EVENT: Tonight is the "Taxi 07: Transforming and Icon" event, marking the 100th anniversary of the New York taxi. The Design Trust for Public Space have gathered together members of the city’s design community and tonight they discuss ideas for the redesign the yellow cab. The idea of a redesign was announced back in 2005. 6:30pm // Cooper Hewitt Design Museum [2 E 91st St] // $10 THEATER: Cherry Lane Theatre is reviving Amiri Baraka's......

DISCUSSION: Tonight Dirty Dancing author Eleanor Bergstein will discuss the similarities between Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and her own masterpiece, which starred Patrick Swayze. Shakespearian scholars will be in attendence to agree or, most likely, refute the argument. This discussion may have been a bit more relevant in, say, 1987 - when the film came out. 7:30pm // National Arts Club [15 Gramercy Park South] // Free THEATER: The No Frills Company, which is dedicated......

DISCUSSION: A performance artist, an art critic, an art scholar, a restaurateur, and a gallery owner all walk in to a bar...Oh wait, that's not the beginning of a joke. Those creative types will all be at The New Museum tonight though for their Hot Button! discussion series. Find out their motivation behind the craft. What will win, love or money? 6:30 to 8pm // Cooper Union [7 E 7th St // $6 THEATER: Bhutan......

- Period duel reenactment in NJ - Fear comes to New York - Fear Factor, that is - The crimes city college kids commit - Barry Diller wants New Yorkers to leave the city during the convention - Cool new Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Nogushi stamps; yes, stamps - Go see O Changgun's Toenail at the Cherry Lane Theatre - Is making a cat fall 50 feet into a pillow cruel? - Times Square anti-war......

The Cherry Lane Theatre, tucked away on Commerce Street in the West Village, has showing a staging of the Korean play, O Chang-gun's Toenail. O Chang-gun's Toenail (also known as General O's Toenail) is a fairy tale about the inhumanity of war. Written by Park Jo-Yeol, a North Korean refugee who was influenced by Beckett, its performances were forbidden in Korea for 15 years and remain popular today. We've been hearing great things about this......