Easy, sugar fiends - the new Magnolia Bakery outpost on the Upper West Side (Columbus at 69th Street) isn't quite opening at 11AM as Eater reported yesterday. We walked by around 9:30AM and the sign said that they anticipated a noon opening. Magnolia had always been a popular West Village stop for more super-sugary and homey desserts when a seemingly sudden cupcake craze hit the city. Next thing we knew, there were analyses of......

Blender has a list of 100 Days That Changed Music, and not surprisingly a good amount of them took place in New York. Here are a few, see any missing? 99. December 11, 1965: The Velvet Underground play their first show, which was actually at a high school dance in Summit, New Jersey. The following year however, the Velvets became the house band at Warhol's Factory. 96. December 14, 1977: "Saturday Night Fever debuts in......

We sort of slept through this season of Saturday Night Live. Sure it had its moments, but the show still isn't what it used to be (even Rainn Wilson couldn't revive it for a night). The best thing to happen in recent years has been Andy Samberg and the Digital Shorts (what did you think of last nights? Watch it here). These broke out in 2005 with Lazy Sunday, and kept going strong in 2006......

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a "boat in distress" at the 79th Street Boat Basin, several shootings in Brooklyn, including one at Brookdale Hospital, and a police officer stabbed at a diner in Queens. The funniest SNL short since Lazy Sunday: "D!ck in a Box". Warning, lyrics are as raunchy as the title. Sometime in the next 30 years, old people will outnumber school children in NYC. "According to police estimates, there are over......

With the Oscars coming up tonight, we thought we'd recap our favorite Brokeback Mountain parodies. Our nominees... -Brokeback to the Future [watch here] -Star Wars: The Empire Brokeback [watch here] -Brokeback Island [watch here] -Broke Mac Mountain [watch here] If forced to choose, we'd have to dub the winner Broke Mac Mountain, we just love parodies with IT guys in it... Hopefully there will be something new to parody soon, we're getting tired of the......

Bob Castrone and Brian Levin, Creators, The Post Show...

Like you, we assumed that the Lazy Sunday meme died about two weeks ago, but it turns out it was just waiting for us to look away, and then SNACK ATTACK, M0TH3RFCUCKER! It simply doesn't get any more meta-licious and web-overloaded than Andy Baio's niece and nephew performing their own version of the Lazy Sunday rap (direct link to MP3 here.) This proves there's no such thing as jumping the shark. Lazy Sunday will live......

After our last Lazy Sunday post you thought the meme was dead, right? We'll you guessed wrong, sucka! We'll never let it die, never! Three years from now we'll still be grinding it into the ground, sucking one last drop of cupcake/red-vines/mr.pibbs goodness from the joke. Take this amazing Ebay auction (current price: $71.00!) spotted by Amy: This auction is for 2 mini-bobbleheads of Chris and Andy as they appeared in this doped out......

Colin Smith, Freeverse...

The approximate timeline from Saturday Night Live video, no, wait, digital short, to being "above the fold" on the NYTimes.com website is nine days! We doubt The Lonely Island/SNL gang was up at 8AM to see the "Lazy Sunday" article, "Nerds in the Hood, Stars on the Web," take the prime position on the Gray Lady's Less Gray Website, but Gothamist did. And we love the internet. Apparently the Lonely Island guys, Andy Samberg, Akiva......

For the last 24 hours we've been deluged with requests to track down Chris Parnell's "Lazy Sunday Afternoon" video (AKA "The Narnia Rap"). It can be found at YouTube, and it is indeed the funniest thing SNL has put up in about five years. A quick transcription of the lyrics: Lazy Sunday wake up in the late afternoon call Parnell just to see how he's doing hello what up pas! yo sandburg, whats rocking?......