While you were busy this Memorial Day Weekend running from bees and singing odes to thong guy, the news cycle kept churning. Here's what went on while you were logged off.
- Memorial Day Weekend marked the unofficial start of summer, which also meant Governors Island officially opened for all your Civil War Reenacting, Wine & Beer Picnicking, and Hammock Napping needs.
- An Italian tourist in NYC to visit his girlfriend was fatally punched outside a bodega in the Bronx. A 19-year-old turned himself in, and has been charged with assault in the death.
- We rounded up the best of this season of Saturday Night Live: 20 favorite digital shorts, 15 best live sketches, and 10 best Weekend Update guests.
- Demonstrators once again broke the calm of the Guggenheim Museum to protest the institution's ties to dubious labor practices in the construction of their satellite museum in Abu Dhabi.
- We also checked out the new exhibits in the tiny Tribeca elevator shaft Mmuseumm.
- KimYe married, the NY Post shrugged.
- Banksy looked back fondly on his NYC residency last October, which he calls "a city wide full contact game of hide and seek."
- An East Village restaurant has incurred the wrath of glassholes for the crime of asking someone to please put their Glass away inside their restaurant.
- We unpacked the final episode of the first half of the seventh season of Mad Men.
- We found some guinea pigs hanging out in Prospect Park.
- Two goofballs were charged after they allegedly stole a 14-year-old's iPhone and sent some messages and selfies to his mom.
- And finally, when the police get into a jam they just can't solve on their own, they turn to David Schwimmer.
