Roger Clemens went to Congress and spoke with congressional lawyers for five hours on Tuesday. While the meeting was private, Clemens did speak to reporters afterwards and reiterated his innocence saying, "It was great to be able to tell them what I've been saying all along -- that I've never used steroids or growth hormone." One of Clemens’ lawyers, Lanny Breuer added that Clemens "answered every question that was posed to him today.” So, Clemens......

Lucinda Williams Does Her Discography The welcome trend of artists playing their entire albums through live in concert has spread to the country world. Lucinda Williams was in town this week for five (relatively) intimate shows at Irving Plaza and Town Hall, each featuring one of her five albums. Lucinda didn't stop at just recreating her past work -- after a short intermission set by up and coming singer/songwriter Fionn Regan, she'd come back up......

There are many questions surrounding Saturday's Deutsche Bank building fire that took the lives of two firefighters. Were firefighters using outdated information? WABC 7 says that a FDNY report, which is used by fire commanders for planning how they will attack the fire, indicated that the building had 38 floors (when it was really 26) and that the standpipe was working (it wasn't connected). Did the FDNY ignore post-9/11 advice? The NY Times reports that......

Day One doesn't mean everything changes, but Governor Spitzer's administration has now offered a new idea for the so-called survivors' staircase at Ground Zero. The NY Times reports that the stairs would be kept "whole and intact" and "set into a long flight of steps leading from the visitors’ center at ground zero to the underground World Trade Center memorial museum, which is to open in 2009." And the Times has this picture of......

There is something very underwhelming about the title of Reid Stowe and his girlfriend Soanya Ahmad's blog entry today: Day One. But if it's only the first day of a 1,000-day sea voyage, we understand the instinct to not overdo things early. Yesterday, the boyfriend-girlfriend team sailed away from a pier in Hoboken and out of New York Bay into the Atlantic on their 70-foot boat "The Schooner Anne." They don't intend on returning to......

Governor Eliot Spitzer has reached the 100-day mark of his term as New York's highest official - now, just about 1360 more to go! His biggest battle thus far has been getting a budget passed (the final budget was a couple billion more than what he proposed and many deals were made secretly, but it was only a few hours late) while one of the most vocal fights has been the televised war of......

Gothamist headed down to Manchester, Tennessee with over 80,000 other music fans from across genres and across the world to take in Bonnaroo 2006. Three days of some of the best bands around from Jam to Jazz to Rap to Rock. We were up bright and early Friday morning to get the weekend off to the right start. Our first stop was to check out talented multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird at the That tent. Yes, the......

We'd been gearing up for SXSW this year for months, with shows to plan and afterparties to help out with - it took up a lot of our time, even when we weren't there yet. Now that it's over, we're not quite sure what to do with ourselves, or how to recap it all. We also haven't been near a computer in a week, so bear with our slow typing. THE PRECAP: Last year we......

Gothamist loves the fine folks at Fametracker; they have Fame Audits on the six Friends cast members and make this guess about their post-Friends lives: "Continued fame and good fortune for some; nothing much good for others whose names rhyme with Batthew Jerry." And damn you, NBC, for airing a stupid Dateline special about Friends instead of Law & Order last night. Jump the Shark has 199 votes saying Friends jumped on Day One. The......

Jake has decided to go on a road trip of the five boroughs until Monday. Take a look at this travels and give him some suggestions on where to go. The more it takes him out of Manhattan, the better. And, from the looks of Day One, it's clear that exploiting as many friends as possible on Friendster and in real life has forced Jake to make friends with marine life in Brooklyn. Which......