DISCUSSION: Noam Chomsky will be taking questions on US foreign policy tonight, following a screening of Harold Pinter's 2005 Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech. Get your questions ready, smartypants. You can watch the video of Pinter's speech here, too. more ›

H&M fans will be cutting themselves over this one: The Misshapes Clothing Line. We were just doing some light reading, when we came across the following: more ›

The Midtown International Theatre Festival, which opened this week and runs through August 6, is at only 2 venues and has a far smaller number of shows in its lineup than does the Fringe Festival, but that makes it more manageable, a great warm-up, if you will, to the upcoming binge that will sprawl out over most of lower Manhattan and eat every good theatre lover’s schedule alive. This weekend, Gothamist brings you mini reviews of 5 very different shows in the festival: The Girls of Summer; Where Three Roads Meet; The Siblings; Love, Punky; and AfterWords (which is actually a set of three short plays). Check out the festival website for these shows' schedules, as well as to see the other shows on tap. As always, the opinions expressed below are the reviewer’s alone, not Gothamist’s. more ›

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Derek Jeter is so sad over losing to the Marlins, Gothamist started to think about some movies various members of the Yankees organization should watch in the off season. more ›

With last week's release of Seabiscuit, the Palm Beach Post's sports writers come up a list of the best sports movies ever made. Not surprisingly, the list skews towards more recent films, but Gothamist was surprised to see how much we agreed with the selections. We were especially glad that Hoop Dreams, one of the best films ever made, period, made the list, thereby not getting the short shrift for being a documentary. The top ten: more ›

I find it hilarious that all these broadband companies are hiring people to create content portals for their customers, with the idea that people will use a service called "My Comcast" or "My Time Warner" instead of "My Yahoo" once they sign up for broadband. While I was at Oven Digital, I worked on a similar project for a company called WINfirst, which was later bought up by SureWest. Before they went out of business, they hired us to build them an all Flash internet portal. It's funny, but at the time that didn't sound half as crazy as it does now. In Broadband, Comcast Lets Users Find Their Own Flourishes more ›

Men's Liberation, Japanese style! Teaching Japan's Salarymen to Be Their Own Men more ›