Chris Meloni jumps from TV drama to big-screen laughs in the retro spoof Wet Hot American Summer, where you may not recognize the gruff detective from Special Victims Unit (or the sex psycho from Oz).

By day, he's the path-breaking designer of book jackets every ambitious writer wants to work with; by night, he's a comic-book connoisseur and collector of kitsch. Showman and bon vivant -- and now author of a new novel -- Chip Kidd is his own superhero.

Down and out in Williamsburg? Not exactly. How the victims of a sputtering economy are fueling a creative explosion.

With the arrival this month of the Playstation 2, Sony's latest bid for gaming-world domination, Derek de Koff examines the soul of the machine -- and worries about his own.

What do you get when you cross the city that never sleeps with the love that dares not speak its name? An entire summer of good queer fun.