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COMEDY: Our favorite duo, Gil Faizon (Nick Kroll) and George St. Geegland (John Mulaney), will be bringing their "Oh Hello" show to UCB. Drop by, even if it's just for their famous Tuna-tina recipe. In addition, there will be NEW drink recipes...and special guests.

• NYC is the fourth largest safe city, according to some report, but we count it as the top safe city, because can you really put NYC in the same league as San Jose, El Paso, and Honolulu?
• New York magazine looks at Tiffany as the brass ring of cheating spouses' girlfriends during Christmas.
• A CPA was found stabbed to death on a Queens sidewalk near his home; he owned a few Forest Hills co-ops and a neighbor described him as being "loud" during community meetings...hmm.

Why did Gothamist grab a winter coat as we left our apartment this morning? It is going to be in the mid- to upper-50s. What were we thinking? Truth is we were preoccupied. Not by thoughts of rain tomorrow. Nor were we thinking that winter might make a brief return next week.

Gothamist just returned from a mini-vacation in San Francisco. Naturally, we spent a great deal of our time eating. And why not? San Francisco is home of a unique food phenomenon that is virtually impossible to find here in New York -- the authentic taqueria. Yes we have Mexican food here, but many of the more Mexican (rather than Tex-Mex) restaurants in New York are high-end, and therefore do not qualify in our quest for the truly authentic taqueria. Now we've heard stories of taqueria sightings here in New York, and we'll admit that we haven't yet gotten around to hitting them all first-hand, but the taqueries in San Fran all share certain common themes: fresh, high-quality ingredients, authentic Mexican flavors, and modest prices. Why should this be so hard to replicate, huh? C'mon people, this is New York. We can do anything -- or so we think.

- How to feel like you sit near a window, even if you don't

Gothamist is shocked that we missed this when it was released last month. Old Spice deodorant has determined that El Paso, Texas is America's sweatiest city. Old Spice has "calculated" that El Paso residents produce enough sweat in a four-hour period to fill an Olympic-sized pool. Thank you, Old Spice, for that visual image! New York edged out Richmond and Roanoke, Virginia for 63rd place on the somewhat non-sensical list where Anchorage is sweatier than Washington, DC! The rankings make the assumption that the sweating person is walking outside for an hour, apparently during the time of greatest temperature. This reminds Gothamist of the Odd Couple episode where Felix tells Oscar "when you assume you make an "ass" out of "u" and "me"".

Those disgusting couches you see on sidewalk might be secret special drug repositories. A man used his truck and a U-Haul to move 170 pounds of coke hidden in a couch, driving from El Paso, TX to New York. Eddie Guitterez left the couch on a Bronx street, as well as abandoned the truck and U-Haul, in 2002. Apparenly neighborhood crackheads had been sitting on the couch but didn't realize they were sitting on the stash until sanitation workers discovered it.