New York City as Ohio? The NY Times says it's so, as film productions take advantage of the city's new tax breaks to encourage production money come to the Big Apple. Freelance location scout Mark Bodnar ran down how the city can be transformed into almost anywhere:
For the rural South? "I'd head to Rockaway Beach and all those great abandoned Army barracks there."more ›
- And someone stole a list of email addresses from prospective volunteers to the convention. The volunteers received an email purporting to be from the volunteer committee and telling them to visit various Internet hate sites. That's real classy. We can't imagine why someone who is protesting the Republican Convention would do something as assy as that, so Gothamist assumes it's some random idiot, versus a partisan one, though you never know.
