EVENT: Tonight, as part of the recurring Upstairs at the Square event, Nellie McKay plays tunes from her latest, Obligatory Villager and host Katherine Lanpher talks with author and filmmaker Antonio Monda. Monda's new book Do You Believe? Conversations on God and Religion will hit shelves soon -- and tonight he'll relay the discussions he had about religion with folks like Spike Lee and David Lynch. 7pm // Barnes & Noble [33 E 17th St]......

READINGS: Russell Simmons has written a self-help book and will be at Border's today promoting it (okay, now all of this recent noise he's making makes more sense)! It's called "Do You! 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness and Success." None of the laws include any of these three words. 1pm // Border’s [100 Broadway] // Free As we mentioned a few weeks ago, Tim Gunn will be reading from......

Being mugged outside his Park Slope home is prompting Douglas Rushkoff and his family to consider moving from the Slope. Now, there's another case of a moment in your neighborhood that makes one want to leave: Bagel in Harlem blogger Rachel Nathalie Klein has decided to leave Harlem:I'm subletting my place in Harlem. I've left the neighborhood. I need a break. It's no secret that I move around a lot and in a previous post......

In 1996, Texas is the Reason released an album called "Do You Know Who You Are?, " and while on their way to potential superstardom, abruptly broke up mid tour in Germany to the disappointment of many. Ten years later, all four original members found themselves living in New York again at the same time, and decided they needed to get back together for one last show and finish it where they started. We caught......

Horray, more music! Day 2 of Bonnaroo got off to a great start with Dungen at the That Tent. It's quite a trip to hear thousands of people singing along in a language they don't actually understand. Lots of people knew the words, few actually knew what they were saying. Regardless, the energy and presence of this band always impresses, and they left the early risers in high spirits to take on the day. After......

Yesterday was the city's first weekday dealing with the "Blizzard of 2006," and it actually wasn't that bad, with snow starting to melt and people not complaining as much as they could about snow removal. The usual rule of thumb in determining how much a snow storm's cleanup cost is $1 million per inch of snow, but Mayor Bloomberg said he doubt the clean-up would cost $26.9 million. Forget clean-up, how about fixing potholes......

Adam Gardner and Dave Schneider, The LeeVees ...

Man, the college experience that we remember-- dorms that smelled like bong water, Coke in the soda machines, it's gone, man, just gone: NYU has decided to go ahead and ban smoking in all its residence halls by the beginning of the 2006 Fall term. A sensible move, perhaps, given the thousands of young lungs in the buildings, and the propensity of NYU students to accidently light their bunk beds on fire. What surprises us......

Fans of 1980's lovesick favorites "Hold Me Now," "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?" and "Love Stinks" will be happy to know that the nostalgia-drenched romantic comedy The Wedding Singer is headed for Broadway. Set for a New York opening in April 2006, the musical -- which follows Robbie Hart, a struggling suburban wedding singer who's dumped by his fiancée and pines for a betrothed waitress -- has not yet been cast. Compared......

Just when you thought you were tired of Michael Jackson, he becomes interesting again. Admit it – there could not be a more insane mugshot picture; he sort of looks like a comic book villain, like the Joker [as suggested by friend JW]. He's Bad! He's Dangerous! This is a Thriller! He's Off the Wall! And as Gawker notes, all the Michael Jackson jokes were written 10 years ago ("Do You Remember The Time......

- A Law & Order coffee table book! And will Jerry Orbach headline a new L&O spinoff? - The Emmys suck AND blow - Lost in Translation: Racist, spot-on, funny or all of the above? - Infectious song of the week: Do You Realize? - Second Avenue subway debate - Quentin Tarantino, you kiss your mother with that mouth? - Mangosteen, fruit of the Times - Henry Clay's eerie modern day doppelganger: Mayor Bloomberg -......

Recently, the best thing on VH1 has been their in-house promo: A montage of various musicians (Beyonce, Chris Martin, Justin, etc.), with animation over it, against the Flaming Lips' song, Do You Realize. Slate's Scott Metcalf noted that the song is "lush and trippy and infallibly alluring." There is indeed something hypnotic about Wayne Coyne singing, "Do you realize...that you have the most beautiful face?" with the fluttering animated flowers rising and swelling to the......