New York Times columnist Nick Kristof turns 50 today. Newark Mayor Cory Booker is turning 40. Basil Paterson, the labor lawyer and father of Gov. David Paterson, is 83. City Council member Eric Gioia turns 36. New-York Historical Society president Louise Mirrer is turning 56. Investment banker Eric Gleacher is 69. Actor Jack Klugman is 87. Fall Out Boy's Patrick Stump turns 25. Radio personality Casey Kasem is turning 77. And singer Sheena Easton celebrates her 50th today.

• A roundup of what's opening this week and next month, too. [Eater, Eater]
• Terrance Brennan's Bar Artisanal and Steve Hanson's 675 Bar will probably turn into "the places to be during the Tribeca Film Festival," so you know. [GS]
• City Councilman Eric Gioia is proposing that fast food restaurants be prohibited from opening within a tenth of a mile of public schools. [NYT]
• A roundup of places to take your mom for Mother's Day. [Zagat]
• How do you know it's spring? The palm trees are in place at 230 Fifth. [NYT]
• Mi Cocina in the West Village has been seized and is now for rent. [Eater]
• Bruni takes a trip to Astoria and leaves Taverna Kyclade a happy man. [NYT]
• NYC has the best food in America, according to an opinion piece in Saturday's Wall Street Journal. But of course you already knew that, didn't you? [WSJ]

Eric Gioia is the former representative of the Queens neighborhoods of Woodside, Sunnyside, Long Island City, Astoria, and Maspeth in the New York City Council.