SHOP: Tonight head to Dumbo for an “Evening of Cheer,” where three neighborhood events coordinated by the Dumbo Improvement District will be taking place. "The night’s events combine Dumbo’s monthly cultural event, First Thursdays, with extended shopping hours and promotions by local retailers and the illumination of the Empire Stores in Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park by famed lighting designer Brendon Boyd." 6pm // Various location details here EVENT: Tonight some experts gather around to celebrate......

MUSIC: If you haven't checked out the Summer of Love exhibit at the Whitney, head over there after work and get a double dose of rock while you're at it. Tonight Dirty Projectors and Lucky Dragons take the stage at Whitney Live. Get there early to get in. Check out this "Take Away Show" in New York featuring the Dirty Projectors. Friday // 6pm // The Whitney [945 Madison Ave at 75th St] // Free......

Rolling Stone has officially turned 40! We can't honestly say it's aged very well, but it sure is partying like it's 1967. Last year, at 39 and issue number 1000, Jann Wenner wrote, "The fact that we had John Lennon on the very first cover [pictured] was serendipity. We had a publicity photo from his role in the anti-war film How I Won the War. That photo, we now realize, speaks so clearly to the......

Peter Boyle, who you may know as the father ("Frank") on "Everybody Loves Raymond", died last night at the age of 71, in Manhattan. Boyle wasn't always an actor, he pursued acting only after he left the life of a monk. His successful career includes his roles in films like The Candidate, Young Frankenstein, Monster's Ball and Where the Buffalo Roam (a portrait of Hunter S. Thompson, in which he played Carl Lazlo, Esq.). While......

- Tonight gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson gets his final wish: his ashes will be shot exactly six months from his death out of a cannon over his Colorado compound. - The Times has an interesting story on a cryptosporidiosis outbreak(sounds like a Neal Stephenson disease to us) based around Geneva, N.Y.. The parasitic disease, which spreads through water and dirty hands, was somehow camping out in water tanks feeding into the Sprayground water park.......

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Years from now, some of us who were involved in the New York blog scene will look back on this Gawker post. In the words of the recently dead Hunter S. Thompson, we'll use it to pinpoint "the high-water mark -- the place where the wave finally broke and rolled back." The point where New York blog media finally gave in and consumed itself. Read it and weep. My god- it's almost beautiful! If......

- Would you eat naked once a month? - Hunter S. Thompson dies - A bid for the West Side Stadium from a power company - Some New Yorkers attempt to jam cellphones - Try making Blue Hill Stone Barns' Citrus Skate, thanks to Gothamist's Eating In by Joe DeSalazar - The Megaphone Man of Union Square - NYC, as seen through the noirish lens of TV - Jake Fogelnast and Paul Scheer take over......