Astoria Characters: The Madcap Moviemaker
When the DVD starts, so does the laughter. Anastasios Makedon must have watched his first film a million times. But every time he sees it again, it cracks him up.
When the DVD starts, so does the laughter. Anastasios Makedon must have watched his first film a million times. But every time he sees it again, it cracks him up.
Steve Parker | Posted 10.05.2009 | Business
"Toyota Motor Corp. has joined the growing ranks of automakers planning to bring advanced battery-powered vehicles to consumers in the next few years."
Amanda Christine Miller | Posted 11.09.2009 | Style
An exciting new venue raises the question: Is the traditional runway format still relevant?
Kevin George | Posted 09.14.2009 | Green
Bottom line, if your enthusiastic about EVs, this may be your time to plug-in and get involved. Find out for yourself why there's electricity in the air around EVs.
Michael Cohen | Posted 09.12.2009 | Entertainment
Last night as I watched Miami Social I wanted to lift my fancy LED off the wall, throw it off my 30th floor balcony and then contemplate using its shattered glass to slit my wrists.
Stephen Gyllenhaal | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics
I can go to any movie theater and see America deeply involved in a space program, but the real space program is nearly dead on the vine.
Mairi Beautyman | Posted 09.10.2009 | Green
According to Reuters, luxury car manufacturer BMW has decided to take the high road, with a commitment to withdraw from Formula One by the end of 2009.
Huffington Post | Posted 08.17.2009 | World
German police have arrested three male suspects for attempted extortion from BMW billionaire heiress Susanne Klatten over a sex tape blackmail scandal...
Steve Parker | Posted 08.15.2009 | Business
GM doesn't have the kind of partnership and help which Chrysler will be getting from Fiat and Washington is on-hand only to protect the public's huge investment in the company.
Steve Parker | Posted 08.10.2009 | Business
Is it possible for a 77-year old to do a complete 180-degree turn from his life experience and philosophy? After all, among Lutz's major claims to fame are green-lighting the Dodge Viper and the Plymouth Prowler faux hot rod.
Steve Parker | Posted 08.09.2009 | Business
This isn't the first time Ecclestone and minion Max Mosley have been seen as cheerleaders of a sort for the Third Reich.
gas2.org | Written by Jerry James Stone | Posted 07.24.2009 | Green
LA County Sheriffs stuck driving Crown Vics are about to be left feeling tragically un-hip. Their Board of Sups just approved a deal with BMW to lease...
AP | The Associated Press | Posted 07.11.2009 | Home
2009 BMW Z4 sDrive35i BASE PRICE: $45,750 for sDrive30i with manual transmission; $47,075 for sDrive30i with automatic; $51,650 for sDrive35i with ma...
Trevor Traina | Posted 06.27.2009 | Business
April car sale numbers are in: Audi outsold Mercedes and is nipping at the heels of BMW.
New York Times | John Tierney | Posted 06.19.2009 | Living
"Evolution is good at getting us to avoid death, desperation and celibacy, but it's not that good at getting us to feel happy," says Geoffrey Miller, ...
AP | SAMEER N. YACOUB | Posted 05.10.2009 | World
BAGHDAD — Business, not bombs, is booming at Baghdad car dealerships, as well-heeled Iraqis are indulging in a passion long out of reach _ spiff...
news.yahoo.com | Posted 05.08.2009 | Business
FRANKFURT (AFP) -- German luxury car maker BMW reported Tuesday a sharp drop in March sales but pointed to encouraging signs in the United States and ...
Bloomberg | Brett Neely | Posted 03.31.2009 | World
When Berlin resident Simone Klostermann returned from vacation and couldn't find her Mercedes SLK, she thought it had been towed. Police told her the ...
Steve Parker | Posted 03.26.2009 | Business
In yet another sign of these perilous automotive times, GM has closed its High Performance Vehicle Operations unit.
Steve Parker | Posted 03.21.2009 | Business
Incidentally, GM got another $4 billion Tuesday after turning in their plan. Were you ever rewarded that much just for doing your homework?
Jeffrey Shaffer | Posted 03.20.2009 | Style
I need to hold off on procuring the imitation Rolex until I can augment it with an imitation BMW, imitation Armani wardrobe, and the all-important imitation second home in Telluride.
AP | Posted 02.09.2009 | Business
BERLIN — Germany's BMW AG reported Friday a 4.3 percent decrease in sales for 2008, attributing the fall to the global economic crisis and incre...
Steve Parker | Posted 02.06.2009 | Business
Monday brought three conference calls, each about an hour, with executives from each of the Detroit Three announcing, dissecting and, most of all, spi...
Steve Parker | Posted 01.30.2009 | Business
Happy New Year! We've had the pleasure of helping to create and now write and and moderate this automotive blog beginning in June, 2008, and so far i...
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 01.22.2009 | Business
Clearly the allegiance of the Republicans who opposed the loan to save GM and Chrysler is not with the US, which would lose 900,000 jobs if just GM closed, and more than 2.1 million if the Big Three did.
Nancy Ruhling | Posted 11.02.2009 | New York