This Sunday night will be the final evening of Lincoln Center's Out of Doors Festival, and will close with a live performance of a recently re-released pop music album from the early 1960's. Mazel Tov Mis Amigos is a 1961 recording of "Yiddish favorites in a Latin tempo," proving that truth is stranger than fiction. Headlined by Juan Calle and His Latin Lantzmen, and produced by Riverside Records, this gem of American pop music was discovered by the folks from the Idelsohn Society, "a team of 21st century music fiends turned musical archeologists, dedicated to digging up forgotten American Jewish pop."

New York Press had the pleasure of speaking with Idelsohn co-founder Roger Bennett about the album's discovery and this Sunday's performance.

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J.K. Rolling, in the megalomania of being ultra-wealthy and the queen of her own fantasy universe, arbitrarily gayifyed (it's a word, just ask Kathy Griffin!) Dumbledore, a favorite character in her Harry Potter series.

Now, Fox's multi-millionaire media queen Seth MacFarlane has done the same thing  with his own Family Guy's Stewie.

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Despite trapping patrons with no rentry, the folks at Webster Hall have turned to online social networking to get clubgoers to interact with each other.

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It was the cumshot heard ‘round the world! The internet has been blowing up over a recent Sprite ad that was banned for its orally offensive content.  New York Press has the inside scoop, thanks to John Jones IV, 23, the ab-tastic young model whose bubbles were featured at the end of the commercial.

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Although it may seem that Brooklyn-based designers are a dime a dozen, it wasn't always the case. Ten years ago, the idea of a self-sustaining, Brooklyn-based design community seemed impossible. And yet Bklyn Designs, an annual design show originally started by the Chamber of Commerce, is entering its 7th year in force tomorrow, opening in a Dumbo location.

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What a better way for an young, lithe actor willing to get buck-ass-naked on stage to enter the glitz and glamor of the New York performance scene? Befriending a transgender performance artist, of course!

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The horrific crisis of the MTA's budget deficits (estimated at $1.2 billion, which is the approximate GDP of Bhutan) turned another ugly cheek as agency chief Elliot Sander doesn't deny that the MTA would consider cutting overnight service.

There's almost no way that this can happen—overnight service carts around many late-night revelers and houses many a homeless folk. There's also no known way that they're going to change the slogan to "The city that never sleeps, except for the subways, which go to sleep and leaving you stranded on the wrong side of the river."

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Yesterday the NYPD raided 45 E. 20th St, a garment factory in the rapidly disappearing Garment District, once famous for its dangerous sweatshops. The "surprised" officers found their own familiar dress uniforms as the stock: fancy, formal policewear used in occasions like weddings, funerals and other ceremonies.

Owned by the Forest Uniform Corporation the shop continued the venerable tradition by forcing workers to work 80 hour weeks, but only clocking 40—they owe an estimated $500,000 in back wages and damages to their employees, and the police are holding some 400 garments as collateral.

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Mayor Bloomberg continues to fight the Superfund designation of the Gowanus canal despite the fact that the city has only $15 million to devote to it's cleanup—pocket lint to the billionaire exec. The money, which cover a  cleanup of only 10 percent of the canal, would dredge three feet of sewage and debris but none of the additional layers industrial waste accumulated over the last century and beyond.

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Fox, a font of cultural insight into the American psyche, will not air President Obama's press conference, scheduled for Wednesday, which coincides with his 100th day in office. Instead, they will keep regular programing so as not to disturb the results of American Idol this week, which is down to the top five contestants. Although Obama's press conference starts at 8 and Idol  at 9, Fox didn't want to risk losing ratings.

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