Davy Rothbart has been putting together discarded love letters, birthday cards, Polaroids, to-do lists and diary entries and compiling them into FOUND Magazine since June 2001. What started as a cut and paste 'zine for friends has gone on to spawn a number of books, a Dirty Found line and helped launch his own career as an occasional NPR correspondent and author of the short story collection "The Lone Surfer of Monatana, Kansas." more ›

THEATER: Emergence-See! is a new one-man show in previews at the Public Theater. Conceived and performed by Daniel Beaty, the work imagines what would happen in present-day New York if, say, a slave ship were to rise out of the Hudson River in front of the Statue of Liberty. Beaty portrays 40 New York characters and uses slam poetry and song to examine the toll that centuries of slavery have taken on the human psyche. - John Del Signore more ›

DCist is screwed in the event of an oil crisis. Not that we're not all screwed in the event of an oil crisis, just D.C. is more screwed. Don't sell your car yet, District resident, a cabbie can kick you to the curb if he doesn't like your address. Not even Metro can save you now. more ›

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] more ›

Gothamist doesn't hate it when our friends become successful, and we have no shame when it comes to plugging their endeavors. A month ago, we told you about , a project that started small, but has ballooned to a book deal, television appearances and nationwide tour. more ›

book tour van will be pulling into an alley in Times Square next to The Tank for 3 nights of find-filled reading and song. more ›