They’re showing some interesting stuff at the Ziegfeld this month. It looks like I’ve already missed some good stuff (LoTR and Indy), but there’s more good stuff coming up (North by Northwest, Alien, and Lawrence of Arabia, for example).
Category: NYC
Best Burgers in NYC
essays & effluvia: Best Burgers in NYC: I need to check out some of these places!
iPod Subway Maps
iPod Subway Maps: possibly a good excuse to get a color iPod, except that NYC’s MTA sent them a cease & desist letter, so there’s no NYC map right now.
New York Magazine Fall Restaurant Preview 2005
Some interesting restaurants should be opening in NYC soon. I’m interested in Morimoto and Colors, in particular.
Google Map NYC-Subway Hack
This hack superimposes a NYC subway map on top of Google Maps. Useful.
Ramble
I took a walk through the Ramble in Central Park yesterday. I just stumbled into it, honestly, but it turned out to be pretty nifty.
Looking for some info on it today, I stumbled across Forgotten NY. Aside from some interesting info on Central Park, there’s also a lot of other stuff there.
MoMA.org – Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata: Masters of Animation
I’ve already missed most of the Miyazaki thing at MoMA. Still, maybe I can make it in and see Castle in the Sky next week.
New Comic Con in New York
There will be a new comic convention held in New York next year. It’s being run by a company that’s apparently quite big. The con will be at the Javits Center. This could be interesting.
Star Wars
I went to see Revenge of the Sith yesterday morning. I couldn’t quite bring myself to go to the midnight showing Wednesday night. I’m just getting too old for that. I did enjoy the movie, and it was a good crowd. I went to the Ziegfeld in NYC. Lots of enthusiastic folks in costume, kids with toy lightsabers, and the usual contingent of NYC weirdos.
Dreamworks Animation
I went to a Dreamworks Animation presentation in NYC today. It was pretty impressive: lots of celebrities, lots of clips, lots of fun. It was hosted by Al Roker. They brought in Jerry Seinfeld, Mike Myers, Chris Rock, and Justin Timberlake, among others. Seinfeld is working on a movie about bees. Chris Rock is in Madagascar. And of course Mike Myers is working on the next Shrek movie. Unfortunately, so is Justin Timberlake — he’s going to play King Arthur. That might not turn out to be as bad as it sounds. We’ll see.
We also got to see Nick Park and some stuff from the upcoming Wallace and Gromit movie. It looks to be at least as good as the various shorts. We also got to see some stuff from Aardman’s first computer-animated movie. They didn’t show much, but it looked interesting. The style is similar to W&G, just done in computer animation instead of clay.
I still like Pixar a lot more than Dreamworks, but hey, they’re trying. And anyone who’ll pay for a W&G movie can’t be all bad.
Oh, and through what I can only imagine was a clerical error, we ended up in the second row. So I could see right up Chris Rock’s nose. Cool.