Last night Jesse Frohman's "In Bloom" exhibit opened at SoHo Grand's gallery, and Papermag describes it as "epic," twice (doubly epic!). The show features Frohman's now 14-year-old images of Kurt Cobain, and allegedly some photos of flowers. He told the website, "This shoot was supposed to be a five hour shoot. We had to do it in 15 minutes. It was crazy." It took place in NYC just before Cobain's death, and the singer arrived......

Photo by Andy Sternberg/LAist A posthumous tribute wall dedicated to singer/songwriter Elliot Smith sat defaced by graffiti for months on end -- LAist said enough, so did the fans and city council.SFist was surprised to learn that chronic presidential candidate Ralph Nader picked former San Francisco Supervisor Matt Gonzalez as his running mate.Phillyist explored the possibilities of green cleaning.In the latest edition of Reel Toronto, a bi-weekly feature looking at films shot in Toronto......

This week in the Times, Bruni three-stars Le Cirque, bumping the restaurant's rating up from the two stars he awarded it in 2006. Executive chef Christophe Bellanca’s menu “nimbly straddles the line between predictable decadence… and creative flair,” he says. He also says that you’ll pay—a lot—for what you get, and that Le Cirque isn’t quite as reliable as other three star restaurants. In $25 and Under, ">Peter Meehan is at Soba Totto, where he......

Courtney Love wished us all a belated Merry Christmas today via her MySpace blog (which we don't normally check in on, but thankfully Curbed was on the ball). What did Santa bring her? An apartment in the West Village! So really, it's like a present for us all. She stated, in perfectly readable English:i think/hope we foundteh PERFECT plaCE, its a w village 4 floor house 2 floors are being rented by the owners, itllcost......

MUSIC: If you aren't at your local hometown bar this Thanksgiving-eve, drinking with old high school buddies -- we suggest a sonic alternative. Tonight The Hold Steady and Art Brut do their best at making Terminal 5 feel a little bit cozier this holiday season. Buy tickets here. 7:30pm // Terminal 5 [610 W 56th St] // $30 MUSIC MOVIES: If you're sick and tired of the bands playing around town, go check out two......

READING: Rosemarie Tichler, casting director and artistic producer at New York's Public Theater, and playwright Barry Jay Kaplan have put together a written work called Actors at Work. Tonight they'll be discussing this quintessential, and inspirational, resource. 7:30pm // Barnes & Noble [1972 Broadway] // Free THEATER: Writer/director Peter A. Campbell works his multimedia magic on Euripides’s Iphigenia in Tauris (not to be confused with Iphigenia at Aulis, which Charles Mee has re-imagined in a......

Rolling Stone has officially turned 40! We can't honestly say it's aged very well, but it sure is partying like it's 1967. Last year, at 39 and issue number 1000, Jann Wenner wrote, "The fact that we had John Lennon on the very first cover [pictured] was serendipity. We had a publicity photo from his role in the anti-war film How I Won the War. That photo, we now realize, speaks so clearly to the......

Last night, recent Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Patti Smith played an intimate show at the new Star Lounge in (her old residence) the Hotel Chelsea. The low-ceilinged bar was packed, hot and filled with old fans, friends and major label folk. Patti Smith got up on a small stage with her old band members and her son to play a few songs from her new release 12. The album is a......

TASTING: Forget wine and cheese...come pair up your favorite fromages with some beer! FreeNYC points us to Bierkraft - Park Slope's proprietor of some of the finest microbrews, cheeses, and chocolates. They're having a pairing of 5 beers with 5 cheese tonight, here's what's on the menu: Beer Samplings: Slyfox Pale Ale Rogue Brutal Bitter Southern Tier IPA Oskar Blues Gordon Smuttynose Imperial Stout Cheese Samplings: Chebris Zamorano Polder Schapenkaas Cambozola MiraBleu Yum! 7pm //......

MUSIC: It's hard to believe Kurt Cobain would have been 40 today. In celebration of his birthday and life there will be live performances of Nirvana albums Bleach, Nevermind and In Utero from Daouets, The Domestics, and Schwervon with some other musical guests. Bring flannel, your inner teen angst, and rock out like it's the early 90s. 7pm // Cake Shop [152 Ludlow St] // $8 THEATER: Alfred Molina (Frida, Dead Man) is one of......

