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Stealing and posting filmed images online is relatively easy. A pirate simply carries a digital camcorder into a movie theater, tapes a film, then uploads the file to his PC and personal website back home. Or she hooks a standard VCR up to her computer and uses a video capture card to convert the film to a digital format. For now, DVD movies are tough to pirate because the files are encrypted. Big movie companies are working to develop a similarly secure format that would allow them to offer pay-per-view films online...
...writer whose masterpiece--The Awakening--went unappreciated until after her death in 1904. Her achingly wistful novel offers a counterpoint to Toole's farce. Readers can pick up Chopin's trail on the outskirts of the French Quarter, where her heroine, Edna Pontellier, lived on Esplanade Avenue. The Pontellier home is thought to have been modeled on the Claiborne Mansion, now an expensive bed-and-breakfast, in the adjacent Faubourg Marigny neighborhood. When Edna left her husband and moved around the corner in pursuit of freedom, her new home was probably in the bohemian section...
...want to stay--or dine at least once--at the Plaza, well known to the younger set as the residence of Kay Thompson's mischievous Eloise, whose portrait (by Eloise illustrator Hilary Knight) overlooks the hotel's Palm Court. There, modern-day urchins can order kid-friendly delectables like Home Alone Sundaes and s'mores...
...quaint streets and charming bistros of Greenwich Village hold many treats for book lovers of all ages. The narrowest house in the Village, occupying just 9 1/2 ft. at 75 1/2 Bedford Street, was once the home of poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. Another tiny house, a lopsided cottage on Charles and Greenwich, is surely one of the most charming in the city. Named Cobble Court, it was once located on the Upper East Side, where it housed Margaret Wise Brown, author of Goodnight Moon. Sophisticated teens will want to stop for a hamburger at the White Horse Tavern...
Times Square is the closest subway station to New York's theater district, and it was the home of Tucker Mouse and Chester Cricket in George Selden's The Cricket in Times Square. Bookworms will recall the neighborhood around the public library in Bryant Park across town as the domain of Lucinda Wyman, the heroine of Ruth Sawyer's Roller Skates, who prowled the city a century ago, making friends of cab drivers, patrolmen, fruit vendors, junk dealers and confectioners--defying her class-conscious relatives. A pleasant place to lunch nearby: the Algonquin, onetime hangout of wits and wags Dorothy...