MOVIE: Tonight the Brooklyn Independent Cinema Series delivers two very different films. First up is The French Riviera, described as "a road documentary that follows a truck driver on a mission to earn enough money selling ice cream in the Icelandic countryside to go on a vacation on a French beach." Next up is About A Son, the "intimate and moving meditation on the late musician and artist Kurt Cobain, based on more than 25......

If you illegally sublet your apartment - or are an illegal subletter - watch out! The NY Times has a spooky article about the growing business of investigating illegal sublets. One private investigator says with rents skyrocketing, it's now makes economic sense for landlords to pay detectives to investigate. The Times chats with some private eyes about scenarios they've investigated. One woman who had a $1,500 rent-regulated West Village apartment was found in South Dakota......

No way, man. No way is the government going to tell me what to do, man. No square in a tie is going to tell me how to live my life. Oh. It’s for my own good? Oh, ok. Earlier this week, Mayor Bloomberg spoke at a public health law conference in Atlanta conducted by the CDC where he recommended that other cities should follow New York’s example of promoting better health through law. He......

Two Gallants...

It is not the natural state of a New Yorker to look up at the sky. The skyscrapers block our view and we need to be alert to what our fellow pedestrians are doing. Gothamist has tried to get people to look at the halos, sun dogs and iridescent clouds with limited success. Luckily there are meteorological phenomena to see on the ground. On our way to work in the morning Gothamist walks up the......

Today and tomorrow are looking mighty fine for late November. Partly cloudy with high temperatures in the mid-50s. Then, in time for ballon inflating, a parade, and driving over the river and through the woods to grandmother's house the weather turns wet and cold. See that low pressure system down in Texas? That's its forecast position for tomorrow morning (from AccuWeather's Galileo Television Weather System that is now made available to the public. By Wednesday......

Should be another partly-cloudy day with a high of 83. Scattered thunderstorms will begin rearing their heads around 7PM. Last night Gothamist received notification that her Vans shipped. (Yes, the black and white checkered ones, thanks for asking.) Amid the email's many links was one particularly intriguing one that said "USPS Weather Page." It goes without saying that it was the first thing Gothamist clicked. Ribbs.usps.gov contains a weather alert bulletin board that you can......