41,000 historic photos re-emerge at New York Public Library

From the New York Times:
Roy Stryker, founder of the Farm Security Administration’s photography project, was determined to compile a visual encyclopedia of the United States in the 1930s and ’40s and preserve it for future generations.

So, while photographers like Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans and Russell Lee crisscrossed the country, Mr. Stryker was sending boxes of prints to Ramona Javitz, the director of the New York Public Library Picture Collection, to make sure there was a repository other than the National Archives.

But the 41,000 prints that Mr. Stryker had sent to Ms. Javitz languished and were largely forgotten. Read more

Grint & Rickman to reunite in CBGBs punk movie

In what is either the boldest or most ridiculous movie casting since Kristen Stewart became Joan Jett in the Runaways' movie, Harry Potter's Rupert Grint will don leopard skin and black leather as Dead Boys guitarist Cheetah Chrome in a film about the early days of legendary New York punk club CBGB's. Stranger still is the casting of Alan Rickman (Potter's Severus Snape) as the club's owner Hilly Krystal - though Rickman's proved he can pull off a decent American accent as witnessed in the first 'Die Hard' film. No word on who will play Joey Ramone, Blondie's Deborah Harry, or Dead Boys frontman Stiv Bators.