We may have to wait until next April for Comic Con in New York, but there's plenty of comic goodness over at the Puck Building this weekend at the MoCCA Art Festival. Their well-punctuated description promises a generous dose of the genre: "Meet comics and cartoon artists! Four full ballrooms of cartoonists and publishers! Get sketches and autographs from Bill Sienkiewicz, Joe Staton, Arthur Suydam and others at the MoCCA Fundraising Sketch Table! Buy comics,......

Part of a larger block party on Eldridge Street tomorrow is the annual Egg Rolls and Egg Creams Festival. For just $2, (a dollar increase from last year), you get a kosher egg roll and a classic egg cream, mixed on site by a professional and made with Fox’s U-Bet chocolate syrup, the best choice for an authentic experience. The fried kosher egg roll will be missing the standard tiny bits of red pork, of......

If you find yourself in Soho this weekend, peel yourself away from the windows full of expensively shiny trinkets and browse instead at the Housing Works Bookstore, which is offering some especially good deals at two great events. Saturday they hold an Open Air Book Fair on Crosby between Houston and Prince. There will be live music, free coffee, and incredible discounts on books and records. Sunday brings the fifth annual Literary Magazine Fair, where......

THEATER: Screen Play, a political satire by A.R. Gurney, opens tomorrow and runs through the 25th at the Flea Theater. Set just before the election of 2015, SCREEN PLAY envisions a future ruled by a conservative religious majority. The economy is sagging, wars are raging and culture is in decay. The very thought has us planning our "vacation" to Canada. Details: Saturday, June 4 at 7pm (opening night) and Sunday, June 5 at 1pm. The......

Walking to the subway the other day we passed a billboard in Times Square that reminded us that we have a favorite tv show that is ready to come back and fill a Sunday night slot that has just been vacated. First things first, why does HBO make us wait an eternity to see their best shows? The Sopranos just ended on Sunday and now we have to wait 18 months for the next episode?......