The Simpsons Movie (directed by David Silverman) This weekend marks the move of America's favorite dysfunctional family the Simpsons from the suburbs of television to the urban center of the big screen. After all of the viral marketing of Simpson-ified magazine editors, real life Kwik-E-Marts and ticket giveaways, is it too much to hope that there's still fresh material to be mined from the long-running animated sitcom? According to the critics, the movie is just......

Watch out for the traffic around the Grand Hyatt tonight - Senator Barack Obama will be in town for a big fund raiser. As you may know via emails and news coverage, the response to a $100/ticket Obama fund-raiser "aimed at young people" was so overwhelming that the venue had to be changed from the Grand (former Au Bar) to the Grand Hyatt. There's also a gala for $1,000+ donors, where there will be......

Shanghaiist probably knows a little more about China than the Chicago Sun-Times. Giving them the benefit of the doubt on that one. The city does to have a music scenei. Don't even front like they don't. They also have Dorrito bananas and white guys shopping for wives. What they don't have is any more tolerance for jaywalkers. Bostonist sees Boston and Somerville each whip out their art and face off. A plagarized novel is the......

- Lawyers for Paramount and Columbia Pictures are suing a 63-year-old teacher's aide for allegedly downloading a copy of "The Longest Yard." Yes, the Adam Sandler movie. - The man fired by Bloomie for playing Solitaire hasn't quite left the news yet. The Times looks at his impressive name while one radio host teased Mike about it. - You hear the one about the X-rated fortune cookies? - A company in the United Arab......

Yesterday WWD had a story on how the transit strike is effecting our fashions. Leave it to them to declare the comeback of Uggs in a "major way". Though the Chicago Sun Times will declare it's the "Reeboks-and-gym-socks-with-your-business-suit" look that have come back in to style. We're they ever in style? And if so, what the hell does the Chicago Sun Times know about what we're wearing during the transit strike. Reeboks with suits is......

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It seems like not all is golden is Wonka-land. Everyone’s favorite confectionary madman spoke out against Tim Burton’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which he called a pointless money-making ploy. Gene Wilder told the UK Telegraph: "It's all about money. It's just some people sitting around thinking: 'How can we make some more money?' Why else would you remake Willy Wonka? I don't see the point of going back and doing it all over......

This is getting good: Mayor Bloomberg is pissed off by another Republican Congressman! This time it's Todd Tiahrt of Kansas, whose bill would "deny local investigators access to a federal database that traces guns," as in NYPD would not be able to trace guns. The Mayor said, "It is an outrage. It would take away the city's ability to look at the list of who has guns that may very well be used to kill......

To update our post last year about the possibility of Matrix co-creator Larry Wachowski getting a sex change operation, it seems that Wachowski is going ahead with it. Friends confirm to the Chicago Sun-Times that Wachowski, who has been calling himself "Linda," will "complete the process of becoming a woman." Another womanly picture of Larry/Linda Wachowski. And no word yet on what the Wachowskis plan to work on next.......

Chicago Cubs, you squander your 3 run lead in the eighth inning and let the Marlins score 8. And an assumed Cubs fan may have interfered with a play! This, of course, reminds New Yorkers of little 12 year-old Jeff Maier (ranked number 4 on The Sporting News' list of the top 25 Unusual and Unforgettable Baseball moments) who turned a possible fly ball into a home run for Derek Jeter, helping the Yankees......

The Chicago Sun-Times has drawn up a list and looked it at least once of who the best supporting actors of this summer's movies have been: 1. The rats, "28 Days" 2. Bernie Mac, "Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle" 3. Ellen Degeneres, "Finding Nemo" 4. Christopher Walken, "Gigli" 5. Arnold's assets, "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines" 6. Gerard Butler, "Tomb Raider 2: The Cradle of Life" 7. Seann William Scott, "American Wedding" 8. William H.......

Everybody was screaming, "I'm going to die" A summer Saturday night house party, who pauses to think whether the porch you're venturing out onto is safe enough? Over the weekend in Chicago, twelve people died and fifty seven others were injured when a porch in Lincoln Park collapsed. Investigators are looking to see is the 13'x20' porch was built properly, but speculation is that there were simply too many people on the three story porch......

Honestly, Gothamist wasn't thinking of the Hulk in this way, but because the Chicago Sun-Times brought it up, now we can't help but think. And think. And think. Apparently there was some talk about creating a nude Hulk, but as special effects artist Dennis Muren says, "I guess there were some concerns over ratings, so we decided to put tattered clothes on him...there were some interesting conversations about how the Hulk would look nude.......