Previously on Gothamist

- The most boring Oscars ever ever ever, commentaried
- Your beloved Brooklyn restaurant instution turns into a...T.G.I. Friday's
- We hate when sweeps week TV teasers promise to reveal a secret and then it turns out that it's just having Fabio as an ex-boyfriend, like on Average Joe
- How you get out of a trapped subway
- New Yorkers want big, gay marriages, but, as yet, it's illegal
- Two new additions to the Upper West Side food scene: Beard Papa's cream puffs and Katy Sparks
- Bloggers in the news: Peter Rojas starts Engadget (which causes lotsa talk); Choire Sicha employs a Martha Stewart trial witness; and a few NYC girl bloggers get written up in the Daily News
- Upcoming NYC area music concerts
- Mayor Bloomberg guests on Law & Order!
- Check out some favorite NYC things as catalogued by Manhattan User's Guide.

And the week in full.