Tonight, the Empire State Building will be lit with tie-dye colors in honor of the opening of the new exhibit The Grateful Dead: Now Playing at the New-York Historical Society. And just ignore the plumes of smoke from nearby, because those have nothing to do with the celebration at all.

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The Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia U is hosting a big eco-focused event,

ECOGRAM II: Architecture for a Crowded Planet, and tomorrow they're bringing out the big guns when Bianca Jagger visits to speak about climate change and show off her stylish ways. The former Mrs. Mick Jagger is currently the Council of Europe Goodwill Ambassador and Chair of the World Future Council, but if that doesn't do it for you, then you'll want to see what she's wearing. Her talk at 6:30 is followed by a reception for EcoRedux: Design Remedies for a Dying Planet.

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New York Press has confirmed that Suzanne Fiol, the executive director of Issue Project Room, a cutting edge arts space in Gowanus, passed away this morning. IPR has yet to release a statement, but it's said that Fiol, who founded the space in 2003 and was a huge presence in the Brooklyn arts scene, had been battling with cancer.

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Tell us what you think! What do you think the best "Hotel Experience" is? Have a favorite place to take a date? It's your chance to make your opinion count. Take the 2009 Best of Manhattan (and Beyond) Readers' Poll available here. 

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When President Obama asked for energy alternatives to put an end to our gas-guzzling fuel addiction, I don't think he was expecting people like Michael Thompson to answer to call. Dude created a lamp that runs on human blood!

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Coney Island is getting twice as dangerous, but not because the Cyclone killed another guy.  The Times has gotten word that the Wildlife Conservation Society plans major renovations for the Coney Island Aquarium, including two massive shark tanks. Why is the city working so tirelessly to bring these killing machines so close to home?

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The love-hate-mainly-hate relationship between pedestrians and cars in this city plays out on corners and in cross-walks on a daily basis and it ain't exactly a fair fight. In all realness, a head-to-head battle between a person on the street and a car in NYC has the same expected outcome as my third-grade self and the sixth-grade bully that used to hustle me for my milk money (let's just say I grew up calcium deficient).  But tomorrow marks a little victory for the walking man, when he gets to flip his nemesis the proverbial finger and steal his parking spot.

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A group of over a hundred Mormons descended into Williamsburg on Saturday morning. Contrary to popular belief they weren’t there to start knocking on doors for Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential run. Instead, they just came by to convert McCarren Park from a land of trash back to its pure form.

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Grab your umbrella and prepare for a holy-shit storm. New news from the UK is sure to have the religious right up in arms- contraception can reduce carbon emissions.

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Like everything else getting its fair share of green washing, the prisons of the UK are getting an eco-friendly makeover. Now there's need to pull a Dillinger and plan an escape. All it takes to go from prison cell to spa experience is one simple word-vegan.

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