cityfile · 12/11/09 04:56PM

• Olana on lower Madison Avenue is the latest restaurant to go bust. [Crain's]
• The UES fixture Gino's is still open, it may not be for much longer. [NYT]
• Café Habana's lawyer fired back today at the four ex-employees suing the restaurant. But now two other former servers are voicing similar complaints.
• Your dreams have been answered: The new Chelsea club Amnesia, which opened its doors last night, is "a little bit of Jersey Shore in Manhattan." [GS]
• Rao's is impossible to get into. It's also overrated, just as you suspected.
• Gordon Ramsay's restaurant empire almost went under this year. Now he says he plans to focus more on TV than food in the future. [Bloomberg]
• The State Liquor Authority is dealing with another bribery case. [NYP]
• How much goes Kim Kardashian get to appear at a club? $40K. [Eater]

cityfile · 12/11/09 04:42PM

Photo: Flickr/lunapark

Trading Spouses with the Devil

Daniel Barnum-Swett · 12/11/09 04:30PM

Marguerite Perrin, the self-proclaimed "God Warrior", runs from the devil during her 2005 Trading Spouses episode. After the hysterical Christian returned from an overtly evil New Age enclave, audiences witnessed her breakdown, ranting against the satanic hippie lifestyle.

The Avatar Debate: It Will Suck

Richard Rushfield · 12/11/09 04:15PM

For 12 years, the world has awaited director James Cameron's follow up to Titanic. Today, the misguided prayers of a zillion fanboys have been answered, and they will be sorry.

Tiger Says Goodbye

cityfile · 12/11/09 04:11PM

The Tiger Woods saga kicked off two full weeks ago. But it wasn't until about 20 minutes ago that he actually admitted—via a posting on his website—that he's been unfaithful to his wife. Woods also says he's taking a hiatus from golf: "After much soul searching, I have decided to take an indefinite break from professional golf. I need to focus my attention on being a better husband, father, and person." Here's hoping he has cell phone reception at sea!

Gawker.TV: The Five Best Videos Ever of the Day

Whitney Jefferson · 12/11/09 04:00PM

Today at Gawker.TV, Wendy Wiliams and Jersey Shore's Snooki unite, classic Antiques Roadshow reactions, a heinous Real Housewives facelift, The View ladies are unprepared for this morning's special episode, and a wrap-up of the Always Sunny finale.

Famished America Dreams of Purchasing Biscuit

Hamilton Nolan · 12/11/09 03:53PM

The Way We Live Now: Munching on an affordable breakfast as our most valuable national institutions crumble. Culture? Broke. Harvard? Broke? Big stores? No more. Might as well shoot em up, shoot em up, shoot em up, bang.

cityfile · 12/11/09 03:22PM

• The New York Times is gearing up to cut another two dozen positions at the newspaper, but that's fewer than NYT execs were anticipating. [NYP]
• Cancellations: MTV has pulled the plug on Alexa Chung's daytime show; and HBO's Flight of the Conchords is finished after two seasons. [THR, Variety]
• Diane Sawyer and Chris Cuomo bid goodbye to GMA this morning. [ABC]
• NBC Universal chief Jeff Zucker, who will remain in charge of NBC after Comcast takes control, has been signed up to a new three-year contract. [THR]
• Ex-Daily News editor Debby Krenek is Newsday's new editor-in-chief. [E&P]
• Stodgy Harvard Business Review is getting a sexy makeover! [NYT]
• Grim stat du jour: 367 magazines were shuttered in 2009. [Crain's]
• More on Dave Zinczenko, the laziest magazine editor alive. [Gawker, DF]