THEATER: As Steve On Broadway notes, Chicago’s stellar Steppenwolf Theater Company, which launched the careers of Gary Sinise and Little Johnny Malkapee, is back on Broadway for the first time since 2001, when their production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest won the Tony for Best Revival. This time they’ve delivered playwright Tracy Letts’s August: Osage County, and after reading today’s rave reviews, you can count on more Tonys flying back to the Windy......

The Knicks have a bad history of getting robbed when it comes to the Windy City and Eddy Curry (forget all their history with the Jordan-era Bulls). First, the Knicks traded for Eddy Curry in a deal that also gave the Bulls the 9th pick in the 2007 draft (they picked Joakim Noah) and early Saturday morning Curry was robbed at gunpoint in his suburban Chicago home. Three masked intruders tied up Curry, his wife......

Your overstuffed kitchen drawer of take-out menus is minuscule compared to the menus Daniel Rayas collected over a four month period. Newsday has a fantastic profile of the Texan grandfather who moved to New York City to help care for his newborn granddaughter and found a flexible part-time job that has taken him all over the city. Looking to make some money to pay for room and board, Rayas responded to an ad on Craigslist......

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a large theft(?) at Waterview Ct. on Saten Island, a capsized boat in Central Park's lake with passengers in the water (around 74th St. and 5th Ave.), and a shooting on Brooklyn's W 31st St. The Red Hook Ikea is topped out and a Gowanus Lounge reader is there to capture the magic of retail superstructures. Eleven soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division stationed at Fort Drum allegedly broke......

Texas is thawing, the Northeast is freezing, and a sort of natural order seems almost restored to the Ist-A-Verse. Almost. Londonist HQ—that is to say, the city of London—was battered by heavy winds, making it a bad time to be a twelve-meter (nearly forty-foot) tall snowman. Still, not everyone decided to keep warmly covered. Meanwhile, back indoors, the Big Brother racism is now causing all kinds of headaches for international diplomats, and Londonist got into......

If you’re hiking, consider charging up your iPod, as Seattlest finds out that a man lost during a hike was found by the glow of his iPod. That cleverness seems to be devoid in cops who were using police cruiser instant messaging clients - although we imagine IMs “so are you nakie” to be included in cop shows, just for realism. If only the cops were busting the Hummer-driving jerk who made a poor......

Halloween is Tuesday, which means this weekend is really the time for all of the –ists to celebrate. And whether they’re designing super-spooky costumes or talking about the super-spooky upcoming elections, we’d say that they’re doing a fine job of it. Austinist knows that few things in life are scarier than zombies, people with way too much money, and politicians who try too hard to be funny. Slightly less scary, depending on whom you......

So, our siblings over in the Windy City recently pointed out a really creepy set of businesses that we had kinda hoped only existed on Veronica Mars. What are we blabbering on about? Basically while much of the world is worried about Bush listening in on your phone calls (or those of CNN reporters), the FBI is warning its agents (and pretty much anyone who'll listen) to be aware that your phone records are very,......

There's a fun article in this weeks Villager on the growing trend of Green roofs coming to the New York, something our friends over in the Windy CIty know all about. The concept behind a green roof is simple. Instead of having a black roof which attracts heat and does nothing for air quality developers and homeowners put a layer of foliage over their heads. The plants on the roof not only keep the air......

- In Philly they love Trader Joe's, a store which incidentally maybe, possibly, might actually be on its way to Gotham? - So you know, "the Shanghai underground rock scene has moved from Xujiahui to Tangpu District." - Apparently, the mail service in San Francisco has its quirks. - Seattlest ponders living in a state where "you can't get a lap dance, but it's a-ok to blow a pig." - Our cousins to the north......

You may remember the "pickle guy" from Crossing Delancey -- a nice, somewhat nebbishy guy, picked out for the protagonist by an old-school Jewish matchmaker, hired by her grandmother. Well, the pickle man has been revamped, revised, and reincarnated, this time in the form of Rick Field. Rick, profiled in the New York Times, is also single, and could perhaps benefit from a little matchmaking himself: Mr. Field is a 41-year-old bachelor with a head......

Considering all the fun that we've been having working on (and being) Gothamist, we've decided to launch a blog about the Windy City: Chicagoist. We were lucky that Rachelle Bowden and Margaret Lyons, who are editing Chicagoist, also thought starting a Chicago-based blog would be a good idea, based on what we've enjoyed about Gothamist (like getting to learn more about the city we love and live in, as well as hearing from a growing......

Ah, to pass the time watching the crazy Quizno's mice/hamster/things (Flash required). God bless their advertising agency to sell this concept through and God bless Quizno's for deciding to run with it. [Via our good friend Garth, who lives in the Windy City (for now); rachelle just moved there] It's tied with a $1 coupon for one of Quizno's toasty subs. Quizno's locations in New York City.......