Last night the 59th Annual Emmy Awards took place on the left coast, but New Yorkers made out very well. New York productions/creative types that took home the gold: Late Night with Conan O'Brien (writing), The Daily Show (variety-comedy show series), 30 Rock (best comedy), and Dick Wolf (for producing Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee). In the would-have-been arena, America Ferrera won best actress in a comedy, Ugly Betty, which was originally supposed......

Gothamist was happily in the middle of watching four hours of The Dog Whisperer (Will and Jada's dog Luigi hangs out with Cesar and the dogs when the movie stars are out of town!) over the weekend when we saw this horrible ad: The 2001-2006 World Trade Center Gold and Silver Clad Commemorative Coin. Oh, yes, a coin claiming to be mined from silver "found under tons" of Ground Zero debris is being hawked yet......

We -ists are an eclectic bunch, but there's a couple of things we all love: famous people, social causes, and wacky local facts. Join us as we starf**k, get virtuous, and learn across the -ist network! Austinist starts us off right by filling the famous person quota by interviewing Lewis Black, covers the social cause with a non-profit car sharing company, and gives us more wacky local facts than we can handle with Austin by......

Passover is considered the highest of holidays in Judaism, commemorating the Jew's Exodus from Egypt. And via Egypt many of them ended up in New York working the comedy scene. This year marks fifth annual Downtown Seder, held Thursday night. Among the 400 expected celebrants will be comedian Judy Gold, Daily Show writer Eric Drysdale, singing duo What I Like About Jew and via video, Al Franken and Lewis Black among many, many other performers.......

Still haven't ironed out your New Years Eve plans yet? It's okay, we think that holiday is over-rated anyway. We suggest you gather some good friends, resolve in '05 to buy tickets before they sell out and get over to one or more of the following shows: *Amnesty International Firefly Project Benefit @ Pianos December 10th. The bill includes The Caulfield Sisters, The Witnesses and very special guests. Who could these special guests be?! Cough,......

We saw this ad on the Daily Show, during Lewis Black's segment about the commercialization of September 11, but we thought it was a joke: How could there be a coin created from silver mined from Ground Zero? Besides being unspeakably tacky and horrible, it just didn't compute. Luckily, reader Dan emailed us to with a link to the actual site about the Freedom Tower silver dollar coming from National Collectors Mint, which also......