Photograph of Queens native Amy Ryan, nominated for best supporting actress for her role in Gone, Baby Gone At 8:30PM (following a half-hour red carpet special), the 80th Annual Academy Awards ceremony will begin, finally putting an end to the "There Will Be Oscar" or "Oscar Country for Old Men" type headlines. You can prep yourself with the Oscar nominees list as you watch (or avoid) red carpet coverage. You could read NY Times......

We almost thought that the NY Post website was offering a game of "Which one of these things is not like the other?" But it turns out that celebrities Christina Aguilera, Nicole Richie, Courtney Thorne-Smith and David Alan Grier all had babies. The four babies - two boys (from Aguilera and Thorne-Smith) and two girls (Richie's and Grier's) - were born at Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai, the hospital where Britney Spears was recently hospitalized and......

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a person under a train at Prospect Park and Windsor Pl. in Brooklyn, an attempted bank robbery on Jerome Ave. in the Bronx, and a successful bank robbery on East 23rd St. in Manhattan. The Fire Dept. is responding to a scaffolding fire that broke out at the Deutsche Bank building, which is being deconstructed on Liberty St. downtown. One firefighter has already been evacuated from the building and......

Londonist are starting to think their city is getting just a little bit too expensive, when even Christian Slater can't afford to go out there. And there's no escaping, as local singer Lily Allen discovered when she was barred entry to the US. The British mapping agency caused further bad karma, by blocking a 3-D representation of London in Google Earth. But the smiles returned to Londonist's faces as they interviewed Baroness von Reichardt,......

Ex-Gawker editor Jesse Oxfeld joins New York just in time for the magazine's big story on where celebs are in the city! Well, he's only quoted (as is current Gawker editor Jessica Coen), but given that yesterday's Post went ga-ga over Brooklyn celebs and where you might see them, forget the locusts, it's the day of the celebs. For the record, Gothamist's favorite star-sighting is not seeing Harrison Ford (with, ugh, that earring!) have dinner......

Brian Van sent us this photograph of Nicole Richie delivering Dr. Diet Pepper at 6th Avenue and West 3rd Street. This is 99.9% Nicole Richie, but with this whole "sunglasses bigger than your head" trend, how can we be so sure that it isn't that chick who has been playing JT LeRoy?......

- The NY Sun and NY Times have editorials on the World Trade Center development - More World Trader Center-related controversy: Feds fund post-September 11 film that the government has no rights to - and the final film had naked people in it - The police officer shot outside White Castle was laid to rest today - Can it be? Producer Dick Wolf will produce a show with continuing plots - Nicole Richie will......

Mary Kate, we hardly knew you! Okay, so we knew you liked to dress like Mrs. Roper if she lived in Berkeley with $150 million start the trend of bohemian chic and drink coffee and party around town and not move into your deluxe apartment. But when we went to People.com to see if there were any new pictures of Brad and Angelina, we read this troubling, if not entirely unsurprising, news. We know you......

You can tell a lot about a year by seeing which posts were popular, and from Gothamist's standpoint, it's been a banner year for our readers who are perverts or nerds (we're hoping the loyal readers are both). Here are a few of our most popular posts: Thoughts on the Matrix Reloaded; 100 Best Songs; when we pretended to know all about friendster messages; Paris Hilton sex tapes and her SNL appearance; Nicole Richie's racial......

–Lower East Side tenement photo galleries –There may be a sports stadium yet on the Far West Side –Today's interning NYers –Orlando Bloom wears a t-shirt –How many Republicans can you fit onto a boat during next year's Republican convention? –None, since New Yorkers are getting their way. –Times Square: Not for walking –Stop your debating: Nicole Richie is black –NY crime continues to fall –What not to do if dumped this holiday season......

With the premiere of the Fox reality show, The Simple Life, with Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie, tonight at 8:30PM, we have decided to revisit a hilarious interview that E! Online's Kristin did with the girls. It kills us because that troublemaker Norm MacDonald asked what everyone wonders, but is too PC to speculate about: Nicole Richie's skin color. Norm: "Isn't Lionel Richie a black guy?"Paris: "She's black!"Nicole: "I am black!"Norm: "You're black?"Norm: "Did......

Variety breaks its review of the Paris Hilton-Nicole Richie reality show, The Simple Life, which has been getting positive critical buzz: It also helps enormously that Hilton and Richie (the "notorious" daughter, per the intro, of Lionel Richie) provide their own hilarious dialogue, saying things like "What does 'generic' mean?" and pondering what happens at Wal-Mart. In the don't-know-much-about dept., the pair give fellow reality pinatas Jessica Simpson and Anna Nicole Smith a run for......

— Christina Aguilera's habit — A music magazine for adults - possibly a new form of Tylenol PM — MTA: Subway at 100 thoughts and slow city buses — Adding the Tribute of Light to the Panorama of the City — The desserts New Yorkers love - hello, chocolate cake — The Murder Burger: food to die by — What happens when your mom reads your blog — The High Line: The center of......

Gothamist like military night vision home video fine, but we think we might like Paris Hilton's actual upcoming Fox television program, The Simple Life, with Nicole Richie better, if the Daily News' David Bianculli's review is any indication: "If you're looking for entertaining television, look no further. I don't know what her sex tape makes her look like, but 'The Simple Life' makes her look like an idiot." Brilliant! Bianculli also notes after Paris and......

Lloyd Grove says that the new A&F Quarterly, the Abercrombie & Fitch magalog, is finally NC-17 - buyers will need to show ID when buying the $7 magazine full of "naked girls and boys in sexually suggestive poses - even an orgy scene or two (either just getting started or just ending)." Coincidentlally, besides interviews with an actor from The O.C. (the one who doesn't look like Russell or who is Adam Brody) and with......