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No, not the movie. The real Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen stopped by Manhattan Cable Network (whose studio was down the block from the Hotel Chelsea) on September 18th, 1978 for a live call-in show. Less than a month later Nancy was found dead, followed by Sid the following February. Watch Part One here, Part Two is below...

Just listening to a lot of records, getting emotional about them, falling in love with them.

It's hard to believe, but Joey Ramone has been dead for five years. Today is his birthday, and to celebrate and remember him, Ramones super-fans are visiting spots in Queens and Manhattan. Nonsense-NY has the details:

Finger on the Pulse, Deejay Collective

Last night we were told that the Secret Machines were playing a (secret?) show at the Apple Store in Soho at 10pm. We didn't go, and haven't heard a thing about it. Did it happen, was anyone there? We need closure.

Gothamist remembers the day well. We were rolling out of bed, late for a meeting and still longing for more sleep. We flipped on the Weather Channel to help us decide what grade of heavy jacket we were going to need for the morning’s blustery walk to work. The clock struck 8 after, and we focused our attention on the “accurate and dependable” local forecast greeting us with a pleasant familiarity. But as the forecast began, we lost all focus. What was this??? Is this… Phish… on the Weather Channel? Surely not. They would never play this… Indeed, they did. The Weather Channel, long known for its dreamy, mind numbing elevator music landscaped local forecasts, had made a noticeable change. That change was Steve Hurst.

">Vittorio De Sica (�The Bicycle Thief�). Plus Radcliffe's been listening to the Sex Pistols and what Newsweek calls "edgy new acts" like the Strokes and the Dandy Warhols, 'cause he's young and cool - he's not JUST Harry Potter! The Daily News also looks at Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, which opens next summer on June 4, 2004.