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Arrested Development's Banana Stand Is at Radio City Music Hall Today!

Arrested Development's frozen banana stand will makes its way from London to New York even faster than we thought! The Bluth family business announced last week that it will open shop on Monday, May 13 diagonally across from Radio City Music Hall from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Arrested Development's Frozen Banana Stand Is Opening In NYC!

Today at 11 AM, diagonally across from Radio City Music Hall! Get there quickly if you want to procure a frozen banana or a glimpse at paparazzi madly shooting all kinds of Arrested Development types as they do weird things with fruit.

Danny Brown Kitty - Irving Plaza - 5/7/13

Better Than: Something scarier that could've happened, probablyIf only last night's Danny Brown x Kitty (Pryde) show at Irving Plaza could be judged simply as a performance, instead of a cultural event. Unfortunately, it can't. Not after "The Thing" that went down in Minneapolis two weeks ago. Real ... More >>

Arrested Development's Banana Stand Is Coming to New York

Netflix will release 15 new episodes of Arrested Development on May 26, but fans can have a taste from the Bluth family before then. The show will host a pop-up Frozen Banana Stand in honor of the beloved show's return to the small screen.

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The lycans of 'Hemlock 
Grove' get unleashed

Hey Companies, You Are No Longer Allowed to Participate on April Fools' Day

April Fools' Day has become, for lack of a better word, a shitshow. A day of pranks played on and by friends has metastasized into overblown theater perpertrated by news outlets, corporations, and even governments. Did you set your sister's clock back an hour? Too bad, Scope has already goofed her ... More >>

Eight Great Shows You Haven't Binge-Watched on Netflix Yet

The 2012 Voice Film Critics' Poll

See the full 2012 Voice Film Critics' Poll

The Heat Wave Will Destroy Your Social Media

Yesterday night, while we were blasting the A/C indoors, catching up on the second season of Breaking Bad via Netflix, we noticed that the reliable video service was down. So we decided to snap a picture of the screen, add a Hudson filter and upload it to Instagram. But that wasn't working ... More >>

Why Are Mexican Men So Attached to Their Mommies?

'Smart Screens' To Replace Pay Phones

To be honest, we can't remember the last time we consciously noticed a pay phone in the city (that is, save for ones used in the episodes of Felicity we've been watching on Netflix). But the New York Post reports today that 250 phone booths will get high tech updates within the next month. Now-obsol ... More >>

Why I Hate Movies And Will Never See One Again!

38 cinematic reasons why I dread the lights going down

5 Barely Watchable Christmas Movies Available on Netflix Instant

​If you're anything like us, you are currently in a post-Christmas morning hangover (and if you're really like us, you're experiencing an actual hangover as well). The living room is littered with wrapping paper, the tree is beginning to look stupid, and your father-in-law is sound asleep in h ... More >>

The Year in Film: People of the Year

Or: The Netflix meltdown, the resurrection of Harvey Weinstein, and Kristen Wiig's box office coup all in one list

Prepare For Major Postal Service Cuts

​The United States Postal Service--that thing that puts L.L. Bean catalogs in your mailbox--is preparing to make massive cuts that will go into effect next spring. The changes will amount to around $3 billion worth of savings for the USPS and only mark the start of what is going to be a long c ... More >>

With Netflix Plummeting, Where Do You Get Your Movies?

​Thanks to price hikes that seemed extremely returnable, Netflix has been going down faster than a crack-addicted hooker on the West Side highway. I never had the DVD streaming and mail order in the first place, so I'm fine. After all, I go to screenings, which often come with free buffets. ... More >>

Qwikster, Netflix's New DVD by Mail Service, Has Some Problems (See: Pot-Smoking Muppet)

​Qwikster! Have you heard of it? If you haven't, it's Netflix's new attempt to break its mail-in DVD service away from its online streaming Netflix Instant service, and, along with having a verifiably ridiculous name, it has other problems as well. For one, the @Qwikster Twitter account is cur ... More >>

Live: Das Racist Writes A New Punchline

​ Das Racist Bowery Ballroom Monday, September 12 Better than: Making .gifs of Novak Djokovic collapsing in joy after winning the U.S. Open. In the past year I've attended more than my fair share of Das Racist shows, and I would inevitably wind up disappointed that they weren't able to trans ... More >>

Netflix Shares Fall 10 Percent After Planning to Cut The Sorcerer's Apprentice From Streaming Service

Nic Cage as Balthazar Blake​Shares of movie rental giant Netflix fell 10% before the market opened on Friday. Share prices plunged $23.90 to $209.37 after news that customers would no longer be able to stream the Nic Cage fantasy adventure The Sorcerer's Apprentice. The film, in which Cage pla ... More >>

