Last week's Second Annual Corned Beef Cookoff – a benefit supporting families of the Fighting 69th soldiers in Iraq – was won for the second year in a row by the Upper East Side’s Neary’s Pub. (The Irish-American dish became popular in New York around the turn of the 19th century.) Neary’s will be dishing out the corned beef tonight, as will Murphy & Gonzalez, which tied for second place with Peter McManus Café, which......

PARADE: The St. Patrick's Day Parade will kick the day off in a wash of green, starting before noon. Grab some green bagels, some green eggs and ham and some green beer before joining a rowdy crew in the festivities. The streets are alive with the sounds of bagpipes! 11 a.m. // starts at 44th St and 5th Ave, ends at 86th St // Free PARADE PROTEST: As the parade moves forward on 44th......

We all know that on St. Patrick's Day, everybody's Irish. But this rings especially true for the kids of Keltic Dreams, an Irish dance troupe from PS 59 in the Bronx, featured in today's New York Times. When Dublin-born music teacher Caroline Duggan's mostly black and Hispanic students started asking questions about her funny accent and Riverdance poster, she started teaching them about Irish culture, and step dancing. Soon, dozens of her seven- to......