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I See What They Did There

Watch Doctor Who’s Arthur Darvill Start A Band, Star On Broadway

by Jill Pantozzi | 11:32 am, April 20th, 2013

Matt Mira and Jonah Ray of The Nerdist crew recently travelled to London and accidentally wound up starting a successful band with Doctor Who’s Arthur Darvill. Watch their epic rise and tragic downfall in under three minutes!

Also, tangentially related, we just found our Darvill is taking over the role of “Guy” in Once on Broadway for the next nine months. So if you ever wanted to hear him sing in person, now’s your chance.

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Braaaaiiiinnnnns

“NYPD Officer’s Cat Missing for 2 Years Found, Returned by Zombie”

by Susana Polo | 4:17 pm, April 4th, 2013

Welcome to the story that every journalist you follow is either gleefully writing a headline for or fuming that they can’t write about.

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May the Odds Be Ever in Your Favor

The Next Catching Fire Character Gets A Capitol Portrait, Plus New York Loves The Hunger Games

by Jill Pantozzi | 11:01 am, March 5th, 2013

We know The Hunger Games trilogy is great but apparently, one city just can’t get enough of it. New York! And just yesterday we showed you Effie Trinket’s fabulous Capitol Portrait. Many fans guessed the empty yellow chair would be filled by none other than Caesar Flickerman. Were they right? 

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And All Was Right With the World

The Doctor Who Puppet Stars In A Very Rankin/Bass Christmas Special [VIDEO]

by Jill Pantozzi | 4:00 pm, December 25th, 2012

Alisa Stern, creator of the Doctor puppet resembling Matt Smith from Doctor Who, swears she started work on this video before the BBC announced “The Snowmen” Christmas Special (which, if you live in the U.S. you’ll be watching soon!). It’s got a familiar look to it that will inspire memories of Christmases past and has a happy ending. What more could you ask for?

(via The Doctor Puppet’s Tumblr)

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Make It So

You’ll Never Hit 88 Miles Per Hour In This DeLorean Taxi

by Jill Pantozzi | 2:20 pm, December 3rd, 2012

It’s true that New York taxis usually drive like maniacs but it’s pretty difficult to get up to 88 mph in Manhattan. Unless you’ve got a hover conversion, of course. Unfortunately, this isn’t real. Mike Lubrano imagined what a Back to the Future taxi would look like for a NYC fashion house called Nooka. Hit the jump to see it with the doors open.

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Things We Saw Today

Things We Saw Today: Blizzard Offers In Game Kittens in Hurricane Relief Promotion

by Susana Polo | 5:08 pm, November 8th, 2012

Shortly after Blizzard took the plunge and began offering exclusive in-game pets to World of Warcraft players for real money they started offering them to benefit charity. The Cinder Kitten above goes for $10, and all of those dollars will go to the Red Cross’ Sandy efforts. (Wow Insider)

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The Mary Sue

Coming To New York Comic Con Next Week? Party With The Mary Sue & Her Universe!

by Jill Pantozzi | 12:10 pm, October 4th, 2012

It’s true! We’re coming to New York Comic Con 2012 and we want to meet you! What better way to do that then by hosting a party with HerUniverse.com‘s Ashley Eckstein, voice of Ahsoka Tano in Star Wars: The Clone Wars! Want to join us? Hit the jump to find out how! 

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It Belongs in a Museum!

Researchers Track Down Fifty Former “Miss Subways” for Museum Exhibit; Uncover Many Cute Old Ladies

by Susana Polo | 4:12 pm, September 25th, 2012

The Miss Subways program ran from 1941 to 1976, seeking out women passengers on the city of New York’s 209 mile subway system in order to feature their picture and a small blurb about their lives on every subway car for a month. Eligible misses simply had to be New Yorkers and regular subway riders. Is it any wonder, then, that the program featured so many young working women, in an era when the working woman was only just beginning to become a mainstream idea? And that so many of those ladies went on to become pretty accomplished?

We might never know more about them than those brief blurbs on their old subway car features, if not for the efforts of Fiona Gardner and Amy Zimmer, a photographer and journalist team who tracked down fifty Miss Subways and found out more about them for Brooklyn’s Transit Museum.

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Supergirly

Some of New York’s Only Female Cab Drivers Talk About the Job

by Susana Polo | 1:18 pm, September 25th, 2012

“What’s a girl doing here?” from Narratively on Vimeo.

There are 46,000 cabs in New York City, and a commensurately large number of cab drivers, but only one hundred seventy of them are women. Narratively’s feature on the life of a female cabbie begins with the reactions they get, but goes on to simply talk about their lives, why cab driving works for them as a profession, and why it’s a job they enjoy and love.

(via Sociological Images.)

Natural Disasters

UPDATED: Security Breach Sends Harry Potter Fans Into A Panic After J.K. Rowling’s New York Appearance Tickets Oversell

by Jill Pantozzi | 11:10 am, September 11th, 2012

J.K. Rowling fans in the United States were both terrified and giddy with excitement when the author announced she’d be making just one U.S. stop this year. The Harry Potter scribe would be promoting her upcoming book, The Casual Vacancy, at New York’s Lincoln Center to a crowd of just over 1,000. There’s just one problem now – tickets accidentally went on sale early and now the highly anticipated event is oversold. 

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