ART: Multimedia artist Thomas Beale hosts a cocktail reception tonight to help launch the 3-month-long "charity: water" photographic exhibition at Chelsea Market. The artist has even installed a custom-built wishing well for the installation (100% of the change tossed in will go towards the construc...

Is an aquarium the best place to revive Smell-O-Vision? Either way, it looks like Wonka will meet the water soon—the New York Aquarium is ready to give their visitors a 4-D experience, allowing them "to taste the salty sea water and surf." Planet Earth: Shallow Seas 4:D Experience is the lates...

Photo by Bill Wadman Pseudonamed after the Bob Dylan album, John Wesley Harding (real name: Wesley Stace) is an author, a musician, a record label owner and quite possibly many more things the world hasn't been made privy to yet. Later this year his third book will hit the shelves, but first he's on...

COMEDY: You may know Kevin Nealon from Saturday Night Live, but hopefully you've also appreciated his more recent role as the dope-lovin' Doug Wilson on Weeds (pictured). Well this weekend he's taking residency at Caroline's, and for some reason tickets are still on sale—get on it! All Weekend...

David Smith has worked at the 42nd and 5th branch of the New York Public Library for 30 years, starting as a clerk and eventually landing at the General Research Division. Before becoming a librarian he was a bookstore clerk, Queens College student, cab driver and under the employ of Sufi Bakery and...

The New York Historical Society and Council Member David Yassky launched Brooklyn Revealed this morning, which will give you an online tour of historic Brooklyn neighborhoods and streets (including explanations of the origins of more than 100 street names). History nerds unite! Yassky noted that the...

The remaining Beatles will be regrouping for one night only this spring to headline a benefit concert in NYC. Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr will take their two-man act to Radio City Music Hall on April 4th in the name of the David Lynch (yes, that one) Foundation, which "provides funds to teach stu...

Martha Stewart is on Twitter (though her page could use a little bit of design help—perhaps a lovely seersucker background for the upcoming spring season, or toile, which is always in season). Anywho, she's had a lot to say about the snow this week—particularly how we are all a bunch of ...

Is Vanity Fair running out of cover concepts? The magazine is giving their sultry Tom Ford/Keira Knightley/Scarlett Johansson cover a comedy makeover, replacing Ford with Paul Rudd, and the ladies with Jonah Hill and ex-Freaks and Geeks Seth Rogen and Jason Segel. (Rogen will also be gracing the cov...

Photos via Glamour. The Glamour bloggers conducted an awwww-inspiring experiment recently where they left two disposable cameras on park benches in Manhattan and Brooklyn. They were left with a note saying: "Good afternoon! I attached this camera to the bench so you could take pictures. Seriously. S...