Last night the legendary Loretta Lynn announced that Zooey Deschanel would be starring in the stage adaptation of her 1976 autobiography, Coal Miner's Daughter, which will be coming to Broadway. more ›

Zooey Deschanel got to work her quirky, indie "it girl" mojo on Saturday Night Live last night, batting her overly mascara'd eyelashes at the audience and strumming her ukelele. She was also the butt of the joke: SNL performer Abby Elliott played Deschanel in a sketch, "Being Quirky With Zooey Deschanel," with Deschanel playing Mary Kate Olsen (wrapped in a boho electric blanket; Michael Cera and Bjork were also part of the Quirky club). more ›

At press time this video only has 304 views, so let's help out these young stars in their search for internet fame (crossing over from the mainstream isn't always easy!). Here are Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt singing "What Are You Doing New Years Eve?" (And before you ask, this is relevant because a new study just came out that proved it is scientifically impossible to harbor even one ounce of hatred towards either of these two.) more ›

Remember last month, when McDonald's landed itself in some hot water over allegations that their egg supplier horribly mistreated the chickens responsible for Egg McMuffins? The fast-food giant dropped the producer, Sparboe Farms, right quick, but for some celebrities, that just isn't enough. A completely random assortment of celebrities, including Ryan Gosling, Zooey Deschanel, Steve-O and Alicia Silverstone have signed a letter from Mercy for Animals to McDonald's CEO Jim Skinner asking the chain to adopt stricter animal welfare policies, like they already have in place in Europe. The tagline? "I'm Hatin' It." more ›

Zooey Deschanel sang the "Star-Spangled Banner" at last night's game and it was just adorable, you guys. more ›

Despite the blazing heat, droves of people rode the ferry to Governor's Island yesterday to hear She & Him, their performance being part of the free "Gone to Governors" concert series this summer. The enormous line at the Battery Maritime Building Manhattan departure point proved a bit of a hassle; the advertised four-minute travel time from there to the island turned to twenty-some minutes. more ›

Click through for more on Spoon's big Radio City show, The Walkmen at Bell House, She and Him at Bowery Ballroom, and the return of Celebrate Brooklyn! more ›

Zoe no! Today the Times talks to Zooey Deschanel, along with her 500 Days of Summer co-star Joseph Gordon-Levitt, whom the paper says really "enjoy one another’s company." What do they share in common? A desire to shit on the Big Apple apparently! Zooey tells the paper, “I think there are so many films that romanticize New York in that way, but it’s not like a perfect city. It’s dirty, and if you blow your nose, there’s dirt coming out.” Apparently the smog sneezes are squeaky clean in Zooey's hometown of LA, where the film is set. Up next is Gordon-Levitt, who says, “I didn’t really start to appreciate what was beautiful or aesthetically pleasing about L.A. until I moved to New York when I was 19. I’d come back to visit, and I’d be like: ‘You know what? There’s something really nice about driving through the canyons and singing as loud as I want, alone in my car.’ ” Well who's stopping you, ya alien twerp? Back when Zooey talked to Gothamist, she told us, "I love New York. I've worked there a lot and I feel really comfortable there." Maybe reenacting famous local bloody death scenes has made someone a little Gotham germophobic. more ›

Wonder if they filmed this in the Hotel Chelsea... Zooey Deschanel (friend of Gothamist) does a pretty good Sid Vicious impersonation in this Cinemash short! She teamed up with her latest co-star Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who plays Nancy, of course, for a mashtacular presentation of both Sid & Nancy and their upcoming rom-com 500 Days of Summer. Who knew the crooning Cotton spokesgoddess could so convincingly pull a knife and successfully terrify us! But would Nancy have really worn that bunny sweatshirt? [via Pitchfork] more ›

As if to prove a point that LES vegan bakery Babycakes is both a little bit rock and roll and a little bit frosting, chef/owner Erin McKenna and team Babycakes have released a high-def trailer for their upcoming cookbook, wherein the shop becomes a de facto, Joan Jettified site of a girl power and gluten-free frolic. Badass. The four-year-old spot is not only kosher vegan, but most of its recipes substitute agave for refined sugar and are (of course) gluten-free. Coconut oil is used in placed of butter, and Jason Schwartzman apparently approves, as do others. Babycakes the book is blurbed by Natalie Portman and Zooey Deschanel; its foreword was written by none other than Tom Colicchio. Babycakes also supplied the starch-modified blueberry pie eaten by Norah Jones in Wong Kar Wai’s little-seen My Blueberry Nights (recipe here). The Telegraph has an interview and more recipes from McKenna, and includes this nugget about the shop’s sugar-dairy-frosting: “Some people just come in for a $1.50 frosting shot that they can knock back like a tequila, or a 12oz take-out tub to devour at home.” Babycakes will be published May 5; Babycakes' Twitter, for fresh-baked updates, here. more ›

Before she's even turned thirty, Zooey Deschanel has put together a commendable career in the decade since making her film debut in Mumford. She is an Angelino born and raised, but anyone who has seen Elf knows that she has enough attitude to hold her own in the Big Apple. She'll be doing just that in her upcoming film Gigantic, a romantic comedy set in the city, which she co-stars in with "Little Miss Will Be Blood"'s Paul Dano (trailer). This week she talked with us about the need to break rules you make for yourself, why being an actress is actually a good way to look unattractive and whether or not her straight-to-video career will begin with Elf 2. more ›

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... more ›

"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 couldn't help wondering what it would be like, being burned alive all along your nerves. more ›

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. more ›

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. more ›

Au Revoir Simone is: Heather D'Angelo, Erika Forster and Annie Hart. more ›

Adam Rapp, Writer and Director more ›

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. more ›