The city went back to work yesterday, but it's technically still Christmas (through January 5th!), and our post-holiday season stupor is not going anywhere—it's never a good sign when you find yourself thinking, 'if only we could turn back time to two weeks ago, when it was blissful and holiday music was in the air and it was 50 degrees outside.' But while work on the flux capacitor is still ongoing, a little bit of Elf goes a long way for us. The area man in the video below made this homage to Will Ferrell's effortlessly sweet NYC Christmas movie, Elf: "Decided it would be a great idea to dress up like Buddy Elf and wander around NYC. It was a great idea." Watch it below, watch the montage from the original film below that, and ask yourself what Buddy would say next time you're outside and realize you can't feel your face. more ›

Of course you won't hear about it in the Santa-centric lamestream media, but Saturday's Santacon was marred by protests against Claus's unfair treatment of elves. You may recall that Claus—a notoriously dictatorial sweatshop owner who operates his toy factory far beyond the reach of U.S. labor laws—was portrayed in the acclaimed biopic Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer as a petulant megalomaniac convinced he had the power to cancel Christmas around the world simply because of a snowstorm. On Saturday, a group of disgruntled elves blasted Claus for the very same tyrannical employment policies that drove aspiring elf dentist Herbie from the Pole. Watch as these brave dissident elves stick it to the man and demand "elf care.": more ›

Before she's even turned thirty, Zooey Deschanel has put together a commendable career in the decade since making her film debut in Mumford. She is an Angelino born and raised, but anyone who has seen Elf knows that she has enough attitude to hold her own in the Big Apple. She'll be doing just that in her upcoming film Gigantic, a romantic comedy set in the city, which she co-stars in with "Little Miss Will Be Blood"'s Paul Dano (trailer). This week she talked with us about the need to break rules you make for yourself, why being an actress is actually a good way to look unattractive and whether or not her straight-to-video career will begin with Elf 2. more ›