After a successful save the show campaign by fans involving sending tons of nuts to CBS, Jericho returns for a second season Tuesday night (10:00 p.m., WCBS 2), with the first of seven second season episodes. We should note that CBS only made a seven episode commitment to the show, in a move that seems more like hedging their bets instead of anything that has to do with the WGA strike. If you don’t know......

The Smashing Pumpkins have officially made their return. The comeback (yeah, we're gonna call it a comeback) appears to be met with little fanfare. The new album, Zeitgeist, came out Tuesday - and was met with a lack of good reviews. The cover art is what we're concerned about here though. Bill Corgan chose (recent interviewee) Shepard Fairey to design the album art for the new album, saying: “Like a great artist can do, Shepard......

Earlier this year, I Am Legend, the latest Will Smith extravaganza took over the Brooklyn Bridge. Warner Bros. spent around $5,000,000 for a 6 night shoot in New York, after getting approval from 14 government agencies, with hundreds of extras, including 160 members of the National Guard in full combat gear. The plot: "Robert Neville (Will Smith) is a brilliant scientist, but even he could not contain the terrible virus that was unstoppable, incurable, and......

Clifford Smith, aka Method Man, was arrested Thursday evening after a police officer at the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel noted his Lincoln Navigator's expired inspection sticker, pulled him over, and was met with a cloud of marijuana smoke when the Wu Tang Clan rapper rolled down his window. Note to Method Man: investigate EZ-Pass. Cops found him with a pair of blunts, a quantity of pot, and under the influence. When rapper Method Man rolled down......

Reviewing shows in the very first days of the Fringe Festival is always a little hazardous, what with so many kinks that need to be worked out (if not in the show itself, in the Fringe management). But we wanted to report to you early on about what to see and what not to see, overlooking glitches as best we could, at least as far as they appeared to be early-run problems rather than real......

Gothamist enjoys a good game of "Duck...Duck...Goose!" every now and then, but we only really like Canada geese when they are flying in the air - because that means they are not on the ground, producing that really gross greenish grey poop. Central Park has a huge goose poop headache, as its goose population has grown from 30 to 300 over the past couple of years - and each goose can produce 1 to 3......

Did you know that Mayor Bloomberg proclaimed that January 10 is now "BBDO Day"? BBDO, the ad agency behind Pepsi, FedEx, and Bank of America, was named the US agency of the year by AdAge and global agency of the year by Adweek, and made a lot of money last year, meaning that January 10, which Gothamist will remember as The Day the 2nd Avenue Deli Cleared Out is actually BBDO in the city's files......

- Love Saves The Day, saved. - The Times wants to welcome you to "Melrose Place, Lower East Side." - A Queens comestologist who moonlit as a diet doctor has been arrested after she "allegedly injected her patients with silicone and other chemicals that she falsely claimed would help them lose weight." - Some bloggers read books in 2005. - The touching story of a 90-year-old lobster in a supermarket and the man who......

Ask MeFi got a fun question yesterday: How would you escape from Manhattan if disaster struck? What sort of 'go bag' would you go with? And so on. The answers are pretty interesting though, and we learned a fair amount including, but not limited to: Owning a bike is probably a good idea in case of escaping a disaster.But only kind of, as your biggest problem is probably huge crowds of other people.Jersey and......

[Warning: The following contains MTV Movie Award spoilers! If such a thing exists.] "Sweet!" As if conquering the legislature wasn't enough, Napoleon Dynamite won Best Movie and the film's star, Jon Heder, won for both Best Musical Performance and Male Breakthrough Performance (must have been his awesome bo-staff skills....or perhaps, because it was a Paramount/MTV Films movie) at the MTV Movie Awards, scheduled to air Thursday night. Hosted by Jimmy Fallon, the MTV Awards had,......

In a bit of PR for Con Ed, the Post reports that the cold weather we've been having this week has meant higher than ever electricity demand during the winter months. On Monday, the electricity use peaked at 8,962 watts; to put this into perspective, about 12,000 watts is demanded on a hot summer night. So, in this instance, Con Ed was able to say they were able to meet demand, but this has......

Jason Eaton, Children's Book Author...

It has begun-eth: Both ABC and NBC are moving to make mini-series about the "events leading up to" the September 11 attacks, thanks to the 9/11 Commission's detailed for-the-public-record account of what happened. Nothing like using thorough public records (think free material!) plus about 3-4 years of "emotional distance" from the attacks to get the networks thinking about their sweeps plans for 2005-2006. Already, producers are saying the mini-series will be like Roots or The......

Both the New York Times and NY Mag provide roundups fo restaurants celebrating the Mexican festival of El Dia de los Muertos, The Day of the Dead, when the spirits of the dead return to the land of the living to eat, drink, and be merry. Traditional foods such as pan de los muertos, a sweet bread flavored with anise (you can find a recipe here if you'd like to make your own), and sugar......

While Gothamist is a sucker for the entire process of cooking a meal, from thinking about a recipe, buying the goods, and then attempting magic in too-small kitchens, an article about people who forage the city's trash for food caught our eye. First of all, this takes a mindset shift, one from consumer to one of frugal scavenger. They call themselves freegans, and it sounds like some wacky hippie dippie idea, to wait for organic......

