Besides the sickening amount of mass-produced prole candy available this time of year, there's also an abundance of higher grade Halloween eating and drinking options. And so it begins; the long, downward holiday flab spiral that reaches its nadir around the first week of January when you have to start leaving the top button of your pants undone. Oh well, no use fighting it; here are some consumption opportunities we've been able to scare up:Through......

Marc Maron's record 38 Conan appearances are a testament to his ability to be consistently funny, intelligent, and engaging. It's this ability that's landed him two Comedy Central Specials, multiple programs on Air America, and appearances in clubs nationwide, including Comix on October 12th and 13th. And while credits and portions of Maron's own quips may hint at his talent, the best way to get a taste of Maron is to visit MarcMaron.com, where you......

We haven’t been that impressed with much of the corn in the city so far. Much has been shrink-wrapped and as yellow as a Crayola sun, a sure sign of tough, dry ears. But not any longer. Fairway has a nice batch of bi-color corn that’s slightly sweet, juicy, and at a fairly remarkable price to back it up. At $1.99 for eight ears of corn, you’ll have enough corn for any large gathering and......

A look at some noteworthy television this week: Grease: You're the One That I Want (Sunday, 8:00 p.m., WNBC 4) This fakeality show finally ends tonight. Masterpiece Theatre - Prime Suspect 6: The Last Witness (Sunday, 9:00 p.m., WNET 13) Helen Mirren stars in one of her best roles – Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison. Despite being on PBS, the Prime Suspect series do tend to be a bit bowlderized from the British original thanks......

The Coupon Clipper scours the specials for the best deals in New York's big grocery stores. We’ve been surviving on some winter staples for past few weeks, especially ones that will keep for many months on the shelf. They’ve kept us fed for less, but we’re getting awfully tired of them. Every spoonful of rice is balanced with a daydream of the spring months to come, and for the fresh crop of great veggies, because......

The Coupon Clipper scours the specials for the best deals in New York's big grocery stores. For the first week after the holidays, most grocery stores probably realized they had bludgeoned their customers enough with holiday sales and decided to play it cool. Food Emporium had a sale on gourmet chicken salad. Gristedes discounted bread. But Fairway apparently has no sense of shame. They lead off their post-holiday specials with $3.99 Sirloin, a price so......

You remember it like it was yesterday - the 2003 blackout across the northeastern United States that made New Yorkers wonder if there was another terrorist attack but then they just settled in for some street parties after finally making it home. Today is the third anniversary of the blackout (time really flies), which the city managed to handle well, especially since the blame could be assigned to outside of New York - whereas......

August 11: Olive Oil Dinner at Beppe Join Chef Marc Taxiera as he prepares a six-course tasting menu highlighting the latest vintage of Beppe’s proprietary olive oil crafted by Matteo Baroni of Fattoria delle Fornacelle. This olive oil is hard core: it's made of Moraiolo (comprising most of the blend), Leccino, and Frantoio olives, hand-picked in late October. It has been granted the ‘Chianti Classico DOP’ designation (Denominazione di Origine Protetta – ‘Protected Appellation’), based......

MUSIC: Tonight head down to the Pier 17 for another Seaport Music Festival show. Lineup: 7pm Mike Wexler, 7:45pm Juana Molina, 8:45pm White Magic Friday // 7pm // Pier 17 // Free COMEDY: We just happened to check out the UCB site and found out that God's Pottery is playing tonight! We saw these guys months ago and they made us laugh quite a bit. Go check them out! To give you an idea of......

Spoiler warning: Specials is the last book in a trilogy by young adult author Scott Westerfeld, and although this review doesn't spoil the ending, it nonetheless divulges a lot of plot points of the earlier two books. I finished Scott Westerfeld’s Specials in a single day, which should tell you something about its utter un-put-down-able-ness. That it stands as the last chapter to his Uglies trilogy plays a certain part – having read Uglies and......

We announced the lineup for the next Movable Hype show on Friday, and we have one more addition to make that we're really excited about! The Slack Republic has joined the bill, and they'll be closing out the night, so be sure to stick around for them. This will be their New York debut (they're coming up from Atlanta, though the singer is originally from Brooklyn). Back at Movable Hype 3.0 we had Clap Your......

Tonight is the night, come celebrate Gothamist's 3rd Birthday at our Movable Hype 6.0 show. Important details are: - Drink Specials! PBR is $3, PBR and shot of Jack is $6, Bud is $4 - Hosted by comedians Nick Kroll and John Mulaney (Nick was a writer for Chappelle's Show and they both host Welcome to our Week at Rififi) - Lineup is as follows: Burnside Project (10:30), Metal Hearts (9:30), Slowlands (8:30) Doors......

Something named "Philth-Y" presents something we've all been waiting for: the Battle of the Blogosphere. Lay down your bets and put your money on either Fluxblog or Stereogum as they face off, armed only with their knowledge of mashups and downloads of the "next big thing". Which music blogger will prevail? We have no idea, but we're betting that Norwegian pop tart Annie is played at least 4 times throughout the night. Come meet......

Come join us TONIGHT at our Movable Hype Anniversary Show. Just a year ago we threw our first show/concert/party at the Knitting Factory. Since then we've actually thrown 4 more there, tonight is the 5th. In addition we've had a slightly smaller version of the show at Pianos and one comedy (Laughable Hype) show at Tonic. Technically that means this is lucky number 7, but we'll still call it 5 (because we never were very......

After School Specials. You remember them. You learned from them. They made you scared of candy, your own body, and even that older gentleman who lived nextdoor. In an effort to look back on the awkward years of adolescence and understand them better, UnionDocs will be screening two masterpieces selected from ABC's After School Specials tonight. The first, Schoolboy Father (1980), features a very, very young Rob Lowe who must deal with the consequences of......

Lindsay Robertson...

Answering the desperate need to see a Nora Ephron screenplay acted out live, it looks like everyone's favorite brooding bad boy (of the mid 90s), Luke Perry, and everyone's favorite lesbian witch/band camper, Alyson Hannigan, will play Harry and Sally in the London stage version of When Harry Met Sally. According to the Hollywood Reporter, previews begin Feb. 10 and the play opens officially Feb. 20 at the Theatre Royal, with a scheduled 16 week......