A New Hampshire man is accused of luring a NYC woman to his New England home via Craigslist, kidnapping her, and raping her for three days. Jeffrey Gray, a New Hampshire town official, had been on the lam for the last two weeks; he avoided police by checking himself into a veteran’s hospital. He was caught yesterday by police, and charged with kidnapping, rape, false imprisonment and assault. [ more › ]

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NH Man Accused Of Luring, Raping NYC Woman Via Craigslist

Big announcement today from Phish HQ: the quartet will be playing a three day festival in New York in July. Super Ball IX will be held at Watkins Glen International (about a five hours drive from the city) from July 1st to the 3rd, and as our resident hippie here at Gothamist HQ points out, “I don’t think there’s been a concert there of this magnitude since Summer Jam, perhaps because that one was a traffic nightmare.” Perfect, because nothing says Independence Day like burning some phossil phuel with your phellow Americans. [ more › ]

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Phish Phavors New York With 3-Day Phestival In Phinger Lakes

Bernard Kerik , the disgraced NYPD Commissioner under Rudy Giuliani, will not be seeing the outside of his minimum-security prison any time in the near future. Today a three-judge appeals panel considered the “fairness” of Kerik’s four year sentence and found no reason to overturn it. Kerik’s lawyers had argued that Judge Stephen C. Robinson’s four-year sentence “had been unreasonable and showed judicial bias,” alleging that Robinson “took offense” at Kerik’s criticism of prosecutors. But the appeals court found that rich: [ more › ]

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Bernard Kerik’s Four Year Sentence Upheld

Are you as excited for Sex And The City 3: Final Urban Intercourse to happen as we are? But Kim Cattrall wants us to know that she is a very serious actress, not just some witty hussy. And she’s showing us in her new film, Monica Velour , by playing…uh… a porn star! [ more › ]

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Kim Cattrall Is A Serious Actress, Reads "Roybers"

Dov Charney isn’t the only fashion man getting sued these days. The president of Marc Jacobs, along with Jacobs himself and parent company Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy, has been sued by the company’s former COO Patrice Lataillade for creating a “discriminatory environment.” Further Lataillade, a LVMH employee of 14 years and a Marc Jacobs International employee for eight, claims he was fired last year for complaining about said environment. [ more › ]

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Ex-COO Says Marc Jacobs Prez Talks Too Much Sex

With the city’s roll-down gates just acting as metal canvas for those with spray cans, they’re being phased out … but not without a final farewell. The New Museum has teamed up with artists, as well as the Art Production Fund, to adorn some downtown gates with graffiti before they’re taken away. This is all part of the Festival of Ideas , and this specific project is called “After Hours: Murals on the Bowery.” [ more › ]

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Metal Roll-Down Gates Get Pretty (Then Destroyed)

While we’re not huge fans of strained renditions of “Shout” or “for the driver in the black 1994 Lincoln sedan…” announcements, we know that most wedding singers are just doing their jobs and trying to bring a little joy to that special day. But ex-NYPD cop-turned-wedding singer Francis Livoti raises the tolerability index considerably. [ more › ]

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Abusive Ex-Cop Now Sinatra-Impersonating Wedding Singer

Click through on the photos for the scoop on the new restaurants and bars around town, which include comfort food at The Queens Kickshaw in Astoria, Chinese with American style at Walle in Turtle Bay, Danny Meyer’s Untitled at the Whitney Museum, and Swedish candy at Sockerbit in the West Village. [ more › ]        

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New Restaurant And Bar Openings

Earlier today, we learned that the Bronx was the least healthy county in all of NY state, with an absurdly high premature death rate, a teen birth rate twice the national average, and more STDs than the Gowanus Canal . But there’s something worse than being horribly unhealthy and locked into a cycle of violence, drugs and broken homes: living a long, healthy life in Manhattan. [ more › ]

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Manhattanites Live Long, Sucky Lives Of Chronic Malaise

Now that the Bronx Zoo Cobra has been found , there are probably going to be plenty of other zoo animals that want to escape after hearing her tales from the outside… even if she never made it very far. So with that, here is our pre-approved list of animals that can escape the zoo for a few days. [ more › ]              

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What Animals Should Escape From The Bronx Zoo Next?