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Not us—see it below in all its NSFW, uh, glory. The "it" we're talking about here, be warned, is artist Jonathan Horowitz's 2008 piece "CBS Evening News/www.Britneycrotch.org," which frames two big digital prints on top of each other: The top image is Katie Couric at her news desk, and the bottom is Britney Spears’s infamous crotch shot, photoshopped to match Couric's upper half. It's the artistic antithesis of a Reeses Peanut Butter Cup, and you can see it at P.S. 1 in Queens with your own eyes (though the museum politely asks that visitors not flush their gouged-out their eyes down the toilet).

We'll have another post about the amazing Halloween costumes later, but we wanted to update everybody about the fellow who dressed as a vagina (tampon and all) last year. This year, he dressed as many a girl's movie crush Lloyd Dobler and, correctly anticipating sore arms from carrying the boombox, created fake arms.

EVENTS: Both Open House NY and The New Yorker Festival are upon us. You can check out more of OHNY's event here, and The New Yorker Festival here. Some picks:

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EVENT: Nerd Alert! Come on by for Nerd Night tonight at Orchid Lounge where there are two geeked out presentations awaiting you. Presentation #1: "Genesis Rules! Wait, I Meant To Say Neurogenesis". Something about Adult Neurogenesis and Phil Collins, or something. Presentation #2: "TETROMINOWLEDGE: How Four Blocks, Arranged In Different Patterns, Have Changed the World, Kind Of". This one is mostly about Tetris. So put the Wii down and get out of the house.

Coming to an off Broadway stage near you this March: Kurt Cobain, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison in "27 Heaven". About, you guessed it, the most prominent members of The 27 Club. No word yet on where the show will run, the press release states that it's "the featured act at this year’s prestigious National Arts Club annual benefit on March 16 in New York...27 Heaven begins an extended run in New York’s off Broadway District in March 2007". The National Arts Club’s board members include Martin Scorcese, Uma Thurman and Robert Redford.

If you’ve ever tried to convince your parents that the bong they found hidden in your closet was an abstract sculpture, The Bong Show, or This Is Not a Pipe will be right up your alley. For her first curatorial project, Beverly Semmes “wondered what would happen when serious artists contemplated a culturally marginal object (a bong, for example).”

F-Train, 7th Ave, 6:50pm, by Travis Ruse.

THEATER: The Impact Festival and fall at the Culture Project get started in a big way with the world premiere of The Treatment, which starts previews tonight. Add together playwright Eve Ensler (of Vagina Monologues fame), stars Dylan McDermott and Portia, director Leigh Silverman, and a sharply topical play about a traumatized soldier who saw and took part in too much for his psyche to handle when he was a military interrogator, and you've got all the makings of a must-see. - Mallory Jensen

-- Is it wrong to wear a puppy as a fanny-pack? Discuss.

We first heard of Apes and Androids when we saw the video for their song "Radio". The tune was catchy and we felt the same sort of dance in our pants feeling we felt when we first saw Ghostland Observatory. We then made them our Band of the Week, so clearly their mechanical rockbot had climbed into our subconscious. Tonight they play at Sin-e, and we hear it's going to be insane. Good insane. Robotic rock opera-tastic.

READING: The wonderful Paragraph, a downtown writers' haven, is hosting a roof deck reading, which is a pretty sweet way to get a good view and some good stories at the same time. The reading, which features Mohammed Naseeu Ali (), will actually be held on the roof deck at Clay, the spa next door to Paragraph on 14th street. Wine and cheese at Paragraph will follow the reading. - Krissa Corbett Cavouras

Molly Crabapple, Artist, Model, Burlesque Performer

All Wear Bowlers playing downtown at Here Arts Center in Soho served as a real reminder to us about the greatness of living in New York and having the ability to seeing something really special in a tiny venue.

There’s no shortage of one-person shows on Broadway this season, and joining those ranks at the Booth Theatre is Eve Ensler, she of Vagina Monologues fame. We’re happy to report that Ensler’s Broadway debut is a must-see, especially for any woman who has ever looked at her figure with disdain (and c’mon, who hasn’t).

Eve Ensler, Playwright and Activist

Amy Sohn, Novelist/ Journalist

Jessica Delfino, Dirty Folk Singer/Stand-Up Comic

Netherlands design company Bathroom Mania created the "Kisses" urinal. Made of vitreous china, "it's the one target men never miss." Blech. Gothamist could start a diatribe about misogyny, but considering that the parties involved are stupid, we won't. Although if any feminist scholars would like to step up, please do (we're thinking there are two sides, domination as well as vagina dentata). The only good thing about this is that it reminds Gothamist of the brilliant Dave Chappelle spoof of R. Kelly's Ignition, "Pee on You" (see the clip here).

Todd Levin/Bob Powers

Gothamist has been looking forward to Robert Evans' animated show, Kid Notorious, coming this fall on Comedy Central, but this Page Six description seals the deal:

Okay, I am very fond of celebrity news and gossip, but the people (mainly New York women, natch) in this article about the mutual J.Lo obssession by media and public made me embarrassed. But why is it so interesting? A professor of media studies at NYU posits that it's because J.Lo is a "Woman in Control" - with "the entrepreneurial fantasy she lives that makes her such a star." The Horatio Alger of our celebrity times? But, the best quote is by Ben Affleck skeptic, Amy, 31: "I want her to destroy that milquetoast frat daddy, vagina dentata style," she said. "If Ben Affleck can be left a brittle shell of a man, then J. Lo will not have shaken that ass in vain." I think we will all be able to live happily if that comes true.