The Nanny Diaries (directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini) For a while there it seemed like the book-reading public couldn't get enough of those thinly veiled New York-centric roman à clefs. There weren't very well-written but hoo boy were they juicy. Fortunately as these fluffy chick novels and insider smack downs like The Devil Wears Prada and now The Nanny Diaries have begun to make their way to the silver screen, they've proven......

With a new movie coming out based on his first novel, The Hottest State, Ethan Hawke talks to The Daily News about how New York has changed since it was his muse in 1997. "You know that great diner where we talked before?" asks Hawke, talking about the Chelsea spot he was giving interviews at last fall for his Tony-nominated work in the epic trilogy "The Coast of Utopia." "It's gone! I went away and......

New York singer/songwriter Jesse Harris might be known for his songs performed by others, in 2003 he won the Grammy for Norah Jones’s “Don’t Know Why," and he's also written songs for Willie Nelson, Bright Eyes, Feist, M Ward, and many others. Tonight, however, he'll be belting out his own tunes at the Living Room. Come check him out, and get to know him a little bit first... What has your experience been like as......

Dare we say it? Poor Ethan Hawke. First Uma, now this! Early yesterday morning a fire broke out in a newly renovated office on the second floor of the above building. The blaze quickly spread from the second floor all the way up the fifth and along the way it ripped through and completely destroyed the fourth-floor office of one Mr. Ethan Hawke. What this means for Hawke's currently filming project, an attempt at......

- Governor Pataki leaves the hospital and will try to "do some work" or whatever he calls what he's doing to our state - A look at the African Burial Ground's location - Mayor Bloomberg and State Senator Bruno meet so the press can get off their backs - but they probably still hate each other - You're warned: The film adaptation of Ethan Hawke's book, The Hottest State, is shooting in town -......

In a city full of struggling artists, the last thing we need to hear is Julia Roberts doing an AOL voiceover that could have paid for our dinner. It just isn't fair when too much is never enough for some people. The ubiquitous celebrity author would be another example of this phenomena. Why, WHY?! Fortunately the Lit Lite Lousy Literature Reading Series exists. The series continues its celebration of the worst books ever written this......