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 fabulous Rachel Kramer Bussel. It starts at 8PM and is free. more ›

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? more ›

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 wise advice, this went ignored, until months later when a night of restless channel surfing yielded up the movie itself: a scandalous tale of three young women, all typists at a Major Publishing House, chasing love and success in an age when lunch was liquid and ladies worked only until someone bought them a diamond ring and a cottage in Connecticut. Not what you’d want to be offered as a career primer, though the means by which the one ambitious female character claws her way out of the typing pool are not entirely unfamiliar. The clothes are amazing, Robert Evans’s supporting performance should not be missed, and it has that great postwar-Manhattan look. more ›

Ben Lyons, MTV Co-host more ›

– Alexander once hit a guy who bought his then girlfriend a drink; now that's chivalry. more ›

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: more ›

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 Penn also stands a good chance of being nominated come Oscar time, based on the buzz of his performance as a father whose daughter is murdered. more ›