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 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 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
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 Slangs Of New York: 19th Century Vocab Worth Bringing Back Ever think our modern slang leaves a little something something to be desired? Between LOL-worthy emoticons and obvs totes irritating abbreviations, sometimes it doesn't seem like our generation is really adding much to
