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Thanksgiving officially marks the start of the holiday movie season, and this weekend, one film seems poised to make a run for the box office crown. Enchanted, the Disney film that mixes animation and live-action to spoof its classic fairy tales, received some pretty stellar reviews. It's 92% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes and most reviews are calling this the star-making performance of Amy Adams, who was nominated for a supporting actress Oscar for Junebug...

FUNDRAISER: It's the 3rd Annual Summer, Sex and Spirits cocktail and shopping extravaganza. Planned Parenthood of New York City (PPNYC), in conjunction with Brooklyn Indie Market join forces for the fundraiser, "an evening of mixing and mingling with retail therapy!" There will be $4 drink specials, 1/2 price sangria pitchers, a deejay and a giveaway...we're also guessing everyone will walk away with at least one free condom.

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: An escaped prisoner from Elmhurst Hospital, an unusual crime on 42nd Street between 8th and 9th Avenues in Manhattan, and a water rescue at Coney Island
• Is John Liu a born-again preservationist?
• Tiffany & Company and company opened its first store on Lower Broadway in 1837 before moving uptown to its present location. 170 years later, the company is reversing direction and will open a Tiffany & Co. store near the New York Stock Exchange.
• A UK Holiday Rental site is offering a Brooklyn apartment as a summer getaway for vacationing Brits. The description shows that some Brits will be prepared for a true NYC experience: "Summary of the apartment, 1 bedroom, sleeps 10".
• The burglar who broke into Brooklyn Deputy Borough President Yvonne Graham's home and stole her jewelry before being easily apprehended because left his resumé behind, penned an apology note to his victim and begged for mercy, saying that he'd returned everything he'd stolen. Cops taking his confession weren't so sure, as he was wearing a pair of her earrings while writing his note.
• The NY Times is working on a big investigative piece about Rupert Murdoch and his businesses - we hope they figure out why "So You Think You Can Dance?" is on the air.
• Peter Braunstein is worried he'll be a target in prison, but would rather his attackers just kill him, instead of fighting or mutilating him.
• A property owner tried to bribe a Department of Buildings inspector to turn a blind eye on unsafe work

June 7 - June 11: Broadway Panhandler "Yard Sale"

EVENT: Charles Ray, who is thirty years deep in the art world, will be at the New School tonight for a Public Art Fund talk. The leader of the "conceptual realism" movement with a "lively, self-deprecating sense of humor" will discuss his "virtuoso craftsmanship" and his depiction of "familiar elements of everyday life and modern art in disarmingly altered ways."

Puppy Bowl III (Sunday, 3:00 p.m., 6:00 p.m., 9:00 p.m. Animal Planet) Puppies from shelters drink water, pee, and play for three hours is someone's idea of something to go up against the Super Bowl.

Just listening to a lot of records, getting emotional about them, falling in love with them.

"Good artists copy, great artists steal," quipped Pablo Picasso. Seemingly taking direction from the famous painter, two of the most prestigious art museums in New York have ironically similar exhibits featuring Picasso's works: The Whitney Museum of American Art has Picasso and American Art, while the Guggenheim Museum has Spanish Painting from El Greco to Picasso. Although the focus on place and the consortium of artists are different, both museums are strikingly similar in that they hang Picasso's works side-by-side with other artists' paintings to explore their similarities.

We've already declared our love for The Big Sleep here. Last week they released their debut full length, and prior to that they released the rock on so many unsuspecting folks - that pretty much everytime we've read about them it was by someone who accidentally caught a set.

Foodies attack the silver screen! In today's Times Arts & Leisure section, the long history and current feast of food in film is given another look. Would there have even been a Big Night if not for the food? In the coming months, Russell Crowe, the first person we think of when the phrase "good taste" coming up, will star as a man who inherits a vineyard and Nora Ephron is working on an adaptation of Julie & Julia, the Julie Powell book that came from her blog. Fast Food Nation has been filmed, too, and, there will be acompetitive eating movie, All You Can Eat, to add some low-to-middle-brow enjoyment to all the wineries and roux.

- And A.M. Rosenthal, NY Times executive editor from 1977 to 1988, died at age 84; the Times calls him "a principal architect of the modern New York Times" and he "expanded the weekday paper from two to four parts, including separate metropolitan and business news sections, and inaugurated new feature sections for weekdays: SportsMonday, Science Times on Tuesdays, the Living section on Wednesdays, the Home section on Thursdays and Weekend on Fridays."

The snow has really started. But it's not like there is enough to play in yet, so why not sit back and watch this Valentine for Perfect Strangers as narrated by the Otto the cat?

- You Can't Make It Up is sleepless due to Food Network on Demand

It's that time of year again. The time of year we spend entirely too much money on going to a bar or party or club that any other night would cost nothing to enter. But we go, we pay and we fight the Bridge & Tunnel crowd for a spot at the bar. Why? We don't know. It's just part of NYE in NYC. This year we're fleeing the country, but for those of you staying on the island here's a list of parties to go to (that is, of course, if none of your friends will have you at theirs):

So, after all of that, what was that smell on Thursday night? Nobody really seems to know. The Daily News asks You Can't Make It Up(speaking of, we nearly choked reading her Titty Barb Bob post), the Post called Canada (they didn't call back) and the Times wondered if the "good smell" was that of Bloomberg's sweet success. All to no avail. In the meantime authorities seem confident that the maple smell wasn't toxic and the consensus (from the papers) is that the source was either a boat on the river or a building in lower Manhattan. Which really narrows it down.

