Avenue Montaigne (directed by Danièle Thompson) If the rose-colored Paris in Ratatouille has you itching for more stories from the City of Lights, might we suggest renting the fluffy and enjoyable comedy Avenue Montaigne which comes out on DVD this week. Set in one of the ritziest neighborhoods in Paris, the movie tells a number of interconnected stories circling around a young waitress (the pixie-ish Cécile De France) at a local cafe. Wandering in and......

Seems like the Hotel Chelsea residents have long been at battle with the clubs that open in the basement of the building. This used to be the case with Serena (which was owned by Anna Wintour's stepson/Minnie Driver's cousin) and now with Star Lounge (which has opened in its place). The basement lounges seem to draw a posh crowd that's the antithesis of who the Hotel was founded upon: starving (or at the very least,......

They don't make "downtown It girls" like Edie Sedgwick any more, which is why it's fortunate that Andy Warhol spent so much time capturing her on camera during the height of their artistic collaboration. The Museum of the Moving Image in Queens is devoting a retrospective to these films starting this weekend and running through Apr. 8. Featuring 15 16 mm movies, many loaned by the Museum of Modern Art, the series also includes footage......

THEATER: There’s a growing cultural phenomenon in Japan called hikikomori, in which young people (as many as 1 million) withdraw into their rooms and refuse any contact with the outside world, sometimes for years. (In America, it’s called adolescence.) The Attic, by acclaimed Japanese playwright Yoji Sakate, is about “a mysterious company that sells tiny ‘attics’ over the internet to people who want to withdraw from society. One man embarks on a quest to find......

Just a thought as we look ahead to this week's new releases. Someone should really take Diane Keaton aside to tell her that this series of increasingly painful looking romantic comedies where she plays an over-the-top meddling mom aren't good for her cinematic legacy. The newest installment is the Mandy Moore romantic comedy, Because I Said So, where Keaton plays a mother desperate to marry off her headstrong youngest daughter. Please Diane, after loving you......

Edie Sedgwick, "It" girl of the 60s, once said her colorful life could never be accurately portrayed on The Big Screen. However, now it is (though it's accuracy is in question). The actress playing Edie is Sienna Miller, has just finished reshooting some scenes for the movie (called Factory Girl) that is supposed to be out sometime in the next month. Socialite, party girl, Warhol's muse...Sedgwick also inspired other artists in her short life......

Before getting cast on the Surreal Life, going to rehab, getting engaged...or whatever else celebrities do while white knuckling on to their career and/or become "edgier", they go to Misshapes. Love it or hate it, this party gets more press than some of it's guest stars on the decks. It has the ability to turn Hilary Duff from Disney to deejay, it lets Madonna show everyone her ego isn't bigger than the small clubs she......

- One pedestrian killed, another injured, as a car lost control off the Manhattan Bridge over the weekend and a woman was killed this morning by a truck making a turn in Brooklyn - Forgotten NY goes to Corona - Curbed asks how Lenny Kravitz is so "friggin' rich," which totally means they saw that episode of the Gilmore Girls where Lorelei wondered the exact same thing - The NY Sun has a new EMT......