The Girl Walk // All Day project we premiered here has gone on to inspire even normally stationary New Yorkers to dance... and amongst them, a nun! Sister Silvia was at the NYC premiere of the dance-driven film in early December, to watch it in full (check her out in the front row). She later had dinner with protagonist Anne Marsen, who she told, “Anne that premiere inspired me so… I actually went out by the river the next day by myself… and danced as the sun set!” And here she is!: more ›

It's nearly Valentine's Day, and nothing says romance like the adulterous Don Draper of Mad Men. Enter: Hamm-O-Gram! These people are offering to send you, or the one you love, a Hamm-centric love note for five bucks a pop. They say the Hamm-o-gram is "like a classic telegram, where you send a special someone a transcribed message, usually in letter form. Except this message is always a picture of handsome actor Jon Hamm (with a lil' somethin' extra)." more ›

We know that John Lennon loved to make music and bake bread... but did you know he was also a crazy cat lady at heart? According to Mental Floss, Lennon owned a number of cats throughout his lifetime, starting with his first childhood pet, named Elvis. There is also an adorable story involving a stray he saved, and trips he would make to the local fishmonger to buy treats for it! When he became famous with The Beatles, he would still call in to check on the cat (which he had named Tim). more ›

Is the city getting you down? Go no further than this video, showing a ukelele player spontaneously collaborating with a percussionist on the subway. The person who uploaded the footage says these two musicians never met each other before this moment (as noted by another person in the video). Try to push back that cynical side that tells you they're just scamming us for tips, and watch: more ›

At press time this video only has 304 views, so let's help out these young stars in their search for internet fame (crossing over from the mainstream isn't always easy!). Here are Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt singing "What Are You Doing New Years Eve?" (And before you ask, this is relevant because a new study just came out that proved it is scientifically impossible to harbor even one ounce of hatred towards either of these two.) more ›

It's the most wonderful time of the year... when we get to see animals opening up colorful Christmas presents at the city's zoo. Last year we saw a polar bear in Central Park open up a gift box containing fishsicles and fruit (what, no bloodsicle?), and this year the Wildlife Conservation Society offers up the below videos. They show Prospect Park's dwarf mongooses unwrapping gifts of mealworm treats, and bears in the Queens Zoo digging into their specially wrapped peanut butter! more ›

The holiday season is upon us, and with it brings all sorts of adorable things: festive sweaters, Yuletide logs, the occasional marriage proposal. Yes, indeed, tis the season for surprise proposals, like this one, at the touristy of all wintertime tourist destinations, Rockefeller Center's ice skating rink. more ›

Leave it to Michel Gondry to transform Martin Scorsese's gritty 1976 New York classic Taxi Driver into a charming, fantastical short film that's almost guaranteed to make you smile. Using the lo-fi "Sweding" technique he popularized in Be Kind Rewind, Gondry's version, created for the French premiere of Scorsese's Hugo, features colorful paint bullets, comically made-up pimps, and a truly fantastic baldcap-mohawk hairpiece. Gondry himself delivers the iconic "You talkin' to me?" line, though it's somehow less menacing coming from him than Robert DeNiro. more ›

Has anyone lost a well dressed, bilingual elephant in Brooklyn? Babar, yes that Babar, has been discovered in Bay Ridge, and his new human friends have posted this alert on Craigslist: more ›

Today, the Times runs an absolutely incredible, no-this-is-not-a-joke "trend" piece about the "rise" in cat agility contests. It's worth reading in its entirety, for these quotes alone: “When we first started it, everybody said, ‘Train a cat? Impossible!’ ” and "I think we let cats’ brains rot, and I think it’s really sad." more ›

When Jason Schwartzman isn't busy sneaking around Brooklyn for Bored To Death, he's nuts on Sesame Street, donning a silk kimono suit, satin gloves, and some seriously gravity-defying hair to play the Chairman "Superchef" of the Cast Iron Cook competition. He even gratuitously bites into a bell pepper! It's a thousand times better than the American remake of the Japanese original. more ›

Check out this precious Lego-made treehouse spotted on Jay Street in DUMBO! It makes sense that it's there, what with the recent construction of a Lego Manhattan Bridge and all, combined with the fact that treehouses are just so hot right now. more ›

With tens of thousands of people competing in the 42nd NYC Marathon, and tens of thousands of other people cheering them along and/or having fancy brunch parties in its honor, NYC feels kind of dead right now. Even the Post is having a hard time finding new ways to express their anti-OWS rage. So yes, people carrying their dogs in Baby Bjorns isn't exactly Woodward and Berstein material—these "pug pugjorns" have been making strange appearances around the web for awhile now. But perhaps Baby Bjorns are the perfect solution to avoid any more people assaulting bus drivers for not letting their Chihuahua's onboard. more ›

If you head to the Bronx Zoo for some fall festivities, you may also see a super cute baby giraffe named James Marjani! According to the zoo, he was born on September 14 and "was approximately six feet tall at birth and estimated to weigh more than 100 pounds." Big baby! more ›

Yesterday, between 15,000 and 20,000 people marched from Foley Square to Zuccotti Park as part of Occupy Wall Street's single largest rally since they took up residence in the park three weeks ago. OWS protesters were joined by unions and students for a march which was by turns peaceful and incredibly tense—that tension came to a boil when NYPD white shirts beat protesters trying to push past a barricade. But it really wasn't all pepper spray and Michael Moore speeches: there was also plenty of room for drum circles, chanting, and little kids dancing. Below, check out a video (skip to :54) of an adorable tyke doing his part to protest Wall Street greed—by harnessing the power of a carefully orchestrated (and dizzying!) dance. more ›

Well, this is just gosh-darn precious: a chubby beagle named Sammy saved his family from a late-night fire that broke out in their basement. more ›