Watch out David Swinghamer. Jay-Z is about to give your new Shake Shack a run for its money. The rapper has invested in his cousin Jamar White's three-month-old wing joint on the Fulton Mall, the Post reports, and since word got out earlier this week, sales are up 60 percent at the Buffalo... MORE»
A chef for Upper West Side 'Tuscan tapas' eatery Salumeria Rosi has won best pesto sauce in New York. Chef de Cuisine Aaron Oster gets to present his recipe at the World Championship of Pesto in Genoa in... MORE»
Between his shiny bald pate, the fervid glint in his eye and his douchy smirk, Jared Loughner's mugshot—sort of a cross between Uncle Fester, Dr. Evil and an infected big toe—ranks among the creepiest ever released. Whatever the outcome of his trial, this indelible image will forever frame our view of the man and his crime.... MORE»
Think about it: when's the last time you saw a television in a decent... MORE»
Will Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark ever actually open? Will it ever emerge from preview purgatory and unleash its acrobatic feats of web-slinging and derring-do upon devoted lovers of theater and spectacle? Will the endless delays ever beget a... MORE»
Lindsay Lohan! You're newly out of jail, lacking any discernible career, and desperately in need of an image revival. What are you going to do next? It's time to cut a hefty piece of humble pie and plan some expansion for your fashion line, right? Turns out it is! Ladies and gentlemen, Lindsay Lohan's 6126 brand will soon offer shoes. “I took inspiration from old Hollywood glamor and added a modern edge,” Lohan told... MORE»
President Obama's address to the nation, delivered last night from the Tuscon, Arizona hospital where Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is recovering from Saturday's tragic shooting, has been lauded basically across the... MORE»
In next month's issue of W, Lynn Hirschberg tries to decipher why director David Fincher went with Rooney Mara to play Lisbeth Salander in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Given that the movie is the first in "the biggest movie franchise since Harry Potter," the audition process was bound to be contentious. Comparisons end there, however. The scene that would-be Lisbeths had to read departs a bit from family friendly wizarding... MORE»
In the epic struggle for supremacy between man and machine, the battleground of trivia may soon belong to the robots. IBM's Watson beat two of Jeopardy's most dominant champions today during a practice round out in Yorktown Heights, NY. All three will play a real round on television in February. Watson's deep knowledge and ability to understand tricky puns will be further tested. Will Watson be able to ignore Alex Trebek's sensational mustache and capitalize on that Daily Double? Humanity's future may lie in the... MORE»
L.A. may have Hollywood, but New York has the Museum of the Moving Image, the only institution in the country dedicated exclusively to the history of film. Not the movie stars and memorabilia, though the museum does that, too, but actual film. MOMI just dedicated a new expansion that nearly doubles its size to 97,700 square feet, creating more room for its expansive archives as well as three new theaters in which to view all those films, videos, slides and... MORE»
The 53rd annual Grammy Awards are set to take over the Staples Center Feb. 13, and today the academy's website announced which acts will perform amidst an orgy of undulating rainbow lights, explosions, and hopelessly busy set... MORE»
After the much-decried removal of David Wojnarowicz's video A Fire in my Belly from a Smithsonian exhibition earlier this fall, the New Museum decided to screen the work in its lobby for a month and a half. The Museum of Modern Art did them one better: they bought it. ... MORE»
Cross "Using Their Face To Sell This Stuff I Made" off the list of things that celebrities are good for. "We studied every nationally televised ad for the first 11 months of 2010 and found that celebrity ads performed either below average or merely equaled it," Ad Age wrote today. One-fifth of celebrity ads had a negative impact on the ad's effectiveness, and less than twelve percent of celebrity ads caused significant positive changes (over ten percent... MORE»
With the myriad problems afflicting Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, the most talked-about Broadway production in ages, whether or not Julie Taymor's web-slinging comic-book extravaganza is actually good seems an afterthought. The Observer handed over a cool $142 for a seat at a preview and found the visual design "amazing," the songs "bland" and the book "overwrought, muddled and often incoherent." Well then, that's... MORE»
The 81-year old graphic designer Milton Glaser is a legend in contemporary design. Glaser was co-founder and first design director at New York magazine, but has also produced award-winning interior design, logos, posters and signage. Mr. Glaser spoke today at Creative Mornings, the monthly ten-minute breakfast lecture series run by NYC designer Tina Roth Eisenberg. The talk was enthusiastically documented on... MORE»
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