Chris Martin will be (attempting to) steal the spotlight back from his wife Gwyneth Paltrow soon. She's been in the news for fainting from live-food fasts and being honored by Food Bank NYC, and you know he must be shivering there in her shadow. Well not for long; Martin and his band Coldplay have just announced a free show to help hype up their forthcoming album. If you're a fan of the fellas, set that......

With all the alarming facts about catastrophic climate change at our fingertips, most of us know by now that every day needs to be Earth Day. And one of the easiest ways to start minimizing environmental impact is by considering what goes into our own mouths. Here in New York, Broadway East, a new “plant-based” (but not strictly vegetarian) restaurant, has made sustainability a top priority. Tables in the elegantly designed eatery are made from......

The Food Bank for New York City held their 5th Annual Can-Do Awards Dinner and fund raiser last night at Chelsea Piers. For the past 25 years, the Food Bank has worked to end hunger by giving low-income New Yorkers access to affordable and healthy food. Last night's dinner was hosted by classy actor Stanley Tucci and attended by celebrities like Michael Stipe, Gwyneth Paltrow and Mike D; musical performances were by Angela McCluskey, Jill......

This past week things got stirred up at celebrity hotspot Socialista with a bit of a a Hepatitis A scare. Amongst the hundreds urged to get vaccinated were celebrities who attended actor Ashton Kutcher’s 30th birthday party at the bar; those on the Hepatitis A-list included Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow. When health officials checked out the joint, they found no traces of soap, meaning the infected bartender was handling garnishes and glasses to the patrons......

Last we checked in on Gwyneth Paltrow she was being wheeled into Mount Sinai Hospital for what ended up being a "gastrointestinal situation." Bouncing back quickly, she was at a UNICEF event last week where she dropped the bomb about a new bambino:“People who have a lot also often feel like they have a lot to give. I have a good friend who always says that if you’re a person of means at all, then......

Us Magazine is reporting that Gwyneth Paltrow was admitted to New York's Mount Sinai Hospital yesterday afternoon. The reason for the hospitalization is not known, but could it have something to do with her history of crazy diets?"She was slumped over in a wheelchair pushed by [husband] Chris Martin," an eyewitness tells Us. "She looked not well." At 6:30 p.m., a bag — labeled "Gwyneth Martin" — from NYC organic home supply store Organics Avenue,......

Men, if you'd like to keep your delusions alive -- steer clear of this Observer article on Spanx. It appears that women of all shapes and sizes are stocking their drawers with the girdle-esque garment."She did what an increasing number of New York women are doing every night of the week: She wiggled into a pair of Spanx, the nylon and spandex undergarments that cinch a gal’s waist and thighs, eliminating underwear lines and shaving......

My Kid Could Paint That (directed by Amir Bar-Levi) Documentarian Amir Bar-Levi spent a year following the Olmstead family as their daughter Marla became a darling of the contemporary art world. The only odd thing about Marla meteoric rise to fame? Her age. She was 4 years old at the time and painting elaborate abstract canvases selling for thousands of dollars each. Following a large profile of Marla on 60 Minutes that brought into doubt......

I Want Someone To Eat Cheese With (directed by Jeff Garlin) While there's quite a few new releases coming out that are worth checking out this weekend (like the western and the spacemen documentary), we wanted to reserve our pick for a charming little movie you might have otherwise ignored. Written, directed and starring comedian Jeff Garlin (who we interviewed earlier this week), it's the kind of modest, looking-for-love-in-all-the-wrong-places story you don't often see these......

It's that time of the year again: When Hollywood honors its moviemaking the way it knows (and not always in equitable ways, given that Alfred Hitchcock nor Robert Altman, to name a few, have never won Directing Oscars) and America gets to watch hours of pre-show hosted by idiots. Giving commentary for Gothamist this year, Karen Wilson, Margaret Harper, and Jen Chung. 7:06PM First thoughts: Gael Garcia Bernal is so cute. Ryan Seacrest is an......

