A look at some noteworthy television this week: more ›

7:06PM First thoughts: Gael Garcia Bernal is so cute. Ryan Seacrest is an idiot, as are Joan and Melissa Rivers. But we want to know what Jennifer Lopez is wearing! (It turns out to be Marchesa.) more ›

It's that time of year again, when the New York Film Society at Lincoln Center and a small group of local film critics selects the entries from new world cinema they feel deserves their erudite stamp o' approval. As this year's pre-screening Festival ID tag points out, their 44 years of discernment includes a pretty elite bunch of films and filmmakers, and this year is no different. The NYFF doesn't set out to be mainstream fare, like the younger Tribeca fest, and they pride themselves on this. more ›

There's a slight rap on the knuckles for the media in an article about how intense reporter scrutiny of a four year old is causing problems. The NY Times looks at little Valery Belén Saavedra Lozada, who was found abandoned on a Queens street in the middle of the night, most likely by the man who killed her mother. When Valery was first found, child welfare officials decided to allow her to be interviewed by a WNBC reporter, describing herself and her mother, in order to see if anyone have had any leads about who she was. And the footage, which aired over and over again because whose heart doesn't break when they see an adorable girl describing her mother as a "princess," was successful in identifying her. But then the fascination with Valery continued, which has resulted in reporters "camping outside the home" of her guardians (temporary ones - her mom's cousins) in Long Island. more ›

10. National Geographic – June 1985 – Afghan girl – “Haunted eyes of an Afghan refugee’s fears”Based on own magazine reading experience, Gothamist would have to say that Fabien Baron's Harper's Bazaar cover ranks at the top, though we're very fond of the two September 11th-related covers (#6 Art Spiegelman's black on black World Trade Center and Maira Kalman and Rick Meyerowitz's New Yorkistan, #14). There are high-res images of the covers here, but nowhere are there credits for who designed, illustrated or photographed the cover; we hope ASME releases that next. [Via AdFreak] more ›

When someone extraordinarily famous dies (Princess Diana, J.F.K. Jr., Tupac, Notorious B.I.G.), and usually it tends to be life ending at a tragically early age, magazines and newspapers will devote pages to them, print special issues, commemorate to the nth degree. Gothamist asked the Asia-Pacific bureau to take some some pictures of the print media coverage of Leslie Cheung's death. more ›