Remember the summer night that Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" rang throughout the homes of Sopranos fans? Followed by a good week or two of debate on how David Chase chose to whack the series, everyone on the inside was pretty silent. Now Chase is speaking out about his decision. The AP reports:He strongly suggests that, no, Tony Soprano didn't get whacked moments later as he munched onion rings with his family at Holsten's. And mostly......

In one of those weird societal flip-flops, The New York Times today reports on a group of graffiti artists who are suing to limit the expropriation of their commercial property for public display. The Tats Cru and a dozen other street artists whose work don the walls of buildings all over the city are suing the author, publisher, and an exhibitor of a book about urban murals - aka in NYC. They feel that......

Uh-oh - a teacher's attempt to make Newton's Third Law of Motion ("For every action force there is an equal, but opposite, reaction force.") more understandable may have backfired. The Daily News reports that 18 year teaching veteran Leonard Brown has been suspended from Benjamin Cardozo High School after a female student says he touched her breast. He asked the student - from Cardozo's elite Da Vinci Math Science Institute - to hold her hands......

LAist is flashing a sad peace out to their editor Carolyn Kellogg with one hand and bumping knuckles with their new head typist L.A. blogger king Tony Pierce with the other. Where do ist editors go when they hang up the 'editorial we'? They take on MySpace, apparently. At least Ben Brown does. Austinist reminds of the just rewards of less savory careers this week and then they witness the Arctic Monkeys and We Are......

This week the box office juggernaut that is the new X-Men sequel has scared away all of the competition from the new releases category. All save for one plucky little environmentalist otherwise known as our former Future President of the United States, Al Gore and his scary documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. However, if you're gonna be one of those people that's all "I'm anti-Brett Ratner and his tyrannical reign of self-aggrandizement" and you've already been......

- The Imett St. Guillen scholarship surpasses its 250k goal. - Lot's of Columbia coverage in the Times today: The dispute over Columbia's bid for Manhattanville examined. - There was a big fire in the Bronx this morning and eight people are in critical condition. - A year has passed since a plane crashed into Coney Island. - Ben Brantley takes on the sad state of the modern musical. - We suspect that when......

- The guy who stabbed a 10-month-old baby in Washington Heights last September has been found mentally unfit to stand trail - The drug-dealing boyfriend of Tiesha Sargent, the bright and beautiful young woman (truly, we met her back when she was at Brearley) who was murdered in cold blood last weekend, has decided he won't take a lie-detector test after all. - Spitzer gave back $124,445 to an indicted lawfirm yesterday. - The......

The conspiracies are swirling, the evangelical Christians are frothing at the mouth, it can only mean one thing: Ron Howard's The Da Vinci Code opens this weekend. Will you get sucked in to the Hollywood thriller madness? It's not even Memorial Day yet but Gothamist already has summer blockbuster fever. In case you've been living under a Dan Brown-free rock, The Da Vinci Code is an adaptation of Brown's best selling novel about a series......

- Bizarre Kenneth Cole ads get the work over from Animal magazine - Howard Stern says he's staying on satellite radio which means his Sirius contract must be really ironclad - The Village Voice on the Worldwide Marijuana March: "We're here, we're high, get used to it!" the stoners shouted at baffled shoppers. "What do we want? Pot! When do we want it? Now!" - A new tape of the White Castle cop beating......

- Falling debris has fallen from the under-construction new New York Times building at Eighth Avenue and 41st Street and hit a car. Early reports say the debris was some sort of pipe. And not only that, it went through the car's sunroof. NY1 says that two people were injured, including a small child. Oh, dear. - An FBI agent was killed when his motorcycle crashed into a bus on the Upper East Side......

We spied somone (from the TatsCru, we think) spraying an image of the Mona Lisa on Mulberry Street earlier, and we thought, oh, cool, maybe there will be a series of old paintings. But we were too naive, because when we approached the ladder, the graffiti artist was examining the picture he was supposed to copy...and there's a mention of The Da Vinci Code movie! Augh! Gothamist read The Da Vinci Code, and you know......

Normally we run op-ed pieces on Sunday, but this one is about Earth Day, which is today! It was written by Molly Dobkin, the twin-sister of the publisher. Even though they are twins and share a telepathic bond, the opinions expressed in it belong only to her. Today is Earth Day. Usually, Earth Day is greeted with all the fanfare and celebrations of, well, Arbor Day (April 28, Peeps!). This year, however, Earth Day is......

Columbus Circle DaVinci Advertecture, we barely knew ye.It was too big. It was too high. It was illegally installed in an area where it was prohibited anyway. And yesterday, it was gone. Facing four violations from the Department of Buildings, the Museum of Arts and Design removed an enormous billboard for the movie version of "The Da Vinci Code" from its future home at 2 Columbus Circle. The sign was installed on the construction......

Spiderman 3 Director Sam Raimi announced that lanky 70’s Show guy has just joined Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunset in the cast of Spider-Man 3. "Topher Grace is an extraordinarily talented actor," said Raimi, "and will be perfect for the complexities of the role we are developing." Columbia Pictures has not yet confirmed his specific role, but many speculate that in addition to Sideways' Thomas Haden Church as the Sandman, Topher will play a villain.......

The first hints of summer still make us think of final exams as much as ice cream and sundresses. Lingering anxiety would have us believe that before you give in to sunnier amusements, you must put your intellect through its paces (the better to enjoy afternoons spent snoozing in the park with a copy of the Styles section spread over your face). Whether this is true or we’re just neurotic, there has been some lively......

This time the thing that set Ask Gothamist off was a subway car full of cell phone talkers. Since so much of the city - coffeeshops, restaurants, movie theaters, Central Park - is polluted by wireless yappers, we always appreciated the subway as a sort of underground oasis, free from one-sided conversations and the types of voices that become exponentially louder when talking on the phone. In places where the train comes above ground, such......