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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.”

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 for another set of old and new jams while joined by some friends of hers. And at that, what went from a rather sedate and straightforward show erupted into a grand ol' hoedown, with all sorts of dancing and singing and goofing around. Perhaps the highlight on the night we went was seeing 80-something year old Charlie Louvin up on stage well after midnight, not only keeping up with the party, but stopping the room in its tracks with a stunning rendition of 'When I Stop Dreaming.' What a show, what a party.

Did the FDNY fail to inspect the building? The Daily News says the Fire Department was supposed to conduct inspections every 15 days and that the inspections would have included looking over the standpipe system. It is, as the News calls it, a blame game. The Manhattan DA's office has opened up a criminal investigation into the fire, but yesterday Mayor Bloomberg said, "at this point, there's no reason for anybody to think in terms of criminal charges or anything else."

Continue reading "Questions and Blame in Deutsche Bank Fire"

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 the model!

If we were taking a sea voyage of 1,000 days with no chances to resupply, we would not be waiting until the "last minute" to throw things aboard and we hope we wouldn't be pleasantly surprised at a lack of seasickness our first day on calm seas. Reid Stowe must be a very persuasive boyfriend. We wish them both luck on their journey.

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 the words between the hospitals union and Spitzer over the hospital closings. Naturally, Spitzer is pretty pleased with himself, as he tells the Post:

My reflection on the first three months and as we move into the first 100 days is that we've accomplished virtually the entire agenda we set out to accomplish in this time frame. We've made significant steps forward on a range of issues that were tough and will bare fruit. There's much work to be done in the context of both government reform, energy...and interests not addressed in the budget such as a judicial [pay raise] agenda."

The Steamroller also spoke to the Daily News: "I think things have gone stupendously. "There is a renewed vigor in Albany ... But if we solved every problem in 100 days, there would be nothing left for us to do over the next three years and nine months." Oh, come on, there would be LOTS to do.

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.

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 Times on watching Friends in the city and the beauty of moo points. The Post predicts what will happen (as if we couldn't guess) and the Daily News looks at the stars' lives. Gawker wants to call this a holiday and one woman tells Newsday, "I don't care how it ends, as long as it ends soon. It's absurd."

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 is not bad at all.