By Steve Huff 5/28/12 2:37am

Crime

Nicola Furlong

Two Americans Arrested in Japan In Connection With Murder of Irish National

Tokyo media reports two Americans have been arrested in connection with the death of 21-year-old Irish student Nicola Furlong. Ms. Furlong was in Japan as part of University program. She was found dead in her hotel room earlier this week after she attended a concert given by hip-hop artist Nicki Minaj. Tokyo authorities believe Ms. Furlong was strangled then sexually assaulted.

Twenty-three-year-old James Blackston (possibly Blackstone–early reports vary) a.k.a. “King Tight,” and an as-yet unnamed 19-year-old male were taken in after police suspected the pair gave “drinks with high alcoholic content to Furlong’s friend, a 21-year-old Irishwoman, leading her to fall unconscious and then groping her inside a taxi,” reports Japan’s Mainichi News.

Until his arrest Mr. Blackston had an active social media presence, with a Twitter account under the screen name @KingTightBucc20 as well as a Myspace with the screen name “liltight.” The Twitter account has disappeared but various cached tweets made it clear he had a working relationship with R&B singer Omarion, who once tweeted this photo of @KingTightBucc20.

“King Tight’s” MySpace is private. Read More

By Andrew Sarris 3/03/09 6:14pm

Tokyo Calling

Tokyo!
Running time 112 minutes
Written and directed By Michel Gondry, Leos Carax and Bong Joon-Ho
Starring Ayako Fujitani, Ryo Kase, Teruyuki Kagawa, Ayumi Ito

Tokyo! (in Japanese with English subtitles) consists of three short films: Michel Gondry’s Interior Design, Leos Carax’s Merde and Bong Joon-Ho’s Shaking Tokyo. All three pieces Read More

By Tom Acitelli 1/22/07 12:00am

London, Paris and Tokyo Make Manhattan Look Cheap

Manhattan office-market stats out last week showed what everyone already knows: The borough has one of the most expensive and tightest office markets in the world.

But it’s nothing compared to Paris, London, Hong Kong and a few other (select) cities.

In fact, Manhattan stayed a relative steal during the very successful market run Read More

By Staff 1/08/07 3:30pm

Next for Al Gore…

By the end of the week, Al Gore will have finished training the last of a thousand “Climate Project” volunteers, who will be charged with spreading the word about the bleaker aspects of 70-degree January days.

According to Gore’s office, the former vice president has been busy indoctrinating said volunteers for more than ten hours Read More

By Andrew Sarris 11/06/06 12:00am

Manipulative and Mean-Spirited, Babel Frustrates Despite Style

Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Babel, from a screenplay by Guillermo Arriaga (in English, Spanish, Japanese, Berber, Arabic and sign language, with English subtitles), is based on an idea by Mr. González Iñárritu and Mr. Arriaga, and a wild “idea” it is. Babel can be considered the third work of a trilogy in which fatal or near-fatal Read More

By Andrew Sarris 11/06/06 12:00am

Manipulative and Mean-Spirited, Babel Frustrates Despite Style

Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Babel, from a screenplay by Guillermo Arriaga (in English, Spanish, Japanese, Berber, Arabic and sign language, with English subtitles), is based on an idea by Mr. González Iñárritu and Mr. Arriaga, and a wild “idea” it is. Babel can be considered the third work of a trilogy in which fatal or near-fatal Read More

By Staff 11/02/06 8:30am

Thursday: Speed Dating and Spadominiums!

  • Any event called “architecture’s version of speed dating” sounds like a surefire bad idea. But if it’s official name is Pecha Kucha–and if it started in Tokyo before coming to Queens–you cannot go wrong. Especially if you like consuming 20 images of future condos (or artsy sculptures) every 400 seconds. Plus, there’s beer. Read More

    • By Staff 2/27/06 8:45am

    Hillary Navigates Port Issue

    For anyone upset that there was no IMterview on Friday, here is a longer-than-usual excerpt from Hillary‘s speech yesterday at the Jewish Community Relations Council‘s annual legislative breakfast at the 92nd Street Y.

    Hillary connects the port security issue with the national economy. Then, while not exactly promising to an IMterview Read More