Thing In New York City More Gets Expensive Again

This weekend movie tickets here in town will cross the magical $20 threshold for the first time, perhaps never to return the more economical $19.50 of yesterday. Granted, this tariff will only apply to IMAX showings of the 3-D extravaganza Shrek: The Only Role In Which Mike Myers Is Tolerable These Days, but you bet your ass that if enough people cough up the dough this time, the prices will migrate to other pictures. And dough they will indeed cough up: This is a children’s movie. What else are parents going to do with their kids on the weekend? Take them outdoors? Read them a book? Talk to them? The streets of Park Slope are going to be a goddamn ghost town Saturday and Sunday, so if you actually have to be in Park Slope you might want to take advantage. Anyway, movie prices! Why, back in my day, you could see two features and a couple of cartoons in between for a nickel, with plenty of change left over for licorice sticks at the concessionaire etc.