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Dossier Journal, a new, bi-annual print forum for art and culture news, has joined the world of democratized media. That is, if it hadn’t already. Enter Dossier's blog, from which we expect great things, along with some fierce competition. Thank you, Skye Parrott and Katherine Krause, for Dossier, for your commitment to the arts and for forcing the rest of us to keep our standards high.

The editor of Goodnight Mr. Lewis, Joshua Malin, and his brother David Malin just launched the a new website called Mapfaced. From his experience in the nightlife industry, behind the bar and behind the blog, Joshua saw the need for an online community that allows users to create maps detailing their favorite nights out in NYC from point a to point b to point c.

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Saturday, we headed out to Amagansett for a barbeque at Casa del Eater. I"d always figured that food bloggers were better in the front of the house, but Ben Leventhal and his boys proved me wrong -8-hour smoked pork and grilled peaches wrong.

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Have you noticed how many times writer's at Gawker use exclamation points?! No?! Well, Nick Denton needs to really reign those guys in! On Sunday I counted 33 on the frontpage! Today it is a little better with 20! Nevertheless, it is starting to read like UsWeekly or Teen People!

I suppose the writers are trying to be clever, but clever it's not! It becomes incredibly predictable when for the thousandth time you read a normal sentence and the writer has slapped a "!" on the end of it!

Some examples of this "abuse" today if you will:

Well now there's a scandal about it!

So it looks like the market is right for handbooks right now!

Forks for everyone!

TV Guide, one of America's biggest magazines, was sold a few days ago. Now it's for sale again!

By doing things like reviewing YouTube videos!

There are Bedbugs In The Subway! Panic!

I might have to start keeping a log and chart this out. Could be an interesting study on writing techniques, or lack thereof.

[Quin Browne, blogging away]

Note from GofG: We have made quite a group of blogging friends here at GofG and, sometimes, get lucky enough to get a post out of them. Today, Quin Browne is here to share with us here experiences on moving to our great city and how "The moment I landed, I was able to announce, "ich bin ein New Yorker!", because, let's face it… you are or you aren't. It doesn't matter if you were born here or moved here … it's in you or it isn't." Which is something we can whole-heartedly agree with....

"You never know where you're going to land in life."

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Which venue has the highest quality female talent? So was the first question, of what we are led to believe will be many, in DBTH's new "polls". Maybe his readers are smarter than we thought, Rose Bar (a favorite of mine) took home the gold, (um duh) with Beatrice Inn following. I won't even start to try and guess why DBTH chose to include TenJune, Marquee and StudioB on the same list yet failed to put on 1 Oak or even Submercer...a crazy cat that one. The comments may have been the best part about this little charade of his, namely this one:

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Wow. I thought that posting love song lyrics your profile and changing your relationship status were pretty public displays of dissatisfaction with a love interest. I had no idea. In today’s tech-savvy world, there really are countless ways to humiliate those you were once intimate with (ahem Julia/Jakob). Take, for example, the blogosphere. Or more specifically, my personal weblog, where an old flame publicly confronted me on the specifics of our (not-so) romantic relationship. More»

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Some of us hold ourselves to impossible standards.  If I fail to curse at my fellow commuters under my breath at least six times per rush hour, then I feel like an worthless failure of a human being.  But that's why they make gelato!  For the guilt.

Then there's Molly McAleer.  She's set her sights high by creating an awkwardly-named yet rather genius ode to chroncling her Journies with Mary© in What I Wore Would Be Hated By Mary Rambin.  She's clearly come full circle in the five stages of failure, with which I am intimately acquainted (thanks, boss!): More»

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Gawker actually LIKES something?! Well we just HAD to check this out. What caused the #1 authority on all things snarky to succomb to an actual SIMPLE positive approval post? Leave it to Robot Johnny who spent the time to dig out his mom's old high school yearbook from 1968 and redraw her classmates as cartoons. It is some pretty silly fun...I hope someone from my high school class decides to do a copy cat on.

On MRod Nation Today:

"So apparently the new In-possible to get pass the door bar is SubMercer–that bar in the basement of celebu-posh Mercer Hotel.

But what does it mean for these discreet bars when the digital advertising screens in the elevator of my large corporate office building spotlights them, as it did with the SubMercer this morning on my ride up to my office, as the new “It” bar in New York City?"

Sad. Now, in all fairness, we are not aware of where MRod works, or what this ad may have looked like, but this does not bode well for keeping the "secret" a secret. What's the point of advertising in this manner when the majority of the people that see it will never have a chance of getting into the place??? This "it" bar will not be "it" for long if it keeps this up.

UPDATE: (from our tip box):
"The building in question is One Penn Plaza in the heart of MSG and Macy's..."

[subMercer Is Officially The New "Cool Kids" Club House]

One may think that a guy that is responsible for one of the most highly looked at blog in the nightlife industry here in NYC is a rough hipster that smokes Parliament Lights with his Euro friends, clad in thick black glasses and plaid at Beatrice. I love it when people surprise me, and, hoping you may feel the same, wanted to share this with you:

Last night's conversation via text messaging with our favorite little nightlife blogger DBTH:

GofG: "U coming tonight?"

DBTH: "opening day not sure if i am going to make it."

GofG: "Opening day?"

DBTH: "baseball yo. baseball."

It's obvious I'm not up on my baseball knowledge, I had no clue that there was an actual "Opening Day", (insert zinger here) I just wanted to point out how cute it is that the city's official "in the know" nightlife blogger is really just an all American guy....the question remains, is he a Yankee or a Met?