Live it up Don Corleone-style in The Godfather Mansion ($2.9 million). Located on Staten Island and used during the filming of 1972's The Godfather, this gigantic English Tudor home features eight bedrooms, three and a half baths, a den, eat-in kitchen, and laundry room with chute spread across three floors, plus a finished basement with an English pub, a three-quarter bath, a rec room, and more cred than any special edition DVD set is ever going to get you.
Digging the idea behind JackThreads but wishing they offered more high-end attire? Then Gilt Man is for you. This service offers brand-name luxury goods and threads at discounts of up to 70%, with each hand-selected style going on sale at Noon and for 36 hours only. You might wonder why folks demanding high-end wares might utilize such a thing, but hey — stylish people like to save money too, and apparently also like to sit in ponderous positions in metal chairs near the street.
Wouldn't it be great if there was an exclusive online club for buying cool clothes at deep discounts? As it turns out, there is. JackThreads is a new members-only online shopping club featuring brand names from around the world — like Mosely Tribes sunglasses, Alfie shoes, Nudie Jeans, and Flud Watches — all offered at discounts of up to 80% off regular retail. Follow the link above to skip the lengthy membership wait-list and get an instant $5 shopping credit, making your first purchase that much more of a deal.
Like Doc Brown's message to Marty from 1885 to 1955, you can now send honest-to-goodness telegrams across the ocean or across time with Telegram Stop ($6). This ingenious online service allows you to type in your message — complete with -(STOP)- for periods and full stops — and send it on a vintage-looking card to anyone you want at any (current or future) time you want, replacing a simple electronic communiqué with something much more permanent and memorable. You can even upload photos to be printed and sent along with your message. Take that, MMS.
Behold the awesome old school goodness of these vintage-printed, buttery-soft Homage T-Shirts. They turn back the clock with shout outs to eclectic moments and personalities in sports, music, politics and popular culture. From Bruce Lee to Larry Bird, the tees tell stories of triumph, individualism and hustle. Pay Homage.
We love ninjas, pirates, robots, and zombies here at Uncrate HQ, but there's only one of those that we'd actually consider becoming. Private Ninja Lessons ($200) can help you on your way to becoming a stealth assassin or just improving your self-defense skills. The 90-minute sessions — held in Bronxville, NY — are led by an actual Shidoshi, and include history, tradition, and philosophy lessons before the ninjutsu-based self-defense, awareness, and combat strategy practice begins, possibly including some weapons training, but most likely not teaching you how to effectively throw a ninja star.
Finally, you can watch Hulu on your TV, iPhone, or iPad — so long as you're willing to pay for it. Hulu Plus ($10) is a new ad-supported subscription service from the online video house that lets users watch a huge number of shows — including current season episodes of shows like 30 Rock, Modern Family, and Family Guy, as well as the entire run of classics like The X-Files, Arrested Development, and Miami Vice — in streaming 720p HD on a wide range of devices, including Internet-enabled TVs and Blu-ray players from Samsung and Sony, the PS3, the Xbox 360, and, of course, Apple's iDevices.
Keep your eyes glued to the action, no matter where you go, with the FLO TV Personal Television ($200). The service offers live and time-shifted content from leading channels such as ESPN, ABC, CBS, Comedy Central, NBC, Fox, and more, all of which can be enjoyed on the player's 3.5-inch touchscreen, with a built-in stand and stereo speakers adding to the experience. Also awesome is availability of UFC events and the live mobile coverage of all 64 matches of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, including a dedicated 24-hour World Cup channel, so you can relive all of the bad calls over and over again.
Continuing our 5th anniversary celebration, we're giving away 5 of these bad boys. To enter, just make sure you're subscribed to our daily dispatch. We'll choose one of you gents at random, and you'll be watching Landon here squeak to the knockout round.
Some homes have a history, but few are as well-known or horrifying as the Amityville Horror House ($1.15 million). Formerly listed as 112 Ocean Ave., this gorgeous Dutch Colonial was the site where Ronald DeFeo Jr. brutally killed six family members as they slept in 1974. Hauntings reported by later owners led to the bestselling 1977 book The Amityville Horror ($8) and the subsequent movie series. Features include a finished basement, large deck with views of the Amityville River, a renovated boat house, a central stereo system, and the chance for some supernatural houseguests. [Photo: Getty Images]
You can now own a little — okay, actually really big — piece of movie memorabilia by purchasing the Field of Dreams Farm ($5.4 million). This 193-acre property includes the baseball field and two-bedroom, 1.5 bath farmhouse seen in the 1989 film, two souvenir stands, and six other assorted farm buildings. With approximately 65,000 movie buffs visiting the site each year, it's a modest tourist attraction, along with actually being a farm. If you build buy it, they will come.
There's few things we hate more than having to give up a beloved pair of jeans because of wear, tears, or holes that outgrew their stylishness. Luckily, we no longer have to. Denim Therapy ($7/inch) is a jean repair service that works miracles on broken denim, restoring pair after pair to respectable-or-better condition while retaining all the marks, softness, and fit that some from a well-worn pair of leg covers. For those of us who've made a semi-serious investment in our jeans, it's a life saver, and you don't even have to leave the house — which is great, because you'll be pants-less for about two weeks.
When you think of Gant, you might think of old white men in suits... and you'd be partially right. But the company's new Rugger line is decidedly more youthful and stylish, and it's getting its very own showcase at the new Gant Rugger Store. Nestled at 353 Bleecker Street between Charles and West 10th Streets, this 700 sq. ft. shop features the complete new clothing line, as well as an industrial interior design, augmented by exposed brick, open ceilings, vintage furniture, and factory-floor fixtures, as well as a wood and frosted glass dressing room made to honor the old foreman's office of company founder Bernard Gant. Because the place where you buy your clothes should be as cool as the clothes themselves.
We're big fans of Zipcar, the car sharing service, so it only makes sense that we'd be pumped about B-Cycle. A collaboration between Humana, Trek, and ad house Cripsin Porter + Bogusky, B-Cycle will soon be launching in Denver, with expansion plans in the works. Simply walk up to the B-station kiosk, pay, grab a bike, and go — you can drop off the bike at any other B-station with an empty dock. Just don't forget to bring a helmet.