The season really gets underway this week so a lot of old favorites like The Simpsons, Heroes, and Boston Legal (along with some that shouldn’t be like The Batchelor) are back so you do know what to expect with them. more ›

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Last week the television networks had their upfronts previewing their fall lineups. So will your favorites be back and is there anything new that at least sounds good on paper? more ›

THEATER: Strings, a new play by Carole Bugge, is loosely based on a real-life train ride in which American physicists Burt Ovrut, Paul Steinhardt and English physicist Neil Turok tweaked the Big Bang theory – and changed it forever. In Bugge’s version, three fictionalized characters – physicist George, his cosmologist wife June and string theorist Rory – spend the trip arguing physics and examining old scars of jealousy and infidelity. En route, the trio is visited by three famous dead scientists: Isaac Newton, Marie Curie and Max Planck. The role of George is played by Keir “Just what do you think you’re doing?” Dullea, who was Dave in Kubrick’s 2001. - John Del Signore more ›

We had the pleasure of attending a food-blogger get together of sorts this past weekend, hosted by Chris of Apartment Therapy: The Kitchen, Ann of A Chicken in Every Granny Cart and Jon of Wheelhouse Pickles. Sure, there was great conversation and booze and whatnot, but the highlight of the evening were the pickled delights from Wheelhouse. more ›

Online dating got more interesting with the sharper, more provocative Nerve profile, which if most of you haven't even actually dated online, cahnces are your friends have probably made you sign up and inspect their profiles as well as their prospects. Time looks at the two women behind the questionnaire, Emma Taylor and Lorelei Sharkey, as they promote their new book, Big Bang: Nerve's Guide to the New Sexual Universe. Gothamist is amused how Time also has to almost backpedal and establish that these are nice girls, not sexually rapacious city girls: more ›