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And, no, you may not touch the carvings: You'll be escorted in the rooms in groups of give, under a guard's supervision.

Glenn Collins of the Times finds out what happens when restaurants decide to install DJs to add more mood to the food. Restaurants featured are industry(food), Butter, Hue, Lotus, The Sanctum, and Tao. Karim Amatullah, co-owner of Hue, says, "it adds a little something extra that most people don't even notice but enables them to relax." It's also motivated by profit, as the margins on drinks are much more enticing than on food. Gothamist is just curious about how the restaurants will turn tables efficiently, or if this will mean a new movement for new restaurants to have larger lounge areas.

New York might get a boost to its film industry with the Steiner Studios in Brooklyn, which has been quietly breaking ground and emerging from the Navy Yard, at Flushing and Washington Avenues. Glenn Collins from the Times examines what the investors hope to bring to New York TV & film production, as well as Brooklyn. Backed by the Steiner Equities Group, facilities will have the largest soundstage in the Northeast (even bigger than Kaufman-Astoria, where most famously, Sesame Street films and The Cosby Show filmed) with high ceilings (for special-effects intensive films, something that current studio spaces lack). In March, the Village Voice examined the project as well, including possible sensitivities in the Hasidic neighborhood. Gothamist thinks building another production facility in the city is a good, as it can only mean more Law & Order spin-offs.

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Weekend at the Times: Glenn Collins quizzes New Yorkers with how well they really know the city with aerial photographs by Vincent Laforet. This one Gothamist knew immediately.