Seems like everyone has a holiday show this year. Next up (drumroll): Kiki & Herb’s Christmas Show at the Bowery Ballroom. They'll be singing some classic Christmas carols...but you can be sure it's with a twist. Kiki & Herb are, in reality, Justin Bond and Kenny Mellman. Earlier this year they hit Broadway for a run of sold-out shows, which they followed up with a three night stint at Joe's Pub. At that show,......

When MTV first aired in the early 80's we were too young to really appreciate it, we grew in to it though and have fond memories of sitting on our plush carpet and watching "groundbreaking videos". These were pre-texting and pre-internet days, so to vote for a favorite video on the Top 5 at 5, one would would call "1-800-DIAL-MTV". The game show, Remote Control was one of the first (of many) non-music programs.......

Goes Cube are rock. Their enthusiastic hard and fast interpretation of the genre has been compared to Nirvana, leading New York's rock scene into a much more hopeful future. Their live show will make your brain shake, your body move and your soul scream. Lucky for us, their set translates well in the studio, and they just finished recording their new release, Beckon The Dagger God. Come check them out tonight at our Movable Hype......

Morning Theft is: Daniel Byrne - Drums, J. Patrick Holden - Bass, Robert Holmes - Vocals/Guitar, Peter Kim - Lead Guitar/Vocals Old friends of Gothamist, (they played our Movable Hype 1.5 show way back when!), Morning Theft is still chugging through the New York scene playing their inspired brand of Pixies-meets-Nirvana rock. They've recently entered the Emergenza Festival...a national battle of the bands of sorts. This Friday at the Knitting Factory, they will be......

Yesterday we received a number of emails regarding Hasidic reggae rapper Matisyahu. Apparently, the man has left his long time managers, also the founders of his old label - JDub Records. He has not done this for any higher powers...he's done it to move on to a relationship with the equivalent of a major label manager. The same man who "found" Nirvana, Gary Gersh. Aaron Bisman, founder of JDub, was friends with Matisyahu at NYU.......

Sara Dobbs, Actress/Singing Waitress...

[Photo by Couirey Eckmayer] Morning Theft, fresh off the bus from Boston in 2003, have been desribed as Pearl Jam meets Travis, Nirvana meets the Cure, the Pixies meets Radiohead...you get the point. But these guys have their own sound. And it sounds good. They're the band who has been (not so) silently brooding in the corner of the indie rock scene. They're loud. They're catchy. They're pensive mood rock. Gothamist (and pretty much......

Kurt Cobain died ten years ago, and a decade gives people enough time (and evidence) to consider his legacy and think that Courtney Love really killed him. There's a Dateline segment transcript of authors Max Wallace and Ian Halperin contending Courtney Love had more to do with Cobain's death, with an excerpt of their new book, "Love & Death: The Murder of Kurt Cobain." The excerpt os of a private investigator who Love hired to......

It seems that the MTA's plan for the Second Avenue Subway is to build it in segments. The Daily News' sources say the first phase would be stops at 96th, 86th and 72nd Sts., then "the trains will curve west to 63rd St. and Lexington Ave. and south on express tracks underneath Broadway through the tunnel also used by N and R trains. Some trains would continue into Brooklyn." Construction, expected to begin next year,......

Man, if Courtney Love thinks taking her case to Rush & Molloy is going to win her some support, she clearly is insane. Love talks to the Daily News' gossip mongers in order to give a glimpse into her mental health, as she tries to get custody of poor little Frances Bean back, after Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services placed her 11 year-old child with Kurt's mother, Wendy O'Connor when police......

Now, the world is left with Dave Grohl as the only remaining performing member of Nirvana: Krist Noveselic is leaving the music business. He writes on the website of his current band, Eyes Adrift: I can't read the magazines, listen to the radio or watch music television without feeling like I've just come in from outer space. I just don't get it and I probably never did. My lot in life is that every band......

100 Best Songs?
Gothamist takes aim at VH1's stupid new list (yes, an easy target, but still fun) with some of their and their readers' favorites....