● Southern Hospitality (Midtown West) - Second location of Memphis-into-Manhattan BBQ roadhouse. ● Ditch Plains (Upper West Side) - Seafood-shack inspired, but thoroughly modern. Montauk sans the LIRR and salty surfer boys. ● Tenpenny (Midtown East) - Italian-accented menu and service as solid as a tenpenny nail.

Fashion Week is so jam-packed with things to do that it’s impossible to do them all. I went through my Droid apps again and still couldn't find that Star Trek "Beam Me to the Hudson Hotel, Scottie" app. I never made it. Maybe the new iPhone will have it. The soiree that I had to go to featured DJ Cassidy and ?uestlove, and was “powered,” they said, by Jonny “the Lover” Lennon—and I missed it. And it wasn’t because I was where I was also supposed to be (the Grey Magazine event at Rose Bar), because I missed that as well.

On Sunday, Americans will trick themselves into caring about hockey one last time, when their Olympic men's hockey team will go up against either Slovakia or Canada in the gold medal game. Since we all know it will be Canada, this means a rematch of the game that suddenly ignited U.S. interest in hockey for the first time since the word 'mom' wasn't attached to the end of it. Now that Sunday is suddenly Game Day, the question is, where is the ideal spot in New York to cheer on a bunch of guys you've never heard of before?

The Super Bowl is an event not just because of the football, but because of the food. It's an excuse to get plastered and snack on unfashionably delicious bar food on a Sunday afternoon, football fan or not. The wonderful thing about this is that restaurants often "go deep" and present their offerings in a catering-friendly form, so you can either (A) come to the party with the best snacks or (B) host one at your own digs, and not have to worry about preparing oven-baked sheet after sheet of Pizza Rolls and Bagel Bites, or even worse, trying to get someone to deliver during the game. Of course, there's always pizza, which you can order a few hours before the day of, but why go for the normal grub when you can hit something slightly more exotic. In other words: which restaurants are helping New Yorkers get one through the uprights, and bringing forth good grub to the game?

As if you didn't already know, the final season of Lost premieres tonight, and people around Manhattan who haven't already snuck a peak at the leaked episode are gathering their trusty Lostheads and taking over bars and living rooms around town. If your living room is too small for both you and your Locke-loving friend, if you like to yell marriage proposals whenever you see Dr. Jack Shepherd and like to be around people who do the same, if you feel weird about getting drunk by yourself while playing an H.G Wells drinking game, then you're ripe for a Lost viewing party.

It's Wednesday! What are you doing just sitting there? You should be out! Running around, wheeling and dealing with the 'in' clubs and high traffic restaurants for a better deal on your prix fixe, four course, four hour premium open bar NYE pre-packaged evening, or at least working at the second job you picked up just to pay for the special night. That's just the way it is, New Yorkers. Recession be damned, if you want to go anywhere even semi-hoppin', you have to throw down major green just to step out your door. But alas, dear reveler, we have an easy to manage round-up of Thursday night's festivities, with pricing included. To buy tickets for New Year's Eve events in New York and elsewhere, check out Joonbug and NewYearsEve.com.

Delivering the “Top 10 Ways The Country Would Be Different If Britney Spears Were President” on The Late Show with David Letterman, Brit-Brit looked astoundingly alert and presentable in a skimpy string bikini. Number 4: “America might have a more coherent fiscal strategy.” Perhaps President Spears could divert some earmark spending towards a more human-like weave, and away from large faux flower headpieces. Only a suggestion. In other recent Spears news, yes, Kevin Federline is fat, and yes, Britney has decided to reward her father for saving her from a life of baldness and straitjackets and future offspring named “Quilt” and “Pillow” with his very own soul food restaurant. Jamie Spears will act as proprietor of the as yet un-monikered L.A. fry-den, which will hopefully be a tad more delicious than Nyla, Brit’s 2002 shot in the dark aimed in the general direction of the New York resto world. And somehow Justin Timberlake’s Southern Hospitality survives. All part of a global conspiracy to separate the former amours from their once-shared place of white trash awesomeness, if you ask me.

Where NYers can booze up for Hollywood's self-hug ceremony

1. Southern Hospitality (Upper East Side) - The 14 HD TVs and a large HD projection screen aren't the real excess here -- that's the $80 premium VIP package. All you can drink, all you can eat appetizers (the fried pickles are absurd), and guaranteed seating to make sure once the fat is on, it stays on. Free Jim Beam from 4 to 6 only sweetens the deal. The place to be. 2. 40/40 (Flatiron) - Like stepping into a hip-hop video, minus the fisheye. All-white, super sleek. Oh, and Kobe Bryant is holding a party for his Laker friends and all the video hos this side of the Bronx. 3. Village Pourhouse (Greenwich Village) - 50 bottles, around 24 drafts at any given moment. But with the $30 all you can drink Bud Light draft from kickoff until end of the game, we both know what you'll be drinking.

On Sunday, the New York Giants will play the Philadelphia Eagles for a chance to play for a chance to play in the Superbowl, and you can be damn sure every restaurant and bar in the city with a screen and a business sense will be looking to fatten you up with irresistible gameday specials. Here's a rundown of prime places in New York to watch Eli Manning and the Giants clip the Eagles' wings, or the Eagles ... peck out the Giants' ... eyes? Whatever: