Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is so last season. Want to stay in with the in crowd? Pick up Cecily von Ziegesar’s Gossip Girl, Psycho Killer instead. No, this is not a joke. more ›

Taylor Momsen, whose wardrobe consists solely of black eyeliner and shredded leather these days, has announced that she has officially quit acting to focus on her band, Pretty Reckless. Which is funny, because we could have sworn that acting quit her! more ›

Between the girl-on-girl stripteases Taylor Momsen's been treating us to and the overwhelming blandness that is everything about Jessica Szhor, this day was bound to come: TV Line reports that neither Little Jenny Humphrey nor Vanessa are being asked to return for Season 5 of the CW's Gossip Girl. We knew Blair Waldorf would win in the end! more ›

Do you sometimes want feel like your apartment or (wow) townhouse feels like it is right out of Washington D.C., not New York? Do you occasionally watch Gossip Girl and think "I wish my house was on this television box in front of me?" You might still have a shot! A Park Slope reader sent us a pic of this flyer which just showed up in his mail: more ›

News flash from the NY Post: Nicholas Minucci, aka "Fat Nick" who is serving 15 years for a hate crime, and Peter Braunstein, the fashion writer who kidnapped and tortured a former colleague, are apparently "best friends" at the Clinton Correctional Facility. Not only do they both really love "Gossip Girl," Brauntsein said, "[Nick]'s a good kid. He's one of the few people I enjoy talking to here," while Minucci returns the compliments, "Pete's just a witty guy." more ›

Thinking of going to the New York Public Library's main branch today? They just updated their Facebook page with photos of the cast and crew of The Adjustment Bureau taking over the Rose Reading Room, so you may have trouble finding a seat. On Friday they had updated saying, "today the NYPL prepared for The Adjustment Bureau filming happening this weekend; finalized Gossip Girl details for next week; and had a 2 hour Smurf walkthrough. Needless to say, that Hollywood left NO time for updates today." (Smurfs!) more ›

Convicted kidnapper and attacker Peter Braunstein is still in love with Gossip Girl, especially the Blair Waldorf character. In an interview tonight, the former journalist tells Inside Edition, "Monday nights, it’s like sacred, man. Everybody in the cell block knows that. Nobody talks to me when Gossip Girl is on," and says of Blair, "Even though she’s scheming and has a thing about power, she’s loyal. She’s everything that I wanted in a girl." He also brings up Heath Ledger's portrayal of The Joker, "Everyone sees a lot of me in the ‘Joker’ character here. It’s kind of a running joke, like, ‘that guy’s a lot like you.’" more ›

Peter Braunstein loves keeping in touch. The former journalist was convicted of attacking and assaulting a former colleague—while kidnapping her in her own apartment for 13 hours by pretending to be a firefighter (he set a fire in her building's stairwell) —in 2005 and sentenced to 20 years to life in prison in 2007. There was also a manhunt and capture after suicide attempt in Memphis. Now, he writes letters to the Post and Daily News, detailing his love for CW shows and his ultimately achieved goal of fame (or infamy). more ›

It's like a scene out of Gossip Girl: B and her BF filmed themselves having S-E-X a few years back, and unsurprisingly the tape has now leaked (and prior to the release of her electric pop album, fancy that). It's just a shame this isn't a Chace Crawford and Ed Westwick tape, but surely that will surface soon enough. more ›

You want to experience what it's like to live like Manhattan's elite? Well a bus probably isn't the way to do it, but, like Sex and the City before it, Gossip Girl is now offering tours. The 3.5 hour long journey boasts more than 40 locations that have been used in filming the show, including the hotel home to the Van der Woodson family, the Constance Billard School for Girls/St. Jude School for Boys, some UES mansions, Blair's home sweet home, and some shops that you can't afford. More details here! Though if you want to know what it's like to live on the wrong side of the East River (a la the Humphrey family) looks like you're out of luck—that $40 fee only includes one borough. Curbed noted that: "At least most Upper East Siders will have already decamped to the Hamptons by the time the tours roll by." Wonder what spot will act as Carrie's stoop and get axed from the tour first. more ›

