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 Fabulous Fashions Of 19th Century NYC Revisited In COPPER While nailing 19th century conventions and language are critical to replicating life in 1860s New York City, the new BBC America crime drama COPPER has another edge: Clothes painstakingly hand-tailored and sewn from
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