Like Jay-Z's 40/40 Club before them, the NY Post reports that two more Manhattan clubs are now being drawn into a lawsuit for playing music they didn’t have a license to play. With the music industry in an increasingly sad state, you would think getting the tunes out to the public (not for downloading or stealing but for the pure enjoyment of listening) would be a good thing. However bars are finding they have to pay the piper to play the songs, lest they want to end up in court. more ›

A yuletide favorite since 1965, A Charlie Brown Christmas, airs tomorrow night at 8pm (as we mentioned in yesterday's tv listing). Seem a little early? Hey, it's after Thanksgiving...so Christmas is only a hop, skip and jump away. We've been prepared for this since the seasonal lights went up on Orchard Street just after Halloween. more ›

. It was a rare treat for me, to see the progression and consistency of themes and style, not to mention the excellently-executed tricks in his bag of them. more ›

Hot on the heels of our PSP MTA map last month, a Gothamist reader sent us a link to iSubwayMaps-- yup, you guessed it-- now you can listen to "Hey Ya!", find your stop, and get mugged, all at the same time! The maps were originally taken from the MTA map, but after a cease-and-desist order, they've been completely redrawn-- and very well, we might add. more ›

Hey Ya! won four awards; there was a day when Gothamist didn't think we could get tired of Hey Ya! by Outkast, but it seems that day came like two or three months ago. We're sad that Jay-Z's incredibly beautiful and brutal video 99 Problems won most of its awards in the pre-show; directed by Mark Romanek, it shows Jay-Z in Brooklyn with a motley cast of supporting character, in a last hurrah of sorts. See the video on Romanek's site here. And our other Larry-King-in-USA-Today type thoughts:
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Big Boi added: "We love you, yeah. And don't forget to tell your parents to get out and vote." Gothamist loves musicians with a message who also sign a song about man-whores and big guls needing love to kids. more ›

In honor of Outkast's many Grammy wins, check out the Peanuts version of Hey Ya! [Via KB] more ›

More celebrity legal fun: whatevs on the mug shot of James Brown, who was arrested for domestic abuse...Gothamist is thinking Brown looks like the haggard, older Andre 3000 from the Hey Ya! video.
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After looking the past three months' of Eastman Kodak's stock, Gothamist can draw no conclusive evidence for our argument that the brilliant Outkast/Andre 3000 song, "Hey Ya," is responsible for any stock upswing. However, in Gothamist's book, the lyrics make us want to get a Polaroid all over again...take that, HP! more ›

While it's possible for most any news stories to make it the top right image block on NYTimes.com (images rotate throughout the day), Gothamist would like nothing more than a big photograph of Andre 3000 and Big Boi wearing something crazy (i.e., something they would usually wear) above the fold on the print edition after day after the Grammys. more ›