It’s good to get out of DC every once in a while and last night The Agenda with Joe Solmonese was live from New York with all live, in-studio guests. And specifically, we turned our sights on the big apple - its entertainment, its publishing, its gossip, its activism and of course its news.

We started out the show with some health news with Sean Cahill of the Gay Men’s Health Crisis. New CDC numbers just out show an alarming increase in HIV among African-American men who have sex with men.

New York is certainly a place for gay politics and one of the best writers on the beat in Kerry Eleveld, news editor for The Advocate. She gave us the lay of the land in the presidential race through the eyes of GLBT voters. Listen in.

Then we got to one of our favorite topics: television. Bravo TV’s Senior Vice President of Programming and Production Andy Cohen was with us. Bravo just received the HRC corporate visibility award at this past weekend’s Los Angeles dinner and he shared insights on Bravo favorites “Project Runway,” “Work Out,” “Top Chef” and more. Listen in.

What a day it was to be in New York with the sudden downfall of Gov. Eliot Spitzer and the swearing-in of new Governor David Paterson. We welcomed New York magazine Contributing Editor Mark Jacobson who’s been covering the unfolding scandal.

Finally, we wrapped-up with an old friend of The Agenda: Randy Cohen. You know him better as the New York Times Ethicist who writes a weekly column helping people sort out moral and ethical dilemmas. He answered some of those pesky questions and shared some of his favorite queries from readers. Randy also brought along his daughter Sophie Pollitt-Cohen, an author in her own right. She along with three friends published The Notebook Girls - a collection of handwritten notes passed between the four during their time as students at Stuyvesant High School in New York City. Listen in.

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