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Put on your spandex and practice your crystal ball juggling—it is time once again for the Labyrinth sing-along!

David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly star along with some homely Muppets, taking us through a maze of upside down staircases and talking door-knockers. Beer will help you to admit that you know the words to the songs.

The night will include a costume competition and other surprises!

92Y|Tribeca
200 Hudson Street, Tribeca
Friday, October 28th at 10:15pm
Tickets: $13, includes one beer

Last night a New England-style clam shack opened in Brooklyn. Say hello to Littleneck everybody! The joint isn’t that big, but it’s pretty much exactly what you’d expect of a clam shack in Gowanus with chef Alan Harding (Gowanus Yacht Club, The Farm on Adderley, Chopped!) working the kitchen. Raw bar? Check. Lobster rolls? Check. Whole belly Ipswich clam rolls? You better believe it. (via Gothamist)

Littleneck
288 Third Avenue, Gowanus

With Halloween just a few days away, here’s a breakdown of all manner of frightful creatures from the silver screen, from the very large (like Godzilla) to the rather small (like Chucky) to the very weird (like the Crawling Eye). Hundreds in all, this is the definitive guide to a universe of scarifying baddies. (via Laughing Squid)

New York, say hello to the your newest favorite attraction: Carsten Höller’s 102-foot-long slide at the New Museum. The giant plastic tube, which goes down from the museum’s fourth floor, through ceilings and floors, to the second floor is now fully operational and will be open to the public from tomorrow through January 15, 2012. And did we mention there is also a sensory deprivation tank? And upside down goggles? And a fish tank you rest your head in? Suddenly getting dragged to the museum seems more like dropping acid and reliving your childhood than a chance to better yourself. (via Gothamist)

The New Museum
235 Bowery, Lower East Side

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Honestly, I couldn’t have summed up New York Comic Con better myself, so here is the epic photo-packed recap from Miss Meng aka rhymeswithtongue ♥

I was curled up in my jammies doing my weekly catchup (on Facebook messages, organizing photos, and episodes of Glee) when I first found out I was going to help spread the Foodspotting love during New York Comic Con. Yippee!!

Bursting my bubble, Bill asked the obvious: “What does food have to do with comics?”

The Statue of Liberty will turn on four live streaming web cams Friday in celebration of her 125th birthday anniversary.

Four Torch Cams inside the flame will stream live views of Ellis Island, Governors Island, Liberty Island and the Freedom Tower, via World Webcams and will be available to the public at MyWorldWebcams.com. (via Mashable)

Any bookstore can sell you a book. But if you’re looking for a bookstore where you can find a date who shares your literary tastes, see a magic show, join a basketball league and have a cartoonist scrawl a tattoo on you with a permanent marker, the field narrows a bit.

Specifically, it narrows to Word, a cheerful shop in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, that not only stocks books but also strives to create a community of people who love them. (Read more at NY Times)

WORD
126 Franklin Street, Greenpoint

Don’t take that as a knock on Manhattan, which is doing just fine. But for the first time since, well, ever, you can spend every New York minute of your trip on the far side of the East River and never feel like you’re missing out. Here’s how to explore the place where everything’s happening before it’s happening. (via GQ)

In the right weather and with the right person, riding in a horse-drawn carriage around Central Park can be romantic… if a little corny. Of course, it can also be a bit odorous and, for those on foot who have to deal with the horse by-product, messy. It’s not just joggers and bikers who object to the city horses; animal welfare groups have long worried about the poor working conditions. Not only do the animals spend their days shuffling along on hard pavement through slow-moving traffic while inhaling exhaust fumes, most of the horses return at night to narrow stalls beneath tenement buildings with never a chance to step into a pasture and graze. A recent petition drive gathered nearly 45,000 signatures in favor of retiring the carriage horses. (via AutoBlog)

The road to creating one of New York’s most beloved parks was not unlike the unruly terrain that Friends of the High Line co-founders Joshua David and Robert Hammond were determined to transform. Stretching from the Meatpacking District to West 34th Street, the mile-and-a-half-long elevated park represents the extraordinary rescue of an abandoned, overgrown eyesore by two inexperienced but dedicated individuals, and the rally of strong community involvement. A new book, “High Line: The Inside Story of New York City’s Park in the Sky,” chronicles the behind-the-scenes of the epic ten-year restoration project. (via Cool Hunting)