With Craigslist becoming ever-increasingly creepy, this smitten young man has gone and purchased his own URL to find the girl he ogled on the subway last night. NYGirlOfMyDreams.com has a simple mission, it's "skinny, tall, not insane" creator would like to meet the the "fancy-braided, rosy-cheeked, journal writing" girl he saw on the the 5 train at 9:30pm last night. And if it doesn't work out, we're sure he has that URL for at......

"It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York. I'm stupid about executions. The idea of being electrocuted makes me sick, and that's all there was to read about in the papers - goggle-eyed headlines staring up at me on every street corner and at the fusty, peanut-smelling mouth of every subway. It had nothing to do with me, but I......

Playwright Adam Rapp etches elegantly bleak portraits of America’s young lost souls; his Red Light Winter was an Obie-winner and Pulitzer-prize finalist, Blackbird was recently adapted into a film which Rapp also directed. (He wrote and directed his first feature, Winter Passing, which starred Ed Harris, Zooey Deschanel and Will Ferrell.) Rapp’s published seven novels, plays in a band, and is not someone you’d want to play one-on-one basketball with to settle a bet. His......

Fashion and music sometimes go hand in hand (for better or worse), and under the tents at Bryant Park, this doesn't change. Two years ago we found ourselves sitting front row at Cynthia Rowley's show, and as the models started to filter out - The Secret Machines "Nowhere Again" blasted in the air. It fit. Last night, Zooey Deschanel opened Erin Fetherston's runway show, singing "Dream a Little Dream." She then went on to perform......

Au Revoir Simone is: Heather D'Angelo, Erika Forster and Annie Hart. Au Revoir Simone makes music that belongs on a soundtrack to an indie holiday flick. Something with Zooey Deschanel glaring off into the distance of a snow covered Tompkins Square park. It's chilly yet remarkably cheery music. These three girls, each on their own keyboard, magically hit the spot for that "I can't believe December is in 2 days already and it's like......

Adam Rapp, Writer and Director...

With the vice president shooting people in the face and everyone still getting over their chocolate hang over from Valentine's Day, this week it's hard not to feel a general malaise and slight discomfort about the new releases line up. However as always, New York's repertory film scene comes through in the clinch keeping Gothamist inspired when it comes to movie viewing. The bad news first, ie new wide releases out this week: Our former......

The beloved Douglas Adams book, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, has already been made into a BBC series (now on DVD), and will be made into a film this April. Casting thus far: Martin Freeman (The Office) as Arthur Dent, Mos Def as Ford Prefect, and Zooey Deschanel as Trillian. The role of Zaphod Beeblebrox has not be cast yet. The British directing duo, Hammer & Tongs (aka Garth Jennings and Nick Goldsmith),......

Ah, a smackdown we've been waiting for: Jerry Bruckheimer vs. Dick Wolf. Tomorrow, CBS will announce that the second CSI spinoff will be set in New York. Sure, Gothamist understands the macabre meets glossy appeal of CSI; it's just that we can't imagine police facilities that are nicer than dot-com offices during the Silicon Alley heyday. Variety also says that the fourth Law & Order is in the works, though there's no formal announcement set......

Miramax will be trying to bring Archie's babes, Betty and Veronica, to the big screen. Since it's Miramax, Gothamist assumes that the casting and production values will be better than the awful 1990 TV movie, Back to Riverdale. The movie would play up the whole Betty and Veronica appeal split: Good girl next door, bad rich girl. Betty & Veronica give reader advice these days. Gothamist's casting thoughts: Zooey Deschanel as Betty, Selma Blair as......

Entertainment Weekly tries to offer ways to fix Owen Wilson's movie career. Another idea: Romantic comedy, best written by Richard Curtis or someone British. Female lead should be equally original, like Zooey Deschanel (okay, she's the It Girl du jour, but I'm tired and can't think). Directed by someone with a light touch, like the Weitz brothers. Now that I'd see THAT opening day. And I think fix is a strong word. "Better position" would......