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Today's NY Times Magazine has an in-depth exploration of the microblogging phenomenon brought on by sites such as Facebook, Flickr and Twitter. Its author Clive Thompson (whose Twitter feed updates in a widget to the right of the article) makes a case that the incessant posting of snippets of people's lives represents more just than a signal that we are in an era of oversharing. He says that over time one's tweets become "like thousands of dots making a pointillist painting" and that following someone's feed "for a day...and it begins to feel like a short story; follow it for a month, and it’s a novel." While some fear that too many of these "parasocial relationships" will crowd out real ones, Thompson ultimately makes the case that having so much of the minutia of our lives revealed online "brings back the dynamics of small-town life, where everybody knows your business."

There has never been a better time to lay off the heart-shaped and maraschino-red dyed food madness than this Valentine’s Day. Not that there’s anything wrong with Russell Stover- okay, maybe there’s a lot wrong with Russell Stover- it’s just that February 14th is the beginning of predictable three month sugar slump that reaches a high point with St. Patrick’s Day brisket obliterated in brown sugar, and ends sometime at the beginning of Spring (April 8 this year) with a monumental pile of foamy, Marshmallow Peeps. Tis the season to eat processed corn syrup.

Red Hook, by F. Trainer. Reminder: you can contribute photos to Gothamist by tagging them "gothamist" on Flickr, or sending them to photos(@)gothamist (dot) com. Please make sure the photos are at least 640px wide-- it's hard for us to use smaller shots!

Inventive Fashion Photographs by Chuck Close, Annie Leibovitz, Vik Muniz is an exhibit of the three photographers work on assignments for mainstream glossy magazines. Their trademark styles mingle with the editorial assignment – expanding beyond the boundaries given to them.

Antony and the Johnsons will play their first NYC show since winning the UK's Mercury Music Prize last month. The past year has seen Antony rise from a relatively unknown eccentric NYC club performer to an international superstar. His headlining show at Carnegie Hall on Thursday, and his upcoming appearance on Letterman, are two signs of his well deserved success. Those attending the Carnegie show will also be treated to a rare opening set by vocalist Jimmy Scott, "the man whom Joseph Hooper, in a New York Times Magazine profile, called 'perhaps the most unjustly ignored American singer of the 20th century.' [Fantasy Jazz].

Alexandra Bandon, Writer and editor

Todd Pruzan, Managing Editor of Print

More about Ryan McGinley. And there's the Angelina Jolie-Johnny Lee Miller-Jesse Bradford movie about young hackers, Hackers, set at Stuyvesant High School, but the essentially technology-absent Gummo is more heroin chic

Who Jennifer Wants (Wanted?) to Meet: "."

In the New York Times Magazine, Peggy Orenstein tries to wade through possibly one of the most important decisions she will ever make regarding the welfare of her unborn child: Picking out a name. She explores a number of avenues involved in names (like breakthrough sounds, such as the "djeh" in Jennifer, as Harvard sociologist Stanley Liebserson explains).

- John Malkovich on who he'd like to wear pieces from his new clothing line, in an interview with Lynn Hirschberg for the New York Times Magazine. Javier Bardem, Caetano Veloso, Johnny Depp and Bernardo Bertolucci have opted to wear Malkovich's clothing line, Mrs. Mudd. Gothamist giggles when we think about Malkovish referring to Dr. Dre as "the doctor."