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REMINDER: Don't forget about the Atlantic Antic Festival, which we wrote all about yesterday.

On Friday we mentioned that this weekend was the 10th Annual DUMBO Art Under the Bridge Festival. Some of us didn't get to go and check it out this year (other obligations can be a drag) and are we ever hitting ourselves for it. We would have loved to have seen some good old fashioned bench dancing. Of course it doesn't end until tonight...

READING: The reclusive "Lemony Snicket" (known to grown-ups and non-believers as Daniel Handler) will be showing up - hopefully in a cloak and mustache disguise! - at Barnes and Noble tonight to celebrate the release of The

What a beautiful fall day it is outside. Blue skies, fluffy white clouds, nice cool air. The perfect day to go and check out one of the more interesting arts festivals that New York has to offer (one of our friends likes to call it "nifty"). That's right people, yesterday, today and tomorrow make up the three days of the 9th Annual DUMBO Art Under the Bridge Festival. The Festival has open studios, exhibitions, installations, live art, some talks, and more. Most of it is even free (you can check a full listing of events here for times locations and prices). Personally we recommend checking out the Dance Festival which runs within the larger festival (can't make it this weekend? No worries, there is going to be an International DUMBO Dance Festival next week!). So if you're looking for something to do, other than y'know sit and read the internets, there you are. Now go.

FESTIVAL:: The 9th Annual D.U.M.B.O Art Under the Bridge Festival begins today and runs through the weekend. The schedule includes our faves: the Architecture Walk (today at 4pm), open galleries and lots of music lined up by Todd P.

Antony and the Johnsons will play their first NYC show since winning the UK's Mercury Music Prize last month. The past year has seen Antony rise from a relatively unknown eccentric NYC club performer to an international superstar. His headlining show at Carnegie Hall on Thursday, and his upcoming appearance on Letterman, are two signs of his well deserved success. Those attending the Carnegie show will also be treated to a rare opening set by vocalist Jimmy Scott, "the man whom Joseph Hooper, in a New York Times Magazine profile, called 'perhaps the most unjustly ignored American singer of the 20th century.' [Fantasy Jazz].

The eighth annual Art Under the Bridge Festival kicked off today in Brooklyn's D.U.M.B.O. neighborhood, and continues through Sunday, October 17. The largest free contemporary visual arts festival in the U.S., festival venues span 30 blocks between the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges, with almost 1500 artists participating.