The stunt actor who was the latest casualty of the Spider-Man musical this week is walking again! Aeralist Christopher Tierney fell 30 feet and broke his ribs while playing Spider-Man on Broadway earlier this week (the show shut down for a day as a result), but now his father says he walked for the first time yesterday. He's spending Christmas in the hospital recovering from back surgery, with his parents and brother, who says he "is expected to make a full recovery and will surely return to the stage." As for the rest of the Spider-Man cast, they're scheduled to be back on stage tonight—but ticket buyer beware. more ›

In January 1931, Modern Mechanics magazine featured daredevils, stuntmen, and others with risky odd jobs. Unsurprisingly, many of them flocked to the city, from Madison Square Garden to the Brooklyn Bridge. One of particular interest is Sig Smith, who once walked around the crown of the Statue of Liberty, blindfolded!

Everybody has heard of the Statue of Liberty, though not many people realize what a huge object it is. They say that a man can crawl out of the statue’s eye. If he should slip through that eye he would drop to certain death at the base, more than 150 feet below. more ›

Today we have illusionists like David Blaine performing "stunts" in the city, but back in the day there was the real deal stuntman, Evel Knievel. Just after making news by making nice with Kanye West (after suing him over this video), he died yesterday in Clearwater, Florida at the age of 69. The NY Times reports he had "failing health for years with diabetes and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, an incurable lung condition. In 1999, he... more ›