Very few things have remained the same since 1984. The highest grossing movie that year was Beverly Hills Cop; now, we have The Hunger Games. Michael Jackson's Thriller ruled the airwaves; 28 years later, Adele's 21 hasn't budged from Billboard's top spot. And who had heard of the Internet yet besides Al Gore?More >>

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Not enough celebration for you with Passover and Easter falling on the same weekend? Well, today is also International Pillow Fight Day , and a celebration is happening now in Washington Square Park.

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Remember all the hubbub when poor Alec Baldwin was so rudely interrupted while playing Words With Friends by a meanie-mean flight attendent, and then hauled off the plane, to the media's amusement? He now has health justification for his behavior -- Words With Friends saves lives. Simon and Georgie Fletcher, an Australian couple, had a long-distance "Words With Friends" relationship with Beth and Larry Legler in Montana. One day Simon was playing against Beth when, in a side convo, he said he wasn't feeling well. Beth told her husband Larry, who happens to be a doctor, and Larry recommended Simon get to a hospital stat!

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Last year, artist Marina Abramovic's "The Artist is Present" exhibit at MoMA became the biggest performance art exhibition in the museum's history. Abramovic sat in a chair for a total of 760 hours and 30 minutes over the course of a couple months and people were invited to stare at her, inspiring the Marina Abramovic Made Me Cry tumblr.

Now, more than a year after the exhibit closed, you can revisit "The Artist Is Present" with a video game, of all things. The game mimics the experience of Abramovic's work almost exactly; there are long lines and you can't play during hours when the museum is closed. Runnin' Scared tried to play today but had to wait in line too long. This afternoon we got in touch with the game's creator, a Kiwi academic and programmer living in Denmark named Pippin Barr.

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We thought we put this one to bed a few months ago, but as it turns out, we're talking about the Ace Hotel again. Remember how hip it is? Or "not quote-unquote hip, per se"? It's hip again, or continues to be hip, or continues to be quote-unquote not not hip. This time, the angle is that the Ace lobby is a place where people work, which Chris Mohney at BlackBook covered definitively about a year and a half ago.

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Above are the highlights for the X Games' (short for "Extreme Games," in case you were an old person in 1993) newest event: Enduro X. As you can see, the ladies competing had some trouble with the course, located in Los Angeles' Staples Center. ESPN, who runs the Games, says the new event has "has sailed the slow ship to success." It looks as if that ship hit an iceberg, capsized and the crew contracted scurvy along the way. It wasn't just the women who struggled with the course; take a look at the men going toe-to-toe in what promises to be the first and last annual Enduro X. [LA Times] [nickgreene]

Where's Waldo? The question we've all been asking since childhood will be answered Saturday. Here's a hint: he's somewhere around Washington Square Park. Or at least a version of him. Teams of two wearing red and white stripes will be hunting for the elusive children's book character come to life as part of a game dreamed up by Parsons grad and graphic designer Katie Richanbach.

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A deadlocked city council race in North Las Vegas was decided Thursday by a game of high card. Yahoo reports that Melinda Meisenheimer and Tanya Flanagan were tied for second place and neither had requested a recount to decide who would advance to June's general election. In accord with a 1965 state law, the matter was decided by who could pick the highest playing card from a deck. Only in Nevada! (And Arizona, the same exact thing happened in Arizona two years ago).

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Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, while fair and balanced 99 percent of the time, occasionally allows some bias to creep into one of its many media outlets. Hard to believe, but if you look very close, you can find it. So let's play a game: Guess the News Corp. lede!

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Brick Breaker is so over. This Sunday, the cover of the New York Times will feature tech writer Jenna Wortham's take on the super-popular iPhone game Angry Birds, which she describes simply as "catapulting birds at elaborate fortresses constructed by evil pigs." How could anyone resist? Apparently they can't because Rovio, the Finnish company behind the game, puts daily usage at 200 million minutes per day, or according to the Times' conversion, "16 human-years of bird-throwing every hour." Even Justin Bieber loves it.

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