That group of Columbia University students staging a hunger strike is at least a little victorious, if starving, today. Last night, the university agreed to a number of demands relating to the students' concerns that not enough was being down to encourage ethnic studies and understanding other cultures (especially in the wake of recent hate crimes). From the Columbia Spectator:The University has committed to pay for the expansion of the Office of Multicultural Affairs......

EVENT: All week long Lower Manhattan has become a stage. Today, "watching from behind a window overlooking the site, viewers observe Bill Shannon and crew engage with the public space and pedestrian traffic in their freestyle performance that taps into the hip-hop/skateboard tradition of street improvisation. The distance between audience and performers is mitigated by holographic screens and live audio and video mixing by special guests." DJ Excess will be on hand for some live......

Tomorrow, the city and other organizations will mark the sixth anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. Here's the official city commemoration:7AM: Families start to arrive at Zuccotti Park, where the ceremony will take place. 8:40AM: Mayor Bloomberg begins the program, which includes first responders reading victims' names and readings from NY Governor Spitzer, former NY Governor Pataki, NJ Governor Corzine and former NYC mayor Giuliani. Bagpipers and drummers lead......

August 19: 8th Annual Blues & BBQ Head to Pier 54 at Hudson River Park for meat, music, meat, and more meat. Hill Country, Dinosaur Bar-b-Que and other city favorites will be offering up their wares for sale. Full listing of blues acts here. Admission and music free. Pier 54 at 14th Street, 2-9 p.m. August 19: 4th Annual Singapore Chili Crab Festival This year's Tiger Beer Singapore Chili Crab Fest is in a new......

June 3: A Day A Whey (the Sequel!) Join Saxelby Cheesemongers for a day trip to the Valley Shepherd Creamery in New Jersey to see a sheep dairy in action. Learn about the cheesemaking process from start to finish and end the day with a picnic on the farm. 11 am to 7 pm. Tickets are $75 and are available online. June 4: Japanese Food Demonstration and Tasting Head on over to the Brooklyn Kitchen......

March 10: Cantina-Style: One Pot Meals Cooking Demonstration and Luncheon It's cantina time at Rosa Mexicano. Learn the ropes from Culinary Director Roberto Santibañez, as he teaches you to make cantina-style dishes including Zarzuela de Mariscos (cantina seafood stew: jumbo shrimp, clams, mussels and white fish braised with chorizo, baby artichokes and olives and served in a tomato-serrano chile broth) and Salsa en Molcajete (freshly ground roasted tomato (red) or tomatillo (green) salsa). 10:00 a.m.......

Tens of thousands marched, protested, or formed a human chain during yesterday's "A Day Without An Immigrant" rallies. However, the NY marches paled in comparison to the ones in Los Angeles (an estimated 800,000) and Chicago (400,000). One immigrant who took yesterday off lost her job at a midtown deli and was profiled mentioned in both the NY Times and NY Post: Sylvia Garcia's boss (and a Korean immigrant) Patrick Lee said ten employees......

Yesterday we witnessed a friend taking photos of things he had written "Scene From My Life, Brooklyn, NY" on. Napkins, menus...things around a bar in Red Hook. It was for a website of the same name, SceneFromMyLife.com. An amazing idea that has people from all over the world photographically document one week of their life. The concept is simple. Each day, one new photo will be posted on the site. A photographer is assigned to......

Lisa Whiteman, Photographer...

Enticed by the ethereal Yoshio Taniguchi redesign and free admission, New Yorkers waited hours before the MoMA officially reopened, rock concert style, to be among the first to dance around one of the most comprehensive collections of modern art around. An estimated 15,000 visitors passed through the doors, and Gothamist is enjoying the local papers' coverage, from rapturous glee to architectural criticism (it's like "white bread and mayonaise"), from bickering with guards to gripes......

The photographs Jake took for A Day in the Life (click on "Archives") plus many others that cover New York at night are compiled at the A Night in the Life gallery on Bluejake. This photograph was taken from under the Manhattan Bridge.......

This week, Jake is taking pictures for our favorite collaborative fotolog, A Day in the Life (each week, a new photographer from all over the world will post a new picture each day, Monday-Friday). His spin is A Night in the Life. And check out Bluejake where he's posting other photgraphs from his Night photographs, including this one (above).......

Our good friend Jon is DJing at Patio Lounge tonight, and if you're in Park Slope, definitely check out Painting and Kissing. We'll be at Irving Plaza seeing Built to Spill but we'd be there otherwise. Next time, Jon. Jon runs A Day In The Life, one of our favorite sites.......

Gothamist's good friend, Jon, who runs photo blog A Day In the Life, has moved his DJ gig, Painting and Kissing. P&K; is now at Patio Lounge on Fifth Avenue in Park Slope, and the first night is tomorrow at 10PM. Show up for some hot indie, britpop and beats.......

Tonight at Smithfield, Jon and Mario are resuming One Small Step, their monthly DJ gig. As Jon puts it, it's like "Pulp meets Modest Mouse meets Nightmares on Wax." Or from their e-mail: "It's on...10pm-2am...indie, britpop, beats, sexuality and mangina all night long." And that's right up Gothamist's alley. Excellent. For further enticement, Smithfield has an outdoor area...where smoking is allowed. Smithfield, 115 Essex St. between Rivington and Delancey Gothamist also loves Jon's project,......

Check it out: An Anger Management building poster in this week's San Francisco edition of A Day In The Life, by photographer Rob Sandusky. Here's the poster on the Upper West Side that Gothamist was taken/alarmed by.......

Jake shot some pictures for A Day In The Life Brooklyn. More at Bluejake.......

On a Bowling for Columbine-esque tanget, this shows how messed up gun "control" in this country is. This is what Loren Spector, this week's A Day in the Life photographer and L.A. resident, said about an incident with a rifle: I found this rifle sitting outside my apartment building this morning. The police were just sitting around the corner (Academy Awards security?) so they impounded it, told me I can have it if it's......

Johnny Cash 'Hurt' Video
...It is the most beautiful and riveting video I've seen in a long time, because of how the images and music work together and how Johnny Cash, icon, haunts the video......

A Day In The Life is a great website that features a new photographer each week producing a new photograph every day for the week. With contributors from all over the world, it's certainly my favorite global photo blog. Today's photograph is of something near and dear to the hearts of Gothamist bloggers - graffiti. Taken by Vlad Nanca of Romania, the graffiti is on Splaiul Independentei in Bucharest. Check out the archives for more......

King Louis is taking pictures for A Day in the Life......