This week, Bruni visits Rosanjin in Tribeca for kaseiki, finds it "strange and sometimes wonderful" and awards the restaurant two stars. The meal of many small courses is supposed to provide spiritual uplift in its ceremony. For Bruni, "the glory is in the details," like the uni wrapped in a shiso leaf, then battered and fried. The later courses were letdowns, however, and sometimes the small courses left him hungry two hours later. Also in......

It seems like young, affluent hipsters are always finding something new to do with their voluminous free time. Remember the Rated X parties from earlier in the year? The ones that clogged your Flickr streams with low-quality amateur porn every couple of weeks? Well, the phenomenon has mutated and it's been gelatin-ized. The Amateur Female Jello Wrestling people have been staging monthly events since 2003-- but it's only recently that they've captured the attention......

It turns out that yesterday's successful attempt to free the U.S.S. Intrepid from being mired in Hudson River mud was momentarily in doubt. The tugboats initially managed to move the 29,000 ton aircraft carrier ten feet, but then it stopped. The NY Times reports that towing pilot for McAllister Towing, Jeffrey McAllister "urged tugboat pilots to try to 'wiggle' the hull to break the grip of the mud" which worked. McAllister, though, said, "If......

-- A one-bedroom apartment above the Red Hook Fairway for $3150? Maybe they're charging extra for the biodiesel smell! -- Experience the wonder of the One Web Day event through Brian Van's exciting photographs. -- Doesn't it kind of look like the Williamsburgh Savings Bank is wearing a condom? No, seriously, it does. -- A priest who stole $1 million from an Upper East Side church was sentenced to 1-4 years, plus needs to......

To get to the 20th floor of 230 Fifth Avenue you need to walk past security, through turnstiles ready for keycards, past all the stores on the ground floor to a nearly private elevator and the cheetah in the foyer will let you know you’ve made it. And by “made it” we mean “are ready to spend $12 for a well cocktail” or $9 for a beer in a very, very narrow glass. The......

New York is literally brimming with Tobey Maguire sightings this week. Apparently Spiderman 3 is shooting around town, and we've been receiving dozens of sightings and reports. Today, Brian Van sent in this shot, along with a report: I'll give you the straight dirt on him: Tiny. Generally nice to fans with one exception: Acts like a big dick to anyone who looks like a paparazzi, including normal citizens with fancy cameras. Somewhat understandable, but......

On Friday A Hamburger Today and Cupcakes Take The Cake joined forces to take over a particularly niche spot, Burgers & Cupcakes. On a particularly unappealing stretch of Ninth Avenue (our closest landmark is B & H Camera) the restaurant is bright, colorful and more than a little kitsch-y. The staff remained bubbly, gracious and seemingly undaunted as the groups and their readers took all eighty seats hungry. The burgers, available in veggie and salmon......

Wednesday night we celebrated the release of Eat This Book! by Ryan Nerz on the (still enclosed) rooftop of The Delancey, savored cupcakes from Sugar Sweet Sunshine and watched our first professional eating contest. From left, we saw "Crazy Legs" Conti, Eric "Badlands" Booker and Tim "Eater X" Janus eat as many mini cupcakes as possible (without water!) in 2 minutes. At 29 tiny frosted cakes, New York's own (and a crowd favorite) Badlands won,......

Brian Van headed over to Trader Joe's at Union Square this morning, and says it was "crowded as hell." He has a set of photographs on Flickr, and we asked him if people were getting green leis, due to St. Patrick's Day. Brian said no, but:All of the staff were wearing these quirky-patterned shirts (I'd say hawaiian but I'm no authority on shirt patterns) and were happily greeting people. Balloons were everywhere, mostly green......

Brian Van sent us this photograph of Nicole Richie delivering Dr. Diet Pepper at 6th Avenue and West 3rd Street. This is 99.9% Nicole Richie, but with this whole "sunglasses bigger than your head" trend, how can we be so sure that it isn't that chick who has been playing JT LeRoy?......

Note: a few people were uncomfortable with the picture of Lindsay that we used on this post, so we took it down. We got the warning label from this fun site. Peace and love, y'all! Brian Van and other downtown stalkeratzi take note: Lindsayism has got your number, and you are going down! Cameras are ruining everything. Everything. I think I first realized this a few months ago, when I was getting ready to......

Sounds like today is just going to be full of boring political news, so Gothamist has decided to flood the zone with Halloween hijinx! Send us links to your favorite costume shots and we'll link them here-- or just leave them in the comments. [Pictured to the right is Gothamist baby #1 Jonas, as an octopus.] Check out these costumes: Zach as spaceboy Ricky as Google Image Search Various people at 2004 Halloween Parade Janelle's......

Thanks to everyone who came out last night, we hope you had a great time and were able to catch all the bands and also catch the raffle prizes we threw into the audience. And if you stayed to the end you likely got a gift bag (courtesy of Neighborhoodies). We also want to thank the bands: Langhorne Slim, Bravo Silva, Raising the Fawn and Doveman. If you missed any of them be sure......

Reader Eric McGregor let Gothamist know that he checked out the Only in New York events we'd written about earlier this week: 1 More Time for the 9 party - which is exactly what it sounds like - and Manhunt! Dumbo (hide and seek in the shadows of the Manhattan Bridge). Eric has photographs and video from both events at his site, and notes that DUMBO is perfect for hide and seek because "there's......

There were gasps when Avenue Q, the underdog musical because that's what you call a musical that started off-Broadway and features puppets, won best musical last night at the Tony Awards, but considering that the show won best book and best score earlier on in the night, it seemed clear that it would be a night on Avenue Q, and Gothamist couldn't be happier. Avenue Q could be called a kinder, feltier variation on the......