At the At Why Did I Get Married Too? premiere: 1. Janet Jackson: "[In Atlanta,] I go to Cafe Sunflower. It's a vegan restaurant. Everything is good there. It really is. And there's another vegan restaurant called Veggieland -- very good." 2.Tyler Perry: "And the restaurants in the movie were, actually, on the lot, so they weren’t real. Okay. You want a restaurant?! Okay. Rathbun’s in Atlanta was right across the street from our old studio, and they had the great lobster tacos – the best I ever had." 3.Cecily Tyson: "Pure Food and Wine here. I'm a vegan -- a vegetarian. And we had one in California that no longer exists. But, Mr. Chow has always been [a favorite], in Los Angeles." 4.Lamman Rucker: "For New York, it's the Sugar Bar -- Ashford and Simpson's Sugar Bar is the spot. In Atlanta, it's Cafe Circa that's in the Auburn-Edgewood area, yeah, real cool little spot. That's, probably, my favorite spot there." 5.Jill Scott: "My favorite restaurant is Buddakan in Philadelphia and in New York. Oh, forget it! Nobu in Malibu."

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Dining might be the new nightlife, so then where does that leave nightlife? Could nightlife be the new shopping? Could it be still alive and well, and hiding behind a bandolier of dusty velvet ropes? Our dear Foster's existential breakdown and subsequent pocketbook damage got me to thinking about what everyone else (re: people with jobs other than chronicling New York nightlife) is doing with their free time in Manhattan. I cornered a Wall Street Dude, a New York Newbie, a Hipster DJ, a girl-about-town Socialite, a Fashion Intern, and a Lawyer to see what's going on behind our editorial backs. Turns out actually going someplace isn't a precursor for strong opinions, pro or con. For example:

Because the choice shouldn’t be between restaurants where Chipotle and Per Se, here are a few spots that have embraced the middle ground.

Hurry! Get to Buddakan asap for Domaine de Canton's 2009 Bartender of the Year semi-finals in NYC. Watch the fiercest booze givers around mix, shake, and stir their way to a chance for the $10,000 Grand Prize. The event runs until 5pm and there will be no one around to drink the feats of their labor but you. That's a good thing.

Laugh Legend Caroline Hirsch of the eponymous Caroline's on bringing the funny, luring tourists, and laughing off a recession.

It hardly need be pointed out that we pine longingly for the days when airline travel was all sexy and glamorous, and political correctness hadn’t outlawed the use of the “stewardess” (though, mind, we’d never dream of referring to her as “toots”). But those groovers over at JetBlue, apparently understanding our considerable pain over the matter, have decided to open the terminal of our dreams this fall at the interminably construction-riddled JFK International Airport. Built adjacent to the venerated but tragically moribund Earo Saarinen 1962 TWA Terminal -- perhaps trying to absorb some of the hope for the future that it once inspired -- the new Terminal 5 will be spacious, light-drenched, and a shining symbol of the once great modern ideal.