Perhaps I shouldn't follow my thoughts on fact-checking with my noticing an error in UrbanEye (ne Urbanist), The New York Times' answer to hip email newsletters everywhere, but this morning Melena Ryzik, editor of the daily newsletter, points readers to The Factory Retooled, her article about 205, a hip new club that looks like Warhol's famous Factory on the inside. She says,

"[Monday]’s killer karaoke night is still more or less under the hipster radar. It has, however, been discovered by celebrities like Ed Norton, Liev Schreiber and Rosie Perez, who — surprise, surprise — can really belt it. If you can, too, stop by."

Mas problema. As New York magazine's Daniel Maurer blogged this morning, 205 was shuttered by the NYPD because of Warholian allegations of coke and other drugs being dealt in its hallowed simalcra-quered halls. So, one can assume, Monday night karaoke, it probably didn't happen.

Doing a daily email like that must be a royal pain, but the last time UrbanEye/Urbanist caught my attention was when Kampuchea was reported as being open for business on a night they had not yet opened. I had called the restaurant, as I was planning to review it for the New York Press, and confirmed that their opening night was indeed postponed.

Of course information posted on the web goes out of date, but a daily email about events in New York should be pretty well vetted before going out, otherwise doesn't it risk sounding like so much marketing spiel? Before using UrbanEye as a guide to go anywhere or do anything, it might be a good idea to pick up the phone and confirm.