After posting about SETI@home, we ran across another distributed computing project that is more up our alley. Enter ClimatePrediction.net. The aim of climateprediction.net is to investigate the approximations that have to be made in state-of-the-art climate models. By running the model thousands of times (a 'large ensemble') we hope to find out how the model responds to slight tweaks to these approximations - slight enough to not make the approximations any less realistic. .........

Tricia Romano, Village Voice columnist...

- Everything you need to know about tornadoes - Wacky ground clutter image reminiscent of a video game legend - Another cool gadget: the weather lamp - Thoughts on how weather might affect the running of Saturday's Belmont Stakes - A week of daily forecasts, including brilliant insights on wolves in The Day After Tomorrow; a few local tornado sightings, including one that had a lime green glow; Weather Underground's wayback weather history machine; Corgi......

- Watch out for your wig on the Cyclone, people - The Day After Tomorrow's movie cliches - Don't let the bed bugs bite! - The iPod street posters draw grafitti and debate - Can gas filled-apartments in the buliding cause the building to explode? - Subway shooting of aspiring actress - Friendster gets a former NBC executive to be its CEO; expect bulletin board messages from "Emeril" that begin with "BAM!" - NYC announces......

Gothamist admits to being part of the mass of unwitting Americans who decided to see The Day After Tomorrow two days before yesterday. And, yes, it might be the stupidest movie since the Roland Emmerich Godzilla. Besides getting distracted by the usual the moviemakers-are-deliberately-making-this-annoying-for-NYers moments ("Why are Dennis Quaid and Dash Mihok, former boyfriend of Alanis Morrisette, suddenly on the frozen-over East River, when they were just near the Statue Liberty - wouldn't it have......

First things first: you could still probably brunch today without getting wet. Weather.com says the showers won't start until around 1PM. Plus, there don't seem to be any thunderstorms headed our way; "few showers" will become "showers" that give way to "rain." So if you've been following the wild Midwest severe storm outbreak with pangs of excitement, today will probably disappoint. This should be a pretty big week for Gothamist Weather. Hurricane season starts tomorrow,......

Like a lot of people, I'm conflicted about the war in Iraq. I marched against it, but now that we're there I feel we have to do what it takes to fix the situation before leaving. In the meantime, I feel terrible about servicepeople who are on extended tours, risking life and limb for what I feel is is an unnecessary war. Is there anything I can do for our troops? David, Manhattan Books......

Roger Ebert captured this photograph of New York Times chief film critic A.O. Scott in his Cannes Photo Album. The caption reads: New York Times film critic A.O. Scott awoke to find a thief had filched his money, passport and computer. "The hotel loaned me a laptop," he said, "but it has a French keyboard, with the keys in different places."Poor, poor, Tony. The Encyclopedia Brown/Lennie Briscoe in us suspects not some Riviera thief looking......

Sigh. Chatter and other tips are causing officials to say the U.S. may be targeted with a terror attack this summer. We know that these warnings are are important for the public, but these stories comes the ones that talk about how NY is what terrorists want to hit. And in the words of a friend (who was remarking on the film, The Day After Tomorrow), "Devastating New York? Hasn't that been done before?" Mayor......

So much of what goes on around us weather wise is taken for granted. But sometimes people find a way to capture things in unbelievable ways. Gothamist's eye was recently drawn to paintings by Emma Tapley. Born in New York City, Tapley received her BFA from SVA and went on to attend Pratt, New York Academy of Art, Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT, and the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony in Woodstock, NY. While her......

Instead of ‘recapping’ this great programming, we wanted to remind you that The Weather Channel is NOW presenting “Extreme Weather Week” (May 23-29 at 8 p.m. ET). This special themed week of ‘Storm Stores” is hosted by meteorologist and storm tracker Jim Cantore. The timing of this programming is no coincidence. The Weather Channel served as the highlighted weather authority for Twentieth Century FOX’s movie “The Day After Tomorrow”. As a matter of fact......

Recent production sightings here in Gotham (reg required for full size pics) have drummed up a renewed buzz about the upcoming film, The Weather Man. Directed by Gore Verbinski, the film stars Nicolas Cage and Michael Caine. Cage plays a divorced Chicago weatherman who is offered a job on a network morning show in New York. Before leaving he attempts to make peace with his ex-wife and kids. The movie is described as being in......

If there's one thing the upcoming big budget disaster movie, The Day After Tomorrow, is good for, it's an examination on how New York is treated in disaster films. The New Yorker's Tad Friend chats with director Roland Emmerich (who also wrote the movie); the piece starts off: If you’re planning to depict an attack on New York City in a disaster film, you need to bring your A game. For the same reason that......

The curious Gothamist reader may have noticed a seeming contradiction in the recent entry about the forthcoming movie "The Day After Tomorrow". No, not allegations that NASA may have wanted to silence its scientists, but that one consequence of global warming will be a sudden deep freeze. The earth gets cold when it warms? WTF? There is a bit of truth to that contradiction, though not so fast as in the movie. The reason......

Gothamist loves Andy Pressman's drawings for Gothamist Weather (today, plus Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday). And if you're not reading Gothamist Weather, then you're not learning that NASA is freaked out about disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow or what really causes air travel delays.......