It's not quite the lusty month of May yet, but spring fever is already gripping the denizens of the city. So for your monthly dose of sexy scribes, head down to Happy Ending Lounge (302 Broome St.) for the monthly In The Flesh Erotic Reading Series. This month's theme is True Confessions, featuring comedian Dan Allen, blogger and novelist Jessica Cutler (The Washingtonienne), Columbia Spectator sex columnist Miriam Datskovsky, among others, and hosted by the......

Trojan Condoms is breaking through to primetime television with an ad that will air on tonight's Law & Order. Adweek is told this is the first condom ad to ever air on a Big Three network during primetime. Hmm...is it a coincidence that Joe Piscopo is featured in this L&O rerun? Defamer thinks a collective cinderblock will be, uh, pooed by the Parents Television Council over this ad. And speaking of Hollywood, Gothamist is jealous......

This friend of ours works in book publishing. When she assumed the title “editorial assistant” and the attached responsibilities and privileges (which, believe us, she has fulfilled and enjoyed for longer than she’d like to admit), she told her boss the senior editor, “I don’t really understand how you advance in publishing.” “Neither do I,” he said, “but if you want to get an idea, watch The Best of Everything.” Like so much of his......

Ben Lyons, MTV Co-host...

Coming soon to the pages of Teen People: Bridal fashion for those who want more attention from friends and family. The Daily News reports what Britney was wearing and to Gothamist, the outfit proves it was a spur of the moment, if not totally drunken decision: "With skin-tight tattered blue jeans cut down to here and a belly shirt cut up to there, Spears was in the zone as she made her way down the......

"There are three sides to every story: my side, your side, and the truth. And no one is lying." Gothamist has been looking forward to Robert Evans' animated show, Kid Notorious, coming this fall on Comedy Central, but this Page Six description seals the deal: Sharon Stone calls Evans to tell him she's dropping out of his latest project to do a version of "The Vagina Monologues" called "Sharon Stone's Vagina." Evans tells the audience,......

If it's fall, it must be time for the New York Film Festival. This year, the opening night film is Mystic River, the ensemble drama directed by Clint Eastwood. The cast is ridiculously loaded with great actors: Sean Penn, Kevin Bacon, Tim Robbins, Laura Linney, Marcia Gay Harden, and Laurence Fishburne. The story is dark, eliciting comparisons to Eastwood's tour de force western, Unforgiven, but its present day setting makes it more wrenching. Sean......