INNER DEBATE: Project Runway finale vs. final Presidential Debate? Something to think about.
MOVIE: Tonight Frontrunners: Election Time at New York’s Stuyvesant High School opens at the Film Forum. Think of it as a real life documentary version of the movie Election. "Not surprisingly, some of the nation’s smartest, most media-savvy teenagers run an election for class president with primaries, televised debates, newspaper endorsements and considerable schmoozing in the halls. Stuyvesant accepts 3% of the 25,000 kids who apply for admission annually, and when only one of them is going to become class president, you can bet that tensions run high." Who will win?! Find out tonight, or anytime before the film's run is over on the 21st. Watch the trailer here.
Various times // Film Forum [209 W Houston St] // $11
THEATER: In David Greenberg's A Kite Cut Loose In The Middle Of The Sky concerns a sex-obsessed quadriplegic named Rosie "and her struggle to 'remain' a woman although she cannot feel anything." The first act takes place during a debauched party with her other disabled friends, and the Times's Neil Genzlinger notes that Rosie "may be the least sympathetic character in a wheelchair you’ll ever see onstage." He finds the second act most compelling, with "some crackling moments as the quadriplegic with a death wish squares off against the criminal with contempt for life." — John Del Signore
8 p.m. // Spoon Theatre [38 West 38th St, 5th Fl] // $18
MUSIC: Next Week PWRFL Power will be playing at Gothamist House, but get a preview tonight at Southpaw, where Tiny Vipers and Polite Sleeper are also on the bill. You may want to catch him twice anyway, since after our show he'll be off to the Pacific Northwest until December.
8 p.m. // Southpaw [125 5th Ave, Brooklyn] Cancelled!
COMEDY: Tonight kicks off the Hysterical Festival, billed as "a celebration of fierce female humor" taking place over the next four days. The late show at Comix will have Stripped Stories, the sex-themed storytelling show where comediennes reveal hysterically honest stories about their sex lives, hosted by Giulia Rozzi and Margot Leitman.
9:30 p.m. // Comix [353 W 14th St]// $10-20
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The McCain/Palin campaign is having zero luck with their song choices. Following Heart, Survivor, the Foo Fighters, John Mellencamp and Jackson Browne speaking out against the two-some using their songs, Bon Jovi has now spoken up after their tune "Home" was used at a rally or two. They released the following statement today: "We wrote this song as a thank you to those who have supported us over the past twenty-five years. The song has since become a banner for our home state of New Jersey and the defacto theme song for our partnerships around the country to build homes and rebuild communities. Although we were not asked, we do not approve of their use of 'Home.'" Still, probably didn't sting as badly as when Van Halen protested the use of one of their songs being used by the campaign (Palin's son's middle name is Van, as an homage to the band).]]>
The Guggenheim 
Alexis Gambis is a French-Venezuelan New Yorker, who was raised to use both the left and right sides of his brain equally by engineer/painter Alexis Gorodine and sociology major-turned filmmaker Olga Gambis. Naturally, he went on to study both film and science in college, and eventualy started a lecture series at The Rockefeller University called "Science and Media". He's also part of the Secret Science Club, and now, he brings the first Science Film Festival to New York! The Imagine Science Film Festival kicks off on Thursday, and runs through the 25th. 
Following the Madison Square Park Conservancy putting up some tree huts, NBC has built "a giant treehouse at the corner of Broadway and 51st Street to tubthump the Oct. 17 debut of its drama series Crusoe," Variety reports. This one will is a replica of where Robinson Crusoe lives in the network's adaptation of the Daniel Defoe novel. Can't make it to the 30 Rock area? It's all online, with 24-hour webcam action. But this thing would be a lot cooler if it were actually, you know, in a tree. Either way, it'll be around til Friday, with a hired-actor playing the part of Crusoe.]]>
Gothamist House will be back for CMJ this year...and we've moved! Our new home is at the Bell House in Brooklyn, and we'll be there starting next Wednesday October 22nd through Saturday October 25th, from 3 to 8 p.m. each day. More details, and more band announcements to come, but here's what we can tell you right now...
Did you know that getting into the NBC page program is ten times as competitive as admission to Harvard or Yale? The Times takes a look into the position currently brought to life by Jack McBrayer as the character Kenneth on 30 Rock. The program's humble job description includes working six days a week and getting paid $10 an hour to "photocopy, fetch coffee and often stand sentry outside studio doors in empty hallways." (There's no mention if pages have to clean Brian Williams's dressing room before he gets back from the liquor store as Kenneth does.) The Times even suggests that competition to be a page is so cutthroat that in real life, the naive- but-gung-ho Kenneth might not make the grade. Meanwhile, McBrayer admits to the paper that when he is mistaken for an actual page around the building, he simply plays the part saying, “Instead of giving the whole spiel, that I’m an actor in a fake show, I just look down at the phone list and type ‘2379, Marci Klein.’ ”]]>
Sure, photos of the Real World cast have seeped onto the internet, but now one blogger has gotten up close and personal with them, seeing what the walking MTV clichés are really all about. She reports back (with video!), attending a loft party this weekend in the neighborhood: "from what I could tell, there was a normal, apple-pie girl (the one going out with the guy who lived in the party loft) who had a weird different name like Been or Bien or Bash or something; there was a queen-y, tall, black guy who was making a dramatic Blackberry phone call outside, presumably to one of the other roommates; an alterna-girl with styled, black hair who seemed to be short on patience and long on attitude; and there were a few diminutive, run-of-the-mill fratties with Gotti-boy hair." Also, one of them did Jäger bombs before he got there. Really, MTV? It's like you aren't even trying anymore.]]>
FILM/MUSIC: Multi-instrumentalist Brendan Canty, the drummer for permanently-on-hiatus band Fugazi, is back in town to play live music to the bewitching handmade films of Brent Green. They'll perform twice tonight; the simpler first set will feature a live Foley artist, and the second set will have additional support from Brooklyn band Drew & the Medicinal Pen. If you've never stepped into Green's mesmerizing world of DIY cinema—where Santa Claus invents Christmas with a belly full of cough syrup and a religious zealot mother kills herself to try and find her dead son and escape with him from hell—you're missing out! – John Del Signore
Lindsay Lohan has a fashion line that's about to launch, and it's all about leggings. She updated her blog today with the announcement that her line, 6126 (named after Marilyn Monroe's birthday), would be officially launched at a celebration at Henri Bendel's tonight in New York. And you're all invited. About those leggings...she says: "Our holiday collection is pretty eclectic from gold zippers to leather detailing, to buttery soft cashmere. I hope you enjoy the collection as much as I enjoyed making it." Just picture it, sitting around the crackling fire with your family during the holidays wearing your gold-zippered leggings. The price won't be cheap, that particular style will run you about $123, but the most expensive pair come complete with knee pads [insert joke here]. Gotta give her credit though, she notes that at tonight's event "a percentage of all sales from 6126 [will go] to Ovarian Cancer Research, a cause very close to my heart." Put on your best leggings and head to Henri Bendel at 6 p.m. tonight if you want to be a part of this historic event.]]>