You’ve heard their bellowing on the subways. If you’ve been unlucky enough to be in Times Square, you’ve also heard it there, in Union Square, in Herald Square, and at a few other strategically selected street corners in Manhattan. And if you’re anything like me, you’ve wondered, “What is the deal with the United Homeless Organization? Should I feel guilty for not giving them some change or is it OK to feel contemptuous of their imposition on legitimate charities, my eardrums, and this subway ride?”

So, here’s the deal: More»

When was your first "club experience"? I am going to go out on a limb and say that whether you are some hotshot model, some hedge fund owner, or some happily married half, we have all had a similar experience on that very first time we set foot into a club. Whether you were a 17 year old character straight out of Gossip Girl, or a post grad transplant from the midwest to the city...really how could your "first" be that much different to mine, or theirs, or theirs? Even the owners of these places will admit as much (they too were once a peon at the door).

That first experience for most, left you feeling that the owners of the entire operation were no less than some kinds of gods. Today, you may realize how naiive you were in assuming that, yet there's still no doubt that these "club gods" are crafty organizers. And they have to be. The club business. is. a. HARD.BUSINESS. With skyrocketing rents, stiff competition, and lawsuits around every corner, it has become an entirely different mammoth. I'm acting like I know what I'm talking about again.... More»

In response to NY Mag's Cover article this week titled "Testing Horace Mann":

"So basically, we have a presidential election going and our new governor is two weeks into his term. And of course, NY Mag runs a story that a) isn't real news but just an agenda-driven rag, and b) is REALLY old news. No one even cares about any of the stuff mentioned in here anymore. I know that I shouldn't really expect much from the poor man's version of the NY Post, but come on."

By yanks_in_08 on 03/31/2008 at 8:22am

Confused???? Wanna know the answer to this little riddle?

Where is:

* A Mac n’ Cheese a Marquee?
* A Cheeseburger a 1OAK?
* Disco Fries a Studio 54?
* A Bagel and Lox a Mark Baker?
* A Veggie Pizza a Wass?
* A Jumbo Juice an Alon Jibli?
* A Chamomile Tea a Good Night Mr. Lewis?
* Onion Rings a Palladium?
* A Caesar Salad a Limelight?

Go HERE for the answer to this puzzling riddle.

[Photo via Daily News]

If you’ve been reading the Daily News lately, you would know that all the speculation about love and happiness was futile, since it can be boiled down to the algebraic equation above. The article, “When she’s hot & he’s not there’s a better shot at happiness,” seems to clear up any confusion (while, by the way, leaving very little up to imagination). I was unable get my hands on an original copy of the study without actually going to a library, possibly going through some kind of inter-library loan process, etc. I’m just way too lazy busy for that (if you’re more interested/ambitious than I, the cite is something like this: “Beyond initial attraction: Physical attractiveness in newlywed marriage,” J. of Family Psych., 2008 Feb Vol 22(1) 135-143). Anyway, to sum up the Daily News coverage, it looks like researchers studied 82 newlyweds and found that individuals in marital unions in which there is a discrepancy in attractiveness between the husband and wife (where the wife is hotter relative to the husband), are generally more content and behave “more positively” towards each other. More»

Since it was the first Weekend of Spring we we're doing our best to find and feel the zeitgeist of Spring, where else of course but in Brooklyn. While the calendar was definitely in the spring zone, the temperatures …well not so much. After some successful thrift store shopping, check the monk strap shoes below, for cheap we ended up at party where the music was of the bad rap variety, but the other party goers, sure were of the friendly type. One girl came and danced around and surprisingly enough invited us to go to church for Easter.

This was a bit unexpected for a few reasons. Well, 1) usually church is not part of our party convo repertoire and 2) she didn't appear to be the church lady evangelist type in the least with beer in hand gyrating to some Young Jezzy song. So we played along, talked about music, and life stuff and she convinced us to go to Easter services. Easter services this year were a bit different. They were at Pete's Candy Store, a bar in Williamsburg and the pastor had enough tattoos and piercings to make even alterna-teens kinda apprehensive. Not that GOFG is trying to convince its readers to attend church or give their lives over to the Lord, but it was NICE to go to church on a Sunday and not worry about all the pretenses and conventions usually associated with "praising the Lord". More»

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The largest auto show in the world is being held right here in our very own New York City at the Javits Convention Center on the west side until the 30th of March. The biggest names in the industry all the way from Ford to Lamborghini are there to display their newest, coolest, fastest, and most eco-friendly models. There are also a couple of concept cars that are a bit out of this world so to speak. Pictures of the show can be found in our gallery.

