File this one under: Fun! Artist Mina Karimi is looking to pull together "a large performance art piece that requires 6-8 hundred people recreating the parade scene from Ferris Bueller [video] at the Deitch Art Parade in Soho." She says she is "recruiting secret agents in the audience of the parade to mimic the extras in the movie as my Ferris float approaches. In order to fully reproduce the spirit of the scene I will......

Books, or at least book shelves, must be on this couple's wedding registry: The Post has a cute story about a couple whose engagement took place at the Strand Bookstore. Joshua Reich and Shianling King "always told friends they met at the Strand," but they actually met online - their first date was supposed to be at the Museum of Modern Art, but the lines were so long that they went to the Strand instead.......

Sure, September 8th may seem like it's ages away as we slowly sweat our way through the summer, but the Deitch Art Parade is just around the corner. Even though it's taking place on the aforementioned date, the deadline for submissions is July 20th. If you'd like to adorn West Broadway as a part of the parade, the Deitch site explains that "following the success of the past two Art Parades, artists, performers and designers......

New York area Wal-Mart foes, mission semi-accomplished! CEO H. Lee Scott Jr. spoke to NY Times reporters and editors yesterday, where he said something unexpected: "I don’t care if we are ever here." And "here" meant New York City. Or Manhattan, as a spokesperson later clarified. Here's the NY Times on his remarks:Mr. Scott said yesterday that the opposition to Wal-Mart in New York, Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles and other cities had a common......

Yesterday we posted about the kindie rock scene in Park Slope, and today we discover...baby disco at Southpaw! As described on the site: a little sumpin’ sumpin for mom and dad – Southpaw just opened up the gorgeous secret downstairs chill zone – “down south” - and it will now be open at all baby loves discos as a parents only chill out zone with football games for dad’s, product testing and massages for......

- A strange cemetary on the Upper East Side - it's really tiny and the headstones are made of tongue depressors! - The NY Times says the gubernatorial primary is overshadowed by the Attorney General and Brooklyn congressional races - well, duh, because those are more knock-out, drag-out situations - Police Commissioner Kelly was made a member of the French Legion of Honor - Margaret Johnson, the motorized-scooter-bound grandmother who shot a man who......

Julia Levy was on the scene for yesterday's Art Parade and filed this report: Even though it is September, it looked more like the Halloween Day Parade arrived early, but in Soho instead of the Village. The marchers down West Broadway from Houston to Grand Street were a part of the 2nd Annual Deitch Art Parade produced by Deitch Projects, Creative Time and PAPER magazine. Showcasing 75 "acts," the parade included artists, performers, designers,......

If you're going to be in Soho this afternoon - or you're interested in some public spectacle - go to West Broadway at Houston and see the Deitch Art Parade at 4PM. Expect wild and fun floats and performers. The parade will go from Houston to Grand Street, all along West Broadway. If you go, you can share your pictures with us by tagging them "gothamist" on Flickr. And check out this Flickr set......