Tomorrow is one of our favorite days of the year: The annual Thanksgiving Eve inflation of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloons! This year, there are twelve giant balloons: Dora the Explorer, Kermit the Frog, Healthy Mr. Potato Head (he's wearing a jogging suit), Scooby Doo, Ronald McDonald, Pikachu w/Poke-Ball, Energizer Bunny, Flying Ace Snoopy, and JoJo's Circus will be joined by new balloons Abby Cadabby, Shrek, and Super Cute Hello Kitty! As if Hello......

Jeez, we will never be able to look at someone in a Scooby Doo or Barney costume in the same way again. The Queens DA's office announced that a Queens man was charged with selling counterfeit costumes of characters like the Scoob, the purple one, and Bob the Builder. And how the Queens DA nabbed 43-year-old Julio Quevado is crazy. Hit Entertainment, which owns the trademark license to those characters, told the Queen DA's office......

Ah, the ongoing fight between stores that sell adult materials and the neighborhoods that don't want them anymore. A number of stores that sell "adult materials" have successfully appealed a lower court ruling which held up a city law that said any business that sells any bit of porno is an adult business. Previously, the city had allowed stores to operate under a "60/40 rule": If 60% or more of their floor space/inventory was non-porn-related,......

Gothamist didn't know what was best in the Times article about enormous dogs living in NYC apartments - knowing that one owner share a four-poster bed with his Great Dane or that a Bull Mastiff can pee "with considerable force and stamina" for 15 minutes or that someone actually rented an $1,800 one-bedroom apartment for the Bull Mastiff. While we're frightened of teeny, tiny rat dogs (yes, we get that it's because some apartments don't......

There was a woman at Gristedes the other day who spent the entire time she was in the grocery store yammering on her cell phone. She stopped at one point to ask an employee where she could find the tuna, and the employee refused to answer the question until the woman got off the phone. She threw a fit. So what gives? When else is it totally inappropriate to be talking on your phone? Sam,......