Nightmare: Ghost Stories is a walk-through haunted house by the creators of last year’s shriek-out hit Nightmare: Face Your Fear. Now doubled in size, the house boasts 23 different interconnected rooms of ghosts, psycho killers and gory, dismembered limbs – the sight of which prompted one girl in our group to declare, “No Red Lobster ever again!” An extra fee gets you entrance to a separate but much more frightening side-show: a dark labyrinth haunted......

What do tourists like more than walking slowly in bunches, visiting Ground Zero, buying fake handbags in Chinatown, and wearing socks with sandals? Eating at restaurants they can find at home! The Post is reporting that IHOP (aka the International House of Pancakes) is in talks with Vornado to open a location at 1540 Broadway (btwn 45th and 46th). It would be the 2nd Manhattan location for the chain - the first location opened......

Outfits from (left to right) Daniel Vosovic, Chloe Dao, and Santino Rice; photographs by Jennifer Snow Gothamist loves you, Project Runway, for making sure Tim Gunn and Andrae made it to Red Lobster - even if the visit (to only the outside of the restaurant?) didn't make it on air. Forget Lobsterfest, that's the best advertising you've ever gotten. Anyway, let's talk about last night's finale. The show picked up from last week when......

There are only six designers left on Project Runway, and their task was a doozy: Designing a dress for a garden party from plants and flowers in the Flower District. Well, the dresses weren't ENTIRELY made out of flowers - they used muslin and mesh as bases to attach flowers and leaves to, but you get the idea. While the challenge was interesting, it actually made for pretty boring TV in Gothamist's book. This episode......

Franklin Crowe, Street Vendor / Chess Player...

As the West Village is happy that the City Planning Commission wants to prevent high-rises from being built (well, the measure needs the City Counci's okay),and Gothamist can only suspect it's part pre-emptive strike against huge outdoor advertisements. For example, the Queens Tower Condos in Rego Park are the target of many complaints for putting up a huge lingerie ad outside one of the buildings. The Department of Buildings has issued violations to the condo's......

As many good ideas gets a second act, The Hipster Handbook author (and Free Williamsburg creator/editor) Robert Lanham decided to go beyond our fray and tackle a wider spectrum of Americans to examine and dissect. In Food Court Druids, Cherohonkees and Other Creatures Unique to the Republic, readers will finally realize that there are names (or "Idio Types") for: Heterosexuals who flirt with homosexuals; folks who love wearing holiday sweaters; and people who use their......

The Times' Marian Burros tries to understand why, in a city of so many wonderful and inexpensive restaurants, some New Yorkers would want to go to Applebee's, Olive Garden, Outback, or Red Lobster. Restaurant consultant Clark Wolf tells her, "New Yorkers as a group are not at the cutting edge and that's the dirty secret. As brutal as it sounds, these chains reflect the expectations of the community." See how Gothamist felt when we went......

Oscar Commentary
Oscar is celebrating its 75th anniversary, I'm celebrating my 25th anniversary of watching Oscar....