Entertainment

Entertainment News and General Sites (Back to Top)

About.com: Guide to Long Island
http://longisland.miningco.com
A guide to all that Long Island has to offer. From Things to Do to Hotels, Travel and Tourism.

BBC News: Entertainment
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/default.stm
Focuses on stories of UK interest first, then stories of international interest.

CNN.com-Entertainment
http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/
Keep up to date on all the latest entertainment happenings.

E! Online
http://www.eonline.com/
"E! Online provides original up-to-the-minute entertainment news, information, gossip, reviews, games, live event coverage and entertainment-related merchandise (shop.eonline.com) to movie, TV and music enthusiasts."

Entertainment Tonight Online
http://www.etonline.com/
"Main site for the show with polls, interviews, articles and broadcast schedule." Google

Mr. Showbiz
http://mrshowbiz.go.com/
Features entertainment news as well as movie reviews.

Newsday.com: Entertainment
http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/
Includes the latest entertainment news.

Yahoo!-Entertainment
http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/
The popular directory search engines guide to entertainment.

Movies and Music (Back to Top)

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
http://www.oscars.org/index.html
Lists of recipients for all Oscar award winners can be found here.

All Movie Guide
http://allmovie.com
This site covers 131,000 films, 200,000 casts and 12,000 biographies.

All Music Guide
http://www.allmusic.com/
Search 192,000 albums with over 16,000 biographies.

Black Film Center Archive
http://www.indiana.edu/~bfca/index.html
This site offers an extensive set of resources for black cinema. This is more an academic than a review site.

Classical Net
http://www.classical.net
Now featuring reviews of more than 1650 CDs, as well as 5500 files and over 3800 links to other classical music web sites.

Cannes Film Festival
http://www.festival-cannes.fr/index.php?langue=6002
Perhaps the most prestigious European film award offered, this site offers information on the current years festivities as well as previous years' winners.

Film.com
http://www.film.com/
Find movie reviews, trailers, and clips of popular movies.

ForeignFilms.com
http://www.foreignfilms.com/
This site lets you browse through listings of foreign language films by country of origin, genre, or language. Searchable by title or cast/crew member. Current news about the film industry outside of the United States plus listings of recent theatrical or DVD/Video releases.

The Greatest Films
http://www.filmsite.org
Contains a complete Academy Awards history as well as comparison lists of "best" films.

Internet Movie Database
http://us.imdb.com
The most complete and comprehensive movie database on the Web. Covers over 200,000 films and hundreds of thousands of actors, actresses, directors, and production staff.

Movie Review Query Engine
http://www.mrqe.com
Search for reviews of your favorite movie.

New York Times: Movies
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/movies/reviews/index.html
The New York Times has made available its complete movie review archive of over 28,000 entries, dating from 1960 forward. Also included in the archive are reviews of all "Best Picture" winners and the 1,000 best movies of all time as judged by the newspaper's reviewers. You can search the archive or browse it by year, genre, critic, or country of origin.

http://www.opus1classical.com
http://www.opus1classical.com
Classical. Use this site to search for classical music concerts and opera around the world.

WBLI.com
http://wbli.com/event_guide/movies.html
Lists when and where movies are playing across the island. Weekend times are usually available on Thursday or Friday.

Entertainers (Back to Top)

WhoRepresents
www.whorepresents.com
Find out who the agent is for a particular actor or actress.

Television, Radio and Theatre (Back to Top)

Academy of Television Arts and Sciences: Emmy Awards
http://www.emmys.tv/
Lists award winners, Daytime Emmy award winners, as well as applications for membership and submission forms for nominations.

EPguides.com
http://www.epguides.com
This site contains episode lists for over 1500 television shows. Episode titles, original airdates, and cast lists are provided. For 375 of the programs, detailed plot summaries are given for each episode.

Internet Broadway Database
http://www.ibdb.com/
"The Internet Broadway Database is the official archival database for Broadway theatre information. The IBDB provides records of productions from the beginnings of New York theatre until today. Details include pertinent people involved as well as interesting facts and production statistics. Get a list of every production of Hamlet on Broadway or a list of your favorite actor’s credits. Find out what played at a particular theatre or what shows opened in a specified Broadway season."

The Late Night TV Page
http://www.interbridge.com/lineups.html
Find out who is going to be on your favorite late night show tonight and upcoming nights.

Musicals 101.com: The Cyber Encyclopedia of Musical Theater, TV and Film
http://www.musicals101.com
An online encyclopedia celebrating the history and current state of American and British musical theater. Included are features such as chronologies, indexes, photo galleries, and calendars commemorating special events and persons in musical theater history. "Special Courses" are available on subjects such as Gilbert & Sullivan, George M. Cohan, Ziegfield, and A Chorus Line. The "History of Musicals" section includes an excellent historical overview of the subject called "What is a musical?"

What a Character
http://www.what-a-character.com/
This site provides identification and biographies for the many less well known character actors who populate the world of film and television. A photograph and short filmography is also provided for each actor. Particularly useful is the listing of character actors who have appeared in popular programs such as Star Trek, Twilight Zone, and X-Files.

TV Guide.com
http://www.tvguide.com/default
A place to see what is playing, to chat with fellow tv watchers and to explore television in depth.

Games, Hobbies and Sports

Chess is fun
http://www.princeton.edu/~jedwards/cif/intro.html
Princeton University's guide to beginners chess.

Google.com: Games
http://www.google.com/Top/Games/
A list of sites for everything from indoor games such as board games and miniatures to table games and play-by-mail.

Mensa.org
http://www.mensa.org/
Mensa is the organization which only accepts members who can prove that they have a certain upper-level i.q. capacity.

Pagat.com
http://www.pagat.com/
Has game information about card games worldwide such as 4-card brag to Zwickern.

Patchogue-Medford Libraries' Guide to Sports and Recreation
http://www.pmlib.org/Pmlsports.htm
A group of links, hand-picked by our reference staff which explore the world of sports and recreation.

Food (Back to Top)

Epicurious.com
http://www.epicurious.com
A great site for a wide collection of recipes.

RecipeSource
http://www.recipesource.com
"From our start with around 10,000 recipes we've grown the collection to 7 times that size, and had our pages accessed millions of times from around the world."

Amusements and Travel (Back to Top)

About.com-Theme Parks
http://themeparks.about.com/travel/themeparks/mbody.htm
Worldwide guide to theme parks.

Letterboxing North America
http://www.letterboxing.org/
A treasure hunt for modern times. You find boxes which have been buried and left all over America. You leave your stamp on a page that is with the clue to show that you have been there. This site gives you clues on where to find the boxes.

Patchogue-Medford Libraries' Guide to Travel
http://www.pmlib.org/Pmltravl.htm
A group of links, hand-picked by our reference staff exploring travel and things associated with travel.

Priceline.com
http://www.priceline.com/
Decide what you want to spend on an item or service, and see if the retailer agrees with you!

Ticketmaster.com
http://www.ticketmaster.com/
A place to find and buy tickets online for popular events.

Tickets.com
http://www.tickets.com/
A place to find tickets for international events.

Virtual Cards and Books (Back to Top)

Online Books Page
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
A search engine for online books.

Project Gutenberg
http://www.gutenberg.org/
A place to find many online classical texts.

Video Games (Back to Top)

On-line Gamers Anonymous
http://www.olganonboard.org/
Site for help with addiction to On-line gaming.

http://www.ign.com/
A place to find codes and cheats for video games.

This page was last updated on Dec 4, 2007.-DW