October 28, 2005 02:38 AM

Finally-- a post that should offend just about everyone! This week's cover story in New York Magazine tackles one of the most pressing questions of our day: are Jews smarter than everyone else, and if so, by how much?. The original title of the article was "One more reason to hate the Jews", but apparently the far blander "Are Jews Smarter?" won out. The article goes on to make a fairly dispassionate argument-- presenting and then debunking some recent scientific studies that connect Ashkenazi genes to higher intelligence. An excerpt:

Can it be? You Can't Make It Up tells us there will be free TiVos handed out at the Javits Center:

"TiVo will be mourning the VCR's demise; please come to pay your respects and receive a free TiVo. Arrive with a remembrance of your VCR – a tape – and you will receive a free Series-2 40 hour TiVo while supplies last.

Continue reading "No Stadium, But the West Side Has Free Tivos"

Gothamist cannot get enough of the story of Hakan Yalincak, the NYU senior who is currently in a New Haven jail on charges that he orchestrated a multi-million dollar check kiting scheme. Yesterday, he was denied bail after authorities found a counterfeit check, plus the same stock of paper Yalincak allegedly created a $25 million check from. It's totally a Frank Abagnale, the subject of Catch Me If You Can! Yalincak's defense attorney tried to soft-pedal the crimes, saying that even though he tried to pass fake checks at the banks, there were no victims. Plus, even though the family was behind on its rent and had foreclosed a house, they had money in Turkey! Gotta love defense strategies.

Gothamist once thought of becoming a pastry chef after stints decorating wedding cakes and interning at a restaurant out in California. But, despite the apricot-glazed glory, all the early mornings, red eyes, sugar in the bloodstream, and realization that becoming a professional chef could lead to reality TV (and subsequent demise of your career), we’ve opted to instead 1) take photographs of chefs and 2) enjoy the fruits of the city's best eateries.

As we enjoy these last dog days of summer, savvy New Yorkers know that it's not too early to think about ordering tickets for some of the cool shows arriving on the fall theater scene, just around the corner.

During the open house, the National Weather Service will be conducting 30 minute tours, giving short hurricane presentations, and will launch a weather balloon in the afternoon. It sounds like the perfect opportunity to get our weather geek on and check out some very cool gear.

we have been big fans of Howard Zinn. Yes, fans, of an historian.

David Amsden, Writer

David Hinckley in the NY Daily News complains that the American Film Institute list of the 100 Top Movie Songs is no fun because it's actually not a bad list. Gothamist would almost agree, except for the lack of songs from South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut. We feel that Come What May from Moulin Rouge (who sings that? who cares?) is just an addition to please the public (that way you can get Nicole Kidman on the show), but let's be honest here: No one is humming "I will love you until my daying day," but they are singing, "Kyle's Mom is a Big Fat Bitch" or "What Would Brian Boitano Do" or "Unclef*cker" or "Blame Canada." So, lists like this are still very crack-like because they are addictive, but they can be very bad too.

Riverside Park is a truly beautiful park, but as with any park, it's not a great idea to walk in it when it's dark or late at night. Even if you think you're tough and ready for confrontation, why tempt fate - just walk along the streetlights of Riverside, or better yet, Broadway, if it's late out. The incident reminds Gothamist of Vendela Vida's book, And Now You Can Go, when a Columbia graduate student is held up by a disturbed man in Riverside Park.

Brian Battjer

The beautiful Eero Saarinen designed TWA terminals at J.F.K. Airport, closed two years ago when TWA closed, may be repoening, with Jet Blue operating out of it. The Times reports that Jet Blue would build a terminal behind the Saarien building, and the two buildings would be linked together by tunnels, last seen in Catch Me If You Can.

The Daily News on the appeal of airline stewardesses - this time it's the sex appeal. Being a stewardess used to be glamorous, as air travel was just the hottest thing ever in the 60s, as "Catch Me If You Can" showed.

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards, the Orange BAFTA Awards, were handed out yesterday and the big winner was The Pianist, Best Picture and Best Director Roman Polanski. Other winners included Daniel Day-Lewis for Gangs of New York, Nicole Kidman for The Hours, Catherine Zeta-Jones for Chicago, Christopher Walken for Catch Me If You Can (I wonder what he'd rather have done - been in London to pick up his award or in NY hosting SNL as he was last night), Charlie and Donald Kaufman's adapted screenplay for Adaptation, and Pedro Almodovar's original screenplay for Talk to Her. What's funny about British awards these days is that they have corporate sponsors - Orange is a mobile phone communications company. The Booker Prize is now the Man Booker Prize, Man is an investment company. The Mercury Prize, the most prestigious music award in the UK and arguably the US, too (though the US created the Shortlist award), is the Panasonic Mercury prize.