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What Gothamist can't understand is why Six Apart doesn't have an office in NYC, which is quickly becoming the center of the blog world. For godsakes, there are rumors Jason Calacanis is moving back to town, Lockhart Steele is launching his super-secret Curbed blog on Monday, and Nick Denton has bought real estate here! With juice like that, the Big Apple deserves some more attention from the blog companies. When was the last time you saw someone from Blogger or MT eating at Gray's Papaya or passing out fliers you throw to the sidewalk immediately after getting them? Never! And we haven't seen Biz Stone at the McDonalds on West 4th in like four years! They are all over there in San Francisco, drinking their chai lattes and laughing at us.

Gothamist also would like to thank: Jason Calacanis, Nick Denton, and Jeff Jarvis for a spirited (though less punchy than wished for, to be honest) discussion about the future of publishing blogs; Anil Dash, Paul Ford, and Meg Hourihan for enlightening us about what goes into designing blog publishing tools (less nerdy than it sounds, for those who missed it); and Felix Salmon, Lockhart Steele, and Choire Sicha ( and Jen) for being good punchlines. Yay!

Various personalities of the blogging world will collide at the NY Bloggers talk at the SoHo Apple Store this Monday, May 3. See Buzzmachine's Jeff Jarvis moderate/referee a discussion with web publishers Nick Denton and Jason Calacanis. ftrain's Paul Ford chats with Meg Hourihan, Anil Dash, and Jason Kottke about technology. And Felix Salmon will find out what kinds of medication Choire Sicha, Lockhart Steele, and Jen Chung must be on during the editors panel. Plus, Jake will be running around as the water boy. We can also promise question-and-answer time as well as some surprises. All in all, a great opportunity to see the bloggers you love (to hate?). Be there to be square.

Tonight, Yankees vs. Red Sox at Yankee Stadium. Two people who would probably enjoyed some Yankee Hater couture: Lockhart Steele and Eliot Shepard.

Thanks, Charlie, for letting us contribute. We, probably like the others, feel like we barely scratched the surface, so if you ever want to do Favorite Things, 11-20....

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New York magazine loved 66.

As with many film projects, the Gubernatorious team is looking for additional funding to complete the film as well as an leads on distribution. You can post something in comments or email Jen if you would like more information.

The Times has a list of chefs and cooking schools for private lessons. If you want to spend that money on some new kitchen appliances or fancy foods, Gothamist suggets working as a kitchen assistant for cooking classes at the New School, where you basically get to attend a class, by helping the teachers and students throughout the lesson and meal and cleaning up at the end. It's like working at a restaurant and it's free.

Today we'd like to introduce a new feature: the Gothamist Interview, written by Andrew Krucoff. The inaugural interview is with none other than Lockhart Steele, Lower East Side icon and famous dilettante. Other interviews on tap for this week: Chuck Klosterman of Spin, Danielle Romano of Daily Candy, and a surprise guest who may go by the name of Choire Sicha (girls, get your engines ready!). Andrew has an amusing interview style that is part Proust questionnaire, part People magazine, part insane stalker. Gothamist finds it rather compelling, and hope you will as well. Also be sure to check out Andrew's other site, The Other Page, where he blogs on a number of eclectic topics.

Jake visits Kossars for bagels and bialys on Grand Street, and the ladies behind the counter, mesmerized by his new Digital Rebel camera or dreams of being featured on Bluejake, let him check out their premises. Photographs at Bluejake and the Times' Ed Levine makes himself an easy target for carb lvoing NYers when he attempts to figure out which bagels (and bialys) in the city are best.

And really, is this betrayal any worse than Al Gore's snub of former running mate Joe Lieberman by supporting Howard Dean? The future is bright for Adam, though: While falling for Melana is not the most dignified thing, it couldn't be avoided in the hothouse NBC created, and now the reality TV watching world knows he's a "millionaire" (though one with a roommate in typical bachelor digs; maybe he's thrifty). Perhaps the sequel is "Average Joe with Many Shallow Girls Fighting For Him." Gothamist got swept into Average Joe fever for the obvious reasons: Rooting for the underdog is such sweet sorrow. Someone who also knows about sweet sorrow, and lots of it, Red Sox fan Lockhart Steele.

