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Those who remember Argie Bucot from his days in the meatpacking district, when he sold chunky ceramics at a store called Bahay, might have trouble recognizing his new work. Mr. Bucot, who closed his shop and moved to Tokyo in 2002, is back and working out of an East Village studio, producing delicate pieces made of porcelain sheets. ''I get some nice surprises,'' Mr. Bucot said, explaining that the pieces take on a life of their own in the kiln. ''Some of them look like dancing paper bags because of the way they crumple and fold in on themselves.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reports on the availability of Campbells’s tomato soup cans embellished with labels inspired by the soup-can silk screens by artist Andy Warhol at the Howdy Do store at the East Village in celebration of the art work’s 40th anniversary.

The game was modeled on ''Jeopardy!,'' with a blue screen listing the categories: Architecture, Gangsters, Arts and Culture. The answers included familiar names, like Emma Goldman (Who was the anarchist founder of the Mother Earth journal?), and the slightly more obscure, like Giuseppe Masseria (During Prohibition, which boss of bosses lived at 80 Second Avenue?). East Village Trivia Night, at the Bowery Poetry Club, drew an esoteric crowd of self-taught historians and pro bono tour guides, propped on folding chairs jotting answers -- er, questions -- on scraps of paper. Each answer was labeled $100 to $500 to indicate the level of difficulty, though no actual money changed hands. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]