By Lysandra Ohrstrom 12/17/07 6:00pm

Last Chance to See Giant Bryant Park Snow Globe

Tomorrow is the last chance to view what could possibly be the creepiest advertising campaign to hit Manhattan in recent memory, the world’s largest snowglobe in Bryant Park.

Live actors dressed in ice-hockey, ski, and snow-boarding gear have been holed up in the two-story tall vinyl dome that’s 20 feet in diameter since Friday to Read More

By Sara Vilkomerson 2/26/07 12:00am

Make Way For Gosling

“My mom and sister are acting like they won the lottery. They’re going crazy,” said the actor Ryan Gosling of his two Oscar-night dates, six days before the Academy Awards.

Mr. Gosling is nominated for Best Actor in an already talent-heavy category. There’s front-runner Forest Whitaker, sentimental favorite and dark horse Peter O’Toole, the Read More

By Staff 1/31/07 4:56pm

The Afternoon Wrap: Wednesday

  • In the ongoing quest to find the city’s scariest bar, the NY Press heads to the Navy Yard Cocktail Lounge, where ice-less $3 cocktails and Tupperware Cheez Doodles are a reminder of what Brooklyn was like before Hollywood came. [NYP]
  • Who knew Canadian real estate had become so exceedingly ritzy? In Ontario, Read More

    • By Anna Shapiro 11/27/06 12:00am

    Curious Quasi-Memoir From a Superlative Writer

    The title of this odd, anomalous volume comes from an episode early on, in which a Scots ancestor of Alice Munro takes his youngest son to the stony eminence outside Edinburgh Castle to see “America”—in quotes because the view from up there is actually only of the harbor and of Fife on the other side. Read More