I just moved to New York a few months ago. In the town I came from, there were some great karaoke bars. They weren't the kind of places where you have to rent a private room; they didn't only have karaoke one night a week or once a month; they were just friendly, laid-back bars where people would chat and drink beer, and anyone could sign up to sing. They had a wide selection......

Lockhart Steele's Curbed points me to the Douglas Elliman page for Meryl Streep's townhouse. Lockhart says that the building is on 12th between 5th and 6th -- if pushed, I guess I'd call that Greenwich Village. Elliman, on the other hand, calls it a "sought after Gold Coast location". Huh? Can Gothamist explain what probably the most landlocked part of Manhattan is doing being described as "Gold Coast"? I always thought the Gold Coast was......

Can Gothamist help it when, after seeing this picture of Mayor Bloomberg, we think of Lily Tomlin's Edith Ann character from Laugh-In? Also, Gothamist wonders if these kids were bored by the mayor, even though he was reading what looks like The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein? (Did anyone else out there go through an intense Shel Silverstein phase during elementary school, somewhere around 4th grade, where you just had to have A Light In......