Kings 4, Rangers 2: Sometimes teams have quality efforts and still lose. That's what the Rangers put forth Tuesday. They had 41 shots on goal -- including 24 in the second period alone -- but only got two by Jason LaBarbera. Henrik Lundqvist wasn't at his best, and that didn't help. The Rangers had won three straight and five of six, but don't view this as a step backward. They still seem to be headed......

Nets 87, Bucks 80: For one night at least, Jason Kidd did his best to help the Nets get maximum value in a trade. The Nets also proved that even they couldn't find a way to lose a weak team playing without its best player (Michael Redd). The fans cheered loudly for Kidd before the game, so they either want him gone -- and are cheering his efforts to leave -- or love him so......

Knicks 105, Wizards 93:The last time the Knicks won two games in a row, the TV writers' strike was only two weeks old. And this game came against a team that wasn't playing its fourth game in five nights. After jumping out to a quick first-half lead, the Knicks gave much of it back before recovering. Jamal Crawford had 29 points, including 6-of-7 shooting from 3-point land, but did see his free-throw streak come to......

New York City is in the middle of Fashion Week, and last night was Ralph Lauren's 40th anniversary as a designer. And, as Style.com reports, he "staged an extraordinarily lavish runway show and black-tie after-party in the Central Park Conservancy" last night. It was such a big deal that Mayor Bloomberg and his lady friend Diana Taylor stepped out! New York magazine's Show & Talk blog wrote this:Ralph himself seemed blasé. Standing by an......

As the museum-going public excitedly awaits the opening of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's expanded southern wing, the NY Times reveals more details. About 5,300 works of Greek and Roman art now will see the light of day, with the gallery reopening tomorrow after a 15-year, $220 million redesign. During that time, an unbelievable 95 percent of the Met’s Greek and Roman collection had been collecting dust, so to speak. The redesign comes more......

Special water theme today on the Gothamist Newsmap: DOA Floater on Staten Island, found human remains on Plumb Beach in Brooklyn, and a water rescue in the Hudson. Coliseum Books has closed for the last time-- a victim of the internet, Barnes & Noble, and rising real estate prices. Some "deranged" goths vandalized a church on East 76th Street twice in the last two days-- writing "Satan is God" and "Christ is a False......

- Newsday is passing along information that the new Mets ballpark will be named CitiField. The source of their information? A blog - though their link to the site is incorrect. Someone wrote into Hot Foot with this bit of information: I was talking to my father who is working on the new mets stadium and he told me that they just put up a sign saying : "CitiField: Coming in 2009"..also if you......

-- "Get the hell outta here!": Ralph's Discount City on Chambers Street is closing, to be replaced with condos. -- Speaking of unjust closings: Coliseum Books in Midtown is also folding. -- Pretty: a night shot from Delancey street. -- The city consumes about the same amount of water as they did in 1951, despite population growth. The difference is being made up in Starbucks coffee. -- Well, there's no way we're ever flying......

READINGS: Brooklyn-based writer and publicist Jennifer Gilmore reads tonight at Coliseum from her buzzy debut novel, Golden Country, which follows the intersecting lives of three Jewish American families from the 1920s through the 1960s. - Krissa Corbett Cavouras 6:30pm // 11 W. 42nd Street [across from Bryant Park] // Free EVENT: Michael Gray, the Duke of Dylanology, will school us in Bob tonight. He "uses a surprising selection of great records and rare video footage......

The VMA's are in town, but there's more to do beyond screaming outside of Radio City or attempting to hit up one of the red carpet parties... EVENT: If you're in to PDA then head uptown tonight, there's going to be a "makeout party". We prefer the sound of silence over the sound of hundreds of people smooching, so we'll probably skip this. Of note: they mention that "this is a kissing-only event, so all......

READINGS: An afternoon event for those of you who don't need to be sweltering in a thankless office - Erica Jong has a conversation with writer Ariel Levy and reads from her new autobiography, Seducing the Demon: Writing for my Life in the sunny Bryant Park Reading Room as part of the Word for Word Series. In the book, Jong tells spicy tales of New York and Hollywood, and describes life after best-selling novel Fear......

We've got a packed week of awesome events for you, so start tonight (5/10) at McNally Robinson NYC to catch Welsh author Niall Griffiths in a rare U.S. appearance, reading from his latest, Wreckage, starting at 7PM. Tomorrow night (5/11), head over to the 92nd Street Y to catch former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright discuss religion and world politics with James Hoge - it's the subject of her latest book, The Mighty and the......

