Things I learned today (which was clearly Monday disguised as Tuesday):
There is, apparently, a tiki bar on Staten Island. Bourdain went there w/ David Johansen on the outer boroughs episode of No Reservations. Jade Island is, more accurately I suppose, a Chinese restaurant w/ a tiki theme. It's even got a half-page entry in Tiki Road Trip, which calls it the only vintage tiki restaurant in the five boroughs. None of this latter-day, neo-tiki stuff. I am, retroactively, abashed to have grown up on Staten Island and not known of this place until this evening.
Parsons in NYC has an exhibit of work by the Quay Brothers up currently (on view thru 10/4/09). Described as "film decors" -- sets and others pieces from their films. Just, wow.