Intertube-savvy metropolitan diners now have yet another way to make sure their every culinary craving is sated: the new website FoodieBytes, now beta testing, lets users search restaurant menus based on the food they desire. For instance, typing in “pesto” and “whole wheat pasta” yields over a hundred New York eateries. You can narrow your search by neighborhood and, once you find a restaurant that seems appealing, peruse the entire menu, get the hours,......

The Sklar Brothers spent years living in New York, working their way through the alternative comedy scene, becoming in demand performers, and eventually getting their own MTV show, Apt 2F, and later a Comedy Central Special. Then, once they had moved to LA and gotten comfortable, they were sent back into New York to film their show Cheap Seats for ESPN Classics. It seems like the Sklars just can't stay away from the city because......

W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism Brooklyn Academy of Music Repressive political regimes and free-wheeling cultural expression can go together hand in hand, and the flowering of film in Yugoslavia during the '60s is a great example of it. BAM Cinematek is devoting a series this month to this Black Wave, a film movement that combined "artistic, sexual, and ideological freedom with a sense of humor." One of the major features in this group of films......

Police are investigating the discovery of a bound and mutilated body, found in the attic apartment of a home on Beach 69th Street in the Arverne neighborhood. The victim is described as a 55-year-old man, and news reports say his penis was cut off, though that has not been confirmed by the ME's office. The tenant of the apartment, Brigitte Harris, apparently made a 911 call about a bleeding man around 1PM, but left before......

While SFist cringed at the fatal dose of crime littering the Bay Area, it found solace in Hillary Clinton's San Francisco campaign headquarters opening, which featured loads of exposed mammary glands. In other news, SF Taxi Commission ruled that Satan's cab must keep its (in)famous medallion number, 666; and in an un-fashion-forward frenzy, San Francisco Fashion Week (chortle) bars bloggers from covering and getting smashed at their shows and parties, respectively. Also, they found a......

To anyone attending next year's Puerto Rican Day Parade, we have this suggestion: Don't wear black-and-gold. At a press conference, parade organizers decried arrests of people who were not engaged in any illegal activity during Sunday's event. National Puerto Rican Day Parade president Madelyn Lugo said, "We are very disappointed and alarmed that these violations of civil rights should occur." The organizers, who admitted they warned the NYPD that the Latin Kings might try to......

A Manhattan man is suing the makers of the energy drink Boost because the drink gave him a three day erection. Christopher Woods claims that he has suffered "pain, shock and mental anguish" after drinking Boost in June of 2004. He started to drink the product in order to gain weight, but a day after drinking Boost, his pains began. From the Post:The suit says [Woods] used the "product in accordance with its intended use"......

Despite winter being upon us, the hipsters of New York took to the streets yesterday with strange, creative outfits and shopping carts in this year's Idiotarod. What's the Idiotarod, you ask? It's like the annual Iditarod from Nome to Anchorage except with teams of human idiots replacing dogs. Some of the more creative costumes we noticed: Wonderwoman, the Noid (think Domino's Pizza campaign), the McDonald's mascots, the Cosbys, Ghostbusters with the Stay Puft Marshmallow......

We've always thought that penis enlargement stories would be best kept discreet. But we guess that if one is suing a doctor for botching a penis enlargement surgery, you've got to name names. Orlando Santiago had sued Dr. Mark Filstein at the Ridgewood Health and Beauty Center in Queens; Santiago claimed that not only was he impotent after the procedure, his penis was smaller. From the Daily News:Santiago had his malpractice case tossed in 2005,......

Jagshemash! Borat is a hit. It's getting rave reviews, grossing millions, and definitely the most quotable thing we've seen in ages. But Borat seems to have missed most of the -ist cities, and we were all wondering how the film would have been different if he'd made his way around the world on the -ist tour. In Shanghai, Borat would be observing Inane Learnings of Penis Photos for Make Benefit Glorious Flat World of......

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a construction accident in Chelsea, a Hazmat condition in Bay Ridge, and a bank robbery on Staten Island. That leaf is huge! In a stunt so confusing it could come only from the art world, the graffiti artist UFO showed up at the release party for his supposedly unauthorized photo-biography and got into an argument with the authors. For $75, The Evaluatress will "will give you a brutally honest......

+ Reporting live from Black Label's 4th Annual Bike Kill: "it was in your best interest to keep moving as a giant foam, sore-covered penis was on hand to blast clay slurry in the face of the unmindful." + Today in the Gothamist NewsMap: a severed finger in Queens, a boat in distress in the Hudson off 133rd Street, and a multiple homicide in East Flatbush. + Amazing pictures from rural turn-of-the-century Brooklyn. It's......

-- Ixtayul visits David Island in the Long Island Sound-- apparently it used to host anti-nuclear missles. -- Diana Eng might have lost Project Runway, but she won the top prize at Yahoo Hack Day. Nerd! -- Amusing pictures sent to us today: Please no Pee Pee, Penis. -- Stuyvesant alumni are asking for federal funding to provide health care for students exposed to chemicals in the aftermath of September 11th. -- "Jewish Conscience"......

A couple of years ago, while leaving a show at Irving Plaza, one of the many people handing out cd's - handed us a cd. It wasn't in any fancy packaging, wasn't eye catching for any reason, and we held on to it and listened later that night. The band was called The Epochs, and we had a new rule about listening to cd's handed to us on the street. The EP was good,......

