With all the news of identity theft, of course it would have to hit couples who are getting married. The Post has an alarming story about a number of couples who, when applying for a marriage license, have found themselves already "married." It's believed that thieves use other people's identities to get marriage licenses and green cards. Denise Daskalkis "filed two appeals, multiple petitions, and attended a hearing at the Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings," calling the two-year process hell while a Laura Berrios was "denied a domestic partnership with her lesbian lover because she had supposedly been married - to a man - for a decade." Berrios dryly said to the Post, "I've been out of the closet since I was 16. Trust me, I never have and never will get married [to a man]." more ›

The most powerful suggestions in this week's NY Times Weddings & Celebrations? If you write about dating or a hapless love life, all is not lost! Actually, we got that idea from Candace Bushnell's Sex and the City, too, but not everyone can end up with Mr. Big or marry a hunky principal dancer at the NY City Ballet. Anyway... more ›

as Law & Order SVU used to be on then (and we remember the good ol' Fridays when The X-Files was on at 9PM and then Homicide was on at 10PM). And maybe Govich's ADA character, Jessica "From the wrong side of the tracks" [the elevated train tracks?] Rossi, won't be that lucky - the lady ADA's have a mysterious way of leaving every so often. more ›

- And all three of you Love Monkey fans, VH1 will air the unaired episodes, in timeslots when it's not showing a "The Fabulous Life of Someone Not That Famous" more ›

Way back in 2004, the city announced its super duper special NYC Tax Credit Program for film and TV producers (as well as commercial, music video, etc.) in order to motivate productions to happen here, versus Los Angeles or (gasp) Toronto. And it worked really well: Lindsay Lohan made a movie, Martin Scorsese shot a set-in-Boston movie mostly here, CBS brought us Love Monkey (then cancelled it), there's another Dick Wolf TV, plus countless others. But now it turns out that the film credits were maybe too much of a good thing: The NY Times reports that the film credit program will be revised because the $50 million allocated for the program over four years has been sapped away in just 13 months! Who knew, a city program that was too good to be true? more ›

Do you love AutoCad, have a fondness for Architectural Record, drafting tables, and fun architectural renderings? If so, you could be The Bachelor on ABC's reality love show. But not all architects need apply, ABC has a specific idea in mind: "Basically we are searching for a 27-33 year old single, handsome, successful, charismatic guy who would like to be whisked away to an exotic, tropical location dating 25 beautiful girls." We assume that George Costanza and those sporting Le Corbusier-like glasses need not apply. Hmmm...at 27-33, aren't most architects still "paying their dues" in the field? It might be kind of hard to find a "successful" architect, no? Unless of course success is graduating from the ramen for dinner lifestyle. more ›

We loved that show "Ed", we really did. Did you know that the town in it, Stuckeyville, is Nyack, NY? Anyway, we were quite happy to see Tom Cavanagh (Ed, himself) is back on the tube, this time in the form of Tom Farrell in a show called Love Monkey. more ›

So, then there's upcoming book, Midlife Crisis at 30 by Lia Macko and Kerry Rubin, which focuses on late 20- and 30-something women's realization that having it all may not be what it's cracked up to be, with pressures of appearances, work, love, and motherhood giving them agita - the Post outlines it all. One NYC psychologist does seem many young female patients and says that "The phenomenon is more grave in urban areas. The more stressful the lifestyle, the more this is salient." After reading the article, Gothamist wondered when we could check ourselves into Silver Hill, because clearly we have some upsetting times ahead. AND Sex and the City ended! Luckily, we have The Book of Ages: 30 to remind us that 30 is but a stop along the way to great things...sometimes. more ›