Arts & Entertainment COPPER Crime Contest Answer: The Picnic Outing Murder, Solved As the BBC America original crime drama COPPER shows, 1860s New York was full of random and unspeakable violence. And this murder, which took place in what is now the posh Manhattan neighborhood
Arts & Entertainment Vintage Oddities: The Outlandish Attractions Of Barnum's American Museum Watching Copper, you'd think that New York in the 1860s was all about brass-knuckle brawls in bordellos, opium-fueled sex romps, and chasing criminals with names like Buzzy Burke through seedy Five Points. But
Arts & Entertainment Jock Straps and Corset Reform: Let's Pause to Appreciate Bicycling's Gifts to the World Last season on Copper, we got a good look at the way 1860s New Yorkers lived. We discovered their fashion, pastimes, slang, and gruesome water cooler talk. Lately, New Yorkers have been spending
Arts & Entertainment Photos, Videos: Revisit These Classic Cocktails From America's First Mixologist, Jerry Thomas Sipping a cocktail may be about enjoying the moment, but shouldn't you pause to appreciate its origins once in a while? America has a storied past when it comes to mixed drinks, but
Arts & Entertainment COPPER Crime Contest: Solve A Real 1865 Murder - And Win An iPad While today's news are filled with shocking crimes with awful details, they are as random and senseless as the ones of the 19th century. Starting on Sunday, June 23, BBC America's critically-acclaimed original
Arts & Entertainment It's Time to Stop Thinking of Donal Logue as "That Guy" Finding himself in South Central L.A. in the early '90s, working as a janitor and seeking sobriety through volunteer work, Donal Logue wasn't really thinking of acting. He'd been in a couple
Arts & Entertainment Invisibility Cloaks And Rat Telepathy: Six Reasons Why The Future Is Here As a kid, did you dream of Penny's computer book from Inspector Gadget—and now you've got an iPad? Or wish you could just ask questions aloud or make commands and have them
Arts & Entertainment Cloning is Kind of Weird, But Here are Five Cute Pet Clones! Pet cloning is a pretty controversial practice, requiring $50,000 - $150,000, dozens of dogs living in questionable laboratory care, and—some say—the naiveté of heartbroken pet owners missing their loved
Arts & Entertainment Top WTF Moments Of Supernatural TV And Movies This weekend, BBC America's brand new Supernatural Saturday block kicks off with Doctor Who, The Nerdist and the new original series, ORPHAN BLACK. To get in the mood, here are some of the
Arts & Entertainment Famous Fakers, From Clark Rockefeller To Hipster Grifter In BBC America's brand new Supernatural Saturday series ORPHAN BLACK, street-smart Sarah thinks her problems will be solved by assuming a rich woman's identity. But as these real-life characters show—and as Sarah
Arts & Entertainment COPPER Crime Contest Answer: The Mystery Of The Mutilated Man, Solved As the new BBC America crime drama COPPER shows, 1860s New York was a dangerous, backstabbing place. And the real-life 1864 murder of "John Smith", whose body was chopped up, packaged and dropped
Arts & Entertainment Get Ready To Watch Copper This Sunday On BBC America This Sunday, Academy Award®-winner Barry Levinson and Emmy® Award-winner Tom Fontana's intriguing and eagerly anticipated new cop drama, COPPER, premieres on BBC America at 10/9c. The 1860s New York-set series follows
Arts & Entertainment Before The Quake: Look At San Francisco Now And Then There's one event that acts as a demarcation line in San Francisco's history: The Great 1906 Earthquake. Which is why it's fun to dive back 150 years or so and look at what
Arts & Entertainment COPPER Crime Contest: Solve A Real 1860s Murder Mystery—And Win An iPad While today's news are filled with shocking crimes with awful details, they are as grisly and lurid as they were in the 19th century. Starting this Sunday, August 19, BBC America's intense new
Arts & Entertainment How New Yorkers Lived 150 Years Ago: From The First Hipster Bar To The 70-Pound Bike Ever wonder what this website would look like if it were written in the 1860s? Well, first of all, it'd probably only be a weekly, and when we complained about the cost of
Arts & Entertainment "From Beautiful Pond To A Ghetto": Tom Fontana's Walking Tour Of Gritty Five Points Known for groundbreaking television like Homicide: Life On The Streets and OZ, acclaimed writer-producer Tom Fontana has, with Oscar-winning director Barry Levinson, now developed a crime show about his own hometown, New York
Arts & Entertainment NYC's Deadliest Riot Happened Nearly 150 Years Ago In the midst of the Civil War, Congress passed a law to draft men to fight in the conflict. While the wealthy could pay $300 to hire a substitute to fight instead, New
Arts & Entertainment 5 Shocking Crimes From 19th Century NYC That'll Surprise You Today Arresting the mayor. A train station trunk discovered with naked woman inside. Duping the press into starting a panic on Wall Street. Click through for some of the craziest incidents of yesteryear. Intrigued
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: One More Fall TV Premiere If the idea of a drama that occasionally has its characters bursting into song immediately has you flashing back to painful memories of "Cop Rock," we wouldn't blame you. But remember that musical
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: TV This Weekend OK. We promise never to attempt lame rhyming ever again. But we DID want to let you know that there's a "Creature Comforts" marathon on BBC America tonight, starting at 7:30 p.
