- Marc Ecko (right) wins his suit against the city - a judge rules the city violated the First Amendment in revoking the graf party permit! Whodathunkit? But the city is going to appeal, so who knows what'll happen on Wednesday. - The New Yorker looks at how the ghost of Sex and the City lingers on in the West Village... might Jimmy Choo or Manolo Blahnik consider opening up a Bleecker Street store? [via......

We'd like to echo Gothamist Arts & Events' charge that RESFEST, which starts tonight, is the place to see groundbreaking videos. In fact, we'd like to add that it's yet another great opportunity to see excellent programs of short films and animation as well. RESFEST starts tonight, with all the action at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center, and Gothamist has been hooked since we went a couple years ago and there was a program of......

Where else can you see 15 years of groundbreaking videos from Warp Records? Not Fuse, certainly not MTV...and most definitely at the RESFEST. What is this RESFEST Gothamist speaks of? Well, in short (and we do like our brevity here), it's an eight year running travelling film festival featuring digital films, shorts, music videos (that fall outside and break the MTV mold), motion graphics and more, more, more, more. This years fest lineup features: Shynola......

There are times when watching MTV, VH1, BET or even that new upstart FUSE that Gothamist wishes we could just by pass all of the bling and booty for some videos with artistic merit. RES magazine hears our plaintive sighs and every year brings the best of digital media showcased in their magazine to theatrical establishments around the country with RESFEST, the digital film festival. The New York leg of the tour begins today with......