Photo by Jake Dobkin While a Tom Otterness sculpture can really brighten up the dark underground of New York, for his latest installation he's shedding some sunlight on his work. The above was just installed in DUMBO near the pedestrian exit to the Brooklyn Bridge. This won't be the first time Otterness has been above ground, of course. Remember his temporary 2004 installation that spanned Broadway from 60th to 168th Streets? And in 2005......

Unhappy over the Mayor's gun dealer stings last May, one Georgia gun dealer has decided to sue Mayor Mike for $400 million. Adventure Outdoors, a gun dealer in Smyrna, Georgia (best known as Julia Roberts' hometown), claims the mayor's sting was "careless, willful and clearly illegal." Former Georgia congressman Bob Barr filed the suit, which also claims that the Mayor "made defamatory comments about the store and that undercover investigators used false information to buy......

FILM: the Found Footage Festival will be presenting its biggest and best show to date TONIGHT! Outdoors at Automotive High School in the BK you'll be able to view a "live comedy show and screening featuring odd and hilarious clips from found videotapes". Tonight // 8:30pm // Automotive High School [50 Bedford Ave. Williamsburg] // $8 THEATER: World Gone Wrong is a "multimedia collage of dialogue, from about two hundred Films Noir and from our......

The Sundance Channel has a great triple bill tonight: Three documentaries that capture New York. At 8:00PM, Andrea Meller's 156 Rivington, about the neighborhood also known as "ABC No Rio," and the creative community that founded it, pre-gentrification (read an interview with Meller). Then, at 9PM, there is Robert Maass's Gotham Fish Tales, about those who fish along the city's waterfront (read an Dayton Jounral piece about the film - the word "Yankee" is used!).......