26 for you, but that's what you get for not checking your Favorite Local Blog on Christmas Eve. Austinist is......

This weekend is the weekend of movie déjà vu. You will be struck with the nagging feeling that all of the major films new to theaters seem oddly like something you've seen before. But repertory programming out in Brooklyn or in the West Village will provide a much needed shot of creativity to counter balance the same old, same old. A remake of the '70s disaster classic, Poseidon opens this weekend with Josh "the poor......

There's a fun article in this weeks Villager on the growing trend of Green roofs coming to the New York, something our friends over in the Windy CIty know all about. The concept behind a green roof is simple. Instead of having a black roof which attracts heat and does nothing for air quality developers and homeowners put a layer of foliage over their heads. The plants on the roof not only keep the air......

Even though it's June, on fall television show we're excited about is Kitchen Confidential, the Darren Starr spin on Gothamist favorite Anthony Bourdain's seminal "life of a working chef" book of the same name. Zap2It has an interview with Bradley Cooper, who will star as the Bourdainish character and explains the premise: "[My character] got addicted to cocaine and blew it all up my nose, lost everything. Now I'm a line cook at an Olive......

Isolated thunderstorms, but not until around 4PM. High of 83. As the temperatures in New York City begin flirting with the 90s, consider this: Spain is already in the middle of a heatwave that has already killed seven people. You may also remember the US media covering last year's French heatwave, which killed almost 15,000 people, mainly elderly women. Eric Klinenberg, a sociologist at Northwestern University, wonders if you know about the 500+ people who......

Robert Leuci, the undercover cop who exposed the corruption in police ranks and was the basis of the book, Prince of the City, is mentioned in the Times. The film, Prince of the City, was based on the Richard Daley book, and stars Treat Williams as the Leuci-type cop, but more importantly, it stars Jerry Orbach, Gothamist's favorite actor this side of Hugh Jackman. And J.K. Simmons. According to Amazon, Prince and the City is......