Students who take their mandatory cigarette breaks in Washington Square Park have a new enemy. No, it’s not more Greenpeace clipboard minions; now it’s NYC Mayor-Dictator Michael Bloomberg, a former smoker himself.

Ezra Klein at the Washington Post looks at the latest Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates for the Senate health care bill, finding good news for advocates of reform. Jon Gruber at MIT, who’s research Klein is relying on, found that when...

The prestigious Foreign Policy magazine named NYU’s favorite party-hard professor, Nouriel Roubini, as the world’s fourth most influential thinker. He ranks behind current Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, President Obama and Zahra Rahnavard — the...

Ah, Thanksgiving. In the marketing world, the holiday heralds the start of the “holiday season.” In grandma’s world, it’s a time for her to properly admonish both her immediate and extended family for not calling more. And for self-important music...

After finishing my turkey, stuffing and cranberries, I took Lily’s advice and I went to check out Fix, which is playing at City Cinemas Village East through Thursday. This independent film was shot for a mere $300,000 with one camera and a...

Titus Andronicus (the band, not the Shakespeare play), The Beets (the band, but not from Doug) and Algernon Cadwallader (uh, apparently the name of the first resident of Yardley, PA) will be performing at Kimmel’s E&L auditorium Wednesday night, thanks...