Cityfile: New York's Most Notable and Influential

Valentine's Day: Ruined! | "Can a candlelit dinner give you cancer?" New research today suggests that, yes, that charming, romantic dinner your boyfriend was planning in your honor may just have been an attempt to kill you. [NYDN]

Roberto Cavalli's Snakeskin Credit Card | If you happen to spot designer Roberto Cavalli, could you kindly take him aside and explain to him that now is really not the time to introduce useless things like credit cards made out of snakeskin? Putting aside the fact the card comes with useless "perks" like seats at Cavalli's fashion shows and access to "special" sales, we're pretty sure the only people who'd be caught dead with these things are Russians and they don't have any money any more, so why bother? [Luxist]

Remember that hour you totally wasted searching for your name on the Internet and then laughing at pictures of people who happen to have the exact same name as your own? Who knew my namesake was a 64-year-old insurance salesman in Talahassee? Hilarious! So there's a site called HowManyofMe.com that will do the calculations for you and reveal just how many people are out there who are, well, you. After the jump, a handful of notable New Yorkers and the number of people who share their famous names, including the 2,658 women named Jennifer Lopez, the 614 men named David Chang, and the 61 dudes who have Marc Jacobs stamped on their driver's licenses. More