The AP notes how CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric has been hitting a new high note in her career with her series of interviews with vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin and is finally getting respect. (It's better than rumors that she's moving on). Couric, though, says, “I’ve never really lost confidence in my abilities, which I guess is pretty miraculous. I didn’t really have a lot of platforms to do what I excel at, which......

The New York Times has an interesting piece today on the mass arrest of a group of teenagers, who were rounded up as they were heading to their friend's funeral, in an effort to quell gang violence. A collection of young men and women, the youngest thirteen, were on their way from Bushwick to Coney Island in Brooklyn, dressed up (or down) in t-shirts bearing the name of their slain friend Donnell McFarland, who......

Tonight's episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent features its ripped-from-the-headlinse take on the Anna Nicole Smith soap opera. Playing a blond bombshell named Lorelei Mailer is Kristy Swanson, best known as the movie Buffy the Vampire Slayer; playing her manager/boyfriend is David Cross (!). TV Guide interviewed Swanson:TV Guide: How did this Criminal Intent job come about? Swanson: Law & Order called my agent and said that they're doing the Anna Nicole Smith story.......

EVENT: Bluestockings is a great little place on Allen St, if you haven't already checked it out. Tonight the UnCoolKids tell us this bookstore (and more) is having an event called "Where Have You Been? Conversations on Travel": ”New Yorkers go all over the world, but the city has a way of swallowing their homecomings. At “Where Have You Been,” three intrepids share stories with other travelers as well as those of us who don’t......

A look at some noteworthy televison shows this week: Live From the Red Carpet: The 2007 Academy Awards (Sunday, 6:00 p.m. E!) The traditionally absurd Oscar pregame of celebrities arriving at the Oscars. 2007 Joan & Melissa at the Academy Awards (Sunday, 6:00 p.m. TV Guide Channel) Joan Rivers and daughter Melissa do their yearly schtick during the Oscar arrivals. An Evening at the Academy Awards: The Arrivals (Sunday, 6:30 p.m. WABC 7) Channel 7......

If you count yourself as a New Yorker and a movie lover, it's tough to not have a special affinity for films by Woody Allen. Practically the filmmaker laureate of the city, Allen's prolific 40 plus year career is getting a three week long screening series at Film Forum starting this Friday. Gothamist loves Allen's movies (both the highs and the lows) so much that we thought we'd chat with an Allen expert, Queens College......

Youthful chutzpah, laminating arrogance, or plain stupid? The Queens DA's office has pressed charges against an 18 year old who used fake credentials to gain access to the NY Mets during home games. Ryan Leli made a fake NBC Universal employee ID card on his computer, and managed to get into the August 10 game between the Mets and the San Diego Padres. Mets officials seemed to be tipped off that something was wrong because,......

New York magazine brings the funny this week with a cover story about Conan O'Brien as well as some other NYC-comedy features. The Conan story delves into his "unsuave" persona and the possibilities of bringing his style to the rest of America when he takes over the Tonight Show (he says, "I’m open to going to L.A. Mostly because it won’t be my choice."). Gothamist highly recommends you read it, but we have pulled out......

Slate might have their Movie Club (which is a pretty awesome gathering of movie critics), but Gothamist is loving "The Conversation," a group blog between the creme de la creme of film/arts bloggers filmbrain, Liz Penn, greencine, the cinetrix and Aaron Dobbs (he does Gothamist Interviews with Lily Oei every few weeks). They are duking it out about this past year's movies, all the through Sunday, which is Golden Globes night. For example, from filmbrain:When......

- Augusten Burroughs runs with Gothamist Interviews - City's economy picks up some - NYC Concert questions: How close can you get to Ad-Rock and why did Morrissey leave the stage early? - Wine and cheese pairing suggestions from our own (Tamara)Lover - Gothamist Sports on college football's top 15 - Feral cats rule city streets - The J-E-T-S have a 4-0 start - Commuting by pod in NJ might happen - Food carts......

