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To-Do: Red Light Winter, Garrison Keillor, or Kosher Cock Show

Jessica · 03/14/06 01:40PM

Red Light Winter, the latest play by Adam Rapp, follows "three young Americans caught in a bizarre love triangle of erotic fixation." That's theatre speak for "stupid college kids rolling on E in Amsterdam." [flavorpill]
• In an appearance with the New York Philharmonic, Garrison Keillor brings the News from Lake Wobegon to Avery Fisher Hall tonight. Go and see a real, live Midwesterner! [Upcoming]
• In honor of Purim, Scotty the Blue Bunny hosts the Kosher Cock Show at Mo Pitkins'. Because what Jewish holiday is complete without an inappropriately themed hipster event? [Paper]

Introducing Gawker Stalker Maps

Jessica · 03/14/06 11:40AM

Today we're launching the next step in inane celebrity drooling: Gawker Stalker Maps, in which we try visually pinpoint the location of every stalkworthy celebrity as soon as they're spotted. According to Lloyd Grove's column today, celebrity publicists like Leslie Sloan Zelnick and Ken Sunshine think our new venture is disgusting. If we were unkind people, we might say the same about their clients' work. But we won't.

Remainders: 'Vows' Sells Its Soul

Jessica · 03/13/06 06:10PM

• More on HBO's new multi-wived drama, Big Love: If you liked the premiere or just needed more reason to hate it, behold the show's cruel marketing tactics. We'll let you plaster the background of Page Six with your logo, but defiling the Times Vows section is simply unacceptable. What was once pure is now maimed by marketing whores. [City Specific]
• A study finds that bloggers do very little original reporting and, less surprisingly, cable news is the most shallow and ephemeral of media outlets. This has been brought to you by the Captain Obvious Center for Media Research. [NYT]
• Even less original reporting from bloggers today, as we hear that Blogger has been down. We love it when bloggers can't even bitch about being unable to bitch.
• Surprise, surprise: They just might shut down The Falls, where ex-con Darryl Littlejohn worked as a bouncer and was last seen with murder victim Imette St. Guillen. While it's still open, try to have your birthday party there — should be plenty of room for you and yours. [NY Sun]
• Remembering better days, before Angelina Jolie was rescuing orphans and was just another crazy dyke. [Stories You Cannot Tell]
• Mariah Carey buys her own winery — because that's how rich boozers roll. Rest assured, the zinfandel is very full-bodied. [omg blog]
• The best of Amazon, as presented by Andrew Krucoff. [Young Manhattanite]

Grand Central Keeps Its Dead Rats Near and Dear

Jessica · 03/13/06 04:56PM

According to the Sun, Grand Central has been hit with a crippling tragedy. A mouse or rat has passed away, but its last moments were not private. Instead, the rodent died within or around the interior walls of the station's main information booth — that is, right smack in the middle of everything, where it has since peacefully rested, every day decomposing like a little flower. And though the smell of the rotting rodent corpse is concentrated right behind the booth, the odor is bad enough to warrant an emergency-services style search for the carcass.

Does Your Bank Buy You the Morning Paper?

Jesse · 03/13/06 04:12PM

OK, back to the Daily News. It wasn't just Brooklyn Heights, clearly; there are reports coming in of free Newses being given away all over the city, many by people more attractive than your usual hawkers and many by people wearing some sort of Washington Mutual garb. What gives?

Gawker Stalker: You Cant Stop Crazy Stalker, You Can Only Hope to Contain Him.

Jessica · 03/13/06 02:20PM

In this rather lengthy edition of Gawker Stalker: Uma Thurman back with Andre Balazs, Lenny Kravitz, Mark Ruffalo, Keanu Reeves, Willem Dafoe, Bill Paxton, Harvey Weinstein, Kate Winslet, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Jessica Lange, Michel Gondry, Paul and Mira Sorvino, Jimmy Fallon, Erika Christensen, Howard Stern, Rosie O Donnell, Alec Baldwin and Nicole Seidel, Oliver Platt, Anthony Edwards, Jonathan Safran Foer, Karolina Kurkova, Margherita Missoni, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kelly Osborne, Dustin Hoffman, Kelly Ripa, Denis Leary, John Norris, Adam Duritz, Corbin Bernsen and Michael Tucker, Chris Parnell, Bradley Cooper, Taye Diggs and Idina Menzel, Federico Castelluccio, Tim Curry, David Hyde Pierce, Horatio Sanz, Tatum O Neal, and, in Crazy Stalker s latest installment, Lauren Dupont.

