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With Martha Stewart's new morning show debut this morning, as well as her version of The Apprentice - with more fresh flowers! - next Wednesday, Gothamist has been thinking about how her offices at the Starrett-Lehigh Building on West 26th Street (the massive brick and windowed structure that takes up a block at West 26th Street and Eleventh Avenue) have been transformed into television heaven. Because it's not just the studio for the show, but also where the Apprentice contestants are living! In the current issue of In Touch (uh, yes, we're ashamed), there are pictures of how the warehouse space has been converted for reality living; it all seems very tasteful and Martha, though the sleeping areas might not have windows (but we can't totally tell). We remember the Starrett-Lehigh Building when it was a hotbed of dot-com activity, most notably Inside.com, and the jobs offers were flying out of there...but Gothamist still wasn't convinced that the late-night shuttle van would really be that effective in pre-Crobar 2000. We're partial to the SLB, but what would you pick, living on West 26th and 11th Avenue or at Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue?

So much of what goes on around us weather wise is taken for granted. But sometimes people find a way to capture things in unbelievable ways. Gothamist's eye was recently drawn to paintings by Emma Tapley. Born in New York City, Tapley received her BFA from SVA and went on to attend Pratt, New York Academy of Art, Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT, and the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony in Woodstock, NY. While her paintings aren't all weather-related, they focus on elements of nature including fog, frost, and especially dreamy realistic clouds and sky-skapes.

There are 65 areas in the city where cell phones simply don't work. Senator Charles Schumer says that a study shows NY ranks last in call quality of the 27 top cell phone markets. "Instead of building up infrastructure, cell-phone companies are spending all their time marketing their services to new customers," Schumer complains. Though cell phoner companies say they are fixing service, "I am disappointed to report that there has been no progress - zilch, nada." There is nothing more annoying than suddenly traveling into a dead zone, and Gothamist knows some of these dead zones: When going through a tunnel in Central Park while crossing town; Some point on Eleventh Avenue near the Javits Center; Most elevators; Wherever we are when we are expecting a call of importance.

Yesterday's Times Dining piece about the ex Daniel/Mozu chef who opened up the Hell's Kitchen BBQ joint, Daisy May's USA BBQ (623 Eleventh Avenue, at 46th Street, 212-977-1500), makes us wonder if there's a movement by swank restaurant chefs to specialize in approachable foods and sell in approachable settings (storefront, van off the highway). Maybe all the good spaces on Smith Street, Fifth Avenue (Park Slope), and Lafeyette have been taken. Or maybe it's more fulfilling to feed the masses than in overly precious settings. Either way, Gothamist will take it, especially Adam Perry Lang's "irresistibly lush and smoky beef short ribs, chicken that is moist with a little kick, succulent Kansas City-style ribs and chunky pulled pork" at Daisy May's. Time for a food field trip.

No, these are not more pictures from the blackout, these are kids who tried out for American Idol at the Jacob Javits Center. Newsday reports that these hopefuls "." Hmm, that does sound like a blackout story. Except for the McDonald's part. There were about 10,000 American Idol wannabes waiting all weekend along Eleventh Avenue outside the Javits Center for yesterday's tryouts.