MUSIC: Tickets are still available for Daniel Johnston tonight. If you aren't familiar with the music of this Austinite, check out a little of what he has to offer from a recent appearance on the Henry Rollins Show (video here), or in the documentary "The Devil and Daniel Johnston," trailer below: 7pm // Warsaw [ 261 Driggs Ave , Brooklyn] // $18 PARTY: LVHRD is having their "MCFGHT 2 AUDITIONS" tonight. The mysterious bunch of......

Last night, the 2006 Olympic Games of Torino began with IOC President Jacques Rogge delivering a message for "peace, tolerance and brotherhood." The ceremony included disco music and a song from Luciano Pavarotti. The Olympic flame was lit by Stefania Belmondo, a two-time gold medal winner in cross-country, while the torch was carried into the stadium by legendary Italian skier Alberto Tomba. Several athletes have already been suspended for five days for having high......

- Queens get to join in the reindeer Olympic Games bid "fun" - Keeping your teeth clean while drinking wine - Gothamist does damage at the 3rd Annual Big Apple BBQ Block Party - New Yorkers react to the Michael Jackson verdict - There are free UN Tours this month - Summer movie fun! Drive-In movies at Rockefeller Center and Bryant Park's movies - Apparently the Manhattan Borough President has a great voice -......

Sunday begins a 4-day NYC visit from representatives of the International Olympic Committee, who the city will try to razzle and dazzle in the hopes of being tapped for the 2012 Olympic Games. As part of their welcome, the Observer reports that committee members will be taken up to Central Park for a look at members of the Road Runners club racing through "The Gates," will dine at the Bloomberg mansion, and will ride in......

Well, it looks like the Olympics coming to New York has a slightly better chance of happening. In a December meeting with European sporting officials, Mayor Bloomberg apparently knocked their socks off. In his estimates NYC 2012 is in a tie with Paris. The NY Times writes: By the end, even people from cities competing for the Olympic bid were describing him as charismatic and charming. Charismatic and charming?!? We never knew, Mr. Mayor. Then......

Mayor Bloomberg is proposing that the 2,200 Fresh Kills landfill be transformed into a Olympic park as the City finalizes its Olympic bid. Wow - the Mayor and his cronies never run out of ways to turn straw into gold! The Mayor, joined by Staten Island Borough President James Molinaro, City Planning Commissioner Amanda Burden and Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe, presided over a demonstration of "Mountain Biking and BMX, the Olympic Games' newest, exciting sport,"......

Curtis Martin is nowhere near an old man at age 31, but by football standards, many have been questioning how much gas he could possibly have left in his tank. Martin had one of the most impressive games in recent memory, rushing for 196 yards and a touchdown on 29 carries and adding a touchdown reception to lead the Jets to a season-opening 31-24 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals in East Rutherford. Box Score. "I......

Embattled Brooklyn apartment dwellers have taken their fight against the proposed site of the new arena for the "Brooklyn Nets" all the way to Athens. A group called Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn unveiled a banner on one of the endangered apartments which reads "Dr. Rogge and the International Olympic Committee, Please Don't Destroy Our Homes." If New York City is awarded the Olympic Games in 2012, the proposed basketball arena would be used to......

The United States men's gymnastics team had hopes for gold, but they came out of yesterday's team competition with a silver medal. The medal yesterday was the team's first since the 1984 Los Angeles Games, when the USSR boycotted the Olympics. Before that, the only medal the team won was in 1932, also a silver. Since Los Angeles, the team finished no higher than 5th in an Olympic Games. The competition was won by a......

With 31 days left until the Olympic Games in Athens starts on , a blackout hit all of Athens yesterday. The blackout was worst one in more than 10 years and naturally stirred some more doubts in the logistical nightmare that has become the Athens Olympics. The outage was blamed on "mismanagement" of the electricity grid. I'm sure that's what athletes and security personnel want to hear - mismanagement. Naturally, the Olympic Organizing Committee assured......

The route for the Olympic torch relay in New York City has been announced and the torch, which will have had stops in L.A., Atlanta, and St. Louis before coming to NY, while be handed off at the start in Queens this Saturday. Mayor Bloomberg said: On June 19th, when the Olympic Torch leaves Athens Square Park and travels through New York City’s diverse and vibrant neighborhoods, it will be as if it were passing......

The International Olympic Comitee pared down the locations contending for the 2012 Olympic Games today, choosing five cities to remain in the competition. The cities chosen were New York City, Paris, London, Madrid, and Moscow. Istanbul, Leipzig, Rio de Janeiro and Havana did not make the list of finalists. This, of course, has Gothamist bummed because we were really hoping to travel to Cuba and smoke some fine cigars. There were reports that as......

With the International Olympic Committee on the brink of announcing which cities are finalists in competing for the 2012 Olympic Games, Deputy Mayor Daniel Doctoroff is under the spotlight, as NYC 2012, NYC's bid for the games, was his brainchild. The Times profiled Doctoroff yesterday, giving him credit for "outlining" Mayor Bloomberg's plans for Lower Manhattan as well as for developing downtown Brookly and "rezoning of industrial Williamsburg for housing development," leading many to wonder......