Almost 48 hours ago, Skynet self-activated, and the clock is a'tickin for us humanoids. In the spirit of all things destructive, we started thinking about some other mythical (or are they?) future dates to watch out for, in terms of the fate of humanity. The LA Times has rounded up "Thirteen Sci-Fi Dates That Tell Us To Fear The Future," from 2022—the year that Soylent Green invents a new, uh, foodstuff; to 2013 (coming up!), when Kevin Costner gets totally panned as a post-apocalyptic Postman. A world without email, and some other terrifying harbingers of doom, ahead: more ›

After all the comments on yesterday's post about books set in NYC, we got to thinking, has anyone bothered to come up with a list of all the movies set in the city? The answer, of course, is yes-- at Wikipedia, of course. What an amazing site-- it's like having a genie who's only job is to distract us with useless NYC trivia! They've probably missed a couple of movies here and there, but the list looks fairly comprehensive. Absolute, undisputable fact: the 1970s was far and away the most interesting time for NYC movies-- check these out: more ›

- The two teenage girls who died on East Houston Street a week and a half ago died of heroin-and-cocaine overdoses more ›