To-Do: American Shmidol, Macaulay Culkin, or Concerts

Jessica · 03/13/06 01:30PM

• Jews + Karaoke = Typical Night in Manhattan. But add in some prizes and the boys from Stella as judges, and you get American Shmidol, tonight at Bowery Ballroom. [flavorpill]
• Having conquered the worlds of acting and teenage divorce, Macaulay Culkin tries his hand at a novel. Judge his efforts (and we know you will) tonight at Barnes & Noble on East 17th. [WUNY]
• Isobel Campbell of Belle & Sebastian fame takes the solo route tonight at Joe's Pub. Stay twee, you cuddly monkey. [Upcoming]

Free 'News' in Brooklyn Heights?

Jesse · 03/13/06 11:16AM

Has the struggling-to-stay-on-top Daily News adopted the Sun's give-it-away circ strategy? A favorite source files this report from Brooklyn Heights:

The Syncing of Punnery

Jessica · 03/13/06 09:25AM


You see, the blood found on the material used to tie together murder victim Imette St. Guillen's wrists matches that of prime suspect Darryl Littlejohn. Littlejohn is tied to the murder. Wrist ties, blood ties — ha ha, right? Get it? Anyone?

Billionaire Jews Club

Jessica · 03/13/06 08:38AM

We've spent far too much time poring over Forbes' dangerous list of the world's billionaires — like the blinking lights of a Nintendo, the reality of our own poverty triggered seizures. But after we took our medication, we were able to narrow down the list to those claiming residence in New York. And of those 50 New York billionaires, our somewhat unconfirmed research pulls up 29 members of the tribe. Only 29?! For shame!

To Do, This Weekend: Armory, Hot Chip, or Circle

Jessica · 03/10/06 02:15PM

Friday:
• The art show to end all art shows, the behemoth Armory, takes over Piers 90 and 92 this weekend. Put on your bullshit goggles and bring a little culture to your life. [Upcoming]
• B-Side Art Fairs: riding on the Armory's back, ~Scope does the indie thing with a tilda, while PULSE makes the most of capslock and curatorial firepower. [flavorpill]
Saturday:
• The perfect anecdote to an art hangover? Fluffy, imported pop. Hot Chip, all the way from the UK, rocks out at the Bowery Ballroom. [flavorpill]
• Game6 features blasts from the past Michael Keaton and Robert Downey, Jr. in a drama centering on the infamous 1986 Mets-Red Sox World Series. It's warm out, so we condone baseball nostalgia. [TONY]
Sunday:
• Circle hits the US despite its "murky avant obscurity" here. Yeah, the Knitting Factory will do that to you. [flavorpill]

Gawker Stalker: Ashley Olsen is Sooo Not BFF with Lindsay Lohan Right Now

Jessica · 03/10/06 10:42AM

In this sunny edition of the Stalk: Ashley Olsen and Lindsay Lohan stage a showdown at Bungalow 8, Eva Mendes and Joaquin Phoenix, Johnny Depp, Anderson Cooper in (gasp!) Sears jeans, Don Cheadle and Adam Sandler, Jimmy Fallon, Lenny Kravitz, Marc Jacobs, Harvey Weinstein, Jerry Seinfeld, Jonathan Rhys-Myers, Michael Imperioli, Richard Gere and Carey Lowell, Jane Krakowski, Morgan Spurlock, Dennis Haysbert, Hope Davis, Vincent D'Onofrio, Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, Chris Martin, Elisabeth Rohm, Billy Joel, Julie Andrews and Alec Baldwin, B.D. Wong, Drew Barrymore and Fabrizio, Alan Cumming, Malcolm Gladwell, Conan O Brien, and Ice Cube.

To-Do: Kelley Polar, Say Hi To Your Mom, or Michael Graves

Jessica · 03/08/06 02:05PM

• Kelley Polar takes you back to Studio 54 tonight with Morgan Geist and Dan Selzer. Nothing says "disco" like the Knitting Factory and a little viola music, right? [flavorpill]
• Say Hi To Your Mom plays at Rothko. We will. She loves it when we come around for dinner. [Upcoming]
• Architect Michael Graves gives a reading tonight at Parsons's Tish Auditorium. Bring your Legos for the follow-up playtime. [WUNY]

To-Do: Measure for Pleasure, Sarah Vowell, or Blur Division

Jessica · 03/07/06 02:00PM

Measure for Pleasure, the newest farce by David Grimm, opens tonight at the Public Theater. Go and show off how you didn't fail your freshman Shakespeare lecture — everyone will be sooo impressed. [flavorpill]
• Sarah Vowell reads from her dead-presidents book Assasination Vacation tonight at the Borders on Columbus Circle. Be sure to tell her what you think of her Op-Ed columns. [Paper]
• The Bowery Poetry Club, a contradiction in terms, presents an evening with musical trio the Blur Division. Because it's not like they were going to appeal to anyone down there with actual poetry. [Upcoming]