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"Truly, this has been the most unusual job I’ve ever had, and I don’t know if I could ever have another 9-5 job, because what do I do for an encore? What would top this?" After years of serving as senior editor of Playgirl magazine, Coleen Kane is leaving her post and the big city for Baton Rouge. Gothamist caught up with Colleen as she prepared for move to find out about what it's like to work at a porn office, the sleaze, awesomeness, and ridiculousness she's encountered, and how Playgirl played a part in her meeting Kurt Vonnegut.

Four months after the opening of three much mulled-over Robert Moses exhibitions, the debate over his legacy shows no signs of waning. Yesterday’s NY Times delved yet again into the morass, this time wondering whether the two perspectives are simply creatures of their cultural moments – a city embroiled in decay vs. a city experiencing a growth spurt.

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a bank robbery on Amboy Rd. on Staten Island, a shooting on Lexington Ave. in Brooklyn, and a water rescue in the area of the George Washington Bridge, near Manhattan's 176th St.
• The Italian boyfriend of actress Anne Hathaway is being sued by a business partner for misusing $1.3 million of a joint venture fund, spending it on things like private jet trips with his girlfriend and subsidizing a lavish lifestyle.
• Former police officer Charles Schwarz completed his five-year prison term and was released from a halfway house where he finished it. While always maintaining his innocence of any involvement in the attack on Abner Louima that occurred while the man was in police custody, Schwarz agreed to a plea deal just before starting his fourth trial.
• Rudy Giuliani's getting it from both social conservatives and liberals after equivocating on questions of abortion during this week's Republican Presidential debate. Critics from both sides stressed that there is no middle ground in the debate.
• Ten current and former members of the M.T.A. Police Department are suing the agency, alleging discrimination against black and Hispanic officers.
• A ruptured 48-inch underground pipe near the Yonkers train station spewed as many as four million gallons of sewage into the Hudson River today.
• We thought stoners were immune to these types of impulses, but an LSU student was arrested after he made repeated threats of a violent attack against Senator Clinton, who is scheduled to be in Baton Rouge today. He was also found posessing marijuana and drug paraphenalia.
• The possible remains of six more WTC victims were found by recovery workers. Four potential body parts were found in material dug from beneath a service road and the potential remains of two more people were found on the roof of a Cedar St. building.

ART: For The Garden of Unearthly Delights, Gary Baseman taps into the id, the psyche of primitive impulses. Influenced by “The Garden of Earthly Delights”, a renaissance masterpiece by Hieronymous Bosch, Baseman creates what he calls "pervasive art". He uses both the channels of mass media TV, Film, Print, and fine art. [Right: Anita 11" x 8.5" Ephemera, mixed media]

Over the weekend the main topic of discussion was how to help out the people who were affected by Hurricane Katrina. Some New Yorkers are organizing events in order to raise money. We expect, and hope, there will be a lot more coming up in the next few months. For now take a look below at some of the upcoming benefits.