For two days in New York every year, Tokion magazine pulls its global strings to pack the Cooper Union Art and Science college with some of the top creative talent from the world over. For anyone who keeps up with the current masterminds of culture and the Who’s Who of art, design, curating, architecture and film, this year’s roster of presenters will cause no less salivation that previous years. Check out the partial list below:

Harmony Korine (Gummo, Julien Donkey-Boy, Mister Lonely, Kids); Kathy Grayson (Deitch Projects); Klaus Biesenbach (MoMA/P.S.1); Shamim M. Momin (Whitney Museum of American Art); Thomas Duncan (Gagosian Gallery); Massimiliano Gioni (New Museum of Contemporary Art); José Friere (Owner of New York’s Team Gallery); Lizzi Bougatsos of Gang Gang Dance; Nate Lowman; Gardar Eide Einarsson; Hanna Liden; Gary Panter; C.F.; and Lucky Dragons.

Salivate a bit more while thumbing through the rest of the line up and grabbing a ticket here — the event sells out every year, so grab soon!

Adventures in the Beetroot Field and Margaret in association with Vice Magazine bring to London town the Stag and Dagger festival.

Stag and Dagger is the first festival of its kind to be held in Shoreditch East London, a.k.a. the ‘cool’ people’s party district. Over 5,000 people will take to the boutique streets of Shoreditch to see over 100 acclaimed acts in 15 intimate venues from 6pm through to 12am (and slightly later for some bars).

The line up is exceptional with headliners including DJ A-Track, Bang Gang DJ’s and ‘Parees’ very own Fafi. From live music acts to Film screenings to Art shows , Stag and Dagger will be causing a stampede in Shoreditch — a fun-filled electric one of course!

The Stag and Dagger festival is to take place Thursday the 15th of May 2008. It will be held in Shoreditch East London starting at 6pm and going on until roughly 12am.

For more information on the festival and how to get tickets check out the website here.

Don’t Forget One ticket = access to all areas!!!

Thursday nights are great ’cause the weekend’s promises of chaotic fun and new experiences are well within reach. Paris’ Centre Pompidou offers you the latter every second Thursday of the month with the Les Jeudis projects. On those days, the Center invites art academies and schools across Europe to put on productions in a variety of disciplines: from theater to music, fashion, performance art and dance.

This week, London’s Central School of Speech and Drama will be the institution doing the honors with Urban-I-City. In the performance, actors and dancers will examine “the relation between space, architecture and the body.” May is the last month of Les Jeudis shows: I recommend that you find a way to get to Paris ASAP and start the weekend on the right foot.

Here you have it…Biz’s Halloween Beat Of The Day, from Kidrobot’s super-superb Nick Jr. show “Yo Gabba Gabba“. This clip begs the question, can you ever really get enough Biz? OK maybe if you cloned him a thousand times, then cloned each of those clones a thousand times, I’m almost positive you’d get sick of dude beat-boxing at all hours of the night eventually.But let’s be realistic; that technology is like three or four years away, so yeah, there’s your answer. And I can hear him now, that destroyer of all things, that perpetual Man-Bastard, Rufus. I can see the scenario perfectly, in the theater of my mind. Rufus shouting across the way, perched atop his birdshit-stained stoop: “Yo Kasai, it’s spring time kid! Shit is like mad primaveral right now!” Oh Rufus, I’m well aware. I know, I’m mad late on this one. But if you ask me, the Gregorian calender’s a bunch of mularkey anyway. Besides, the way I get down, every day’s Halloween, ya heard? Now I just need a bat-hat like Biz’s and I’m in like Flynn.That and plastic surgery to make me look like the Count from Sesame Street. Yeah. I’m super serial.