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The 29th Annual Museum Mile Festival is tomorrow, with more creativity than you can imagine concentrated in a festival on 5th Avenue (from 82nd Street to 105th Street). From the Met to El Museo del Barrio you'll be able to find waived museum admissions.

-- Don't f-ck with a Park Slope mommy, because Park Slope mommies don't play.

What does a $135 million Klimt buy you? The ability to charge $50 for admission to see it, apparently. The Neue Galerie, the tiny, gorgeous Fifth Avenue museum, received the $135 million painting as a gift from Ronald Lauder, and has been earning rave reviews from critics for the gilded Klimt painting, Adele Bloch-Bauer I. And now, it is putting a $50 price tag on the chance to see her on the gallery's usual closed day - Wednesday, as it rides a publicity wave. The Neue explained the price hike using the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which announced it was raising the suggested general admission to $20 last week, as an example, noting the Met's $50 admission on Mondays for special exhibits. We're trying to think of people who would pay $50 on Wednesday while they could pay $15 on other days, but we suppose those people might be scholars, tourists with a Klimt hankering, and those who can use a write-off.

We're not going to lie- we've lost a lot of valuable holiday shopping time by not leaving our neighborhood during the transit strike. Well, that, and drinking in our apartment. Setting out to buy some of our friends presents, we were reintroduced to the wonderful advance that is drinking while shopping. Not the open bar of those scary Lucky magazine events (we'd rather not have a Manhattan dropped on camel colored Sigerson Morrison shoes) but the quiet moment between lines, between where we are going next and how much it is all going to cost. That is the beauty of places in the middle of all your shopping needs that served alcohol-in the last few hours we tried the high and the low- and were rejuvenated.

Maybe it's the cold weather, but lately, Gothamist has been dreaming of escaping New York for a European city such as Vienna, Madrid, or Athens. Unfortunately, with the dollar's quick descent in relation to the Euro, it seems we won't be heading over there any time soon.

And on an interesting note, 90th Street has Silly Billy the Very Funny Clown, one of the city's most sought-after clowns. He's also known as David Friedman, the brother whose videotapes of his family during the 80s make up a much of Capturing the Friedmans.