Quest for the Lost Ark (Sunday, 8:00 p.m., History Channel) Tudor Parfitt looks more like Jeremy Clarkson than Harrison Ford, but he is a real life Indiana Jones. This History Channel documentary special traces his search for the Ark of the Covenant – the same thing the fictional Indy searched for in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Also of note this Weekend: George Carlin: It's Bad for Ya (Saturday, 10:00 p.m., HBO) It is hard......

Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation (directed by Eric Zala) It may be hard to imagine what hardcore movie fans did before the advent of the Internet's forums, blogs and YouTube videos, but you can take a trip down the Betamax memory lane with Raiders of the Lost Ark: The Adaptation playing tonight and tomorrow at 8 pm at Anthology Film Archives. A group of preteens in Mississippi over the course of seven years......

THEATER: "A black comedy about a family tree that is gradually rotting away": Brutality of Fact, Keith Reddin's play about two sisters -- one an alcoholic and one a newly converted, zealous Jehovah's Witness -- their crazy mother and an estranged husband, sounds a bit like something from the Fringe gone uptown a few blocks, which in our book is a very good thing; previews start tonight for this show that is likely to provoke......

Action adventure, animated sci-fi, iconic '80s actresses and French sexual intrigue—this weekend is a good one for movie going in New York. Draw your swords landlubbers, Gore Verbinski's sequel to his bombastic film based on an amusement park ride is out this weekend, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. In this installment, shot at the same time as the forthcoming part III, Johnny Depp's brilliant Jack Sparrow searches for Davy Jones's chest to free......

Jason Kucharsky, Screenwriter/Failed Inventor...

Hudson River Park also starts its outdoor film series, RiverFlicks, this week. Films begin at dusk (generally between 8-8:30pm), there will be free popcorn and beverages available for purchase. The Wednesday night series features horror flicks (many of which are rated R, so best leave the kiddies at home) and Friday's will see their general audience selections. Kicking things off is probably one of the more popular horror films of recent, The Ring (2002)......

Boomerang, the baby tiger cub who had been ill-advisedly purchased by a Post reporter from a sketchy animal dealer, which then caused a mini NY tabloid pissing match as the Daily News revealed the baby tiger got ill under the Post reporter's care (because he was taken from his mother too soon), is back in the spotlight. The Daily News cries, "You lion?" while the Post shouts, "Judge is Lion King," with news that Boomerang......

The animal cruelty allegations continue to fly as the Daily News has another update of "The Baby Lion the NY Post Abandoned." The Daily News reports that while the lion cub is doing better (though "Boomerang was heavily medicated and wrapped in blankets yesterday to simulate its mother's warmth."), various experts are angry at the Post (naturally) and Post reporter Al Guart for foolishly trying to purchase a lion cub online for an expose on......

In a great story that wraps up cute baby animals and stupid media tricks, the Daily News uncovers that in an attempt to develop a follow-up story to Ming the Harlem Tiger, the New York Post's Al Guart ordered a lion cub online only to dump it at the same animal reserve Ming now resides in, after the cub fell. Originally planned as an expose on animal trafficking, lion cub "Boomerang" was probably taken from......

This video still of the surveillance footage the NYPD captured of First Tiger of Harlem, Ming, is awesome. No sign of Al the Caiman Alligator. While it's sad Ming had to leave New York, wide open spaces are probably best for him. Director Ellen Whitehouse of Noah's Lost Ark, the Berlin, OH animal refuge where the city tiger is now staying (pictured above), tells Newsday it will take a while for Ming to get......

If you have ever complained about how tiny your NYC apartment is, think about the poor, poor 400 pound tiger cooped up in a Harlem apartment building. Police removed the 400 Bengal-Siberian tiger, Ming, from the apartment of Antoine Yates yesterday, calling in a police officer who needed to be rappelled down the building, in order to shoot the tiger with a tranquilizer gun. Also found in the apartment: A caiman alligator named Al.......