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The incoming president of the Obesity Society has resigned amidst controversy surrounding his work on behalf of the restaurant industry. Last month Dr. David B. Allison (pictured), a professor of biostatistics and nutrition at the University of Alabama, drew fire from colleagues when he submitted an affidavit questioning the city’s new rules requiring chain restaurants to prominently display calorie information on their menus.

If you’re the type of parent who wears a Ramones T-shirt to a P.T.A. meeting, the idea of taking your kids to some sappy Christmas show is probably abhorrent; you wouldn’t be caught dead at Radio City’s spectacular and schlepping into Times Square to spend a fortune on “Grinch” is unthinkable. But if you’d still like to catch a holiday show with the whole family, there’s a limited-time-only alternative in the heart of the East Village, where the Chicago import 500 Clown Christmas is making merry mayhem.

Love 'em or hate 'em, hipsters have made their way into a real-life bounded book that will be available for purchase next spring. What does Generation Hipster look like in black & white? It ain't pretty. 6 Sick Hipsters, by Rayo Casablanca, follows "Williamsburg's reigning elite" and brings some noir to the neighborhood...as well as a feral baboon. The press release tells us a bit of what we can expect: "Lately someone has been laying...

"I feel I’m losing my mind. I wish I knew what was the matter with me. It would be better to die than go on feeling this way."

graduated from American University with a degree in art history, and now makes the Upper East Side her home, which she shares with her two-year-old dog, Carlie. Pace emailed Gothamist about her canine characters, doggie yoga, and Type A dog owners.

Twenty-three-year-old police officer Russel Timoshenko died yesterday at King County Hospital, five days after being shot twice in the face during a Monday traffic stop in Prospect Lefferts Gardens. Doctors took him off life support after finding he had no brain activity yesterday afternoon. KCH director of trauma service and surgical critical care, Dr. Robert Kurtz, was visibly upset as he reported Timoshenko's death. From Newsday:

Kurtz, who choked up, said the case "affected us emotionally as well as professionally."

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The new chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee says the NYPD thinks it's the NPD - the National Police Department. The Daily News reports that Democratic Mississippi representative Bennie Thompson is critical of the NYPD's tactics that stretch into other jurisdictions. He told the News, "While I understand that chasing down leads in other locales might help keep the city safe, I emphasized that the NYPD is not the FBI, that it does not have national jurisdiction."

If you can read this right now, you don't need me to explain blogs. These days everyone has them, from preteens to political figures. Personally, I came to the party a little late. I didn't own a computer until the year 2000 and I never even considered blogging...that is until I had something I really wanted to talk about. When my husband and I were excitedly awaiting our first child, we wanted to find a way to keep friends and family informed and involved. We started small, sonogram pictures, monthly updates. Soon, it was a daily record of our little guy's complete development. Photos, videos, doctor appointment summaries, rants and unabashed glowing praise of his every small step. Baby blogs abound. From the purely anecdotal to the instructional, baby sites offer parents a place to vent or simply find strength in numbers. They have a purpose and are both created and frequented by parents who choose to believe that the human condition has not fallen so far...that at the core we are all just trying to do the best we can for these people we love beyond words.

The pseudonymous Lux Nightmare burst onto the alt porn scene as a college student at Columbia where she launched the naked-guy-and-girl site That Strange Girl, featuring stills and video of herself and numerous other models who looked like they could be her fellow classmates. At a time when Suicide Girls and Burning Angel were coming to prominence, That Strange Girl (who, full disclosure, this interviewer posed for) was a homegrown, indie entry in the genre. Cut to the present, where Nightmare has since folded her XXX business and is a member of Gotham Girls Roller Derby, teaches sex ed to teenagers in East Harlem, and runs the smarty-pants sex site Sexerati, where she conducts interviews, explores Dating 2.0, and explains terms like "the pink ghetto." (Warning: many of the links in this interview are NSFW.) Currently, the "non porn star" is working on a book proposal about her time in the alt porn trenches.

Bizarre! Representative Vito Fossella admitted that his brother John was in fact driving a car that almost hit two Asian couples. The incident is extremely bizarre. Yesterday, the Daily News reported that two couples had purchased some chrysanthemums at a florist on Richmond Road in Staten Island last Saturday. A blue Mazda almost hit them, and then the driver got out of the car, chasing the couples with a baseball bat. But the man stopped and returned to his car upon seeing there were others around. (He also ran over the flowers that the couples had dropped on the street.)

