The story of Philadelphia anchorwoman Alycia Lane gets stranger and stranger. Her first call upon release from custody after punching a NYPD officer was, according to the Philadelphia Daily News, to Pennsylvania Governor Edward Rendell. A spokesman for the Pennsylvania governor told the paper, she did it to "make sure he knew her side of the story because he is an opinion-maker and runs around in influential circles." And "I think she knew better than......

THEATER: The talented Michael Gladis, who theatergoers may recall from the hit 2000 revival of Brecht’s Baal, is currently appearing in ‘nami at The Kirk Theater. This darkly humorous drama is about a suburban woman’s belief that she has uncovered a plot to sell a child of Tsunami-ravaged Indonesia into sex slavery by her neighbors. Sounds heavy, but Martin Denton at nytheatre.com hails ‘nami as “indie theatre at its very best” and the “most exciting......

Miriam Datskovsky, Sex Columnist, The Columbia Spectator...

Unless you're totally oblivious, you might have realized that the Super Bowl is this Sunday. The Philadelphia Eagles finally got past the NFC Championship game take on the New England Patriots. Gothamist is totally flummoxed as to which team to pull for. The Patriots and the Eagles are both rivals of our local football teams, which have not come close to sniffing the Super Bowl since 2001 when the Giants were embarrassed by the Ravens.......

Though same-sex marriages are getting more media play lately, there has been an uprising of the prepared straight groom. The Post calls them marrying metrosexuals. Gothamist is very proud that our own Doug Gordon, from Ask Gothamist and the conscientious groom behind the soon-to-married-dude wedding blog, Planet Gordon, was called a "girly groom" by the Post, 'cause it just means we can put that on his business card now. Doug even owns up to getting......

Matthew Rose, Wall Street Journal...

Media boo-boos: 1) The New York Times got the Motion Picture Association of America (the people who bring you stupid ratings for movies, headed by scary Jack Valenti) mixed up with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (the people who bring you the Oscars). The story about how studios are trying to curb piracy by not distributing "for your consideration" Oscar screener DVDS mistakenly called Jack Valenti the head of the "Motion Picture......

"Oh, I'm such an unholy mess of a girl." - Katharine Hepburn as Tracy Lord in "The Philadelphia Story" Katharine Hepburn, the epitome of nervy, stubborn, strong-willed women for decades (and forever) in film, died at age 96. Gothamist admired her and is glad for her work, especially Bringing Up Baby, The Philadelphia Story, and Adam's Rib, movies we can over and over again without boring of them. Caryn James' obituary of Katharine Hepburn......

As a hopeless cinephile, I feel that the year I spend watching movies is like having a crush on some unattainable person. It makes me feel alive, with all the planning and dreaming and effort I put into it, and somehow, even when I see a bad movie, it�s okay, because it�s one of the knocks I take in wishing that maybe this in time, after paying $10+ for a movie, it might reward my......