Will lightning strike twice for Mel Brooks, who hopes to enliven his stage adaptation of Young Frankenstein with the same spark that made The Producers a money making machine? His new monstrosity is already selling advance tickets for a Broadway run in October – a top ticket price of $450 sets a new record for excess – but last week Young Frankenstein came staggering out of the lab for an out-of-town rampage in Seattle. The......

There is a whole underworld of NYC pigeon theft that Gothamist did not know about: Apparently people have been poaching pigeons in order to be taken as targets for shooting events and the like! The Times describes the M.O.:The reports are the same: around dawn, near a city park or plaza, two men jump out of a van, the license plate often concealed with tape. They toss a handful of seeds, and when pigeons descend,......

God, Gothamist loves how our area airports are working with the heightened security alerts. Like having a supervisor wave through a woman and her scissors at Newark airport, even though scissors are items non grata. The incident happened in the wake of the heightened security alert (you know, maybe planes were going to head into Las Vegas), and when a supervisor allowed a female airport security guard to pass through with a wrapped manicure set.......