Every October, New York Comic Con transforms the humble Javits Center into an epic gathering place for cosplayers, stars, authors, and fans. But any New Yorker can tell you that the city is possessed by magic year-round—some secrets found tucked into corners or beneath bridges, or sparkling in plain sight across the five boroughs.
These 10 novels span New York’s mythical past, alternate present, and potential future. Attend Jay Gatsby’s endless parties out on Long Island, or put your ear to the walls of the Bramford to catch an occult ceremony. Seek out the entradas to the underworld in Prospect Park, or listen for the Old Ones beneath the Gowanus. But more than the place, it’s the people who give the city its spark: musicians and magicians, assassins and jinn, brujas and avatars and even humble office workers.
Here are the best horror and fantasy novels set...
These 10 novels span New York’s mythical past, alternate present, and potential future. Attend Jay Gatsby’s endless parties out on Long Island, or put your ear to the walls of the Bramford to catch an occult ceremony. Seek out the entradas to the underworld in Prospect Park, or listen for the Old Ones beneath the Gowanus. But more than the place, it’s the people who give the city its spark: musicians and magicians, assassins and jinn, brujas and avatars and even humble office workers.
Here are the best horror and fantasy novels set...
- 10/6/2022
- by Kirsten Howard
- Den of Geek
Last week I mused that Treme had far too many plot points too far from any kind of resolution for them to be wrapped up in this single episode. I worried that this episode would skip out on any kind of closure and instead just deliver another stellar episode that advances a plot that never could have delivered any conceivable conclusion. We are following lives, after all. What is the conclusion of a life? It’s the main problem with following a loving a show as all-encompassing as Treme, but also one of it’s chief pleasures. Luckily, this season finale does provide us with some very real forms of resolution, if not complete closure, while also energizing us for the final season of the show, which will be coming next year.
The major through-line of this episode is the burgeoning community effort to get Gigi’s – Ladonna’s recently...
The major through-line of this episode is the burgeoning community effort to get Gigi’s – Ladonna’s recently...
- 11/27/2012
- by Brian Roan
- We Got This Covered
Qi
Last night Qi returned to BBC2 for another series of the incredibly intelligent quiz show hosted by the extremely knowledgeable Stephen Fry. Last night Mr Fry was joined by Lee Mack, Jimmy Carr, Sandy Toksvig and the ever-present Alan Davies. The subject was I-Spy.
To list the amount of interesting facts would take longer than watching the show itself and to list the amount of jokes, gags or hints of amusement would take al most as long. A few key points on last night’s episode that ticked both boxes were the plastic mould of Einstein’s face that tricks the mind and making the Queen happy or sad on a five pound note. Without giving it away I think you definitely have to watch the show in order to get the point of each.
Qi is a very unique programme on the old telebox these days as it educates whilst entertaining.
Last night Qi returned to BBC2 for another series of the incredibly intelligent quiz show hosted by the extremely knowledgeable Stephen Fry. Last night Mr Fry was joined by Lee Mack, Jimmy Carr, Sandy Toksvig and the ever-present Alan Davies. The subject was I-Spy.
To list the amount of interesting facts would take longer than watching the show itself and to list the amount of jokes, gags or hints of amusement would take al most as long. A few key points on last night’s episode that ticked both boxes were the plastic mould of Einstein’s face that tricks the mind and making the Queen happy or sad on a five pound note. Without giving it away I think you definitely have to watch the show in order to get the point of each.
Qi is a very unique programme on the old telebox these days as it educates whilst entertaining.
- 9/10/2011
- by D.J. Haza
- Obsessed with Film
Spike Lee follows up his Award Winning powerful documentary When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts with his newest effort If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don’t Rise.
It has been five years since the event of Hurricane Katrina, and four years since the film that dug into the problems surrounding the attempts to obtain help and aid to New Orleans.
Levees was a film that was filled with anger and pain, and hit you with such force, with an unflinching eye, to allow the audience to tread the waters of those drowned, and witness the aftermath. The film was criticized as soon as the camera’s started rolling. There was an absolute fear that Lee’s camera would embark on the sad hardships of black culture, into a whining piece upon the likes of which many felt they had already endured. This was easily not the case.
It has been five years since the event of Hurricane Katrina, and four years since the film that dug into the problems surrounding the attempts to obtain help and aid to New Orleans.
Levees was a film that was filled with anger and pain, and hit you with such force, with an unflinching eye, to allow the audience to tread the waters of those drowned, and witness the aftermath. The film was criticized as soon as the camera’s started rolling. There was an absolute fear that Lee’s camera would embark on the sad hardships of black culture, into a whining piece upon the likes of which many felt they had already endured. This was easily not the case.
- 8/24/2010
- by Tony
- ShadowAndAct
Tim Appelo and I are riffing on each episode of David Simon's HBO series Treme, which brought me to tears during Ep. 3: Tim: Is it just me, Anne, or do the women put the men to shame in Treme’s third episode ("Right Place, Wrong Time")? Is anybody cooler than Khandi Alexander as Ladonna Batiste-Williams? I’m loving the way she snaps her index finger in righteous indictment of her Awol roof contractor. Desiree (Phyllis Montana LeBlanc), who’s married to Ladonna’s ex Antoine (Wendell Pierce), has the same feminine toughness. Everybody raves about the priceless hapless look on Antone’s face when Desiree reaches for her propers minutes after he’s been improper with a stripper. But how about the look on Ladonna’s face when she finds out about ...
- 4/27/2010
- Thompson on Hollywood
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