The Smashing Pumpkins have officially made their return. The comeback (yeah, we're gonna call it a comeback) appears to be met with little fanfare. The new album, Zeitgeist, came out Tuesday - and was met with a lack of good reviews. The cover art is what we're concerned about here though. Bill Corgan chose (recent interviewee) Shepard Fairey to design the album art for the new album, saying: “Like a great artist can do, Shepard......

Earlier this year, I Am Legend, the latest Will Smith extravaganza took over the Brooklyn Bridge. Warner Bros. spent around $5,000,000 for a 6 night shoot in New York, after getting approval from 14 government agencies, with hundreds of extras, including 160 members of the National Guard in full combat gear. The plot: "Robert Neville (Will Smith) is a brilliant scientist, but even he could not contain the terrible virus that was unstoppable, incurable, and......

Gothamist enjoys a good game of "Duck...Duck...Goose!" every now and then, but we only really like Canada geese when they are flying in the air - because that means they are not on the ground, producing that really gross greenish grey poop. Central Park has a huge goose poop headache, as its goose population has grown from 30 to 300 over the past couple of years - and each goose can produce 1 to 3......

Ask MeFi got a fun question yesterday: How would you escape from Manhattan if disaster struck? What sort of 'go bag' would you go with? And so on. The answers are pretty interesting though, and we learned a fair amount including, but not limited to: Owning a bike is probably a good idea in case of escaping a disaster.But only kind of, as your biggest problem is probably huge crowds of other people.Jersey and......

[Warning: The following contains MTV Movie Award spoilers! If such a thing exists.] "Sweet!" As if conquering the legislature wasn't enough, Napoleon Dynamite won Best Movie and the film's star, Jon Heder, won for both Best Musical Performance and Male Breakthrough Performance (must have been his awesome bo-staff skills....or perhaps, because it was a Paramount/MTV Films movie) at the MTV Movie Awards, scheduled to air Thursday night. Hosted by Jimmy Fallon, the MTV Awards had,......

In a bit of PR for Con Ed, the Post reports that the cold weather we've been having this week has meant higher than ever electricity demand during the winter months. On Monday, the electricity use peaked at 8,962 watts; to put this into perspective, about 12,000 watts is demanded on a hot summer night. So, in this instance, Con Ed was able to say they were able to meet demand, but this has......

While Gothamist is a sucker for the entire process of cooking a meal, from thinking about a recipe, buying the goods, and then attempting magic in too-small kitchens, an article about people who forage the city's trash for food caught our eye. First of all, this takes a mindset shift, one from consumer to one of frugal scavenger. They call themselves freegans, and it sounds like some wacky hippie dippie idea, to wait for organic......

After posting about SETI@home, we ran across another distributed computing project that is more up our alley. Enter ClimatePrediction.net. The aim of climateprediction.net is to investigate the approximations that have to be made in state-of-the-art climate models. By running the model thousands of times (a 'large ensemble') we hope to find out how the model responds to slight tweaks to these approximations - slight enough to not make the approximations any less realistic. .........

- Everything you need to know about tornadoes - Wacky ground clutter image reminiscent of a video game legend - Another cool gadget: the weather lamp - Thoughts on how weather might affect the running of Saturday's Belmont Stakes - A week of daily forecasts, including brilliant insights on wolves in The Day After Tomorrow; a few local tornado sightings, including one that had a lime green glow; Weather Underground's wayback weather history machine; Corgi......

- Watch out for your wig on the Cyclone, people - The Day After Tomorrow's movie cliches - Don't let the bed bugs bite! - The iPod street posters draw grafitti and debate - Can gas filled-apartments in the buliding cause the building to explode? - Subway shooting of aspiring actress - Friendster gets a former NBC executive to be its CEO; expect bulletin board messages from "Emeril" that begin with "BAM!" - NYC announces......

Gothamist admits to being part of the mass of unwitting Americans who decided to see The Day After Tomorrow two days before yesterday. And, yes, it might be the stupidest movie since the Roland Emmerich Godzilla. Besides getting distracted by the usual the moviemakers-are-deliberately-making-this-annoying-for-NYers moments ("Why are Dennis Quaid and Dash Mihok, former boyfriend of Alanis Morrisette, suddenly on the frozen-over East River, when they were just near the Statue Liberty - wouldn't it have......

