Texas is thawing, the Northeast is freezing, and a sort of natural order seems almost restored to the Ist-A-Verse. Almost. Londonist HQ—that is to say, the city of London—was battered by heavy winds, making it a bad time to be a twelve-meter (nearly forty-foot) tall snowman. Still, not everyone decided to keep warmly covered. Meanwhile, back indoors, the Big Brother racism is now causing all kinds of headaches for international diplomats, and Londonist got into......

or, "Film Friday: Alliteration Edition" Any would-be cinephiles- or people just twiddling their thumbs between the release of "Miami Vice" and "Snakes on a Plane"- should check out the schedule at the Bloor Cinema. After showing "Godfather II" this past weekend, this programming for this week includes Woody Allen's Manhattan, Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo, and two films by François Truffaut (Day For Night and Small Change). ...Not to mention cult comedies like Monty Python and the......

A quick update to an old story before we get onto all the new releases that are going to make us as depressed as ever – Remember You, Me and Dupree? We hypothesised that movie-execs came up with the title “while explaining what was going to happen during some sick, cocaine fuelled orgy”. Turns out we were right, as long as during the sick, cocaine fuelled orgy was to the tune of Steely Dan’s Cousin......