Need a last minute costume idea and in a New York state of mind? Here are a few NYC-themed ideas for your Halloween fête... R.I.P.ped from the Headlines • Thor Equities Need: Winged Thor helmet and hammer, brochures or maps (which can be printed out) of Coney Island -- and something to destroy them with. • The Staten Island Ninja Burglar Need: Ninja outfit, complete with nunchucks. Fake stab wound to the chest. Map......

How I Met Your Mother: Season Two More and more people seem to be jumping on the bandwagon to promote CBS's hilarious program How I Met Your Mother but as long as that network's popular sitcom Two and Half Men gets nearly double the viewers, it can't be reiterated enough. Maybe the release of the second season on DVD today will bring over more converts to the show's charming characters, witty dialog and creative storytelling......

MOVIE: Audrey Hepburn, a doll filled with heroin, Alan Arkin and the West Village in the 60s. What more could you ask for? Come check out Wait Until Dark tonight, but don't wait until dark to get there - the lawn fills up fast! Lawn opens at 5pm // Bryant Park // Free READING: Pamela des Barres is the Queen of the Groupies, and would likely never have referred to herself as a "band-aid". She......

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: brush fires in Jamaica caused delays and suspensions on the LIRR west of Jamaica Station (it's okay, just booze up) - there may still be some delays; a water main break on 3rd Ave at 86th Street; and found DOA on the Belt Parkway. Being the head of a crime family isn't easy these days. Danny "The Lion" Leo, the reputed head of the Genovese crime family was arrested......

You may be familiar with James Sanders' book Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies, which celebrated New York City's role in movies and is a must for any fan of New York, architecture, or film. But even if you haven't, you get a chance to experience it in beyond the pages: Starting tomorrow, Grand Central Terminal's Vanderbilt Hall will be the setting for a Celluloid Skyline exhibit. There will be huge "scenic backing"......

Courtney Love (who recently sold some of her own stuff on Ebay) has announced she'll be putting almost all of Kurt Cobain's belongings up for auction at Christie's. Love told AOL's Spinner, "I'm going to have a Christie's auction, (My house) is like a mausoleum. My daughter doesn't need to inherit a giant ... bag full of flannel ... shirts. A sweater, a guitar and the lyrics to '(Smells Like) Teen Spirit' -- that's what......

There's a funny article in the NY Times House & Garden section about apartment decor as relationship dealbreakers. Here are some of the examples:- "sheets with intergalactic battles or pink hippopotami or the Beatles" - Stuffed animals - A grown man's room looking "like a teenager's room. The computer was up there and the twin bed, his clothes were all over the floor." - Overhead lighting - Waterless bong, lots of $750 shoes but unrenovated......

There was a lot up on the auction block this week at Christie's. Yesterday was their Rock & Pop Memorabilia auction. Beatles lyrics penned by Paul McCartney (that's Sir Paul McCartney, to you) went for $197,000. The song? An early version of Maxwell's Silver Hammer from 1968. Jimi Hendrix's 1968 Fender Stratocaster (modified to accommodate his left-handed use) sold for $168,000. Meanwhile, a page of Britney Spears's homework went for $240 (less than an iPod!).......

Well, do a dance on Audrey Hepburn's grave - the Gap credits the black skinny pants with helping their sales last month, no small part due to the Audrey Hepburn and AC/DC commercial. One Gap manager in Staten Island tells the Daily News, "We can't keep them in. It brought in the mother, the grandmother, the granddaughter. Little kids come in and try on a size 0." And a mother who bought the pants for......

Like a seasonal allergy, the pink brownstone of Park Slope seems to pop up in conversations, blogs, or newspapers every couple months. The Daily News spoke to the owner, Bernie Henry, a 90 year old man who said he first painted the Garfield Place house in 1968 (the district was deemed a historic district in 1973) upon his wife's wishes. Henry said, "When I went to get the paint, I thought it was the......

READINGS: An afternoon event for those of you who don't need to be sweltering in a thankless office - Erica Jong has a conversation with writer Ariel Levy and reads from her new autobiography, Seducing the Demon: Writing for my Life in the sunny Bryant Park Reading Room as part of the Word for Word Series. In the book, Jong tells spicy tales of New York and Hollywood, and describes life after best-selling novel Fear......

Just in case you had to actually go to work today (shouldn't Halloween be a national holiday?) we've taken the time to screencap the annual Today Show halloween buffonery. Award for best costume definitely goes to Ann Curry, who makes a fairly convincing Audrey Hepburn. Note to Katie Couric: you need bigger boobs to pull off Marilyn Monroe! And we think it's demeaning that Al Roker has to be Robin-- why couldn't he have......

Raising the Fawn...

While the scene in Conference Room 1 at the Ritz Carlton in Battery Park for the Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou junket wasn't anything like our movie conception of a press junket — ie. Audrey Hepburn interviewed by Gregory Peck in Roman Holiday — we did find out a few fun factoids about the stars and their movie. "Only when I'm asked that question." —response from Noah Baumbach when asked if he was intimidated by......

If all you know about Breakfast at Tiffany's is that cheesy song by Deep Blue Something, then it's time to acquaint yourself with this Manhattan cinematic classic. Nothing says New York like Breakfast at Tiffany's, it's a more disquieting and complex movie than you'd imagine from all of the cutesy Audrey Hepburn postcards. Based on Truman Capote's short story, the film tells the story of a young man in Manhattan who meets girl-about-town Holly Golightly,......

Gothamist got sucked into watching the 50 Most Awesomely Bad Songs show on VH1, and we realized that the thing about any most awesomely bad song is that they had to have hit the zeitgeist, or at least filled a void in our empty lives, or else we wouldn't be able to remember that "Informer" was by the rapper Snow. And they are so good to karaoke to. Here's the whole list. Anyway, number five......

In these tight economic times, the Daily News tries to give its readers some advice on how to save money in New York, like going to the Meat Packing district for cheap meat, or going to the Flower district for well-priced flora. While Gothamist nods and says, "Great ideas, we'll save [-] much money," the truth is that like most New Yorkers, it's only a steal when it's a sample sale or Barneys warehouse sale......