The new cover girls of Rolling Stone are Gossip Girls Blake Lively and Leighton Meester sharing an ice cream. And before you think, "Is this cover shot as close Rolling Stone could get without demanding girl on girl?" you then find out the pair were photographed by Terry Richardson, once called "the magazine world's Marquis de Sade" by Hint Mag. more ›

The Upper East Side eatery Park Avenue Winter is getting some screen time on an upcoming episode of Gossip Girl, and to celebrate they're offering free meals to any female dressed like a schoolgirl. Yes, this just got sort of creepy. Anyway, if you're into that sort of thing, pull up your knee highs, tuck in your button down and zip up that plaid skirt, because from March 16th to 20th "girls of any age in a school uniform will be treated to dinner." And to the ladies over 21, you'll get two rounds compliments of whoever it is who has this schoolgirl fetish. Why can't Chuck Bass doppelgangers be invited too? [Eater via NBC] more ›

Four middle schoolers on Staten Island are going to be suspended after they were caught drunk at school yesterday. Two boys and two girls drank rum outside a nearby Burger King before heading into Markham Intermediate School in Graniteville. A parent of another classmate told the SI Advance, "My daughter went to the bathroom and she saw them falling all over the place and throwing up on the hallway floor. It looked like they took one girl to the hospital because she fell on her face and busted her lip." A spokeswoman for the DOE questioned New York's allowance of prominent alcohol advertising throughout the city saying, "Really, what it's about is changing the environment youths grow up in." Just last month, Gossip Girl was spotted filming on the island. more ›

Does NYC's prep school set live up to the antics of the Gossip Girl characters? Even with a reality show following some of the rich kids around, we'll probably never know (which is fine, right?). The NY Post is reporting that Bravo is set to film a new series "that'll give an up-close and personal look at the lives of the latest hottest teens on the planet - New York City's private school kids." The format is allegedly going to be like that of the Real Kids of Orange County webisodes (which features the Real Housewives spawn). Couple that with the fact that no self-respecting Yale-bound preppy would go on basic cable to flaunt their lifestyle, and you pretty much have a show about Real Housewife Jill Zarin's daughter Ally (unsubstantiated!), who has been soaking up the spotlight since before mommy's television show even started airing. No word on if filming has started yet, but the show is expected to air later this year (but don't expect any real-life Chuck Bass's or OMFG-inducing moments). XOXO, etc! more ›

Maybe it's good enough for MTV, but the fictional characters of Gossip Girl wouldn't dare let their Ferragamo shoes touch the soil of Staten Island. Talk about wrong side of the narrows. But NYMag is reporting that the series has been filming there, and points to an extra's grandiloquent account of the experience (filled with the kind of snobby commentary reserved for a real-life Blair Waldorf drone): "I packed up a purple strapless Oscar de la Renta dress, an empire-waisted Gucci gown, four pairs of heels and an armload of accessories and jumped on the ferry to Staten Island where the show was filming at the St. George Theatre, a grand old vaudeville venue which dates back to 1929. I arrived at the Gossip Girl set anticipating a flurry of fashionable glamazons. Twas not so. Many of the extras were dressed in what appeared to be five-year-old ABS and Bebe frocks." When in Rome? Just Kidding, SI. The extra doesn't stop there, she goes on to attack another borough: "Why must the stylists punish her wardrobe to further punctuate the point that she is from Brooklyn?" more ›

Wallace Shawn—known to some as America's most radical playwright, to others as that guy who goes, "Inconceivable!" in The Princess Bride—recently rapped with the Times about his umpteenth wave of pop culture recognition; this time thanks to his recurring role on the adolescent wish-fulfillment series Gossip Girl. Shawn, who as an actor has played everyone from Chekhov's Vanya (Vanya on 42nd Street) to an alien leader (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), insists he doesn't know why anyone should be surprised by his appearance as Blair Waldorf's mother's boyfriend: "It is a little bit puzzling, because I don’t think of myself in any way. I just seem like a kind of blob or a blank to myself." But he says he does feel qualified for the part because of his experiences as a teacher at Trevor Day School, where he encountered “many Gossip Girl characters in the making. The parents on the show really remind me of some of the parents I met then. I literally do think, ‘Oh, where have I seen that before?’ And I say, ‘Oh, it was in reality.'" more ›

