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Greg Lindsay, Freelance Writer

Of course, Gothamist knows and loves Krucoff because he brought us an idea that was ignored by Gawker. And in our research on Krucoff, we stumbled upon a bizarre Krucoff Vs. [Lockhart] Steele blog that's interesting to about ten people, but what people they must be!

Gothamist also would like to thank: Jason Calacanis, Nick Denton, and Jeff Jarvis for a spirited (though less punchy than wished for, to be honest) discussion about the future of publishing blogs; Anil Dash, Paul Ford, and Meg Hourihan for enlightening us about what goes into designing blog publishing tools (less nerdy than it sounds, for those who missed it); and Felix Salmon, Lockhart Steele, and Choire Sicha ( and Jen) for being good punchlines. Yay!

Various personalities of the blogging world will collide at the NY Bloggers talk at the SoHo Apple Store this Monday, May 3. See Buzzmachine's Jeff Jarvis moderate/referee a discussion with web publishers Nick Denton and Jason Calacanis. ftrain's Paul Ford chats with Meg Hourihan, Anil Dash, and Jason Kottke about technology. And Felix Salmon will find out what kinds of medication Choire Sicha, Lockhart Steele, and Jen Chung must be on during the editors panel. Plus, Jake will be running around as the water boy. We can also promise question-and-answer time as well as some surprises. All in all, a great opportunity to see the bloggers you love (to hate?). Be there to be square.

And the week in full.

The Joy Episalla exhibition at Debs & Co. does look good; it runs until April 3rd. And this is not Choire's only connection with the Martha Stewart case - he previously raised prosecutors' ire when he divulged the jurors' questionnaire. Full coverage of the Martha Stewart case from Court TV. Evil court room sketch artists at the trial (Gothamist and Tale of Two Cities).

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Gothamist on this year's Oscar nominations, why the show will suck and Plus our commentary from last year's Oscars and this year's Golden Globes.

Bronx - "the Bronx"

Today we'd like to introduce a new feature: the Gothamist Interview, written by Andrew Krucoff. The inaugural interview is with none other than Lockhart Steele, Lower East Side icon and famous dilettante. Other interviews on tap for this week: Chuck Klosterman of Spin, Danielle Romano of Daily Candy, and a surprise guest who may go by the name of Choire Sicha (girls, get your engines ready!). Andrew has an amusing interview style that is part Proust questionnaire, part People magazine, part insane stalker. Gothamist finds it rather compelling, and hope you will as well. Also be sure to check out Andrew's other site, The Other Page, where he blogs on a number of eclectic topics.

Choire, if you're in locked up for contempt of court, Gothamist will be sure to have our good friend, Executive Assistant District Attorney Jack McCoy see what he can do. Oh, wait, he's not real...okay, we'll start a tip jar for your legal fund.

Gawker editor Choire Sicha writes on the scary US photo post, "In any event, that model boy better hope there aren't any squirrels lurking..." Like the squirrel on Choire's own site? And then there's this interesting post...

Pulling himself away from becoming a referee for NY's Funniest Home Videos, Choire Sicha gives a thorough look at the changing face of the West Chelsea in the Observer, as the High Line, the 1.5 mile elevated track that runs from Gansevoort to 34th Street along 10th Avenue, looks like it will be preserved as a park. The continuing the gentrification of the formerly gritty neighborhood into "A DESTINATION" is bolstered by the future Frank Gehry designed headquarters for Barry Diller. Gehry and Diller's outsize personality prompt Choire to suggest we run to our bookies and Gothamist will put our money on Barry - he's way more scary.

New York magazine threatens to go into Internet overload. Not only does Simon Dumenco mention six of the "most compelling" bloggers (Choire Sicha for Gawker, Maud Newton, Anil Dash, Nick Denton as blog impressario of the Gawker/Gizmodo/Fleshbot/Kinja empire, Jeff Jarvis, and Elizabeth Spiers for The Kicker; Dumenco says he expects "to be blogged to death" for his choices and the first shot comes from Gawker, which Gawker calls the piece a slobbery blowjob, though it was our understanding better slobbery than none, no?), Deborah Schoeneman exposes Weddingchannel.com as prime ex stalking ground AND gives Nicole "daughter of Lionel; friend of Paris" Ritchie's AIM screenname. Which makes us wonder if there is a black market for celebrities' AIM screennames. Next: Reality IM Conversations as the new reality trend that sucks even more mystique out of celebrities ("whatcha doin?" "press junket but i don't want to" "ic")!

Media boo-boos:

More New Yorker Festival hilarity from Choire for The Morning News (thanks for the visual of David Remnick wearing his "off-label jeans too high"). A recipe from Grand Marnier utilizing cranberry juice and Grand Marnier.