First things first: you could still probably brunch today without getting wet. Weather.com says the showers won't start until around 1PM. Plus, there don't seem to be any thunderstorms headed our way; "few showers" will become "showers" that give way to "rain." So if you've been following the wild Midwest severe storm outbreak with pangs of excitement, today will probably disappoint. This should be a pretty big week for Gothamist Weather. Hurricane season starts tomorrow,......

Like a lot of people, I'm conflicted about the war in Iraq. I marched against it, but now that we're there I feel we have to do what it takes to fix the situation before leaving. In the meantime, I feel terrible about servicepeople who are on extended tours, risking life and limb for what I feel is is an unnecessary war. Is there anything I can do for our troops? David, Manhattan Books......

Roger Ebert captured this photograph of New York Times chief film critic A.O. Scott in his Cannes Photo Album. The caption reads: New York Times film critic A.O. Scott awoke to find a thief had filched his money, passport and computer. "The hotel loaned me a laptop," he said, "but it has a French keyboard, with the keys in different places."Poor, poor, Tony. The Encyclopedia Brown/Lennie Briscoe in us suspects not some Riviera thief looking......

Sigh. Chatter and other tips are causing officials to say the U.S. may be targeted with a terror attack this summer. We know that these warnings are are important for the public, but these stories comes the ones that talk about how NY is what terrorists want to hit. And in the words of a friend (who was remarking on the film, The Day After Tomorrow), "Devastating New York? Hasn't that been done before?" Mayor......

So much of what goes on around us weather wise is taken for granted. But sometimes people find a way to capture things in unbelievable ways. Gothamist's eye was recently drawn to paintings by Emma Tapley. Born in New York City, Tapley received her BFA from SVA and went on to attend Pratt, New York Academy of Art, Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT, and the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony in Woodstock, NY. While her......

Instead of ‘recapping’ this great programming, we wanted to remind you that The Weather Channel is NOW presenting “Extreme Weather Week” (May 23-29 at 8 p.m. ET). This special themed week of ‘Storm Stores” is hosted by meteorologist and storm tracker Jim Cantore. The timing of this programming is no coincidence. The Weather Channel served as the highlighted weather authority for Twentieth Century FOX’s movie “The Day After Tomorrow”. As a matter of fact......

Recent production sightings here in Gotham (reg required for full size pics) have drummed up a renewed buzz about the upcoming film, The Weather Man. Directed by Gore Verbinski, the film stars Nicolas Cage and Michael Caine. Cage plays a divorced Chicago weatherman who is offered a job on a network morning show in New York. Before leaving he attempts to make peace with his ex-wife and kids. The movie is described as being in......

If there's one thing the upcoming big budget disaster movie, The Day After Tomorrow, is good for, it's an examination on how New York is treated in disaster films. The New Yorker's Tad Friend chats with director Roland Emmerich (who also wrote the movie); the piece starts off: If you’re planning to depict an attack on New York City in a disaster film, you need to bring your A game. For the same reason that......

The curious Gothamist reader may have noticed a seeming contradiction in the recent entry about the forthcoming movie "The Day After Tomorrow". No, not allegations that NASA may have wanted to silence its scientists, but that one consequence of global warming will be a sudden deep freeze. The earth gets cold when it warms? WTF? There is a bit of truth to that contradiction, though not so fast as in the movie. The reason......

Gothamist loves Andy Pressman's drawings for Gothamist Weather (today, plus Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday). And if you're not reading Gothamist Weather, then you're not learning that NASA is freaked out about disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow or what really causes air travel delays.......

Some days, even the sun hates his day job. Hope you didn't dry clean your coat! Today will be sunny with a high of 59, but right now it's a brisk 43. Gothamist on thinking positively about the cold, and how cold The Day After Tomorrow will be. Andy! Andy! Andy! Sunday Monday Tuesday......

On May 28th, the new Roland Emmerich film "The Day After Tomorrow" hits theaters, and it's already got NASA and NOAA talking. The film is the story of the new Ice Age. A paleoclimatologist (a scientist who studies the ways weather patterns changed in the past), tries to save the world from the effects of global warming... The plot focusses on New York, but the entire world is experiencing catastrophic hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, tidal waves,......