Earlier this week Gossip Girl's new ad campaign was revealed, just begging to be reworked by the infamous subway ad artist (or anyone with scissors and a distaste for teen dramedies). It didn't take long, as a reader sent us the above photo, from the 23rd Street C and E station, taken this morning. more ›

The CW has turned all of the criticisms of their last ad campaign, into pull quotes for their latest one. With a new season of Gossip Girl coming up soon, and their new posters proclaim the show is "Mind-blowingly Inappropriate." The quote isn't from an entertainment rag, but rather the Parents Television Council watchdog organization. The NY Post gets credit for another ad, which takes their quote that calls the show: "a nasty piece of work." While the PTC is still concerned about the CW's program, the org is semi-appreciative, noting "normally, we have to pay for our outdoor advertising." more ›

Life imitates Gossip Girl tonight as the teens from six of the city's most elite private schools join together for a prom in the Waldorf's Starlight Roof (the Waldorf ballroom is where public high school Stuyvesant's prom will be this Friday -- ground floor for the plebes!). more ›

The NY Times visited the corner of 61st Street and Amsterdam to find out what New York adolescent girls at the alterna-Beacon School think of "role model" Miley Cyrus. Recently the 15-year-old actress was caught flaunting her bare skin online and in print. more ›

Last night as Gossip Girl returned to the airwaves, it brought some real LIC artists with it. In the fictional Bedford Avenue Gallery, as Blair plots to ruin Jenny Humphrey, she pauses in front of some pieces -- one of which belongs to LIC artist Rene Smith, who told us about how her art landed on Rufus Humphrey's walls.

I heard that Gossip Girl rented art work for their "gallery" and I actually just stopped by Silvercup Studios, which is right across the street from my studio. The security guard was nice enough to let me in and I was able to show my portfolio to art department coordinator. more ›

When last the teens of Gossip Girl were gossiped about, it was pre-writers strike and Serena van der Woodsen and Blair Waldorf were battling through the tough adolescent years: sex, car services and cocktails at The Plaza. Tonight the drama returns, with the first of five episodes that will close out season one. more ›

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a serious trauma at East 16th St. and Moore Pl. in Brooklyn, a water search at Kosciusko Bridge in Brooklyn, and a bank robbery on Lexington Ave. in Manhattan,
• Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who popularized transcendentalism in the West with the support of The Beatles, died yesterday at an undetermined age.
• Postmodern reality at its best: Silvercup Studios, where "Gossip Girl," is filmed could actually become an educational institution.
• A Whole Foods location is opening in Gowanus, Brooklyn, after groundbreaking last spring and much consternation.
• Going against the grain of many city mayors who are declaring their municipalities a safe haven for illegal immigrants, Mayor Mark Boughton of Danbury, CT wants to align his police force with federal law enforcement to crack down on undocumented workers.
• Brooklyn's 4th Ave. has undergone a dramatic transformation over the last five years. The new-and-improved version seems equally unimpressive to some.
• Customers at the Grand Central Oyster Bar who want to order New England clam chowder will have to ask for "Giants Clam Chowder" this week.
• Big Brother is a salesman. He wants to follow you to sell you stuff.

Lost is back this week! We are hoping that the fourth, albeit strike-shortened, season will answer some more questions and hopefully be less confusing. Plus, when the season starts on Thursday night (9:00 p.m., WABC7) it means one less hour of strike filler. more ›

The last sentence uttered before all hell breaks loose is, “Forget about the rest of the world and hold onto the ones you care about.” Though probably unintentional, those words of brotherly advice – spoken to a lovesick young yuppie named Rob – perfectly sum up the prevalent attitude in fin de siècle New York: the world’s spinning into a cataclysm of total war and catastrophic climate change, but fuck it; let’s party and get ours. And in Cloverfield, the well-connected young Manhattanites at the story’s center do indeed get theirs, just not the way Gossip Girl said they would. more ›

The NY Post has another story in the ongoing ogling at Theresa Duncan's death. The East Village artist apparently "fell into suicidal depression after telling friends that oddball rocker Beck backed out of her movie project." So now we have yet another baffling peek into the paranoid mindset Duncan and her long time boyfriend Jeremy Blake were in when they committed suicide, just one week apart from each other. In the January issue of Vanity... more ›