MOVIE: As the Oscars approach, take a look back at one of the past films to be granted a golden statue. Tonight Agatha Christie's classic mystery Murder on the Orient Express leaps from the page to the big screen when the 1974 movie is shown at Film Forum. Starring Ingrid Bergman, Lauren Bacall and Anthony Perkins, the movie will help you hone your crime-solving skills (and possibly make you think twice about taking Amtrak).......

Brooklyn musician Michael Leviton and his girlfriend Leah Hayes have put their own apartment at center stage, after declaring their old hang, The Sidewalk Cafe, so over. They moved the scene to their East Williamsburg apartment at the end of 2006, calling it The Apartment. Now it's no longer much of a secret, and it may also be so over (though for different reasons). We were told by a "regular" of The Apartment (who had......

Trying to walk in certain city neighborhoods is fast becoming an extreme sport. Between the new, bigger newsstands and bus shelters, the perpetually metastasizing newspaper boxes on every corner, the increasing popularity of alfresco dining, the delivery guys on their bikes and – let’s not forget – tourists, wending your way down the sidewalk without reaching for your Taser demands a degree of patience not often found in your average New Yorker. A month after......

Let's check in and see how our usual link-buddies are celebrating the holiday: From Our pals at OverheardinNY: The Public Transportation Will Be All Backwards MC guy: So...you've probably been out hitting the New Year's sales...What's the next holiday to get its own sale? Martin Luther King, Jr. Day? I wonder how they'll promote that sale. Audience guy: ...Free at last! --Sidewalk Cafe, Avenue A Dr. King Must Have Been Dreaming White guy on cell:......

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Today is a red letter day in the emerging field of, um, digital secret keeping date-related cool free stuff. If you're a fan of Wilco, then please, read on. If you're not, either become one like a good little music fan or skip the next paragraph. If you throw in your copy of A Ghost Is Born and click on the enhanced material you'll be able to download the new Wilco EP starting today. And......

It seems like every street in the East Village could benefit from the kind of look that the Post's Tom Sykes gives 6th Street between Avenue A and Avenue C. Here's a building by building analysis of where to eat, drink, and even work out: 94 [Avenue A]: Sidewalk Cafe 503: Gladiator Gym 505: Wonder Bar – gay, but don't worry straight gals and guys, you won't be laughed out (it's also a Gothamist favorite)......