In their quest to take over New York, Bowery Presents is opening yet another venue! Ask just about anyone (and we have) and they'll say that the Bowery Ballroom is their favorite place to see and/or play music - so who better to open even more spaces than the creators of that one? The latest establishment will be in Midtown and is called Terminal 5 (the old Club Exit). Currently there are no photos, but......

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. In his online journal, he wrote: "I had recently read her book of collected short stories which is due out in about a month — No one Belongs Here More Than You — which......

Because everything is better when conducted under a gorgeous chandelier, head down to the National Arts Club for Literary Debuts: First Books by Two Authors. Reading tonight at the auspicous Gramercy Park location are Edward Schwarzchild and his new book, Responsible Men, alongside Ronna Wineberg's Second Language. The Club is at 15 Gramercy Park and the event is free, and open to the public, starting at 8PM. At Labyrinth Books (536 W. 112th St.) on......

It's a packed week for the bookish types, with a couple of our favorite love-to-hate-them New York novelists on the readings circuit. Yeah, we're talking about the Jonathans. On Wednesday (2/22) Lethem is hosting a short-story evening at Symphony Space (W. 92nd St. and Broadway), with stories by James Thurber, Italo Calvino, and Jorge Luis Borges read by Malachy McCourt, Maria Tucci and Isaiah Sheffer. The show starts at 8PM and costs $21/25. And not......

The Gourmet Cookbook: More Than 1000 Recipes by John Willoughby, Zanne Early Stewart, Ruth Reichl (Houghton Mifflin, 2005) Seeing as Gothamist is a Ruth Reichl fan, we figured we should check out the cookbook she recently co-edited for Gourmet magazine, especially after we heard that it contained recipes from the past 60 years of the magazine. It turns out that the cookbook is overwhelming in its comprehensiveness--in a good way. From quick-and-easy to slow-cooking and......

The Healthy Hedonist: More Than 200 Delectable Flexitarian Recipes for Relaxed Daily Feasts by Myra Kornfeld (Simon and Schuster, 2005) With summer coming to an end but the warm weather still around (for now), Gothamist felt the need to not only eat ice cream, but to make ice cream. And while we have no childhood memories of hand cranking an old-time ice cream machine, we nevertheless were very excited to try out a Cuisinart electric......

It's All American Food: The Best Recipes for More Than 400 New American Classics by David Rosengarten (Little, Brown, 2003) OK, we admit it: Gothamist grew up on Bisquick pancakes. (And we liked 'em.) But childhood tastes (hopefully) change when one grows up, and for us, our taste in pancakes now leans heavily towards homemade in general, buttermilk in particular. And while you'll find buttermilk pancakes on many a New York restaurant brunch menu, they're......

Earlier this week, the Daily News ran a story about people looking to lose their New York accents. Sam Chwat, who founded New York Speech Improvement Services - and has worked with Julia Roberts and Andie MacDowell, and is even working with the cast of Glengarry Glen Ross for their Chicago accents - says many of his clients are trying to rid themselves of the "streetwise image of fast-talking New Yorkers." "If you spend......

Arthur Schwartz's New York City Food: An Opinionated History and More Than 100 Legendary Recipes, by Arthur Schwartz (Stewart, Tabori and Chang, 2004) Gothamist sends our parents a Junior's cheesecake every year for Christmas. It's to the point that they're hooked, and we can't get them anything else. We imagine getting the frantic call: "What did we do? Where's the cheesecake???!!!" So every year, we go online and order a cheesecake. (This year they got......

The Buttercup Bake Shop Cookbook: More Than 80 Recipes for Irresistible, Old-Fashioned Treats, by Jennifer Appel (Simon & Schuster, 2001) Gothamist's addiction to cupcakes has been well documented. At the risk of turning Gothamist into a cupcakes blog, along the lines of Slice, here's another entry devoted to Gothamist's favorite food. We were thrilled to pick up The Buttercup Bake Shop Cookbook for half price at the Strand, since we always visit Buttercup to pick......

This is the other end of the "rich are crazy" spectrum - being too stupid to realize your assistant is embezzling thousands to millions of dollars from you. When a Trusted Secretary Takes More Than a Letter......