And of course no car show would be complete without show girls to show off the cars and give a Q and A to aficionados. In going through all the car displays it was interesting to observe who had gotten it right, and who clearly got it wrong:

1. Hummers are bigger than ever. Why hasn't Detroit gotten the memo? Gas is going through the roof, and people are going green. The "safety" benefits of being encapsulated in a steel bulldozer no longer justify the fuel costs and the large carbon footprint. More»

Our good friend DBTH has debuted a protégé...Nicolette. As in "Nicolette in the City":

"Hey everyone. Meet Nicolette. She's relatively new to Manhattan and is having so much fun going out, she decided to start writing about it on her own site, Nicolette and the City. She is going to help us out by covering many places we just can't (or don't want to)."

This is awesome. Yeah a complete Jerseyan, and yes she needs a stylist, but, make as much fun as you want, she's definitely useful. For those of us that get enough Guido sightings in during the day, Nicolette will do the dirty work for us at night. Clever little DBTH, always has been too cool to hit up spots like "Touch" and "Kiss and Fly" though, there is clearly a market for that kind of real guido coverage. Just where he found this diamond in the rough? Our guess is as good as yours.

[Everything You Need To Know: The New Jerseyan]
[Everything You Need To Know: The Guido]

To atone for months of neglect, we spent most of our four hour train ride home engrossed(ish) in the fashion magazines that constitute our summer library. In the March (we know, we're behind) issue of Allure we found an article explaining the Junk Food diet. The words were out of order; the Junk Food diet is just diet Junk Food -some of which, we readily admit, makes frequent cameos in our own cupboards (not those 100 calorie packs though--too small and airy). However, while this particular diet may not live up to its promising title, there are plenty that do.

Below, a partial list:

• The Baby Food Diet: but what about all those calories we burn chewing?
• The Mega-Bite Diet: that's more like it. SF art dealer Horace Fletcher called for each mouthful to be chewed no less than 32 times before spitting out the remains. Good dinner party trick, too.
• The Jesus diet: for Christian Scientist raw foodies with above average masochistic inclinations.
• The Breatharian Diet: for all you oxygen fans. cheap, too.
• The Tapeworm Diet: and you thought Nicole Richie went to Mexico for the Mezcal.

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The L.A. Times has broken an exclusive on new evidence supporting the (widely acknowledged) claim that Sean Combs/P. Diddy was responsible for the murder of Tupac Shakur way back in 1994. Though no one's alleging Combs fired the fatal shot, the Times implicates Diddy and his "associates" for the beating and slaying that sent such a ripple through pop culture during the mid-nineties. Since that time, there has been no official police charge leveled at anyone involved. This article is the first account of newly-revealed information implicating Combs and relies on FBI documents, witness statements, and a confidential informant. More»

[Photo by Jeff Riedel via NY Mag]

Just breezed over NY Mag's article on our city's homeless "A Night on the Streets With the City's Homeless" and for a brief moment got an inside look into Damian's "Bat Cave" up on 134th and Broadway, William's spot in the dirt lot by the Hudson in the Bronx, Lorenzo's tight space under the ramp that leads to the paring lot to Yankee Stadium, Connie's UWS stoop, Nancy's space under a 4 lane overpass in the Bronx, and Lorraine on 31st St. They don't want to play by the rules: "Paperwork, rules, questions. I prefer getting stuff on my own." (Damian), their prices are quite a bit lower than the Emperor's Club:

"I call myself a self-employed street vendor. My license is my HIV-negative paper. You know what I’m saying?” She charges $20 for blow jobs, $30 for sex, $40 for “half-and-half,” which means both. On a good night, she makes between $100 and $150. She spends most of what she earns on crack—$5 for nickel bags, $10 for dime bags"

And they're a major problem for our city's legislature. They're also one group who could care less about the struggling market, or their 401k's. With over 35,000 homeless people living in our city, it could very well be the "single biggest failure of the Bloomberg administration".