On the Down Low The Daily News reports that 10% of New York men who claim to be straight are having sex with other men in what has been dubbed the down-low phenomenon. These findings (from a 2003 survey) were published in the Annals of Internal Medicine (please, no snickering) which also relayed that 70% of this subgroup consisted of married men. An assistant health commissioner also suggested that these men are less likely to......

-- Life imitates Sleepless in Seattle-- but people still get more play in Brooklyn. -- Young professionals are flocking to post-college dormitory in Harlem. Prediction: suicide rate in Harlem is about to skyrocket. -- Here's a classic Travis Ruse shot of a cute girl at the Pacific Street station. -- It's Guiliani time: Rudy "seriously considering" run for president. -- Paaaaaaardon? Soup Nazi is opening 50 restaurants in Britain! -- High gas prices are......

ART: Tonight Dreamland: Coney Island 1905-1925 opens. The exhibit is opened through August 19th and features "original drawings, blueprints, and vintage photographs of New York City’s favorite amusement park, Coney Island." Opening Reception 6 to 8pm // Ricco Maresca Gallery [529 West 20th St] // Free THEATER: The year's not half over, but we'd bet good money that Men Eat Mars Bars While Touching Their Penis, which opens tonight, would win the prize for most......

While there is some debate about the NYPD's undercover subway sting to arrest subway perverts, most women welcome the news as many have been privy to a little too much attention from men over the years. The NY Times has some great quotes from some female subway riders:- "Every girl I know has at least one story." - "I thought that maybe I'd done something to attract [a flasher] but my family reassured me......

Troi Torain, aka DJ Star, aka the DJ who threatened rival DJ Envy by saying he'd pull an R. Kelly on DJ Envy's four year old daughter, while using racist slurs to refer to DJ Envy's wife, is hoping his criminal case will be thrown out. DJ Star was arrested for his remarks (child endangerment), but his lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, says that other DJs started it. Namely, Miss Jones, from Miss Jones in the Morning......

Londonist prepares a Happy Birthday bath for Buddah this week and then things get all cliched. A madman goes on a rampage while axe-wiedling and London's mayor warns an American diplomat to avoid the kitchen if the heat bothers him so much. LAist has finally come around to purchasing tickets for Clipper Train. Hyper local dating sites are spamming L.A. neighborhoods and the fascinating Dame Darcy talks with LAist about art, the city and earthquakes.......

There's nothing like calling it like you see it: CC on citynoise had an unfortunate encounter wtih an exposed man on a 7 train. Well, more accurately, the whole train car had the encounter, but CC actually did something about it while on a Friday night Flushing-bound train:He was watching us from underneath his sunglasses, hoping that we'd notice. I took out my camera phone and snapped some pictures. He tried to cover his face......

This week's award for most disturbing pizza delivery story definitely goes to NYC Nosh. Check out their account of the insanity that ensued after they ordered a pie from Fat Sal's: 40 minutes later, Mr. Penguin received a call from the delivery man, saying he was outside. He buzzed the delivery person into the building and went to the door to collect the pizza while HungryMan and I stood in the living room, clearing......

An anonymous commenter on Gothamist Labs sent in this link to a rendering of this gigantic imaginary penis-like building. It seems to be positioned up by 59th Street or so, and looks to be about 10,000 ft tall! That's probably impossibly tall, even with the futuristic elevators that will no doubt be invented by our future robot overlords. [Related: NYC fantasy buildings at SkyscraperPage-- our favorite is the 2500ft BoA Center-- and the never-built......

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Mayor Bloomberg is getting more support - not that he needed it - for his aggressive stand against firearms in the city as well as the NYPD's handling of crminals as the story of Damon Henry makes the rounds. Henry was shot over the weekend by the NYPD when he fired an Uzi (!!!) at them in East Flatbush. The Post says, "The pursuing police responded with about 30 rounds, hitting him in the torso......

Beloved memoirist Augusten Burroughs will be giving a reading next Tuesday of his latest book, Magical Thinking, at Coliseum Books. And he's going to dish about the new film adaptation of Running with Scissors (Annette Bening will play his mom, Gabrielle Union his mother's girlfriend; Brian Cox is his mom's shrink and Gwyneth Paltrow, Kristin Chenoweth, and Evan Rachel Wood seem to be play his daughters). His last event, at Cooper Union, was totally packed......

Jessica Coen, Editor, Gawker.com...

Yesterday, there was a pretty interesting story about how the City Commission on Human Rights now allows transgendered people to use whichever bathrooms they want to use. Some incidents where transgender women felt they were being discriminated against when using the bathrooms at the Manhattan Mall and another office building led to the new ruling, and the Post took the opportunity to accompany Semaj Bogan, who considers herself to be a woman (even though she......

- Critical Mass and the NYPD showdown again - Dead bodies are turning up in bags - The rise in subway thefts might be iPod-related - Fiddlehead ferns are in season - and delicious - Cheap shopping in Chinatown - Thank the NY Post for making sure we know about a man's failed penis enlargement - Of course the MTA would spend lots of money to figure out how to save money - Beck's new......

There are so many reasons why this season's America's Next Top Model has helped secure its place as one of the greatest shows ever (fainting spells! questionable mental capacity from contestants! Janice Dickinson telling a would-be model that it looks like she has a penis!), but last night's episode, The Girl Who Would Be Contagious, was incredible. The pandemonium caused by admittedly disgusting skin sores was amazing: A bunch of overreactive, stupid girls deciding not......