“American dream” while upholding their ethnic traditions.You may also remember that he won a NY Times Magazine contest last year (here's the slideshow of his photographs) for his 7 line photos. What's cool is that QMA and Liao have been holding a contest for 7 line photos, with three winners getting $50 gift certificate to B&H and QMA memberships. The contest ends on July 27 - see the website for contest details.

Charlie Todd wrote in to say that the last of the people arrested in January's No Pants 2006 subway ride had her case dismissed yesterday. Apparently "Agent Omega" overslept the court date last month, so it took a little longer for her to get cleared. Charlie scanned in the dismissal order-- it contains some amusing judicial prose:

A few times a week, Gothamist publishes music reviews by our contributor Jeff Baum. The opinions below belong entirely to the author.

) As patient as she is, Emily refuses to let dry vomit become a rat-magnet and wrote to the MTA that since her various calls and emails hadn't been working, that she'll be taking pictures of the vomit stairs and posting them online. So, dear Gothamist readers who don't like graphic pictures, you've been warned - and you're lucky some people advised us against posting Emily's photograph (apparently the cat picture was enough for today; also, go Emily!).

Stacey Blume, Designer/Owner Blume

Jon Bloostein, Owner Heartland Brewery and Spanky's BBQ

Jessi Klein, Writer/Comedian

My office has asked everyone to contribute a small gift to a "holiday grab bag" for the office party. While I'm not against the idea of a little holiday cheer, we're limited to spending $10 and it seems like all you can get for that amount is disposable, impractical junk. I hate the idea of buying junk just for the sake of buying junk, so how can I stretch my $10 into something, I don't know, a little more practical?

Regina Schrambling, Food Writer

Craig Wedren, Musician

Like many freelancers, I am without health insurance. The last time I had to see a doctor I ended up in the emergency room for something that I could have seen a regular doctor for but I didn't know where to go and it was a Saturday. Anyhow, for the last few days, I've been having pretty bad pains on my lower left abdomen but not bad enough to warrant a trip to the ER. While I'm not looking for medical advice (although if you could provide some, that would be great too) I am curious if there are any health clinics in Brooklyn or Manhattan that are sliding scale and have decent doctors and perhaps even one where I could make an appointment instead of waiting for hours to see somebody. Or is there a phone number I could call for free medical advice? Where do uninsured freelancers go?

I've been working in a small office environment with this beautiful, talented woman for the past year and a half. While I've always had a crush on her, I have never voiced anything because she has been in a relationship with the bassist in her band. Last week, she told me that the band is "looking for a new bassist because of problems" and asked me to go to a movie on Friday night with her. Should I presume that she's on the market? That she's interested? And, if so, is it a good idea to date my colleague?

Gigante Says He Was Crazy...Like a Fox if only because that's something Gothamist would write. [Jake]: for fans of Gigante, you can walk by his old headquarters at 208 Sullivan Street- the "Triangle Civic Improvement Association", between Bleecker and West Third. Gigante actually lived right across the street, at 208 Sullivan, and would often take walks through the neighborhood. This being Manhattan, there is a lively debate about which mob family had the best clubhouse location. While I love Sullivan Street, I still give that award to the Gambinos and their Ravenite Social Club, at 247 Mulberry Street between Spring and Prince. That's a great location by anyone's standards- right now I think someone is using the space to sell overpriced women's shoes. Does anyone know the location of other famous NYC mob hangouts?

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

In honor of our mayor, Michael Bloomberg, coming in at a hot #63 on the Forbes World's Richest People List, Gothamist is taking suggestions for nicknames. Mayor Bloomberg has no nickname - Mike doesn't count, because it's pretty bland...if I said Mike, you'd think of Michael Jordan first. Or Mike Piazza. Unlike the use of "Rudy." Molly once spotted the "Gooliani" written on the subway, which has a certain ring to it. Much like a school playground, we're rolling up our sleeves on this one, and we're not going to exclude any reference of height [thanks Rudy Online] Mike, you're the 63rd richest man in the world, you can deal with it.