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[...] Jack the Ripper, who has to do bad things to keep worse things from happening. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, and Victor Frankenstein and his creature, also show up to the party. [...]

[...] , families gather around the radio to listen to popular dramas like The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Suspense, Escape, The Mysterious Traveler and Inner Sanctum Mystery. In 1947, a poll [...]

[...] , there could scarcely be a better choice than Benedict Cumberbatch, who, after turns as both Sherlock Holmes and Julian Assange, is all but typecast as characters who are exceptional but socially [...]

[...] hand, countless films have been inspired by books. Just how many movies have been based on Sherlock Holmes? Wikipedia says 47, not including the current TV series Sherlock and Elementary. But if you [...]

[...] a generous grain of salt—and maybe hide Yelp’s car keys. So what’s the problem? Are New Yorkers allergic to tiny umbrellas? Is a shot that isn’t set on fire before being slung across [...]

[...] With one yellow taxi for every 600 New Yorkers, hailing a cab can sometimes feel like a deltoid-building exercise in futility. Should you land [...]

[...] perverse chills and thrills to get any viewer into a twisted state of mind. As a treat for New Yorkers wanting a seasonal taste of the macabre, Film Forum is showing this wickedly unhinged classic [...]

[...] in her New York townhouse, and she inspired Byrne to create what Ben Brantley in The New York Times called an “exciting new poperetta.” Byrne launched Here Lies Love as a concept album in [...]

[...] . Like Magie, Henry George has faded into history, even though he was so famous that The New York Times mentioned him in more than 100 articles in the week he died and called his funeral service [...]

[...] to reverse, or at least moderate, this global crisis. But everything I’m reading—from New York Times reports on stepped-up global warming and worsening damage to the oceans to Elizabeth Kolbert’ [...]