A welcoming red and white striped awning dawns the name of the Cornelia Street Cafe, a longtime West Village fixture with artist roots that recently celebrated its 30th birthday. Located on a "mini restaurant row" including the teeny Le Gigot, Home, and Pearl Oyster Bar, the cafe is much more spacious than its neighbors with four separate rooms on two floors, each dotted with the work of local artists. Though the West Village today......

Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: An escaped prisoner from the 44th Precinct in the Bronx, an electrocution on Richmond Avenue in Staten Island, and a suspicious package at the World Trade Center site What's scarier: Falling in a sidewalk grate in Manhattan or coyotes attacking kids in NJ? A consultant says the city's homeless estimate is flawed, raising questions about the methodology The woman Jets player Justin Miller punched outside a Manhattan nightclub? An......

MOVIE: The 10th Annual New York International Children's Film Festival commences tonight, starting with the US premiere of the French animated film U (which includes unicorns!). A kid-friendly catered reception will take place after the film. More weekend movies here. Friday (festival through March 11th) // 6pm // Director's Guild of America Theater [110 W 57th St] // $20 EVENT: It's the first Friday of the month, that means it's time to head up to......

Between a trip out to Fire Island this weekend, and New York Metro's wrap-up of new fish shacks, Gothamist is ready for summer. While our all-time favorite is Pearl Oyster Bar, we're eager to try the newbies -- Black Pearl, in the East Village, and Bar Minnow in Park Slope. We've already had a sample of the fish shack at BLT Fish, and while we only got a tiny taste of the raw bar and......

For a while now Music For America has been providing us with endless amounts of entertainment, events and information. Tonight is no different, and if you're in NY (and c'mon, who of us aren't?) then The Songwriter's Beat will entertain you in the name of Democracy over at one of Gothamist's favorite establishments, Cornelia Street Cafe. For those not privy, The Songwriters Beat is an all-acoustic show with 4 singer songwriters all given a......

The New York Times reports that Murray's Cheese shop is expanding: MURRAY'S CHEESE SHOP in Greenwich Village will double its space to 1,200 square feet in the fall by moving across the street to 254 Bleecker Street (Cornelia Street). Its owner, ROB KAUFELT, said he has not decided what he will do with the present store. Gothamist couldn't be more excited. Murray's is a neighborhood institution that provides us with more varieties of cheese than......

Apparently the definition of celebrity for the Gawker stalker has finally been expanded to include people we know. Witness, a mention of James Tung's friend Genevieve, the extremely attractive designer on Trading Spaces. "12.30 pm, Sunday. I saw Genevieve, one of the interior decorators from Trading Spaces, having brunch in the garden at Home (on Cornelia Street, in the W. Village) with a male dining companion. She looks shorter and thinner in person than she......