A look at some noteworthy television this week: more ›

A look at some of this week's noteworthy television: more ›

MUSIC: You know summer is just around the corner when the Seaport Music Festival has their first show of the season. Tonight Animal Collective, Danielson and XXXChange (Spank Rock) will all be on Pier 17 for a FREE show! Come, drink, listen. more ›

READING: Have you thought about Rereading Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë lately? Writers and Brontë enthusiasts Jennifer Egan, Siri Hustvedt and Margot Livesey have! Tonight they celebrate the "heart-searing story of a plain, orphaned governess who struggles at an oppressive boarding school before moving to Thornfield, eventually falling in love with her mysterious employer, Mr. Rochester." The event coincides with a new Masterpiece Theatre presentation of Jane Eyre. more ›

Battlestar Galactica Marathon (Sunday, 6:00 p.m., WPXN 31) Five episodes of not the recent revival, but the camp Lorne Greene and Dirk Benedict show from 1978. more ›

A look at some noteworthy television this week: more ›

A look at some noteworthy televison this weel: more ›

A look at some noteworthy television this week: more ›

You can buy the five earlier Prime Suspect movies on DVD from Amazon. Also check out the Prime Suspect-Helen Mirren Appreciation Society. Other great Helen Mirren films: The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, & Her Lover, The Madness of King George, and Gosford Park. more ›

Chrysler announced it was ending its Chrysler Design Awards after 10 years, essentially because the effort and money put into supporting various designers and architects (past honorees include Frank Gehry) was not being realized in sales of Chryslers. According to the Times, senior vice president for design at Chrysler Trevor Creed said, given the millions spent over the years, he said it came down to whether "anybody ever said, `I'd like to buy a Chrysler or a Jeep vehicle' " because of the awards. "And the answer was, regrettably, no." It's interesting to Gothamist that Chrysler thought they'd be able to raise its profile with this demographic - hip, aesthetically savvy designers, a target that seems more like Mini-Cooper and Audi consumers. Gothamist is naive enough, at times, to think that these large corporations truly do believe in bettering society, but with news like this and ExxonMobil not renewing its sponsorship of Masterpiece Theatre, we remember that all that anyone cares about is the bottom line. Chrysler will probably try to get placed in a movie or something. more ›

This Sunday, Masterpiece Theatre brings us part one of White Teeth, adapted from Zadie Smith's sprawling novel about two families, one Indian, the other British-Caribbean, in 1970s London. Gothamist and practically everyone else seemed to be reading White Teeth in 2000, and why not when a book is so funny, sad, moving, and distinctive in voice. more ›