With the World Series over, baseball teams shuffle their operations, starting with management and coaches. The Red Sox decided to let Grady Little go and now it looks like Don Zimmer, bull to Pedro Martinez's matador, may be leaving the Yankees organization. Why? He really hates George Steinbrenner. Zimmer told reporters, "When I say I won't be back, I won't be back. They could have a day for me. The answer would be no, and only because of [Steinbrenner]." Gothamist would be sad if Zim left the Yankees, because who else would look as styling at he in the Cliff Huxtable style sweater while sucking on a cigar?

The eagerly anticipated collaboration between Joshua Albertson, Lockhart Steele, and Jonathan Van Gieson, Book of Ages 30, is out in bookstores (free same-day delivery in Manhattan from Barnes and Noble with purchases over $25), on the shelves of Amazon (and other online retailers), and perhaps even at a library near you. And naturally, the website goes live with a blog about all things 30. You can also explore more about the book which promises to be the first in a series that will herald landmark birthdays. Hmm. As it will be Gothamist's dad's 60th birthday next month, we might have to make due with giving him two copies.

Sure, you've clocked in your at various restaurants and bars on the Lower East Side, but do you know anything about it? Talking Street offers free walking tour audios via your own cell phone, and the first one is of the Lower East Side: Birthplace of Dreams. Everyone's favorite booming TV father, Jerry Stiller, narrates. Check out the route and listen to a sample. [Via JP Reardon and Textually]

Gothamist guesses we need to report this bit of Lower East Side news, as Lockhart Steele is on vacation. As part of MTV's week of celebrating the MTV Video Music Awards, there's a $8.28 dinner entree promotion through tomorrow night at Lower East Side restaurants, including Essex, Punch & Judy, and AKA Cafe, are participating. See the full list here.

Even though crime was essentially below normal during the blackout, last week's lootings on the Lower East Side, at cool stores like Alife Rivington Club, sound terrible to Gothamist when we read the Times article this morning: "one of the women got 17 staples in a wound at the back of her head" and "his employee paced back and forth with a spider web of blood on his neck and face." Lockhart Steele has first-hand coverage of the looting, and today, the Daily News reports that Alife owners are going to sue the city for ignoring their cries for help during the looting (that left owners and employees injured as they tried to ward off the looters). Reader Matt suggests that while "the looting during the '77 black out was an expression of poverty, desperation, and anger by New York's put-upon underclass: this is clearly a calculated crime of hipster envy-- I want cool shit, so I'll steal it." That makes Gothamist sigh and hate people more - hipster envy? Really, we hope it hasn't come to that.

If you've got at least $1.26 million lying around and you're looking for a sweet townhouse in Brooklyn, Gothamist says you should bid for the former Department of Education's chancellor's residence at 80 State Street in Brooklyn Heights. As the city sheds various properties, The city is auctioning off the house and the Post describes the property five-story, 5,000-square-foot house:

Aaron mentioned this way back, but since the event is tomorrow and Sunday, we'll mention it again: The 1st Annual Big Apple Barbecue Block Party, presented by Danny Meyer's Union Square Hospitality Group, Blue Smoke, and The Jazz Standard. It's all happening on East 27th Street, between Park Avenue South and Lexington Avenue. And as Gothamist loves to eat, we'll be there. With digital cameras, even though Lockhart Steele is afraid of our pictures.

The New York Times finally catches up to Lockhart Steele's Surface Hotel obsession, with a piece about the new development, playing it up as an incongruous but perhaps inevitable addition to the Lower East Side. Paul Stallings, the developer of the project, says, "We celebrate the tenement context; we want to look out on fire escapes." Yes, celebrating the tenement context in the $2,500 duplex penthouse. In Gothamist's book, that's called slumming.

Rice to Riches Reviewed
For those of you in Basra, or Carroll Gardens, Rice to Riches is the new rice pudding place that opened on Spring Street across from that little park right off Mulberry.

Tonight, I'm seeing Raising Victor Vargas, the opening night selection of the New Directors/New Films Festival. I'm excited for a couple reasons: It's from a director my age, Peter Sollett (in fact, my friends graduated from NYU Tisch with him; I'm obviously growing up because I'm not so jealous as I am impressed); it's a great introduction to new films; and it's at Lincoln Center, so close to home.