Netflix Fee Increase: Humanity's Most Trying Moment

​Each week, Death by Science sends out an all-points bulletin for the latest science and technology news, tracks it down and beats a confession out of it. This week, we take a look at Netflix's monthly fee increase and the fervor surrounding it. The Internet boldly takes a stand and says, "Six ... More >>

BAMcinemaFEST Plays to Its Audience of City-Weary Art Strivers

Williamsburg Hipsters Robbed of Prestigious 11211 Zip Code

​A letter from the U.S. Postal Service informed Williamsburg residents -- hipsters and real people alike -- that the zip code designating the Bedford Avenue gentrification haven will switch from 11211 to "the sadly less palindromic 11249," as one resident put it to Gothamist. The reasoning act ... More >>

Michael Bolton And The Lonely Island Go To The Movies

The Lonely Island's Turtleneck & Chain comes out tomorrow, and the weekend's Saturday Night Live previewed its arrival with "Jack Sparrow," in which Michael Bolton drops by the studio and provides a hook more inspired by his Netflix queue than by nights out in New York City's Meatpacking District. ... More >>

What Mobster's Expressions Really Mean: An Investigation

​Mobsters have a special way of speaking that is all their own, which you probably already know, having watched any number of the excellent mafia-themed films available on Netflix and your various cable channels. The New York Times has an intriguing look into some of the more "esoteric" of tho ... More >>

Live: Wild Nothing Help About 200 Couples Get A Jump On Valentine's Day At Bowery Ballroom

He's a shy guy, he's a cool guy, he's a nice guy. Pics by David.​Wild Nothing/Abe Vigoda/MINKS Bowery Ballroom Sunday, February 13 Better than: Watching Netflix streaming with your girlfriend/boyfriend and falling asleep after 15 minutes with the laptop on your chest and rolling over in the m ... More >>

Our Favorite #@&*%ing Swear Words

A Brooklyn writer took to the New York Times today to bitch about people who "curse" too much. The worst offenders, he says, are "20-somethings whose informal language consists of a liberal use of profanity blended into their OMG-juvenile act." "Is there a cure for this rampant vulgarity?" he a ... More >>

Have You Heard a Blizzard is Coming? NYC Braces For 2010 #Snowmageddon

via​According to those on the ground, the snow has started to fall in New York City, where blizzards are expected to drop at least a foot of snow on Sunday. Wind and white stuff have grounded flights in the Northeast, including out of New York's JFK and LaGuardia, in addition to neighboring Ne ... More >>

Year in Film: Culture High

Young guns of the local rep scene

The Response to the Tony Awards Shows That Show Business Is No Longer Business As Usual

More thoughts on Broadway and the state of theater in New York

Kill Your Television Week Inspires Family Bonding, '90s Nostalgia, the DTs

​It's National TV Turn Off Week, which means, folks, time to shut down those boob tubes and spend some quality time watching Netflix on your laptop. Or playing with your new iPad. Or listening to the family's favorite tunes on personalized coordinated iPod Nanos. No, but seriously...

The Blogroll Gazette: A Shake Shack in Rome; el Bulli Reservations for 2010

This week, in food blogs... Midtown Lunch got excited about Ma Peche (a.k.a. Momo Midtown) introducing takeout. The Atlantic Food Channel asked the $42,500 question: "Does culinary school matter?" Blondie and Brownie spotted a Shake Shack reference on a menu in Rome.

Who the Internet Thinks You Are

​ This is eerie. You plug in your first and last name, and this web app gives a picture of how the internet sees you. The website, created as part of an MIT art installation Metropath(ologies), is meant as a critique of data mining efforts by Google, Netflix, and the U.S. Government. In a s ... More >>

Fuck Netflix!

I've enjoyed assuming the role of a bitter Luddite and screeching stuff out my window like "Fuck Facebook!" and "Screw you, Twitter!" It's fun to play the part of a crusty Yosemite Sam type who hates any kind of technological advance that messes with the status quo of communications and entertainmen ... More >>

Why It's Good To Know a Mexican in a Recession

Remembering Nina Foch: Robert Wise's Executive Suite

The Criterion Collection Abides

The Original Scary Changeling, Not to Be Confused With Angelina Jolie's Scary Acting

Brief Guide to All the Wacky Shit You Missed This Weekend, Ponce

Times Square Movie Marathon Ends in Sarandon

Crazy Legs Conti: Competitive Movie Watcher?

Interview: Steinski (a/k/a Steve Stein), Part I

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2

Even the hoariest haters eventually succumb

Say Adios to 'Passing Strange'

Western Culture at Barcibo Enoteca

Who Played Ya? Continued: the Online Search for Biggie Smalls

Let's Take This Outside

Al fresco shows for real New Yorkers (and their houseguests)

Music

Stuff you need to know this week to avoid ostracism

The Patriot

BAM series celebrates the great American hero John Ford

Things I Learned Watching Afro-Punk

Tropic of Awesome

Hawaiian prints say it loud for summer