We prefer to mourn in solitude, and basically prefer everything in near-solitude due to a slight case of agoraphobia and premature elderliness, so we didn't make it over to the Bored To Death wake at the Brooklyn Inn last night. That doesn't mean we don't care! But looking at today's recaps we can say that we made the right decision, you know, for us, as internet chatter suggests the place was packed, with a line around the block. So plenty of people were there to surround Jonathan Ames and John Hodgman with love, including FIPS, who just posted a hilarious interaction with Hodgman himself. In it, he discusses everyone's favorite movie theater, the Pavilion: more ›

The new season of Bored to Death is in full swing and we're taking that opportunity to launch our new event series, TV Dinner Party. You can win tickets for you and a guest to attend the screening of Monday's episode at Nitehawk Cinema and participate in a Q&A with Bored to Death's Jonathan Ames, and (just added!) John Hodgman. Also, Nitehawk will be providing "TV dinners" to nosh on while watching the show, Brooklyn Oenology will be providing white wine, and the band Radical Dads will be performing in the lobby after the Q&A! more ›

Last night John Hodgman took the stage at Celebrate Brooklyn, and explained a few of the lesser known facts about his neighborhood of Park Slope. A little history lesson: "Park Slope as a community was founded in 1990, by exiles from Manhattan. They came seeking an opportunity to practice their simple religion of gutting Brownstones, and breeding, and consuming luxury goods. The founding members wanted to live in peace with the people who were here, the less affluent, more ethnic Park Slopers. There's no way we could have known that double-wide strollers and small vineyard white wines from Oregon would give all those people small pox. No way, that's in the past. They're gone now, we're here, let's move on, no one is to blame." more ›

Grab a few friends and head over to Momofuku Ssäm Bar for the Bo Ssäm ($180) a huge hunk of pork butt, cooked to falling-off-the-bone perfection, and served with a dozen oysters, kimchi, rice, a variety of sauces (including an addictive ginger-based sauce), and bibb lettuce for wrapping. You'll have to call in advance for reservations, and depending on the size of your group, you'll have room for other dishes as well. Our group of seven polished off some two orders each of the famed pork buns, the hamachi, and two three-terrine sandwiches, as well as the wax bean salad, an order of fried artichokes, some soft-shell crabs, and some ribs that were sent over by the kind folks at the next table (including Mario Batali and John Hodgman), all before the bo ssäm arrived at the table. No, we didn't finish it all, but we were pretty excited about digging into the leftovers the next day. more ›

"More important, however, is the sheer scope of the proposed store in comparison with Apple's two existing Manhattan-area retail presences -- if not the world. The space will easily outsize both the 21,577 square feet of Apple Store SoHo and the yet-larger 25,000 square feet of the subterranean Fifth Avenue location. Property allotted to the third store will be so large, in fact, that its showrooms alone should dwarf the total area given to either of the present-day Apple stores." more ›

This May filmmaker/musician/actress/performing artist/writer Miranda July is going to unleash her book, "No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories", upon the world. She'll have several events lined up in New York, one with her biggest fan - David Byrne. more ›

It's a new step in outdoor advertising: Have a big billboard, then wire dancers to get all Microsofty over it! We heard that there would be a special billboard today outside the Terminal Building on 11th Ave between 27th and 28th Streets, but we didn't know it was going to be this...well, Cirque du Soleil. more ›

Let's take a look back at a week that raised this Zen koan: if Kevin Federline got into a wrestling ring with a wrestler, who would you root for? more ›

- Robert DeNiro is donating his collection of movie scripts, notes, costumes, etc. to the University of Texas at Austin - Bobby, NYC wanted your glasses from Bullwinkle & Rocky, anyway (though the guns from Taxi Driver...) more ›

ART: The Year of the Dog is being celebrated in many ways, even through cute paintings of puppies, er, art. Elizabeth Berdann's witty, ultra-realistic oil-on-copper paintings of dogs are now on view. We think they're cuteoverload.com! more ›

John Hodgman is everywhere! Not that we are complaining of course, but Gothamist has already seen his interview from the Daily Show repeated, he was at Mo Pitkins earlier this week, and tonight he will be a guest at How to Kick People. Surely there will be talk of hobos, but there will also be other guests, including Onion editor Carol Kolb, comedian Susie Felber and Andy Friedman & The Other Failures. If you aren’t able to make the show, Hodgman does have a limited edition blog composed of twenty electronic messages devoted to all the areas of his expertise. more ›

There are some great benefits happening around town tonight, we suggest you hit one, or both, up if you have the time. more ›

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