Another former interview subject comes back to man the Gothamist Interviews this week! Laurie Woolever is a cook and writer, lives in the East Village, and loves ketchup, champagne, and Charo.You can read more about Laurie in her interview. And today Laurie interview Jay Brida, publisher of Contemporary Press and freelance copywriter.......

This week, a Gothamist Interview subject comes back to interview for us!Candice Holmes is a native New Yorker, representing as a Hunter High and Wesleyan grad. Since her Gothamist interview, she found a job as a media buyer for a marketing company where she spends her days chained to her desk and conversing on IM. Pastimes include staying out too late on work nights, being a jaded partygoer, watching VH1 Classics, shilling for her favorite......

Gothamist has been enjoying the efforts of our guest interviewers so far (if you haven't checked out Gothamist Interviews of late, there's no time like the present, especially if time seems to stop and not bother to move closer to quitting time at your office), and this week, we're lucky to have Sarah Robbins interviewing for us: Sarah Robbins's first job was roasting, salting, and packaging peanuts at her family's Toledo warehouse. She now lives......

This week in Gothamist Interviews marks the return of questions as well as a new interview, David S. Hirschman. His bio, which includes the nutritional requirements of a NYC journalist: David S. Hirschman is news editor at Mediabistro and a reporter at Metro. He subsists on a strict diet of gin, gummy bears and coconut-breaded jumbo shrimp, and blames all of his problems on an upbringing that was not nearly repressive enough. Eager to sell......

We were excited to see that today's interview was with Alexis Rockman, the artist who created that wild 8' by 24' mural for the Brooklyn Museum's entrance. The mural, Manifest Destiny, shows what Brooklyn would look like in 3000 years, ravaged by global warming. Rockman worked on the mural with the help of Columbia Unversity's Godard Institute for Space, to guess what the climate would be like, and they came up with a Brooklyn (and......

Gothamist Interview has hit its 100th subject. Submitting to Andrew Krucoff's Young Manhattanite Interview is none other than Tina Brown, editor, writer, and now TV personality on CNBC with all those people talking about money and stuff. She even lets everyone know how much the Topic A staff feels Henry, the Gawker Intern, who is tasked with a weekly recap of the show (check out today's recap.) Now, to work on getting Thomas Pynchon for......

If you're inside recovering from a long day, don't forget to look elsewhere on Gothamist for some good information. This week, Ask Gothamist looked at brokers, at squatters, and at subletting apartments, and getting in shape for this weather. Speaking of weather, Gothamist Weather examined the heat index, how ice cores can reveal historical information, some tips on how to deal with ants in your apartment, and the crossing of Venus. Gothamist Sports included thoughts......

- Finally, the Kama Sutra for your watch - The third Tribeca Film Festival ends - Thoughts on first date fashion - The Manhattan Waiter blog - Subways aren't part of the GOP plan this summer - Is NY smoking less? - Loving the Staten Island Ferry - The poor NYC third graders, foiled again - Taxi increase aftermath - Why Uggs, Kate, why Uggs? - The Nets play tonight; check out how they evened......

Apparently, some people want some of the Gothamist flavor in Germany. The eagle-eyed Stefan at MemeFirst directs our attention to a website from the land of Black Forest Cake: Leipzig Blog. While MemeFirst says "knock-off," Gothamist is flattered. We've been wanting to concentrate on the goings-on of the greater Leipzig area for some time now. But we're also currently drafting our version of a cease-and-desist email in German (using Babelfish so it'll be a suspect......

- Does it matter if Belle de Jour is a fake? - The smoking ban turns one - Workout whiner or victim? - Your pants catch fire on the subway and... - The LES plague - West Side development gets a step closer to reality with formal presentations - Couture, schmouture - this dress from Sex and the City was ugly! - Eating at Casa Mono on Irving Place - A-Rod's pretty face gets beaned!......

Gothamist is happy that our readers seem to be enjoying our Interviews section, steered by Andrew Krucoff. Sure, some people are confused by why a site curious and interested about many things would want to share a glimpse into the lives of curious and interesting people, but it's all worth it. Worth it because we've been spoofed in fine fashion by Eurotrash and low culture. low culture thought they had us by interviewing a stapler,......

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