Film/tv producer Sandy Howard dies
Film and television producer Sandy Howard (1927-2008) produced Meteor, The Island of Dr. Moreau, and many others...
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Tag Archives: New York
Tor’s freebies for this week
Tor Books is offering Kate Elliott's Spirit Gate and wallpaper by Eric Fortune and Pablo Defendini for free this week...
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Agent Lucienne Diver switching agencies
Lucienne Diver is leaving the Spectrum Literary Agency for The Knight Agency...
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Elliot Shorter Hospitalized
Fan Elliot Shorter has been hospitalized since Thurdsay night, suffering from gangrene and kidney failure...
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Access Restored
Problems solved. We're back in business
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Server trouble
A minor difficulty strikes...
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Five Dreams with Sharp Teeth to run daily in New York City
Erik Nelson's biographic film about (and starring) Harlan Ellison will have a one-week run at New York City's Film Forum this June...
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Peter Mendelsund takes over as Vertical’s art director
After working with the company since it's inception, Chip Kidd is leaving his post as Vertical's book designer. His replacement is Peter Mendelsund...
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New York Comic Convention announces ICv2 conference and Stan Lee appearance/award
Details on the ICv2 Graphic Novel Conference (which will be held in conjunction with NYCC) and on Stan Lee's appearance to accept the first New York Comics Legend Award...
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Public Justice/Private Vengeance—a review of New Amsterdam’s “Honor”
Needing to tell three different stories in each episode is a challenge, but New Amsterdam is showing signs of being able to, while keeping us interested in each... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.)
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Can There Be Only One?—a review of New Amsterdam’s “Pilot” and “Golden Boy”
It's a police procedural; it's set in New York City; there's an immortal... but there are enough nice touches that this might be a good series... (Warning: this review contains some spoilers.)
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Screenwriter Malvin Wald Dies
Screenwriter Malvin Wald was nominated for an Oscar in 1949 for The Naked City. His few genre projects include...
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Composer Leonard Rosenman Dies
Composer Leonard Rosenman (1924-2008) won two Oscars and two Emmys, and was nominated for the score of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home...
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Robert J. Sawyer turns in first of three WWW books
Robert J. Sawyer has delivered Wake, first volume in his WWW trilogy, to Ginjer Buchanan at Ace Science Fiction in New York and to Nicole Winstanley at Penguin Canada in Toronto.
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Four-week residencies in an artists’ colony available in Woodstock
The Byrdcliffe Art Colony in Woodstock, New York, is offering up to forty spaces for creative artists to spend four weeks in an artists' colony...
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