EVENTS: Both Open House NY and The New Yorker Festival are upon us. You can check out more of OHNY's event here, and The New Yorker Festival here. Some picks: The New Yorker Festival hosts a conversation with Errol Morris tonight. He'll be talking with staff writer Philip Gourevitch about Abu Ghraib, with clips shown from Standard Operating Procedure -- his new film is a study of the prison-abuse scandal. Friday // 8pm // Directors......

The New Yorker Festival is two weeks away, but there are still tickets available to some of the events:Friday, October 6: Fiction Night Monica Ali and Aleksandar Hemon 7 p.m. Ailey Citigroup Theatre 405 West 55th Street Antonya Nelson and Thomas McGuane 7 p.m. Anthology Film Archives 32 Second Avenue Andrea Lee and T. Coraghessan Boyle 9:30 p.m. Cedar Lake Dance Studios 547 West 26th Street A NewYorker Dance Party, hosted by Sasha Frere-Jones, with......

Over at Beatrice, Emily Gordon is blogging about this past weekend's New Yorker Festival. She puts Jonathan Franzen and Zadie Smith into the high school popularity paradigm, hears Steve Martin play banjo with Earl Scruggs and gets to revel in a Tom Cruise as dog impression. Gothamist didn't get to make it to this year's festival (we were a little slow to pull the intellectual cognoscentic trigger), but we will try to right that by......

Thanks to Product Shop NYC (who also reports that the New Year's Eve act at Madison Square Garden will be...The Black Crowes), Gothamist is salivating over this year's New Yorker Festival line-up. Edie Falco! The RZA! Ricky Gervais! Trey Parker and Matt Stone! Sleater-Kinney! And Wallce and Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit! The New Yorker Festival runs September 23-25, and tickets will go on sale on August 25. The tickets range in price......

Today kicks off the New Yorker Festival and if you haven't snagged your tickets for some of the events yet, here's our list of last minute events we think are more than worthwhile...that still have seats left! Friday (night) Seymour M. Hersh interviewed by David Remnick Hersh has been writing about foreign policy and politics for decades and will be discussing the aftermath of 9/11 and the Bush administrations actions since then. Saturday (day) Literature......

Since this one usually sells out quick, we wanted to give you a heads up that tickets for The New Yorker Festival went on sale today. This year's festival takes place October 1-3 at various New York City locations. There is quite a bit going on throughout the weekend. Friday night is dubbed fiction night and features discussions between Sherman Alexie and Dave Eggers, Nicole Krauss and Salman Rushdie and Jonathan Safran Foer and......

It seems the Wyclef Jean invasion (for his new album, The Preacher's Son) is just in preliminary stages. Last week, he was the only redeeming thing in an Observer article about various society dinners last Monday; nothing better than him wearing a "green Celtics jacket and blue jeans" and plugging Jacob the Jeweler while everyone else is fancy and stiff. Then today, he's mentioned in New York magazine's feature about New York musicians, discussing motorcycling......