George Clooney’s ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ Sets Broadway Box Office Record

The average ticket price for “Othello” was $303.15 last week — down from previous weeks because of free seats for journalists attending press performances and guests attending opening night. The average price for “Good Night, and Good Luck” was $302.07. But “Good Night, and Good Luck,” which is adapted from the 2005 movie about the … Read more

Funding Cuts at Columbia Create ‘Chilling Effect,’ Faculty Lawsuit Says

Two groups representing Columbia University faculty members on Tuesday sued the Trump administration over $400 million in federal funding cuts and demands that the school make dramatic changes to student discipline and admissions policies. The plaintiffs, the American Association of University Professors and the American Federation of Teachers, asked a Manhattan federal court to restore … Read more

Read the Justice Department’s filing in the Adams case.

Case 1:24-cr-00556-DEH Document 175-1 Filed 03/25/25 Page 10 of 15 the motion is uncontested, the court should ordinarily presume that the prosecutor is acting in good faith and dismiss the indictment without prejudice”). But Adams’s consent-which was negotiated without my Office’s awareness or participation-would not guarantee a successful motion, given the basic flaws … Read more

Why Tariffs Are Hurting N.Y.’s Cannabis Industry

Vape makers are especially vulnerable to the tariffs. Nicolas Guarino, co-founder and chief executive of Jaunty, which makes the state’s top-selling brand of cannabis vapes, said that the cost of hardware for a single vape had climbed 22 percent, to $5. The company’s next quarterly hardware order totaled about $240,000, compared with $200,000 without the … Read more

A Fungi Pioneer’s Lifelong Work on Exhibit

On an early summer day in 1876 near Druid Hill Park in Baltimore, a middle-aged woman carrying three large, putrid mushrooms repulsed fellow travelers riding a horse-drawn trolley car. Even wrapped in paper, the stench of the aptly named stinkhorn mushrooms was overpowering, but the woman stifled a laugh upon overhearing two other passengers gripe … Read more