It's not too late to change your plans for tonight and head to either of the evening' stellar literary offerings, is it? Better yet, if you don't have any, consider this: KGB Bar (84 E 4th St) is hosting a reading of non-fiction that should kick off Black History Month with style - Elizabeth Gardner Hines, Rebecca Carroll, Kathy Y. Wilson, and G. Bell. Then, heading uptown to the 92nd St. Y (Lexington Ave. and......

Beloved memoirist Augusten Burroughs will be giving a reading next Tuesday of his latest book, Magical Thinking, at Coliseum Books. And he's going to dish about the new film adaptation of Running with Scissors (Annette Bening will play his mom, Gabrielle Union his mother's girlfriend; Brian Cox is his mom's shrink and Gwyneth Paltrow, Kristin Chenoweth, and Evan Rachel Wood seem to be play his daughters). His last event, at Cooper Union, was totally packed......

Today at 12:30 PM, you can catch rock critic Chuck Klosterman reading from his new book, Killing Yourself To Live: 85% Of A True Story, at the Bryant Park Reading Room as part of Coliseum Books’ “Word for Word” lunchtime reading series. Gothamist read Chuck’s latest book, which advertised itself as a rock n roll adventure in which our musing protagonist spends 21 days driving cross-country to visit and ponder music’s greater deaths, from Kurt......

A mailbox full of bills, irrational clients, rush hour on the subway, those lines starting to radiate from our eyes…sometimes adulthood is not all that was promised and we take refuge in a favorite childhood book. We were recently pleased as punch to discover that there exists a New York chapter of the Betsy-Tacy society. If you are asking yourself, “what’s Betsy-Tacy?” it’s too late for you (unless you’re a ten-year-old girl). But if......

Amy Krouse Rosenthal's book, Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life, should make everyone realize that their so-called boring lives are pretty interesting (the book is made up of entries based on Rosenthal's observations and own life, like what can happen when you introduce a friend to another friend). But what Gothamist loves most is the found-book scheme she's concocted:Between January 25th and February 1st, in Chicago, New York and San Francisco, hundreds of copies of Encyclopedia......

Oh, Slice, how we love thee: Not only does the best pizza weblog ever dissect the important cameo of Joe's on Bleecker on Wednesday's Law & Order (there's nothing that says "quality pizza" like mob guy getting a slice right before being gunned down), Slice has been keeping tabs on the pizza habits of music artists. Slice looked at Ted Leo's "Me & Mia": video, which was filmed at World Famous Ray's (the one at......

A great day of college football, including a number of top 25 match-ups, caused some real movement in our poll this week (last week). Look for another great Saturday of college football action this week as Oklahoma meets Texas and Cal travels to USC. 1. Oklahoma – Can Stoops continue his magic against Texas? Sooners have been so dominant in this rivalry that we have to keep picking them until Texas proves they can get......

Loyal Gothamist readers will notice that there is little change in our rankings this week - there simply weren't many upsets or games involving top 25 teams last week. That will certainly change this weekend with several top matchups including LSU vs. UGA, Aub vs. Tenn, and Purdue vs ND. It will be a great weekend for college football junkies/coach potatoes! Naturally Gothamist will be watching every televised game from Noon until 2 am in......

Did you see Fahrenheit 9/11 this weekend and feel the need to quench your insatiable thirst for political conspiracies and hypocrisies? To scratch at the underbelly of the US Government and uncover the ongoing perversion of democracy? Then go see Larry Flynt tonight at Coliseum Books on 42nd & 6th, because even if you don't believe in what he has to say...it's sure to be interesting none-the-less. Buy the book, Gothamist likes how he managed......

Even though it's just a fleeting glimpse of a trenchcoat, be assured, it's Richard Belzer, a.k.a. Detective John Munch from Law & Order: Special Victims' Unit and Homicide: Life on the Streets, the most brilliant cop show of the 1990s (L&O is a cop and lawyer show) – you can take your NYPD Blue and shove it. This photograph of Mr. Belzer was taken by Adam, who tells us the actor–comedian had been at......

Gothamist is lucky because our readers will email us about many Law & Order related things, whether it's a sighting or a show or an idea. And we love you for it. Here's a round up of some that we've gotten over the past few weeks: –Rachelle got L&O: Criminal Intent's Vincent D'Onofrio to stop and take a picture with her. Gothamist is impressed with Rachelle's moxie and that Vincent willingly posed – it's......