By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke 10/22/12 4:11pm

Mad as Hell

Superman is going to be his own boss.

Even Superman is Getting Out of the Newspaper Biz

If there is one person we thought could handle the changing news industry, it’s Superman. Print may be dying, but if  even the Man of Steel can’t hack it, well, what  hope is there for the rest of us?

Clark Kent has finally give up on the Daily Planet in DC Comics’ latest installment of the longrunning comic. Apparently, the combination of lingering feelings for Lois Lane and an editor who is giving him a hard time for missing Superman scoops leads Mr. Kent to go out in a blaze of glory–ranting about how journalism has just become entertainment in front of the whole staff of the Daily Planet. Sounds like someone has been watching too much Newsroom. Read More

By Drew Grant 8/22/12 6:03pm

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The Villains That Gotham Deserve? Street Art Questions Validity of Superheroes


Every summer, studios seem to come out with another gritty reboot of a comic book classic that serves only to remind us how messed up these masked vigilantes actually are. Batman is a Howard Hughes-esque psycho with a martyr complex and an uncanny ability to cause so much damage to Gotham’s infrastructure that it’s not even worth the price of catching the bad guys; Spider-Man is a brooding, emo geek with an infected hand; Wolverine is an alcoholic with anti-social tendencies, and Tony Stark is just an alcoholic.

As Alan Moore once famously cribbed from Roman poet Juvenal: Who watches the watchmen? Today, SVA grad Skye Greenfield is papering the Lower East Side with Wanted posters for superheroes that go one step further, accusing our childhood heroes of the most heinous crimes imaginable. Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 7/23/12 11:15am

Trailers

Man of Steel Teaser Released: Watch

The teaser trailer for Man of Steel, the Superman reboot directed by Zack Snyder of 300 fame and Watchmen and Sucker Punch infamy, has dropped, and it shows a Clark Kent (played by Henry Cavill) wandering in the wilderness, having seemingly abdicated his claim to superhero-dom. (Sort of the same wanderjahr Bruce Wayne undertook in Read More

By Tom Acitelli 4/18/08 4:17pm

DEP, Omnicom Sticking Around Midtown

Amid the current, near-narcoleptic state of the market, lease renewals are one of the few signs that the the commercial sector has not rolled over and died.

It’s not as sexy as, say, Harry Macklowe finally selling the GM Building, but hey, it’s something.

The New York City Department of Environmental Read More

By Jason Horowitz 1/03/08 6:25pm

Obama Camp Giddy, Hillaryland Reserved

Hillary Clinton began one of her last appeals to Iowa voters by lifting Barack Obama’s signature line.

“We are fired up and we are ready to go,” she said in the Starlight Building of Davenport’s Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds. Later in her speech, she talked about “hopeful, hopeful programs for the future.”

Whether the imitation was Read More