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Maybe it’s because buildings tall and short seem to be slapped together over a few weeks or a couple months these days, or maybe people just realize that watching long construction processes reduced to a 20-second video is really cool, but we’ve become addicted to time-lapse clips of epic skyscrapers rising from their foundations [...]

In this New York Times article from Monday, Henry Fountain takes the recent unveiling of the glass boxes on the 103rd floor of the Sears Tower as a jumping off point (pun intended) to discuss how new kinds of glass are finally making the architectural impulse towards completely translucent buildings a possibility. What would a [...]

On our bike ride to work (20 minutes), we pass under, alongside and near a highway (the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway) that basically cuts three successive neighborhoods off from the city, not to mention burying their immediate surroundings in noise, shadows and imposing concrete superstructures. Not a day goes by that we don’t wish that bulky aberration [...]

Today is International Firefighters Day, and we’re showing our support the only way we know how – aside from joining, of course, but trust us we wouldn’t really fit in – by hawking sexy firefighter calendars.If you scroll down our listicle really, really slowly, you’ll have enough sexy firefighters to last you until International Firefighters [...]

Is the musical really back? Was it ever actually gone? Is Chicago seriously the best “modern musical”? These are all questions state more or less implicitly by Future of Classic’s listicle of the Top 10 Modern Movie Musicals. On the one hand, what about Hustle & Flow and the South Park movie? On the other [...]

By the time you read this post, New York Governor David Patterson will have announced his pick to replace Hillary Clinton as New York Senator. The winner, after Caroline Kennedy dropped out, is Kirsten Gillibrand (pictured at right), an upstate Democratic Representative. Though we see Patterson’s fixation on finding a female replacement for Clinton in [...]

Part of our recurring New Year resolutions here at Listicles tends to involve an intense desire to redecorate our apartment, office and several friends’ places with new furniture, posters and other decorative accessories. This yearly pilgrimage that leads us to antique shops, flea markets, thrift stores and craigslist often fades by the end of February [...]

We’ve always felt that the sums of money being spent on professional sports – and the attendant industries of endorsements and entertainment – were a little obscene, and the good folks at Forbes recently confirmed that suspicion with a listicle of the most valuable franchises in the world.
So try not to think of the number [...]

As we all disperse towards our favored holiday partying and wintering places, our weekly psychoanalysticle Freudian Fridays asks that you keep your eyes open for gratuitous instances of the most familiar form in modern architecture: the phallus.
As Freud tells us constantly, every human activity that isn’t sex is the direct result of displaced sexual impulses, [...]

As we enter big award show-season, Grammy, Golden Globe and Oscar nominations are among the most anticipated (and criticized) lists of the year. Last week’s award list came from the Golden Globes, announcing the nominees for the 2009 edition of the TV and movie award show.
Not important in and of themselves, people pay attention to [...]