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EVENT: Upstairs at the Square, the bookstores series featuring musicians and authors in conversation & performing their work, is happening tonight. This one will be featuring musician Badly Drawn Boy and author Dana Spiotta, with host Katherine Lanpher.

The Times has a fun article about NYC technology companies in this weekend's Style section. The piece namechecks some of Gothamist's pals, including Thrillist, Meetup, CollegeHumor, Gawker, and Nerve. The best part, of course, is the map that Warren St. John put together for the piece-- look at all those colorful logos!

Wow, Gothamist takes a break to re-read The Chronicle of Narnia and suddenly contemporary literature is rocked! The big stories: The Smoking Gun's expose on bestselling author James Frey's lie-laden memoir (and Oprah book), A Million Little Pieces, and the NY Times'investigation in JT Leroy, revealing he doesn't quite exist! Next, we'll find out JK Rowling is a marketing scheme cooked up by the British government! The Smoking Gun's article about Frey's lies seems so thorough that TSG will certainly be able to write the Cliff's Note for it. Sure, it's a compelling story, and sure, some writers embellish their memories...but embellishing whole parts? Wil this drive Frey fan Lindsay Lohan back to the brink? Now, all the 2003 blustering about people wanting to kick the crap out of Frey makes even more sense - remember Neal Pollack's issues with James Frey? And Jonathan Franzen must be looking pretty good to Oprah now.

In a huge blow to the crazy fans of New York, the City Council passed a bill yesterday that gives jail time and up to $25,000 in fines to fans that get unruly at sporting events in the city. What are we supposed to do with our batteries when a racist homophobe comes to play in our stadiums? Peter Vallone Jr (yes, the anti-graffiti guy) came up with the idea for after watching upset fans during 8th inning of Game 6 of the ALCS between the Yankees and the Red Sox last year.

And it's a Wednesday Addams doll in the image...get it?

Check out our interview with Warren St. John, whose new book Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer makes following the University of Alabama football by RV seem like heaven. Plus the week in full.

Gothamist was still a little skeptical of Bama fans' dedication, until we learned that Warren's honeymoon was postponed because of his book tour through the South later this month. Touche. He agreed to answer some questions Gothamist had about being an Alabama fan, college sports, NYC sports, and men who get pedicures.

Reading Thomas Beller's Newsweek essay about George Plimpton - part sweet remembrance of the man and part riff on the challenges of having a literary magazine, a la The Paris Review, or Open City, which is Beller's concern, we noticed a typo on his bio: "...Beller is the author of 'The Sleep-Overt Artist,' a novel..." which could very well be that title of some young literary hipster's book about a narcoleptic, but the actual title is "The Sleep-Over Artist." But we much prefer his short story, The Hot-Dog War which you can find on his site, Mr. Beller's Neighborhood, if you check out stories for the Upper West Side, specifically 73nd Street and Broadway, or in his book of short stories, The Seduction Theory.

Metrosexuality
Straight men who love to shop and get facials - a girl's man or a girly man?

Thanks to what we must assume is the intervention of our friends Elizabeth Spiers and Nick Denton, Gothamist got a mention in an actual New York Times article, which hasn't happened since 1997: A New York State of Blog.