COMEDY: Check out The 7:00 Workout tonight at UCB, where God's Pottery test out some new material on you. The show is listed as being at 6:30pm, which is just confusing - so, get there early? We interviewed the Christian duo last month, where they told us they'd only leave this fine city "if the Al Gore flooding movie is correct." So catch 'em while you can! 6:30pm // UCB Theater [307 W 26th St]......

Andrew Friedman is co-director of Make the Road by Walking, a Brooklyn-based community-based organization founded in 1997 on the belief that the center of leadership must be within the community. Since then, the organization has grown dramatically and now includes over 600 members, a member-elected board composed of low-income community residents, and a staff of twelve. Over the past 5 years, MRBW has achieved many improvements to the lives of Bushwick residents. They pushed New......

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Now, Gothamist loves us some Mr. Darcy, but why is Colin Firth hosting Saturday Night Live this weekend? Anyone? His last movies came out late last year (The Girl with a Pearl Earring, Love Actually), and in his last big American movie, he had to settle for billing after Amanda Bynes. We are all for a Bridget Jones spoof, or some sort of acknowledgement that Firth keeps playing the cuckold (Bridget Jones, Love Actually, Shakespeare......

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Madonna signed copies of her book, The English Roses, at Barnes & Noble at Rockefeller Center yesterday for 250 people who won a special lottery. Many devoted fans who weren't able to enter the store stood outside, as Madonna told reporters how the book's message was about "how destructive feelings of envy and jealousy are. And everybody feels it." And at this point in Western Civilization, the only captive audience member for Madonna is......

The Sun has a hilarious comparison of Madonna, provacateur (or is that provacateuse?) who is adding "children's book author" to her repertoire, and Enid Blyton, beloved British author of countless children's books: TYPICAL PLOT Madonna's The English Roses: Four politically correct girls with ordinary human failings find spiritual enlightenment and vow to become better people. An Enid Blyton book (like a Famous Five): Middle-class white youngsters sneak off for a few days of good......