Early this morning Hayden Panettiere and other Hollywood elite looked ready to hit the town for a night out even though it was 5:30am. They were announcing this year's Golden Globe nominees, often a good sign for who will be nominated for that other gold statue. All in all New York-based shows and movies fared well as the envelopes were opened sheets of paper were read from. 30 Rock (Best Television Series, Comedy or Musical......

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......

Tod Seelie’s stunning photographs chronicle the wild lives and raw vistas of the international DIY counterculture. On his must-read weblog Sucka Pants, he adds cryptic comments about his travels and other observations about life as a starving-artist Brooklyn cycling photog. Seelie has been spending the first part of his summer with the Miss Rockaway Armada, a collective of artists, dreamers and misfits who, for the second year running, build and sail a group of......

A look at some noteworthy television this week: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (Sunday, 9:00 p.m., HBO) A television adaptation of the 1970 book about America's 19th Century ethnic cleansing of Native Americans. We think that this deserves a miniseries instead of a 135 minute movie to bring the story justice. The Blair Decade (Sunday, 9:00, WLIW 21) A look back on the career of Tony Blair, his rise to power and the bad......

MOVIE: Get a little more in depth on the whole border crossing controversy with Woodstock in the City's screening of Crossing Arizona at +Art%2C+Dance%2C+Music+and+Film888The+Arts+%2D+Events888Makor+%2D +Film888Makor+Film+August888&productid=T%2DMM5FA06">Makor. There's a Q&A with the filmmakers Joseph Mathew and Dan DeVivo and a reception following the screening hosted by Indiepix.net. Roger Ebert said after the film screened at Sundance, “On the last day or two (of Sundance) you hurry between screenings, trying to catch films everybody tells you not to......

We know you love free movies as much as the next kid without a rent-controlled apartment, so Gothamist and Wellspring are giving away 5 pairs of tickets to a midtown screening of The Beat That My Heart Skipped on Monday, June 27th. For details, please continue reading. The Beat That My Heart Skipped, a loose remake of James Toback’s 1970’s noir classic Fingers, is a French subtitled drama boasting a slightly hallucinatory flair –......

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Gothamist was there for some strange happenings at the Morrissey concert last night at Radio City Music Hall. After a pretty good show, featuring songs from his recent "You Are The Quarry" album, as well as older favorites ("Now My Heart is Full", "The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get", etc), Morrissey mysteriously cut short the encore and fled the venue. Gothamist reader Mark summarizes the action: After the break, during the......

For some reason, I get very confused between these four white American male fiction writers named Richard. They are, from left to right, Richard Ford, Richard Powers, Richard Price, and Richard Russo. To break it down: Amongst the books Richard Ford has written are A Piece of My Heart, The Sportswriter, and Independence Day, mainly books about American life in intimate terms, set in the suburban middle class. Richard Powers is more of a......