Gothamist was a bit underwhelmed by this year's Golden Globe nominees, and we were thinking of not liveblogging. But, gosh darn it as we watched the E! preshow and saw the starlets sparkle their way down the red carpet, we realize it was hopeless, so here we are. Let it be known that: - Keira Knightley looks gorgeous in her white Valentino - and there's something surprisingly youthful about the dress, even though there's that......

On Sundays, Gothamist runs opinion pieces on issues vaguely related to New York. The views expressed below are solely those of the author. Somewhere in the late high school-early college era, some female friends and I discovered a truly wonderful film genre: two beautiful foreign boys (not, like, toddlers, but maybe 19-year olds, definitely not 30 year olds, you get the idea) fall in love in front of a beautiful backdrop (beach, snow, any breathtaking......

Bless you, Project Runway, for proving that as skilled as the fashion design contestants are, they are still dumb as bricks. For last night's challenge, Heidi and Tim tantalized the group with the promise of designing for an "American style icon" and saying they would meet her in her house... the designers start thinking along the lines of Gwyneth Paltrow, but it's clear when they start walking towards Toys'R'Us that it's going to be Barbie.......

Beloved memoirist Augusten Burroughs will be giving a reading next Tuesday of his latest book, Magical Thinking, at Coliseum Books. And he's going to dish about the new film adaptation of Running with Scissors (Annette Bening will play his mom, Gabrielle Union his mother's girlfriend; Brian Cox is his mom's shrink and Gwyneth Paltrow, Kristin Chenoweth, and Evan Rachel Wood seem to be play his daughters). His last event, at Cooper Union, was totally packed......

Just what the world was waiting for! The NY Times reports that Arianna Huffington is starting a celebrity group blog with people like "Walter Cronkite, David Mamet, Nora Ephron, Warren Beatty, James Fallows, Vernon E. Jordan Jr., Maggie Gyllenhaal, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Diane Keaton, Norman Mailer and Mortimer B. Zuckerman." Huh. Did Huffington read the Businessweek article about blogs changing business and decide, "It's on"? It'll be called Huffington Post, the NY Times article......

Loretta Buckley, Law Student...

According to kottke.org, there's a 40-foot robot in Times Square (that's his cameraphone shot at left). He's correct in guessing that it's a promotion for Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (the movie that was shot in green screen and digitally manipulated so the stars look fuzzy the way Cybill Shephard did in Moonlighting); here are WireImage pictures of Gwyneth Paltrow and Good Morning America's Diane Sawyer in Times Square. There have been smaller......

Tamar Adler, Editor at Harper's...

It's natural that first-time parents have a lot on their mind, but most worry about their child's welfare. But Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin, new parents to little Apple Blythe Allison Martin, born on Friday, really have Gothamist wondering if they've really thought through the implications of naming their child after a famous fruit AND computer brand. There's already a great spoof, but papers are wondering why why why Apple. Okay, fine, it's the tabloids,......

Zach and Wen Schieffelin, Vespa Soho...

The Post reaffirms that ugly might be the new black, as it lists all the lovely ladies of screen who are involved with rockers. Ren�e Zellweger is dating the White Stripes' Jack White, Gwyneth Paltrow is dating Chris Martin of Coldplay, Nicole Kidman supposedly canoodles with Lenny Kravitz, Liv Tyler married Royston Langdon of Spacehog, Drew Barrymore is dating Fabrizio Morretti of the Strokes, Kate Hudson is expecting a kid with Chris Robinson, Cameron Diaz......

The Daily News on the appeal of airline stewardesses - this time it's the sex appeal. Being a stewardess used to be glamorous, as air travel was just the hottest thing ever in the 60s, as "Catch Me If You Can" showed. Ilise's airline fashion post. Watch the trailer for A View from the Top, a comedy about a white trash girl becoming a stewardess, starring Gwyneth Paltrow. Rumored to stink, but there's Mark Ruffalo.......

My favorite late night talk show is Late Night with Conan O'Brien, but usually I fall asleep before then, and I watch the rerun the next night on Comedy Central - thank God for repurposing. During the 11:35PM timeslot, I usually tend towards The Late Show with David Letterman over The Tonight Show with Jay Leno - I am more in tune with Dave's New York crankiness over Jay's Everyman niceness. I feel that Jay......