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October 22, 2007

Later on we'll be posting our CMJ Awards (we're thinking of giving Kanye one, since he never wins anything)...but for now we wanted to take a look back at the four long days of shows we held at Gothamist House. First of all, thanks to everyone who dropped by, WOXY, and of course the bands (there were a lot of them!) for putting on some great shows. Some of our personal highlights were The Muggabears......

Continue Reading "Gothamist House Recap: 32 Bands, 4 Days"

August 5, 2007

A look at some noteworthy television this week: Secrets of New York: New York's Firsts: Pioneering Moments (Sunday, 8:30 p.m., WNYE 25) Kelly Choi takes a look at some New York firsts. White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Monday, 7:30 p.m. HBO) To commemorate the 62nd anniversary of the first bombing of civilian targets with nuclear weapons at Hiroshima, HBO airs this look at the two deadly attacks through archival footage and......

Continue Reading "Noteworthy Television This Week: Games Galore"

March 15, 2007

Last night, former mayor Rudy Giuliani had his NYC fundraiser at the Sheraton. The theme was baseball, and guests paid $2,300-a-plate to eat Crackerjack, ice cream and hot dogs. (Maybe there were other things; the entire menu was not disclosed.) The Post reports that Giuliani stood before a faux-Yankee Stadium backdrop and said, "I think we make a mistake when we call it the war on terror, because it is their war on us.........

Continue Reading "Rudy Raises Money From Home Town Crowd"

May 24, 2004

Yes, the blogosphere is built on mentioning other bloggers and giving them credit for slight, inconsequential things - blogfucking, we believe it's called. Still, we were surprised to see the New Yorker engaging in this kind of thing. In this week's issue, Daniel Radosh interviews ambitious ICM agent, Kate Lee, who he credits with "sifting through sloppy thinking, bad grammar, and blind self-indulgence for moments of actual good writing" when reading blogs [Disclosure: Gothamist met......

Continue Reading "Bloggers Writing Books; Demand For Copy Editors Rises"

December 15, 2003

In an interview with Time, Dennis Miller gives this take on the current Weekend Update team: Tina Fey might be the best "Weekend Update" anchor who ever did it. She writes the funniest jokes. Jimmy Fallon's forte is the sketches. He's got the pre-emptively disheveled haircut. There's too much artifice happening there. Of course when Dennis Miller was doing Update, and had disheveled hair, that was the style, right? But it's true, Jimmy Fallon......

Continue Reading "Pre Emptively Disheveled"

July 16, 2003

Michael Bay, one of the many part-time banes of Gothamist's existence, brilliant auteur he is, has a scene in Bad Boys II involved rats. As he recounts telling Columbia Pictures president Amy Pascal to the Hollywood Reporter, "And I was like, 'Amy, trust me, it's going to be funny. I found where I can train rats to f--- for $3,500!" Gothamist is restraining itself from cracking a joke about how these rats are more......

Continue Reading "What Michael Bay And Rats Have In Common"

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