We love fine dining as much as the next gourmand, but there’s something about fancy French restaurants with their retinues of waiters, sommeliers, captains and bread sergeants that we find slightly offputting. Upon arriving at Last Thursday’s tasting of Vérité wines at Bouley we were in a bit of tizzy, not because of our issues surrounding Le/La/Les establishments, but due to our walking in some five minutes before vigneron Pierre Seillan’s speech ended. This......

Oh, man, Gothamist's head is spinning this afternoon. We just read the New York article about near future weather and climate changes the city is facing. We cringe whenever we see the words "freakish" and "weird" in any story about the weather as their use usually means the author doesn't have a firm grasp of the subject matter. This case is no exception as we found numerous little errors and misinterpretations. Despite these errors the......

Bob Dylan once wrote "you don't need a weatherman to tell which way the wind blows" to which we will add "you don't need Gothamist to tell you that it is getting cold outside." While you don't need Gothamist to tell you it is getting cold, we will. It is getting cold outside. And there are snowflakes mixed with the rain here in the northern suburbs. As of 11 a.m. the temperature is down to......

Yes, welcome back little boy, Christ child... NOAA has announced the return of the warm waters to the Eastern Pacific, though noting that this time, it's not as strong. "Weaker" is the decription that they use actually. The last El Niño, was in 1997-1998 when it seemed that everything and anything weatherwise was being blamed on the friggen thing. Rain? El Niño. Cold? El Niño. Warm? El Niño. Headache? El Niño. You've heard the......

Hot! Partly cloudy, high of 87. Gothamist enjoyed yesterday's evening blast of rain as it dripped through the ceiling of the theater she was in onto her lap--a sort of breaking down of the fifth wall, if you will. Gothamist was struck by one of this morning's headlines in the NYTimes Science section: To Surprise of Researchers, Comet Has a Personality. In it, the comet, Wild 2 (he's Swiss--that's "Vilt") and Phoebe, a "small moon......

Though Gothamist is a self-professed Anglophile who can often be seen fondling the Hob Nobs at Myers of Keswick, Gothamist admits to having totally missed the boat on Alistair Cooke. It must have been his long-running stint as host of Masterpiece Theater that shadowed his brilliant work for the BBC, the Letter From America. Cooke's recent passing, just a few weeks after he completed his final Letter, has bittersweetly brought his old work to new......