In case you missed it, here's our list of ways to celebrate Cinco de Mayo around town; if you aren't in the mood for margs tonight, here are some alternatives: EVENT: NonsenseNYC points us to a Potluck and Horseshoe Crab Mating Bike Ride. Need more details? "For over 300 million years, when high-tide, the full moon and springtime collide, horseshoe crabs have been gathering by the thousands to spawn. These little dinosaur tanks are expected......

Sure, you know Dave Eggers as the celebrated author and founder of McSweeney's, that plucky independent book-publishing house in San Francisco, but were you aware that back in the day he was on track to be an art curator? While it’s been a long time since he’s organized an exhibit, he’s in town now to put together a show at apexart that explores, in Eggers's words, “a very small and specific type of artmaking exemplified......

Cartoons just got a little more real with The Three Thug Mice, an online series set in New York City. The 35 animated shorts follow the tales (and tails!) of three rodent crooks named Vic, Tik and Brik. Described as an "ongoing ghetto saga" set in some of the seedier sectors of the concrete jungle, the trio's home turf is light years away from Disney World. (Though that is the Hotel Chelsea in the......

What's a Saturday morning without Saturday Morning Cartoons?! Okay, so maybe you haven't watched them in a while, but MoCCA has just brought them back for you. They're celebrating the art from some of shows that have aired over the 24 years of Saturday Morning’s “Golden Age”. There's also something about looking at the roots of television animation in the 1940s and 1950s and how the medium has changed since 1990...but what we really care......

ART: On the Couch: Cartoons From the New Yorker is a collection of cartoons from the magazine which Bob Mankoff (the cartoon editor) says focuses on “the shrink and the shrunk, the practitioner and the practiced upon.” So we're sure you'll all be able to relate, somehow. 10am to 5pm // The Museum of New York [1220 5th Ave] // $9 YOGA: Just reading the words "sunset yoga" is relaxing. Tonight you can actually head......

This weekend is the weekend of movie déjà vu. You will be struck with the nagging feeling that all of the major films new to theaters seem oddly like something you've seen before. But repertory programming out in Brooklyn or in the West Village will provide a much needed shot of creativity to counter balance the same old, same old. A remake of the '70s disaster classic, Poseidon opens this weekend with Josh "the poor......

- Really? NYU banned showing those controversial Danish cartoons at a campus talk called "Free Speech and the Danish Cartoons?" - Four teens are being charged in that NYU hit and run. - The Post and one spicy divorce lawyer go after the restaurant they like to call "Toxic on the Green." - Thinking about how to use, and not use, the McCarren Pool. - Shockingly,Eliot Spitzer doesn't think Pataki shows "leadership." And? -......

There's nothing like a mean New Yorker cover to get Brooklyn intellectuals into a huff. Two weeks ago, the cover of the New Yorker featured God's hand banishing Adam and Eve across the Brooklyn Bridge into Brooklyn, in an illustration by Marcellus Hall called "Unaffordable Eden." The Daily News spoke to some enraged Brooklynites, who think the idea of Brooklyn being a second-class borough is outdated, scoffing at Manhattan denizens who think Manhattan is "the......

The publication of the Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker (there are two CD-ROMs included with the 9 pound book that hold all 68,647 cartoons ever published) reminds Gothamist of the Seinfeld episode where Elaine can't figure out what a New Yorker cartoon is about:Elaine: Look at this cartoon in the New Yorker, I don't get this. Jerry: I don't either. Elaine: And you're on the fringe of the humor business. George comes in George:......