Senators and rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama met at the University of Texas in Austin tonight for the CNN/Univision debate. The debate was less a showdown than an "agree to disagree" type affair. You can read a transcript here and clips will start to appear, but, per Austinist, here are some of best lines of the night: “I have to confess, I was somewhat amused, the other night,......

Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League – a group that exists to promote Bill Donohue, er, prevent “virulent anti-Catholicism” – is leading a protest against Jerry Springer: The Opera, which will be performed at Carnegie Hall on January 29th and 30th and stars Harvey Keitel as Springer. The show chronicles Jerry Springer’s adventures in hell, where he's forced to host an outrageous talk show whose guests include Adam and Eve, Mary, Jesus, and, as......

We checked in with some folks recently for a little end of '07 "exit interview" before we enter a new year. Thomas Onorato was the subject of a tell-all titled Confessions From the Velvet Rope last year -- but what has the self-proclaimed "door bitch" been doing in 2007? What did you do last New Years Eve? What will you do this year? Last year I did the door for 8 hours to the MOTHERF*CKER......

Yesterday morning, a swastika and a caricature of a yarmulke-wearing man were found in a building at Columbia University. This is the second hate crime in as many days found at the school's campus - a noose was found on the door of a Teachers College professor earlier this week. The graffiti was in the men's bathroom at Lewisohn Hall, where the School of General Studies is located. Columbia President Lee Bollinger, who was criticized......

One would think that some New Yorkers were fresh off the boat, or at least had never seen the Seinfeld episode in which Kramer is refused his calzones after attempting to pay in pennies. Everyone knows that merchants frequently won't accept bills over $20 or other denominations; don't they? Apparently not! The New York Times has an article today over a man so incensed his local Chinese restaurant wouldn't accept pennies as payment––not for......

New Orleans 92 New York 90: Simply put, this is the type of game you have to win if you want to make the playoffs. The Knicks built an 18-point lead, blew it and then had three chances at the tying basket in the last seconds of the game. They didn’t connect and they fell out of a tie for a playoff spot. With six of their next seven games against likely playoff teams, the......

The $1.3 billion deal for Brooklyn developer Berkshire LLC to buy federally subsidized Brooklyn housing complex Starrett City may be blocked by State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development. Cuomo announced that his office will enforce an injunction barring the lead investor David Bistricer from completing "certain real estate for life and will not permit the conversion of any of the property to cooperative apartments." Cuomo's statement......

It seems like young, affluent hipsters are always finding something new to do with their voluminous free time. Remember the Rated X parties from earlier in the year? The ones that clogged your Flickr streams with low-quality amateur porn every couple of weeks? Well, the phenomenon has mutated and it's been gelatin-ized. The Amateur Female Jello Wrestling people have been staging monthly events since 2003-- but it's only recently that they've captured the attention......

A day after the Daily News reported that City College had allowed a campus center to be named after two controversial figures on its cover, complete with scorching editorial criticizing the school, City College's chancellor Matthew Goldstein had the sign taken down. The center was called the Guillermo Morales/Assata Shakur Community Center. Guillermo Morales was a radical for Puerto Rico's independence and made bombs, including one that killed four people at Fraunces Tavern in 1975.......

There's a rather amazing story in New York about two of the city's medical examiners trying to find their missing puggle. While the article by senior forensic pathologist Jonathan Hayes is titled "Bonfire of the Puggle," it's definitely got the makings of a local Lord of the Rings, as there travels to Tampa, Alphabet City and the Bronx, not to mention gang tattoos and melanoma fear. And since $1,000 was being offered as a reward,......

Bizarre! Representative Vito Fossella admitted that his brother John was in fact driving a car that almost hit two Asian couples. The incident is extremely bizarre. Yesterday, the Daily News reported that two couples had purchased some chrysanthemums at a florist on Richmond Road in Staten Island last Saturday. A blue Mazda almost hit them, and then the driver got out of the car, chasing the couples with a baseball bat. But the man stopped......

That thud you heard this afternoon? The jaws of Jeanine Pirro's campaign staffers. It turns out that Republican candidate for NY State Attorney General Pirro is under state and federal criminal investigation. WNBC's Jonathan Dienst had the scoop: State and federal agencies were looking into whether Pirro eavesdropped on her husband, who she suspected might be cheating on her. (Well, he did father a love child a couple years into their marriage.) So she......

KARAOKE: Tonight is the MCFGHT, a LVHRD event. Michelle Collins is the master of ceremonies, presiding over a roomful of people cheering on those who take part in the nights karaoke showdown. If you've never seen Brian Battjer do karaoke, and we're guessing most of you haven't, you do not want to miss this. He'll be one of the contestants tonight. Check out the flyer here, and buy tickets here. They're $20 ($11 if you're......

Wow, we do not want to get on the bad side of Brooklyn Judge Reena Raggi! Just look what happened to disgraced ex-cop Charles Schwarz when he went before Raggi yesterday to ask for a 13-month leniency in his five-year prison sentence. Then again, his sentence is for perjuring himself during the Abner Louima trial, but still. Schwarz admits to lying concerning his role in getting Louima into the bathroom of Brooklyn's 70th Precinct......

- Churches are using hip-hop to attract younger parishioners - Former police commissioner Bill Bratton says he's using his NYC tactics in LA - A man shot in the head was found on the side of the BQE - NJ restaurants and bars get their very own smoking ba - The sad closing of Lento's in Brooklyn - And the people that party in buses or limos - maybe because the bars do not want......

- The LES is the place for spelling bees. Gothamist will be moving shortly and we'll fit right in. - Social promotion is removed for seventh graders; however, some parents wore hankerchiefs over their faces to show their voices were being stifled. - To dream the dream: Hopeful young women try out to be Knicks City Dancers and Nets Dancers. Right now, certain Gothamist staffers are smacking their heads, moaning, "Why weren't we there?" -......

We have an embarrassing confession to make. Instead of making it out to the big opening of Drunk vs. Stoned 2 at Gavin Brown's Enterprise last Thursday we...ate a giant burrito and fell asleep. Yes, we are now that boring. No, we do not want to talk about it. In retrospect we're not quite sure whether our laziness saved us a lot of hassle or cost us a really good show. Given the rumors running......

Once again, City Council Speaker and mayoral hopeful Gifford Miller talks about the proposed West Side Stadium. But instead of saying he'd block it, now he wants to move it to Queens. Miller claims that putting the stadium in Queens will strengthen NYC's chances of landing the Olympics, but Gothamist has a feeling that the IOC is attracted to the idea of having a stadium in the center of the city, versus the outer boroughs,......

Ryan Owens, Musician...

Do you know about the landlord's responsibility regarding bedbugs? We've had them since November, and have been told repeatedly by the landlord that they have no idea why this is happening and that there are no other bedbug reports in the building. We just found out that 5 other apartments in the building have bedbug problems, some for longer than us, and that all of us have been told we are the only ones with......

Candice Waldron, TV Producer...

Who Gothamist yelled "You're fired!" to over the weekend: - The near-empty pint of ice cream in the freezer - The hipsters who stole our cab - Our lactose intolerant publisher who decided to eat copious amounts of cheese, causing him to bail - Aleksandr Petrovsky Okay, not really. Gothamist doesn't yell "You're fired"; we just pout and swear. Anyway, Newsweek decides the zeitgeist is in The Donald, and interviews if not the most annoying......