The iPad has arrived and its owners are getting their greasy fingerprints all over the sleek display. Or they are showing off their wares—see this recently Tweeted video of someone outside the SoHo Apple Store. We hear that the lines at the Upper West Side and 14th Street moved along; the 14th Street store's lines were "depleted" by 11 a.m., which really does suggest that waiting basically two days in advance of the iPad launch is something for real, hardcore fans who have the time. more ›

Hey, who's up for a 12 hour theatrical adaptation of a bleak Dostoevsky novel, in Italian with English supertitles? A lot of people, apparently, if the Times's hype-tastic article about a forthcoming production of The Demons is to be believed. It will be staged on Governors Island just twice in July as part of the Lincoln Center Festival, and the Times predicts that those who pay upwards of $175 for the experience will win the "I-was-there bragging rights that a certain brand of New Yorker finds irresistible." If that's you, well too bad because tickets are already sold out. Oh well. In 2005 we saw Gatz, a brilliant 8 hour adaptation of The Great Gatsby, so we're not sweating it either. more ›

Panic! Panic! Run for the hills! The AccuWeather.com website has already been practically paralyzed! Who will buy the last loaf of bread at Fairway before the overhyped storm of the century arrives? more ›

Over the weekend, the Times used all of the buzz surrounding the inauguration frenzy down in DC to spin out the age-old question, "Is New York over?" The article focused in on the doom and gloom of late around town (jobs being lost, shops closing down) to question whether we're all collectively basking in an "ambient bummer." Apparently LA isn't slowing down as they keep "spinning out hits" like Gran Torino and Bride Wars (was Hollywood expected to shut down?). Ultimately it's one of those pieces that takes no real stance, citing prodigal daughter Joan Didion calling the city "over" 40 years ago. But the article still manages to speculate that we're “definitely shedding whatever New York was a few years ago.” Not to celebrate the tanking economy, but if one of those things we're shedding is "people complaining about $20 cocktails or $300 bottle service," is it possible that we're righting our course? more ›