• Man makes Mario figure out of toast, putting whole new spin on carbo loading [BloggingViaTypewriter]
• Speaking of carbs, a New Jersey lady is eating 12,000 calories a day with the goal of becoming world's fattest woman. [DailyMail]
• The Tribeca Film Festival lineup takes shape. [NYP}
• If these beer halls could talk: a fascinating look at 150 years in the life of one Bowery building. [NYT]
• Drunk teens cause $200,000 worth of damage at high school kegger. Rock star potential, kids. [1010]
• Scorsese to meet Borat/Bruno/Ali G in his next movie. [Deadline]
• Billboard announcing New York's bedbug epidemic rises above Times Square strip club. Puts you in the mood, no? [Wirehead's Flickr]
• I woke up with the power out...[NYDN]
• Even classy Hollywood couples are bound to divorce: Kate Winslet and Sam Mendes are donezo. [EW]

New York had a rough decade. The '00s were bookended and defined by calamities in the Financial District that had global ramifications. Far less tragically, the city's cultural scene underwent significant shakeups.  Here's the first part in a look at those transitions, and verdicts on the people and movements that will define NYC in the '10s. More»

[Cate Blanchett. All photos by CHANCE YEH for PMc].  Last night, Armani heiress Roberta Armani hosted a party at Armani Ristorante welcoming Cate Blanchett and the Sydney Theater Company to New York. More»

[All photos by Amber de Vos for PMc]. The Michael J. Fox Foundation held its annual benefit, "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Cure Parkinson's," at the Waldorf Astoria on Saturday. The celebrity and namesake joined another Mr. Fox, Fantastic, for the charity fundraiser. More»

[All photos by JACKIE SNOW for PMc]. Sir Harold Evans, most known for his editorial position at the Sunday Times celebrated the release of his memoir "My Paper Chase" last night. Journalism, film and writing elite including Martin Scorsese, Nora Ephron, Robert Morganthau, Nick Pileggi, Steve Kroft and Joanne Lippman were among the attendees. More»

[All photos by WILL RAGOZZINO for PMc]. Last night at the DGA Theater Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, John Krasinski, Alec Baldwin, Emily Blunt, Alessandro Nivola and his expectant wife Emily Mortimer attended the New York screening of "The Red Shoes." More»

New York's own bitingly witty writer Fran Lebowitz was interviewed by American author Toni Morrison last night for Martin Scorsese's latest documentary on Lebowitz. The night began with an introduction by Scorsese dubbing the event "Frost/Nixon with sex appeal." Lebowitz (a woman with the demeanor of a male stand up comedian) spurted out her opinions on Obama, the American jail system, and race... More»