18 years after its big screen release, and 171 years after Hans Christian Andersen penned the fairy tale...The Little Mermaid is ready for Broadway. Ariel & Co. will take the stage in New York starting November 3rd, and since mid-summer the musical has been out in Denver for a pre-Broadway engagement. The Colorado show took much criticism, however. With shots at the stage design ("visual incoherence"), choreography ("uninteresting"), song composition ("compromised with chaotic presentation"), costumes......

EVENT: The Brooklyn Kitchen is hosting a series of live in-store cooking demos with local rockers to help celebrate the release of Kara Zuaro’s new book, I Like Food, Food Tastes Good.. Tonight, Les Savy Fav frontman Tim Harrington will school us all in ceviche while likely wearing one of his very own aprons. 7 to 9pm // The Brooklyn Kitchen [616 Lorimer St] // Free MUSIC: The Wordless Music series is pretty self-explanatory. Some......

Brooklyn Industries is opening an art gallery in Williamsburg, on the site of their old retail location on Broadway and Driggs. Oh no! Eric Brown has reached the shark-jumping point of his internet celebrity-- posing drunk and surly at a K-Y Jelly party. Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: gas leak on East 4th Street, suspicious package on the Upper West Side, and two missing kids in Harlem. Who doesn't love a classic New York......

We're really digging Dalton Rooney's "Hello My Name Is.." project-- he's making these stickers of various Brooklyn landmarks, and then photographing them right in front of the landmarks. So deliciously meta! What landmark should he do next? Our vote: The Williamsburgh Savings Bank. Bonus: Dalton runs the seriously good Seriously Excited photoblog-- one of the current bright lights of the NYC photoblogging scene.......

The Hevesi probe (remember that?) is still going on-- and it has expanded to include Hevesi's Chief of Staff, who apparently was also abusing the state chauffeur services. City Comptroller Bill Thompson says the Department of Education's graduation rates may be inflated. The state agrees-- they say NYC's graduation rate is 43%, fifteen points lower than the City's estimate. A Bronx electrician took shelter from the rain at an Upper West Side newsstand. While......

READINGS: Jennifer Paddock will be at the Borders to read from her sophomore novel, Point Clear, which follows a young writer, Caroline, as she leaves her MFA program and seeks out stories in the devastated wake of Hurricane Ivan. Paddock combines her story with Caroline's writing, which is an interesting technique, if not a little meta. - Krissa Corbett Cavouras 7 PM // Borders [461 Park Ave at 57th St] // Free THEATER: "Hilarious" and......

There's yet another interesting bit in this weeks City section FYI column, this time on one of our fair city's old school private clubs, the Century Association. Housed in a land-marked 1891 McKim Mead & White Beaux Arts building on W. 43rd street the association (also called the Century Club) was "originally an arts and letters society founded in 1847." The invitation-only club admitted its first female members in 1988 and currently has around......

NBC will officially announce that Meredith Vieira will be the new Today Show co-anchor, filling Katie Couric's 7AM to somewhere in the 9-10AM area shoes, later this afternoon, though Vieira announced the move during The View this morning. Newsday's Verne Gay says that Meredith Vieira might be the most perfect replacement for Couric ever, which could be good or bad. But the biggest fun is asking people what they think of the move. Should Katie......