Kate White lives a double life. As Editor in Chief of Cosmopolitan magazine, she privy's girls nationwide on how to catch the man of their dreams in under five minutes while buying the perfect shade of lip gloss. As a modern day caper novelist, she reminds us all that Nancy Drew is alive, well and possibly living in New York. Her series of books focuses on fictional character Bailey Weggins - a gossip rag writer......

It's inevitable in a summer season of blockbuster highs and lows that we'd have a weekend filled with new releases none of which look good enough to recommend. Glancing ahead to the rest of the month there's stuff like Ratatouille, Sicko, Evening, A Mighty Heart and Evan Almighty to look forward to seeing. But this week? Nada. Don't believe that could possibly be the case? Check out what other early reviews of this week's releases......

Gothamist totally ate up the Saturday NY Times story about tracking down lofts illegally converted from industrial uses in Brooklyn, especially since the article was titled, "Nancy Drew and the Hidden Loft." We could totally see Nancy Drew coming from, well, maybe Riverside Heights or Riverdale Heights, taking the G train instead of her sporty blue convertible (and her dad, Carson Drew, would be a DA or something), with perfect blonde highlights. Anyway, people who......

Yes! The New York Observer has TWO articles about how The O.C. is kind of over right now - and they are front page stuff! Gothamist's take on the show right now is that there are good parts (Summer, Julie Cooper, Peter Gallagher's eyebrows) but too many bad (Caleb's illegitimate daughter Lindsay? BORING. Kim Delaney? Yikes. And we want the old Seth Cohen back). Yet we still watch. Anyway, the Observer's Charles Taylor charts......

Gothamist has been hearing a lot about Jasper Fforde lately, and Newsday has a feature about the British author (whose background includes stints as a film cameraman and living in a family of Oxonians). His books are described thusly: Part mystery, part science fiction, part satire, part lit-crowd entertainment, these hard-to-classify books cross genres with abandon. Consider what Fforde is juggling: Time-travel, newly discovered Shakespeare plays, a machine enabling people to enter classic works of......