Souvenirs are usually inanimate doodads, so we must update the story of the man who smuggled a pygmy marmoset from Peru under his hat. The monkey attracted attention not from airport screeners in Lima or in Fort Lauderdale (where Spirit Airlines Flight 180 connected) but from passengers on the flight to Laguardia who noticed the monkey hanging from the man's ponytail. Our favorite part of the story is how other passengers apparently asked the man......

Emergency newswires are reporting that Port Authority cops requested that the Emergency Services Unit hustle over to Laguardia's main terminal this afternoon - and with a cage - because there was a monkey on the loose inside the airport. The animal apparently arrived at Gate B6 on Spirit Airlines' Flight 180. We have so many questions about this incident. Was the monkey traveling as a passenger? Was it a helper monkey like Homer Simpson's Mojo?......

JetBlue's flight operations were pretty much back to normal yesterday, after about a week of canceled flights and unhappy, confused customers. The lower-priced airline apologized at every opportunity - uploading a video on the Internet on Monday, issuing a customer bill of rights yesterday, and apologizing in newspapers today. But we did wonder about some sort of "air craft disturbance" that was reported yesterday in the late afternoon. It turns out that an "unruly......

VACATION: The Greater Fort Lauderdale visitors' bureau has brought the Sunshine State to NYC in the form of a 3,600-square foot virtual vacation. The space includes a palm tree-lined "beach", complimentary mini-massages and, of course, bikini clad models. Virtual fishing, golf and more, will make you forget the sudden drop in temperature. Through 6pm // The Bank Building [20 Union Square East] // Free READING: Nancy Reardon, who penned "On-Camera: How to Report, Anchor and......

Proving that people will research anything and everything, the SCOTT Clog Clinic says New York City is the cloggiest city in the country. Um, yay for us or ewwww for us? Now, of course Scott's goal is to talk about their toilet tissue (we're Charmin consumers, for the record), because their tissue is "fast-dissolving," but it seems many clogging problems are due to bad plumbing and "heavy flushing periods." Scott provides tips to a less-clogged......

Hoboken, land of NY-rent-wary hipsters, Yo La Tengo, and Sinatra, will be getting a W Hotel. Actually, it's a W Hotel and Living Room - hotel rooms and 40 luxury condos - that will open in September 2006. Designed by Gwathmey Siegel & Associates, the W Hoboekn will have "a bar with amazing views of Manhattan, a destination restaurant, a 5,000 square-foot Bliss Spa and fitness facility plus over 11,000 square feet of meeting space,"......