Just when I thought the guacamole couldn’t get any better than El Rio Grande, it did. My quest to discover the best guacamole and margaritas in NYC lead me to Rosa Mexicano’s Lincoln Center location. Late for a dinner date with two of my co-workers, I breezed past the handful of outdoor tables bustling with patrons enjoying the beautiful spring weather and joined the crowd of people waiting to speak to the hostess. After a quick peek at the bar and the downstairs tables, I pulled out my lifesaver, a.k.a. my cell, and dialed my friends to find out where they were. I bypassed the crowd and headed for the stairs, which have a fountain that spans the entire wall as a backdrop. A closer look reveals that there are tiny figures of cliff divers plunging from different heights.

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Lola’s continued coverage of New York Television Festival:

A creamy yogurt bath any time you need it. A manservant always prepared to offer his head for a swiftly kicked soccer ball. An entire room full of colorful, pimptastic hats. According to ABC’s upcoming fall comedy The Knights of Prosperity, these pleasures and more could all be yours if you were Mick Jagger. On the other hand, if you, like the loveable losers who form the Knights, live by more modest means - driving a yellow cab, plumbing Queens toilets or getting axed from your first internship - wouldn’t you be willing to risk it all to rob a rock god?

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It’s no secret within my circle that I love heavy metal music. (I’ll spare you the particulars, but I’ve never met a flying V guitar I didn’t love.) So I’m happy to say that my recent discovery - headbangernyc.com - is a special little something that makes my mosh-pit-lovin’ self very happy. The site itself is basically just a concert calendar and info on local bands (the MySpace page has more), but it’s the weekly-ish e-mails that you can sign up for on the site that I love. Full-on concert listings, tidbits on the scene, and musings on all things metal. Short and sweet, few bells and whistles, but really, can you beat hearing that, say, Goat Horn is disbanding or that members of Mudvayne, Nothing Face, Danzig, and Pantera are forming a band or that System of a Down is on the rocks? I think not.

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