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The 22nd Annual April Fools' Day Parade is today. Did you go? We hope not, because this is a long running joke itself. During its 15th year the press was fooled and showed up to find no parade. From the Museum of Hoaxes:

April Fool's! When America's Mayor told Barbara Walters that his wife, Judith Nathan, would be attending Cabinet meetings if he's elected President, he was totally joking. Some confusion arose when Giuliani told Walters that Nathan would be welcome at Cabinet meetings if they were discussing something she might find interesting: "If she wanted to. If they were relevant to something that she was interested in. I mean that would be something that I'd be very, very comfortable with".

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Let's hope this is an April Fool's joke: the Columbia Spectator is reporting that The West End has been sold, and will soon be replaced by a Cuban-themed restaurant!

We saw this shirt for sale at Jack Spade on Greene Street in Soho-- we didn't check the price, but it's probably up there in the high two figures. All we can say is MEH. Maybe the tees are an April Fool's Joke on the part of the store-- we can't believe anyone would actually want to buy one.

Didn't get tickets to the sold out Flaming Lips show at Webster Hall tonight? We have good news. Wayne and the boys will be playing a free show at Prospect Park tomorrow afternoon...in celebration of this great weather we're having.

Psych - it's April Fool's Day! The Project for Public Spaces has issued its April Fool's newsletter, which includes a faux-Christo project that would involve gating city sewer grates in New York (photo, above). Gothamist loved this "quote" from the Mayor:

"The Gates raised so much money we couldn't believe it. We've got to capitalize on this wrapping craze fast if we're going to fund the MTA's capital budget AND build the Jets stadium."

Movable Hype 2 is coming up on February 16th. This time around we'll be back at the Knitting Factory main space and you get Elkland, The Information, Other Passengers and The Cloud Room for only $10! Tickets are on sale now, buy them here.

Though there is nothing funny about the blah weather New York experienced yesterday, several classic April Fool's jokes have involved--you bet!--using Mother Nature to sucker people into believing crazy stuff. Scratching the surface of the Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes of All Time reveals that in 1957, "thanks to a very mild winter and the virtual elimination of the dreaded spaghetti weevil, Swiss farmers were enjoying a bumper spaghetti crop." Other weather-inspired pranks include the fake eruption of the long-dormant Alaskan volcano, Mount Edgecumbe, thanks to some dude with a collection of tires and a little too much time on his hands; the discovery of the "hotheaded naked ice borer" (huh?); and a famous "iceberg" that was towed all the way to Sydney, just to add a little pizzazz to peoples' drinks.

In other Internet news, Google will reportedly introduce a free-email service called "GMail." Gothamist doesn't have much to say about it, except from the fact that a rerun of Seinfeld last night had George searching for a nickname and settling on T-Bone; Jerry suggested G-Bone, George nixed it, Jerry countered with "There's a G-spot!" and George exclaimed, "That's a myth!" Anyway, is GMail an April Fool's, everyone is getting fooled, because it's been picked up everywhere.

Gothamist doesn't have many April Fool's Day stories, because, well, we're getting fooled all the time. But if you've been fooled - or fooled others - tell us in the comments.