Every week, Macworld reviews a slew of new iPad covers. Most of them look like they fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down. Clunky, dorky, over-designed and un-sexy. A company called Choiix, however, has created what might be my favorite iPad protection since Apple’s own Smart Cover. They call it Sleeve 2E.
It’s always fun watching the ill-mannered privileged get their chair kicked out from under them, particularly when they have it coming. “Revenge,” which premiered on ABC on Wednesday September 21st, delivers said comeuppance with good mean fun.
All Songs Considered - Fall Music Preview (@allsongs) Our friends at NPR Music have composed their list of new releases to look out for this fall. You can to the very tight 60 minute preview show with hosts Bob Boilen…
As a critical fan of the horror genre, including the zombie sub-genre spawned by George Romero with Night of The Living Dead in 1968, I was thrilled with the first season of "The Walking Dead" on AMC. Great story, great…
David Byrne blows up the world (under the High Line) (@NYMag) My favorite New York eclecticist, David Byrne, has created a temporary installation under the High Line at 25th Street: a blown-up globe, like a giant beach ball version of…
New York Times film critic A. O. Scott reminds us why Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas (1990) is a modern masterpiece. Based on Nicholas Pileggi’s true crime book Wiseguys and starring Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci and Lorraine Bracco, Goodfellas follows the true story of Henry Hill and his life as a member of the Lucchese crime family.
Let's face it. The design departments in today's automotive industry have let us down... hard. Most new cars are heinous or, at best, expressionless machines, indistinguishable from any other car on the road. Nothing special. The big modern gas guzzler…
Wallet, keys, lip balm, lighter, iPhone… These are the things I stuff in my pockets every time I leave my apartment. When I’m wearing a suit or a jacket, it’s always a little easier since I have breast pockets to use. But when I’m wearing jeans and something with no pockets above the waist, it gets tricky. Enter BookBook for iPhone by TwelveSouth. “Bound” in handsomely distressed leather with a spine design worthy of an Upper East Side show-off library, this pocket wonder holds your iPhone 4 on the inside right and enough pockets inside left to hold 3 or 4 cards, an ID and some cash.
I first saw “The Outsiders” in its initial theatrical release in the spring of 1983. At the time, I was a twelve year old kid in junior high like Ponyboy Curtis. Though I definitely had more in common with a Soc than a Greaser, I honed in on Ponyboy’s adolescent rumblings of confusion, anger and disconnection, as well as his desire to belong, to fit-in and to simply get along.
Alfie... Get Carter... The Italian Job... The Dark Knight... When I grow up, I want to be Michael Caine.