Blockbuster Inc.

HILLY: Sorry I’m late.   DR. SELMAN: Great coat!   HILLY: Thanks!    read more »

HILLY: Sorry I’m late.   DR. SELMAN: Great coat!   HILLY: Thanks!    read more »

HILLY: Sorry I’m late.   DR. SELMAN: Great coat!   HILLY: Thanks!    read more »

Our madcap couple has just returned from having spent Thanksgiving with a large piece of the country  read more »

Our madcap couple has just returned from having spent Thanksgiving with a large piece of the country  read more »

Our madcap couple has just returned from having spent Thanksgiving with a large piece of the country  read more »

Our madcap couple has just returned from having spent Thanksgiving with a large piece of the country  read more »

Blockbuster exhibitions are defined by their scope and scale.  read more »

AMANDA: When I am not actually at the video store, I can rattle off ten movies I'm desperate to see. But when I'm at Blockbuster, my mind is a blank. Similarly, faced with registering for wedding gifts, the Williams Sonomas and Sur La Tables of the world paralyze me.

I love to cook and I have a beautiful, big new kitchen that has a full-size oven, lots of counter space and a big gas stove. The new kitchen calls for new pots and pans, fine china, and all the many utensils and gadgets that would never have fit in the closet we used to call a kitchen. In theory, registering for these things fills me with great joy and excitement. But in reality, it's a stress-inducing, pressure-filled nightmare.

Yogurt maker? Ice cream maker? Griddle? Creme brulee torch? Miniature heart-shaped molds for making molten chocolate cake? Sorting the useful (spoons, spatulas, cutting boards) from the useful-only-in-my-Martha Stewart-inspired dreams requires disciplined analysis.

We join our newly cohabitating lovebirds in the swank office of their therapist-confessor.  read more »

We join our newly cohabitating lovebirds in the swank office of their therapist-confessor.  read more »

The Brooklyn Papers (pdf) has a handy chart listing the various business closings up and down Court Street that have the nabe all up in arms. It seems that some of these closings are just rumors (the Cobble Hill Cinema's demise, it seems, is greatly exaggerated). But some are for real.

After the jump, the rundown.  read more »

Vincent Van Gogh: The Drawings has left the Met, and not a moment too soon.  read more »

So there’s this terrific woman you know living in New York.  read more »

God, I don’t know if I can go through with this, I thought to myself on the way to my first se  read more »

God having lavished so much on the exterior, Natalie Portman doesn't deserve an inner life.  read more »

The Line of Beauty, by Alan Hollinghurst. Bloomsbury, 438 pages, $24.95.  read more »

When Kurt Andersen wandered into the living room at a recent Manhattan dinner party and noticed a st  read more »

Blaming Bad Lot in Life,Man Helps Self to DVD's  read more »

What a difference a month makes.  read more »

A few weeks ago, Igot a lesson in courtship from my father. It started when I told him that I'd  read more »

Tweak ThisHey, editor–don't tweak my copy! Don't massage it or rejigger it or anything!  read more »

It didn't seem like a good omen at first, what the video store clerk said.  read more »